Charles Y. Glock
Charles Young Glock (October 17, 1919 – October 19, 2018) was an American sociologist whose work focuses on sociology of religion and survey research. Biography and academic background. Charles Glock was born in the Bronx, New York in 1919. He earned a B.S. degree in marketing at New York University in 1940 and an Master of Business Administration at Boston University in 1941. He served in the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1946 where he became a major. After serving in the army, Glock earned a Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University. Glock was professor  of sociology at University of California, Berkeley, California. He was twice appointed chair of the department. Glock was a council member in the Religious Research Association in the early 1950s; president, American Association of Public Opinion Research, 1963-1964; one of the earliest members of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and its President, 1967-1968; during 1978-1979, he served as Vice-President of the American Sociological Association. Glock died on October 19, 2018 at the age of 99 in Sandpoint, Idaho. Measures of religiosity. Glock is probably best known for his five-dimensional scheme of the  nature of religious commitment, which comprises belief, knowledge, experience, practice (sometimes subdivided into private and public ritual) and consequences. The first four dimensions have proved widely useful in research because generally, they are individually distinct and simple to measure; "consequences", however, is a more complicated variable and difficult to isolate. Glock's five-dimensional scheme inspired other sociologists to compose their own measures of religiosity. One of the more complex spin-offs was Mervin Verbit's twenty-four dimensional measure. Studies in prejudice and antisemitism. Aside from his accomplishments in sociology of religion, Glock's other important work concerns the  sociological and cognitive sources of prejudice. His book "Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism" co-authored with Rodney Stark is based on surveys finding quantitative data in support of a theory tying Antisemitism to selective elements in Christian indoctrination.