Background
Bainbridge, William Sims was born on October 12, 1940 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of William Wheeler and Barbara (Sims) Bainbridge.
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Spaceflight is a fascinating example of revolutionary technological change. It has transformed our world in radical ways and was itself the result of special social conditions and sequences of events. This book not only tells the surprising story of the spaceflight revolution, but also gives the first sociological analysis of why it started and how it succeeded.
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Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected social theorists predicted the death of religion as inevitable consequence of science, education, and modern economics. But they were wrong. Stark and Bainbridge set out to explain the survival of religion. Using information derived from numerous surveys, censuses, historical case studies, and ethnographic field expeditions, they chart the full sweep of contemporary religion from the traditional denominations to the most fervent cults. This wealth of information is located within a coherent theoretical framework that examines religion as a social response to human needs, both the general needs shared by all and the desires specific to those who are denied the economic rewards or prestige enjoyed by the privileged. By explaining the forms taken by religions today, Stark and Bainbridge allow us to understand its persistence in a secular age and its prospects for the future,
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Bainbridge, William Sims was born on October 12, 1940 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Son of William Wheeler and Barbara (Sims) Bainbridge.
Bachelor, Boston University, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1975.
From assistant to associate professor, U. Washington, Seattle, 1975-1982; associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982-1987; professor, Illinois State University, Normal, 1987-1990; professor, department chairman sociology and anthropology, Towson (Maryland.) State University, 1990-1992; sociology program director, National Science Foundation, Washington, since 1992.
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Member American Sociological Association.
Married Erika Ohara, November 6, 1986. Children: William C., Lars L., E. Sims, Wilma Alice, Constance May.