Lay Involvement in Research and Survey.

The article discusses the summery to a paper that was delivered in the fifty-first and fifty-second annual meeting of the American Sociological Society. The paper is on the unique programme of lay involvement entered into by the Boston University School of Theology. Graduate students in sociology of religion become progressively clinicians, team members and project directors in situations involving major institutional decisions. Churches, administrative groupings and councils of churches request research assistance in problem-solving.