Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 1093, Issue 1 p. 358-367 APPENDIX II: Annotated Convergence Bibliography WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USASearch for more papers by this author WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 February 2007 https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1382.024 The views expressed in this essay do not necessarily represent the views of the National Science Foundation or the United States. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume1093, Issue1Progress in Convergence: Technologies for Human WellbeingDecember 2006Pages 358-367 RelatedInformation

Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 1093, Issue 1 p. 350-357 APPENDIX I Convergence Glossary WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE National Science Foundation *Search for more papers by this author WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE National Science Foundation *Search for more papers by this author First published: 01 February 2007 https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1382.023 The views expressed in this glossary do not necessarily represent the views of the National Science Foundation or the United States. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume1093, Issue1Progress in Convergence: Technologies for Human WellbeingDecember 2006Pages 350-357 RelatedInformation

WILLSAM SIMS BAINBRIDGE National Science Foundations technologies of e mail on the contrary, they lend themselves rather readily to monitoring. States have active interests in communications on an array of sensitive topics from military technologies to drug dealing. With such inter ests in mind, the Clinton administration has forcefully (if not yet effectively) sought to block cheap, effective encryption ofprivate elecS tronic communications. At the time of this writS ing, this particular administration seems to be losing this particular struggle, but the issue is by no means resolved. On other fronts, efforts have been made to require that pornography sold over the Internet be purchased by credit card-supposedly to preS vent minors from taking advantage of these new informational opportunities. And state security agencies in a number of countries are said to be perfecting new surveillance mechanisms that will make it possible to scan literally millions of e mail communications per day for specific words or phrases. In short, the rush ls on in cyberspace. How the social landscape will look when it is all over is not something that can simply be read off the inherent characteristics of the technologies involved. Indeed, processes like this should remind us of the tenuousness of ascribing effects to any technologies, apart from their social contexts. In this case, those contexts are rich in conflictual and innovative possibilitiesso much so that anyone who claims to foresee with certainty the long-term outcomes of these innovations surely does not deserve to be believed. In exchange for such unreliable cerS tainties, sociologists have something of vastly greater value: the richest of opportunities to assess the scramble for advantage triggered by cyberspace and to anticipate the new lay of the land to follow in its wake.

Twenty variables, representing competing theories, were compared in their ability to explain church membership rates (CMRs) in 288 metropolitan areas for 1980, using multiple regression. Strong support emerged for social bond theory, which predicts low rates of church membership in communities with high social instability, such as that caused by geographic migration. Secularization theories, however, did not fare well. Their prediction that CMRs would be low in big cities was contradicted, and CMRs correlated positively with percent urban, rather than negatively. Although education correlates negatively with CMRs, this may be the effect of economic prosperity rather than the secularizing effect of education itself. Life cycle theories of church membership received only weak support.

Journal Article The Restructuring of American Religion.By Robert Wuthnow. Princeton University Press. 374 pp. $25.00 Get access William Sims Bainbridge William Sims Bainbridge Illinois State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 68, Issue 4, June 1990, Pages 1358–1360, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/68.4.1358 Published: 01 June 1990

the opportunity for exploring the alleged role of religion in producing insanity. Enshrined in publications of the U.S. government and in the chief psychiatric texts as part of the official theory of madness, the idea of religious insanity may have served a number of functions for the new profession of psychiatry, as well as offering afflicted families an optimistic interpretation of mental problems. A mixture of medical, moral and religious ideas, the dominant psychiatric theory cast opposition to high-tension, sectarian religion in an apparently scientific context.

Journal Article Prison Homosexuality: Myth and Reality.By Alice M. Propper. Lexington, Ma.: Lexington Books, 1981. 237 pp. $23.95 Get access William Sims Bainbridge William Sims Bainbridge University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 61, Issue 2, December 1982, Pages 633–635, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/61.2.633 Published: 01 December 1982

Journal Article The New Vigilantes.By Anson D. Shupe, Jr., and David G. Bromley. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1980. 267 pp. Cloth, $18.00; paper, $8.95 Get access William Sims Bainbridge William Sims Bainbridge University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 3, March 1982, Pages 955–957, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.3.955 Published: 01 March 1982

Journal Article “Moonies” in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade.By David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe, Jr. Beverly Hills: Sage Library of Social Research and Science, Sin, and Scholarship: The Politics of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church.Edited by Irving Louis Horowitz Get access William Sims Bainbridge William Sims Bainbridge University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 2, December 1981, Pages 634–636, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.2.634 Published: 01 December 1981

Journal Article Investigative Social Research: Individual and Team Field Research.By Jack D. Douglas. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1976. 229 pp. Cloth, $11.00; paper, $6.00 Get access William Sims Bainbridge William Sims Bainbridge University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 56, Issue 1, September 1977, Pages 300–301, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/56.1.300 Published: 01 September 1977