WOMEN PRIESTS - FROM EXCLUSION TO ACCOMMODATION

Authors
ALDRIDGE A
Citation
A. Aldridge, WOMEN PRIESTS - FROM EXCLUSION TO ACCOMMODATION, British journal of sociology, 45(3), 1994, pp. 501-510
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology
Journal title
British journal of sociology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00071315
Volume
45
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
501 - 510
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-1315(1994)45:3<501:WP-FET>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
The debate within the Church of England on opening the priesthood to w omen is analysed from the perspective of grid/group theory as a strugg le between two competing models of the Church: the accommodationist an d the exclusivist. The ascendancy of the accommodationist Church refle cts the decline of status professionalism and rise of the formally rat ional modern profession, in which the criteria of occupational closure are themselves rationalized.