Brian Starks
Biographic Data
| ID | 196152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Starks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Starks |
| SIGNATURE | STARKS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7872-0935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
American Parishes
American Parishes
Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach , this book displays the forces currently reshaping …
False Consciousness
The term “false consciousness” was first coined by Friedrich Engels; there is no evidence that Karl Marx himself ever used it in his writing. The term's initial appearance in print was in a letter written by Engels to Franz Mehring in 1893. The concept, as developed in Engels's letter and in his later writings, is rooted in the earlier writings of Marx and Engels in The German Ideology . While theorists have debated whether Marx himself would hav…
Lazarsfeld, Paul (1901–1976)
Paul Lazarsfeld, founder of the Bureau for Applied Social Research at Columbia University, was a pioneering empirical sociologist. Trained as a mathematician and initially self‐identifying as a psychologist, Lazarsfeld only later came to recognize himself as a sociologist
Exploring Religious Self-Identification among U.S. Catholics
Despite the inclusion of Catholic self-identification measures in several national surveys, research has failed to describe these identity labels in depth. Analyzing 50 in-depth interviews with Catholics in three Midwestern cities, I explore what it means to self-identify as a traditional, moderate, or liberal Catholic. These identities are a means of representing self-understood divisions within the Catholic Church, and serve to institutionalize…
It Opened My Eyes”
Journal writing is pedagogically appropriate for increasing reflexivity and conscious awareness of one’s environment. The journal assignment discussed in this article promotes recognition of the impact of race, gender, and social class on students’ everyday lives. In pre- and posttest surveys of students engaged in this assignment, students report statistically significant increases in awareness after journaling. These increases in awareness are …
Are Religious People More Compassionate and Does This Matter Politically
Analyzing a unique module of the General Social Survey, we test hypotheses that three religion dimensions — affiliation with specific religious traditions (belonging), service attendance (behaving), and religious orthodoxy (believing) are associated with compassionate feelings, and that these feelings carry over into support for government efforts to help the poor, blacks, and the sick. The religiously orthodox report more compassionate feelings …
Outside the Comfort Zone of the Classroom
What comes to mind when the word learning is mentioned? Is it a classroom full of students and a teacher dictating notes as the students struggle emphatically to write down every word that is said? Is it a picture of a student in the library with a stack of books piled on a desk, trying to read them all? These examples of learning may fit the traditional definition but this paper expands learning to include service. This paper describes a non‐tra…
Self-Identified Traditional, Moderate, and Liberal Catholics
Two Approaches to Religion and Politics
We explore two competing approaches to internal religious divisions and their political consequences. The 'moral cosmology' approach focuses on religious worldviews. It juxtaposes the religiously orthodox to modernists, arguing that the former are theologically communitarian in belief while the latter are individualistic. The religiously orthodox worldview (relative to modernists) is posited to lead to politically conservative stances on cultural…
Lazarsfeld, Paul (1901–1976)
Paul Lazarsfeld, founder of the Bureau for Applied Social Research at Columbia University, was a pioneering empirical sociologist. Trained as a mathematician and initially self‐identifying as a psychologist, he only later came to recognize himself as a sociologist
False Consciousness
False consciousness is a Marxist theoretical concept referring to the circumstance, or state‐of‐being, in which workers hold views that are contrary to workers' objective class interests. This subjective consciousness does not arise organically from among workers, but is imposed (or foisted) upon them by the dominant ideology of the capitalist class. False consciousness and class consciousness are intimately linked. Whereas class consciousness de…
Moral Cosmology, Religion, and Adult Values for Children
We hypothesize that the religiously orthodox, who are theologically communitarian/authoritarian in seeing individuals as subsumed by a larger community of believers and as subject to timeless divine law, are more likely to value obedience in children over autonomy than are theological modernists, who are theologically individualistic in seeing individuals, not a deity, as the ultimate arbiters of right and wrong. We hypothesize further that diffe…
Who Values the Obedient Child Now? The Religious Factor in Adult Values for Children, 1986-2002
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 test whether Evangelical Protestants, in a backlash against a climate of moral uncertainty and governmen…
The New Economy and the American Dream
Recent decades have seen major changes in economic conditions in the United States, including large-scale layoffs and downsizing, erosion of job quality for some workers, and increased reliance on nonstandard workers. Researchers have investigated the objective contours of this new economy, but few have investigated the consequences of these changes for popular attitudes about economic opportunity. Using data from the 1998 Indiana Survey of Worke…
