Browsing by Autor "Mark Peyrot"

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Determinants of Parishioner Satisfaction among Practicing Catholics
(Oxford University Press, 2000) Mark Peyrot; Francis M. Sweeney
Journal Article Determinants of Parishioner Satisfaction among Practicing Catholics Get access Mark Peyrot, Mark Peyrot * Loyola College * Direct correspondence to Mark Peyrot, Center for Social and Community Research, Loyola College, 4501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210-2699, email: mpeyrot@loyola.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Francis M. Sweeney Francis M. Sweeney Loyola College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 209–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712286 Published: 01 July 2000
Institutional and Organizational Dynamics in Community-Based Drug Abuse Treatment
(Oxford University Press, 1991) Mark Peyrot
Organizations located in complex institutional environments must deal with conflicting demands from their constituencies. One organizational response, a variant of the symbolic adaptation originally described by Meyer and Rowan, is a chameleon strategy. Presentations of services are varied from situation to situation to meet the demands of different audiences, while primary work activity remains constant. With the decoupling of presentations from technical activity, ideology is used to establish and maintain institutional sponsorship, leaving consumer-oriented services unconstrained. Community drug abuse treatment agencies use the chameleon strategy to achieve isomorphism in conflicting environments. Clients must be attracted, and many want something other than drug treatment; yet institutional sponsors want drug treatment to be provided. Though appearing to specialize in drug abuse services, agencies are actually generalists, offering a wide range of high demand services to the general public.
Psychological Testing and Forensic Decision Making: The Properties-in-Use of the MMPI
(Oxford University Press, 1995) Mark Peyrot
This paper reports an ethnographic study of the use of psychological testing in decision making by a forensic psychiatry organization that makes recommendations to the courts regarding criminal justice, child custody, and workmen's compensation cases. Psychological testing using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) supports the decision-making process. Through a variety of interpretive practices, the staff deals with contradictions between the MMPI and other clinical information, while maintaining the sense that the MMPI is a valuable tool that can provide valid assessments. Test results are generally accepted when they indicate a client problem but are likely to be rejected when they indicate no problem and other clinical information suggests that a problem does exist. The logic associated with these interpretive practices is examined.