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Tell Me Your Story: Evaluating and Comparing Group Agency in Two African American Congregations in South Los Angeles.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tell Me Your Story: Evaluating and Comparing Group Agency in Two African American Congregations in South Los Angeles./
Author:	Voss, Isaac B.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	390 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10286528
ISBN:	9781369819861

Tell Me Your Story: Evaluating and Comparing Group Agency in Two African American Congregations in South Los Angeles.
Voss, Isaac B.

Tell Me Your Story: Evaluating and Comparing Group Agency in Two African American Congregations in South Los Angeles. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 390 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies, 2017.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

The problem of this research is to use the Morphogenetic Approach to evaluate and compare the stories of congregation members in two African American congregations in south Los Angeles in order to discern their perception of the presence or absence of group agency, its constraints and enablements, and its impact on socio-cultural transformation. The Morphogenetic Approach is a theory of socio-cultural change that was developed by the social scientist Margret Archer. The theory is grounded in the field of critical realism. This project has important practical and theoretical implications for those doing anthropological, sociological, and community work in the urban context, particularly in south Los Angeles. Key questions that are addressed are: How do congregants express their own views of the mechanisms of change? How are these mechanisms re-described within the Morphogenetic Approach?

ISBN: 9781369819861Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Tell Me Your Story: Evaluating and Comparing Group Agency in Two African American Congregations in South Los Angeles.
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520 $a In regards to my findings, I discovered that physical conditions such as unsafe settings, fragmented families, unemployment, drugs, and disconnected social networks were key material and human constraints at both sites. In addition, I found that ideologies which stigmatized black men as "isolated" and "weak," which labeled neighborhoods as unsafe, and which placed race as a central boundary marker were significant constraints. The findings also uncovered that the mother-child bond, a sense of "comradery" among the men, alternative settings, the pastor, organizational partnerships, a sense of connectedness to God, and positive examples were all key mechanisms of change. In regards to the cultural system, key mechanisms of change included economic literacy, an appreciation for a multi-ethnic identity, an emphasis on forgiveness, belonging in a new family, and new formal role schemas.
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