The New Economy and the American Dream
Recent decades have seen major changes in economic conditions in the United States, including large-scale layoffs and downsizing, erosion of job quality for some workers, and increased reliance on nonstandard workers. Researchers have investigated the objective contours of this new economy, but few have investigated the consequences of these changes for popular attitudes about economic opportunity. Using data from the 1998 Indiana Survey of Worke…
Racial Differences in the Effects of Significant Others on Students' Educational Expectations
This study compares the impact of the educational aspirations of parents, teachers, close relatives, and peers on students' educational expectations across various racial groups. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, the authors found that both the levels of significant others' aspirations and the effects of these aspirations vary by students' racial statuses and types of significant others. First, Asian, Hispanic, and Africa…
Racial Differences in the Effects of Significant Others on Students' Educational Expectations
This study compares the impact of the educational aspirations of parents, teachers, close relatives, and peers on students' educational expectations across various racial groups. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, the authors found that both the levels of significant others' aspirations and the effects of these aspirations vary by students' racial statuses and types of significant others. First, Asian, Hispanic, and Africa…
Moral Cosmology, Religion, and Adult Values for Children
We hypothesize that the religiously orthodox, who are theologically communitarian/authoritarian in seeing individuals as subsumed by a larger community of believers and as subject to timeless divine law, are more likely to value obedience in children over autonomy than are theological modernists, who are theologically individualistic in seeing individuals, not a deity, as the ultimate arbiters of right and wrong. We hypothesize further that diffe…
Who Values the Obedient Child Now? The Religious Factor in Adult Values for Children, 1986-2002
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 test whether Evangelical Protestants, in a backlash against a climate of moral uncertainty and governmen…
It Opened My Eyes”
Journal writing is pedagogically appropriate for increasing reflexivity and conscious awareness of one’s environment. The journal assignment discussed in this article promotes recognition of the impact of race, gender, and social class on students’ everyday lives. In pre- and posttest surveys of students engaged in this assignment, students report statistically significant increases in awareness after journaling. These increases in awareness are …
Two Approaches to Religion and Politics
We explore two competing approaches to internal religious divisions and their political consequences. The 'moral cosmology' approach focuses on religious worldviews. It juxtaposes the religiously orthodox to modernists, arguing that the former are theologically communitarian in belief while the latter are individualistic. The religiously orthodox worldview (relative to modernists) is posited to lead to politically conservative stances on cultural…
Self-Identified Traditional, Moderate, and Liberal Catholics
The New Economy and the American Dream
Recent decades have seen major changes in economic conditions in the United States, including large-scale layoffs and downsizing, erosion of job quality for some workers, and increased reliance on nonstandard workers. Researchers have investigated the objective contours of this new economy, but few have investigated the consequences of these changes for popular attitudes about economic opportunity. Using data from the 1998 Indiana Survey of Worke…
Are Religious People More Compassionate and Does This Matter Politically
Analyzing a unique module of the General Social Survey, we test hypotheses that three religion dimensions — affiliation with specific religious traditions (belonging), service attendance (behaving), and religious orthodoxy (believing) are associated with compassionate feelings, and that these feelings carry over into support for government efforts to help the poor, blacks, and the sick. The religiously orthodox report more compassionate feelings …
Racial Differences in the Effects of Significant Others on Students' Educational Expectations
This study compares the impact of the educational aspirations of parents, teachers, close relatives, and peers on students' educational expectations across various racial groups. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study, the authors found that both the levels of significant others' aspirations and the effects of these aspirations vary by students' racial statuses and types of significant others. First, Asian, Hispanic, and Africa…
The New Economy and the American Dream
Recent decades have seen major changes in economic conditions in the United States, including large-scale layoffs and downsizing, erosion of job quality for some workers, and increased reliance on nonstandard workers. Researchers have investigated the objective contours of this new economy, but few have investigated the consequences of these changes for popular attitudes about economic opportunity. Using data from the 1998 Indiana Survey of Worke…
The New Economy and the American Dream
