Citation

Fay LF. Sociol. Relig. 1978; 39(1): 62-76.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Association for the Sociology of Religion)

DOI

10.2307/3710162

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A religious community of nuns, in which institutional change has resulted in a situation of structural anomie, is examined with a view to discovering what types of persons in the community experience individual feelings of anomie. The data point to the conclusion that three variables are operating to determine individual anomie: authoritarianism, traditionalism, and a non-rational orientation.