College Scale - Church attendance, tithing, saved, feelings about tobacco use, alcohol use. Common Scale - Feelings about movie attendance, feelings about alcohol use, feelings about tobacco use, importance of rules, alcohol use. C. External Variable Thesis 1. High sectness provides insulation from environmental secularization 2. As internal variables produce secularization, insulation erodes and the rate of secularization increases.
Pluralistic setting produces more rapid secularization.
Non-existent for clergy 2. Influence of secularization variable is stronger than influence of socialization. E. The organization will continue to secularize 1. External variable process 2. Weak socialization variables - may become weaker a. Church size and attended a Nazarene college 3.