Charles y glock biography

Glock, Charles Y.

GLOCK, CHARLES Y. (1919– ), sociologist and author. Born in New York City, Charles Glock earned his bachelor's degree from New York University (1940), his master's degree from Boston University (1941), and his doctorate from Columbia University (1952). He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War ii and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit.

Glock served as the executive director of the Bureau of Applied Research at Columbia beginning in 1947, becoming managing director in 1949 and director in 1952. He taught at Columbia as professor of sociology from 1956 to 1958, then at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1958 to 1978. He also served as director of Berkeley's Survey Research Center from 1958 to 1967 and as director of an extensive research program on religion and society from 1962 through 1979. Glock was named professor emeritus at Berkeley in 1978.

Glock is perhaps best known for his 1966 work, with coauthor Rodney Stark, Christian Beliefs and Anti-Semitism, in which Glock and Stark suggest an inherent relationship between

Charles Y. Glock

Personal details
Born(1919-10-17)October 17, 1919

The Bronx, New York, U.S.

Died October 19, 2018(2018-10-19) (aged 99)
Sandpoint, Idaho, U.S.
Alma mater
  • New York University
  • Boston University
  • Columbia University

Charles Young Glock (October 17, 1919 – October 19, 2018) was an American sociologist whose work focuses on sociology of religion and survey research.[1]

Biography and academic background[]

Charles Glock was born in the Bronx, New York in 1919.[2] He earned a B.S. degree in marketing at New York University and an M.B.A. at Boston University. After four years of military service in the US Army, Glock earned a Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University. Glock was professor of sociology at University of California at Berkeley, California. He was twice appointed chair of the department.[1][3][4] Glock died on October 19, 2018 at the age of 99 in Sandpoint, Idaho.[5]

Measures of religiosity[]

Glock is probably best known for his five-dimensional scheme of

From Five to Ten Dimensions of Religion

Bizeul, Y. 1991 L’identité protestante. Étude de la minorité protestante en France. Klincksieck, Paris.

Carrier, H. 1965 The Sociology of Religious Belonging. Herder & Herder, New York.

Despland, M. 1979 La religion en Occident. Evolution des idées et du vécu. Fides, Montréal.

Durkheim, É. 1915 The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. George Allen & Unwin, London [1912].

Faulkner, J.E., and G.F. De Jong 1966 Religiosity in 5D: An Empirical Analysis. Social Forces 45.2: 246-54. doi:10.2307/2574395

Fichter, J. 1959 Sociological Measurement of Religiosity. Review of Religious Research 10.3: 169-77. doi:10.2307/3510744

Fukuyama, Y. 1961 The Major Dimensions of Church Membership. Review of Religious Research 2: 154-161. doi:10.2307/3510955

Glock, C.Y. 1954 Towards a Typology of Religious Orientation. Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, NY.

Y a-t-il un réveil religieux aux États-Unis? Archives de sociologie des religions 6.12: 35-52.

On the Study of Religious Commitment. Religious Education 57

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