Recent decades have seen major changes in economic conditions in the United States, including large-scale layoffs and downsizing, erosion of job quality for some workers, and increased reliance on nonstandard workers. Researchers have investigated the objective contours of this new economy, but few have investigated the consequences of these changes for popular attitudes about economic opportunity. Using data from the 1998 Indiana Survey of Worke…
Who Values the Obedient Child Now? The Religious Factor in Adult Values for Children, 1986-2002
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 test whether Evangelical Protestants, in a backlash against a climate of moral uncertainty and governmen…
Lazarsfeld, Paul (1901–1976)
Paul Lazarsfeld, founder of the Bureau for Applied Social Research at Columbia University, was a pioneering empirical sociologist. Trained as a mathematician and initially self‐identifying as a psychologist, he only later came to recognize himself as a sociologist
False Consciousness
False consciousness is a Marxist theoretical concept referring to the circumstance, or state‐of‐being, in which workers hold views that are contrary to workers' objective class interests. This subjective consciousness does not arise organically from among workers, but is imposed (or foisted) upon them by the dominant ideology of the capitalist class. False consciousness and class consciousness are intimately linked. Whereas class consciousness de…
Moral Cosmology, Religion, and Adult Values for Children
We hypothesize that the religiously orthodox, who are theologically communitarian/authoritarian in seeing individuals as subsumed by a larger community of believers and as subject to timeless divine law, are more likely to value obedience in children over autonomy than are theological modernists, who are theologically individualistic in seeing individuals, not a deity, as the ultimate arbiters of right and wrong. We hypothesize further that diffe…
Self-Identified Traditional, Moderate, and Liberal Catholics
Two Approaches to Religion and Politics
We explore two competing approaches to internal religious divisions and their political consequences. The 'moral cosmology' approach focuses on religious worldviews. It juxtaposes the religiously orthodox to modernists, arguing that the former are theologically communitarian in belief while the latter are individualistic. The religiously orthodox worldview (relative to modernists) is posited to lead to politically conservative stances on cultural…
Outside the Comfort Zone of the Classroom
What comes to mind when the word learning is mentioned? Is it a classroom full of students and a teacher dictating notes as the students struggle emphatically to write down every word that is said? Is it a picture of a student in the library with a stack of books piled on a desk, trying to read them all? These examples of learning may fit the traditional definition but this paper expands learning to include service. This paper describes a non‐tra…
Exploring Religious Self-Identification among U.S. Catholics
Despite the inclusion of Catholic self-identification measures in several national surveys, research has failed to describe these identity labels in depth. Analyzing 50 in-depth interviews with Catholics in three Midwestern cities, I explore what it means to self-identify as a traditional, moderate, or liberal Catholic. These identities are a means of representing self-understood divisions within the Catholic Church, and serve to institutionalize…
It Opened My Eyes”
Journal writing is pedagogically appropriate for increasing reflexivity and conscious awareness of one’s environment. The journal assignment discussed in this article promotes recognition of the impact of race, gender, and social class on students’ everyday lives. In pre- and posttest surveys of students engaged in this assignment, students report statistically significant increases in awareness after journaling. These increases in awareness are …
Are Religious People More Compassionate and Does This Matter Politically
Analyzing a unique module of the General Social Survey, we test hypotheses that three religion dimensions — affiliation with specific religious traditions (belonging), service attendance (behaving), and religious orthodoxy (believing) are associated with compassionate feelings, and that these feelings carry over into support for government efforts to help the poor, blacks, and the sick. The religiously orthodox report more compassionate feelings …
False Consciousness
The term “false consciousness” was first coined by Friedrich Engels; there is no evidence that Karl Marx himself ever used it in his writing. The term's initial appearance in print was in a letter written by Engels to Franz Mehring in 1893. The concept, as developed in Engels's letter and in his later writings, is rooted in the earlier writings of Marx and Engels in The German Ideology . While theorists have debated whether Marx himself would hav…
Lazarsfeld, Paul (1901–1976)
Paul Lazarsfeld, founder of the Bureau for Applied Social Research at Columbia University, was a pioneering empirical sociologist. Trained as a mathematician and initially self‐identifying as a psychologist, Lazarsfeld only later came to recognize himself as a sociologist
American Parishes
American Parishes
Parishes are the missing middle in studies of American Catholicism. Between individual Catholics and a global institution, the thousands of local parishes are where Catholicism gets remade. American Parishes showcases what social forces shape parishes, what parishes do, how they do it, and what this says about the future of Catholicism in the United States. Expounding an embedded field approach , this book displays the forces currently reshaping …
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)