Six case studies of professed sisters who left the same religious congregation between 1977-2003
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Current literature related to retention within women's religious congregations focus on specific circumstances that result in membership withdrawal from a congregation. This current study goes beyond preceding studies and contributes to the existing literature by considering tensions between charism fundamentals and other influences as probable factors related to membership withdrawal. The study analyzes participants' perceptions of the congruence or dissonance between charism fundamentals and specific influences that may have conflicted with a woman's ability or desire to remain in a religious congregation after she made final vows. Thirteen former members of one Canadian women's religious congregation, identified by the pseudonym of The Sisters of Elizabeth Thomas (SET) provide data by participating in questionnaires and interviews. These women withdrew from the congregation between 1977 and 2003. Insights associated with this research were gained by examining the personal values and ideologies of each research participant. This research also considers the possible impact that a religious congregation, society, and the Roman Catholic Church, may have on participants' decision to withdraw from a congregation. Findings reveal that participants share numerous commonalities. First are their personal experience, knowledge and affiliation with SET. The second is the process related to the participants' withdrawal from the congregation. The third commonality relates to their continued interest in SET'S current and future undertakings. Fourth are the firm opinions participants have regarding the congregation's charism fundamentals. The fifth, and last commonality, is that each participant believes that her withdrawal from SET was personally necessary. Analysis of the data reveals that tensions between the charism fundamentals of SET and various influences, within and outside the congregation, result in members' withdrawal from the congregation. This study concludes that the congregation's focus, function and viability are maintained through the preservation of its charism fundamentals as the congregation's founder intended these to be enacted.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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