The Group for the Study of Religion and Social Change is open to graduate students in the Department of Sociology at Western Michigan University and works in collaboration with scholars in the U.S.

The sociology of religion investigates how religious beliefs, practices and institutions shape, and are reshaped by, wider social structures. This field examines the role of religion in maintaining ...

While in 1920 birth rates in Hamtramck, Michigan, an immigrant Polish Catholic community, were much above the general United States population, by 1950 they were very similar. Although the pattern of ...

Our students are well-trained in real-world experiences and understand that getting out of the classroom can only enhance their learning. Sociologists and social workers dedicate themselves to ...

Since Niebuhr's seminal work on the social sources of denominationalism, nearly all research on the relationship between social class and religious affiliation has focused on the denominational (or ...