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Woodberry, Robert D.; Park, Jerry Z.; Kellstedt, Lyman A.; Regnerus, Mark D.; Steensland, Brian – Social Forces, 2012
Our original article espoused a simple way to recode religious groups on the General Social Survey (GSS) into historically meaningful categories and attempted to steer social scientists away from assigning these groups to a "Liberal-Moderate-Conservative" scale (Smith 1990). Among other problems, such scales create arbitrary cutpoints,…
Descriptors: Protestants, Religion, Religious Factors, Measurement
Sharp, Shane; Carr, Deborah; Macdonald, Cameron – Social Forces, 2012
We use Wisconsin Longitudinal Study data (n = 2,678) to assess the effects of religious denomination and ideology on end-of-life treatment preferences in two hypothetical terminal illness scenarios: physical pain and severe cognitive impairment. We found no statistically significant differences when comparing traditionally defined religious…
Descriptors: Protestants, Pain, Longitudinal Studies, Terminal Illness
Sanderson, Stephen K.; Abrutyn, Seth B.; Proctor, Kristopher R. – Social Forces, 2011
We provide a test of the thesis that Protestantism influenced the development of modern capitalism by using quantitative data from 1500 through 1870. Results show that during this period the percentage of a country's population that is Protestant is unrelated to both its level of per capita GDP and the average rate of its annual growth in per…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Work Ethic, Social Systems
Scheitle, Christopher P.; Hahn, Bryanna B. – Social Forces, 2011
It is often assumed that the religious culture of a state can shape policies within the state, particularly concerning morality issues such as abortion or homosexuality. However, the precise manner in which religion shapes these policies has not been clearly specified. Drawing from social movements and policy literature, we argue that the…
Descriptors: Government Role, State Government, Sexual Orientation, Religion
Ecklund, Elaine Howard; Park, Jerry Z.; Veliz, Phil Todd – Social Forces, 2008
Sociologists of religion have often connected secularization to science, but have rarely examined the role of religion in the lives of scientists or how the sciences have changed religiously over time. Here we address this shortcoming by comparing religiosity between two samples of elite academic natural and social scientists, one in 1969 and one…
Descriptors: Religion, Social Scientists, Scientists, Leadership
Hempel, Lynn M.; Bartkowski, John P. – Social Forces, 2008
Using insights from ethnographic studies of conservative Protestant congregations, the authors propose and test a refined conceptual model of theological conservatism that accounts for three key components of a theologically conservative worldview: (1. epistemology, a belief in the Bible as the inspired word of God, (2. ontology, assumptions about…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Political Attitudes, Ethnography, Epistemology
Blanchard, Troy C.; Bartkowski, John P.; Matthews, Todd L.; Kerley, Kent R. – Social Forces, 2008
Although the past decade has witnessed increased usage of ecological data to map the community-level effects of religion, the vast majority of studies in this body of scholarship continue to be plagued by two key shortcomings. First, ecological research on religion is often conducted in an atheoretical manner, one that privileges the structural…
Descriptors: Protestants, Religion, Research Methodology, Religious Factors
Rosenfeld, Michael J. – Social Forces, 2008
This article compares marriage patterns by race, education and religion in the United States during the 20th century, using a variety of data sources. The comparative approach allows several general conclusions. First, racial endogamy has declined sharply over the 20th century, but race is still the most powerful division in the marriage market.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Race, Protestants, Jews
Welch, Michael R.; Sikkink, David; Loveland, Matthew T. – Social Forces, 2007
Data from the 2002 Religion and Public Activism Survey were used to examine relationships among measures of religious orientation, embeddedness in social networks and the level of trust individuals direct toward others. Results from ordered logistic regression analysis demonstrate that Catholics and members of other denominations show…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Protestants, Religion, Social Networks

Peek, Charles W.; Brown, Sharon – Social Forces, 1980
Utilizing data from two national surveys, examines attitudes of White Protestants toward women's participation in politics. Compares the relationship between affiliation and religiosity and sex prejudice to that between religiosity and ethnic prejudice. Finds that unaffiliated Whites exhibit less sex and ethnic prejudice than do Whites affiliated…
Descriptors: Ethnic Bias, Protestants, Religious Factors, Sex Bias
Moore, Laura M.; Ovadia, Seth – Social Forces, 2006
Prior research has shown that individuals living in the South express significantly less tolerant attitudes than the rest of the nation, while individuals residing in urban areas express significantly more tolerant attitudes than their rural peers. The authors seek to explain these generally unspecified Southern and urban effects by identifying…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Education, Religion, Rural Urban Differences

Ellison, Christopher G.; And Others – Social Forces, 1996
Data from the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households indicate that parents with conservative scriptural beliefs used corporal punishment to discipline their children more frequently than did parents with less conservative theological views. This link persisted when numerous parent, child, and household characteristics were controlled.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Rearing, Conservatism, Corporal Punishment

Bartkowski, John P.; Wilcox, W. Bradford – Social Forces, 2000
Analysis of data from the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households indicates that conservative Protestant parents of preschoolers and school-age children were significantly less likely than other parents to report yelling at their children. Moreover, estimated effects of denominational affiliation on parental use of yelling were partly…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Child Rearing, Conservatism, Discipline
Beyerlein, Kraig – Social Forces, 2005
Using American religious traditions as measures of bonding and bridging social capital in communities, we empirically test how these different forms of social capital affect crime rates in 3,157 U.S. counties in 2000. Our results suggest that the bonding networks evangelical Protestants promote in communities explain why counties with a greater…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Crime, Religious Factors, Protestants
Starks, Brian; Robinson, Robert V. – Social Forces, 2005
Sociologists have documented a convergence of Protestants and Catholics in their valuation of autonomy and obedience as desirable traits for children from 1958 through 1991. By the 1980s, Alwin (1986) found that variation in such values within Protestants and Catholics was greater than that between them. Analyzing the GSS from 1986 to 2002, we…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Protestants, Catholics
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