Women priests: from exclusion to accommodation.
The debate within the Church of England on opening the priesthood to women is analysed from the perspective of grid/group theory as a struggle between two competing models of the Church: the accommodationist and the exclusivist. The ascendancy of the accommodationist Church reflects the decline of status professionalism and rise of the formally rational modern profession, in which the criteria of occupational closure are themselves rationalized.
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School of Social Studies, University of Nottingham.
D002835:Christianity; D002977:Clergy; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012945:Social Values; D014931:Women, Working