Citation

Hoult TF. Am. Sociol. Rev. 1952; 17(3): e349.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1952, American Sociological Association)

DOI

10.2307/2088081

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Abstract

In a previous issue of the "American Sociological Review," the writer demonstrated the positive correlation between the relative economic status of various areas in Los Angeles, California, and the avenge denominational per capita wealth of churches located in the areas. Two tentative conclusions were drawn from this relationship, Protestantism. It was discovered further that the distribution of Los Angeles Protestant churches did not correspond to the distribution of population. In Los Angeles, the lower the economic status of an area, in general, the more churches there were per capita. It was suggested that this distribution, if not atypical, might be yet another manifestation of the operation of economic class considerations in American Protestantism. In the above-described study one important question remained unanswered: To what extent were the data in Los Angeles unique and therefore unreliable for generalization? This question is answered in part by the present paper, which is a report of a study of Indianapolis churches.

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