A Research Note on Interfaith Marriage Statistics

The distance from a purely quantitative statement of a statistical pattern to a sociological interpretation of that pattern is often quite great. Several steps are sometimes needed to cover that distance. With regard to the interpretation of interfaith marriage statistics, a third refinement is sugg...

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Main Author: Yinger, John Milton 1916-2011 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [1968]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1968, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-103
Further subjects:B Mathematical procedures
B Ratios
B Intermarriage
B Divorce rates
B Judaism
B Census Data
B Protestantism
B Catholicism
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Summary:The distance from a purely quantitative statement of a statistical pattern to a sociological interpretation of that pattern is often quite great. Several steps are sometimes needed to cover that distance. With regard to the interpretation of interfaith marriage statistics, a third refinement is suggested here to add to two previously developed refinements. These should be seen as steps toward greater reliability of measurement; but they still leave us with a definition of intermarriage that fails to take the full range of personality and structural aspects into account. A thorough revision of our conceptions of interfaith marriage is called for.
ISSN:1468-5906
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/1385114