Segmentation of Radicalism-The Case of the Protestant Campus Minister

Abstract

Every Organization has its "radicals"-persons who may disrupt internal affairs, but who may also anticipate needed changes as the organization's environment changes. Viable organiztions, therefore, have structures for both containing and using radicalism, typically through segmentation. If radicalism is to be "used" as well as contained, there must be procedures whereby it can influence the organization. The Protestan campus ministry, as a segmentation of radicalism, has several consequences for Protestantism, and it illustrates a number of the social-structural channels through which these consequences flow.