Charles Y. Glock

Charles Glock was born in the Bronx, New York in 1919.{{cite book|last=Greer|first=Joanne|title=Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 9|year=1998|publisher=JAI Press|page=27}} He earned a B.S. degree in marketing at New York University in 1940 and a 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.Charles Glock. [http://cdclv.unlv.edu//archives/interactionism/goffman/glock_08.html "Remembering Erving Goffman and Herbert Blumer."] November 12, 2008. Ray F. Kibler III. [http://cdm15837.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15837coll1/id/186/rec/39 "Interview of Charles Y. Glock by Ray F. KinlervIII."] 1994 February 10. 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.Obituary, Bonner County Daily Bee [https://web.archive.org/web/20181028073754/http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/obituaries/20181026/charles_young_glock_99 "Charles Young Glock, 99."]

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.{{cite book |author1=Glock, Charles Y. |editor1-last=Faulkner |editor1-first=Joseph E. |title=Religion's Influence in Contemporary Society: Readings in the Sociology of Religion |date=1972-06-01 |publisher=Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co. |location=Ohio |isbn=978-0675091053 |page=39 (of 38–56) |chapter=On the Study of Religious Commitment}}{{cite web |last1=Glock |first1=Charles Y. |title=Religious Education: On the Study of Religious Commitment |url=http://www5.galib.uga.edu/reserves/docs/scanner%20pc%20shelter/ill%20scans/michael/glock_on_the_study_of_religious_commitment.pdf |website=University of Georgia Libraries |archiveurl=http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/results?vid=4&sid=92f06a21-a9ff-4455-bac2-cb635992e3de%40sessionmgr4007&bquery=glock+%22study+of+religious+commitment%22&bdata=JnR5cGU9MCZzZWFyY2hNb2RlPUFuZCZzaXRlPWVkcy1saXZl |archivedate=2020-09-27 |location=Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley |pages=98–110 (Volume 57, Issue 4) |date=July 1962}}

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.Verbit, M. F. (1970). The components and dimensions of religious behavior: Toward a reconceptualization of religiosity. American mosaic, 24, 39.Küçükcan, T. (2010). Multidimensional Approach to Religion: a way of looking at religious phenomena. Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 4(10), 60-70.

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.

• Glock, C. Y. (ed.) (1967). [https://lccn.loc.gov/67025911 Survey research in the social sciences.] New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Glock, C. Y. (ed.). (1973). Religion in Sociological Perspective. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
• Glock, C. Y., et al. (1975). Adolescent Prejudice. New York: Harper.
• Glock, C. Y. & Bellah, R. N. (1976). [https://lccn.loc.gov/75017295 The new religious consciousness.] Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Glock, C. Y. & Hammond, P.E. (1973). [https://lccn.loc.gov/72013909 Beyond the classics? Essays in the scientific study of religion.] Belmont CA: Wadsworth.
• Glock, C. Y. & Morris, G. (1981). [https://lccn.loc.gov/89893517 A sociologist comments on getting, using, and making grants.] Sanford NC: Microfilming Corporation of America.
• Glock, C. Y. & Quinley H. (1979). Anti-Semitism in America. New York: Free Press.
• Glock, C. Y. & Siegelman, E. (1969). [https://lccn.loc.gov/74075407 Prejudice, U.S.A.] New York: Praeger.
• Glock, C. Y. & Stark, R. (1965). Religion and Society in Tension. Chicago: Rand McNally.
• Glock, C. Y. & Stark, R. (1966). [https://lccn.loc.gov/65021002 Christian beliefs and anti-Semitism.] New York: Harper & Row.
• Glock, C. Y. & Stark, R. (1968). American Piety. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Glock, C. Y. & Stark, R. (1971). Wayward Shepherds. New York: Harper.
• Glock, C. Y. & Stark, R. (1979). [https://lccn.loc.gov/79063206 The northern California church member study.] Ann Arbor: The Consortium.
• Glock, C. Y., Selznick, G. J. & J. L. Spaeth (1966). [https://lccn.loc.gov/64007833 The apathetic majority: a study based on public responses to the Eichmann trial.] New York: Harper & Row.
• Glock, C. Y., et al. (1967). [https://lccn.loc.gov/67015560 To comfort and to challenge; a dilemma of the contemporary church.] Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Stark, R. & Glock, C. Y. (1968). [https://lccn.loc.gov/68012792 Patterns of religious commitment.] Berkeley: University of California Press.

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