Some sixty years ago Durkheim suggested that Protestants exhibited a greater degree of anomie than Catholics. A sample of 160 Catholic colleges women and 160 Protestant college women was drawn, with 75.6 per cent (N 121) and 84.4 per cent (N 135) responses, respectively. The mean anomie or normlessness score of the Catholic women was 3.77, the Protestants 8.63, CR 11.55 (far beyond the .01 level of significance). Slight differences in the mean North-Hatt prestige score of the respondents' fathers apparently minimized the observed differences between the two groups.
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