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Old 12-15-2007, 02:30 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96 View Post
My brother in law's younger brother was a Fulbright Scholar at Penn who did his master thesis on the LDS Church getting more conservative. I haven't read his final thesis, but in conversation he indicated that he believed external influences were the biggest variable impacting this shift.
Sounds like it goes along with Mauss' work in sociology (Mauss focuses on post WWII).

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books...252020711.html
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