Jon P Alston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon P Alston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon P |
| FAMILY NAME | Alston |
| SIGNATURE | ALSTON J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Comparing Canadian and American Values
This article examines portions of Seymour Martin Lipset's thesis concerning the differences in the value systems of Canadians and U.S. Americans (Lipset 1963b). (1) Although Lipset's first presentation of differences in values of Canadians and Americans is over thirty years old and maintains its fascination, interest, and theoretical significance, the thesis is strongly involved in controversy and disagreement (Bell and Tepperman 1979) as well as…
Ecological determinants of divorce
This paper examines the ecological determinants of contemporary Japanese divorce rates on the prefectural level. LISREL and computer-generated graphics are the analytic methods used. The aggregate level of analysis demands the use of the ecological model which posits that demographic changes, economic activities, migration patterns, and the level of urbanization are significant predictors of divorce rate. Our analysis demonstrates that sex ratio,…
Sources of neo-nationalism and resistance in Japan
This article focuses on non-conformity toward Japan's two most sacred nationalistic images, the nation and the Emperor. This is done through an analysis of the extent that Japanese school system provides the opportunity for their students to sing the national anthem and salute the national flag during the annual graduation ceremony
Divorce in contemporary Japan
Data from the 1985–86 Japanese census are analysed to explore the determinants of the divorce rates in Japan's forty-seven prefectures, using two theoretical models: (a) the social integration model, which is shown to have a greater utility in predicting Japanese divorce levels than (b), the human capital model. Female emigration patterns play a significant role in affecting the divorce rate. Population increase and net household income are also …
The American Samurai
Cult Archaeology and Creationism
UFOs and aliens, unexplained mysteries, religious cults, diffusion, creationism. We are all familiar with beliefs about human life that lie outside traditional scientific boundaries. Notions such as these are considered reasonable by vast numbers of us in the western world, in our modern technological and educated cultures. Understanding why this should be so and how we as a society might deal with these widespread pseudoscientific beliefs are th…
Leaving Cults
Who are the Japan Bashers? Evidence from national surveys, 1974-1985
Analysis of surveys of the American population during 1974—1985 displays a relatively stable, positive evaluation of Japan. Almost half (40%) of the 1985 respondents gave Japan one of the three most favorable ratings on a scale of ten. Regression analysis indicates that age, education, and family income form the best predictors of attitudes toward Japan. Those who are older, less educated and poorer hold less favorable attitudes toward Japan
The American Samurai
Japan as number one
The Cult Experience
Journal Article The Cult Experience, by Andrew J. Pavlos. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982, xvi + 209 pp. $27.50 Get access Jon P. Alston Jon P. Alston Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 4, Winter 1982, Pages 396–397, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710844 Published: 01 December 1982
Religion in American, 1979-80
Lenski Revisited
This study replicates and extends teh hypotheses proposed by Gerhard Lenski in The Religious Factor regarding differential Protestant-Catholic primary and secondary involvements. The data consist of three National Opinion Research Center General Social Surveys involving national samples. The study demonstrates that a "religious factor" remains, but it now operates in a similar manner for both Protestant and Catholics
Race and Attitudes Toward Local Police
Using 1973 national poll data, this article finds that race and nine other standard demographic variables account for little of the variation in how well people like their local police. Nevertheless, several weak but intriguing relationships emerge. While blacks dislike local police significantly more than whites, age, rather than race, is the best predictor in the overall sample. Further, different forces are related to these attitudes within
Politics and the Black Church in a Southern Community
Beginning in the late 1940s after the abolition of the allwhite Democratic primary, the Southern Black church increasingly became a focal point for newly emerging Black political activities. The significance of the Black church in politics was due to the fact that Black clergymen played crucial political middleman roles between the emerging Black electorate and interested white politicians.1 With the passage of time and the growth of Black politi…
Organizational Change and Religious Commitment
Analysis of membership and activity data of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Cuba during 1938–1965 indicates two general trends. During the first period of 1938–1947, the membership increased from roughly 100 to 4000 members while the average activism levels (amount of religious activity per member) gradually decreased. This lessening in religious commitment was associated with an increase in the size of the congregations, which had the effect of dimin…
Congregational Size and The Decline of Sectarian Commitment
The analysis of membership and activity data among Jehovah's Witnesses in South and North America during 1950–1976 partially supports a number of hypotheses derived from the traditional Troeltsch-Weber church sect model. Over a period of twenty-six years, the average congregation increased in size and levels of commitment decreased. In addition, the relative proportion of those members who were highly committed decreased over time as congregation…
Patriarchs and Politics
Journal Article Patriarchs and Politics: The Plight of the Mormon Woman by Marilyn Warenski. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978, xvi + 304 pp. $10.95 Get access Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 1979, Pages 373–374, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709969 Published: 01 December 1979
The Differential Impact of Religious Preference and Church Attendance on Attitudes toward Abortion
William Alex McIntosh, Letitia T. Alston, Jon P. Alston, The Differential Impact of Religious Preference and Church Attendance on Attitudes toward Abortion, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 1979), pp. 195-213
Interscholastic Athletics and Delinquent Behavior
Charles W. Peek, J. Steven Picou, Jon P. Alston, Evans W. Curry, Interscholastic Athletics and Delinquent Behavior: Appraisal or Applause?, Sociology of Education, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Oct., 1979), pp. 238-243
An Assessment of the Determinants of Religious Participation
Variations in patterns of church attendance are examined for a 1974 national sample of American Protestants and Catholics. Contrary to past results, socioeconomic status and alienation contribute little, but sociodemographic variables contribute more to the explained variance in church attendance. Region and sex affect church attendance more than education, occupation, or income. Religiosity and confidence in the clergy are the most important det…
White Acceptance of Three Degrees of School Desegregation, 1974
A NUMBER OF RESEARCHERS have found that since the early 1940s, increasingly greater proportions of white Americans have accepted the end of dual educational systems based on racial segregation. From 1942 to 1965, the proportion of white adults believing that white and black students should be allowed to attend the same schools increased from thirty to sixty percent.1 This trend continued throughout the 1960s, even when one takes into account regi…
Family size and parental satisfaction
Comparative Evaluation of the Local Police
Gallup data indicating presidential popularity from 1950 to 1974 are analyzed in a distributed lag model which tests the importance of key economic influences. Results indicate that inflation and military expenditures are statistically significant and politically important influences on presidential popularity. The success of this model in revealing hitherto undetected economic influence calls into question the nonfindings of previous simple line…
Religion at the Polls
Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Attitudes toward Welfare Recipients and the Causes of Poverty
Data are presented which show the association of the socioeconomic factors of age, sex, education, and occupation with the responses of a national sample of the white population in 1964 to questions about the causes of poverty, selected aspects of welfare programs, and the legitimacy of the need to receive aid
Cultural Distances Among Occupational Categories
The responses to 113 national survey questions dealing with a variety of culture-related topics are used to estimate cultural differences among eight broad occupational categories in the United States. The estimated differences are rather small both among the manual categories and among the nonmanual categories, although there is not high consensus among individuals either in the working class or in the class. Both skilled manual workers and farm…
The Differential Impact of Religious Preference and Church Attendance on Attitudes toward Abortion
William Alex McIntosh, Letitia T. Alston, Jon P. Alston, The Differential Impact of Religious Preference and Church Attendance on Attitudes toward Abortion, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Spring, 1979), pp. 195-213
An Assessment of the Determinants of Religious Participation
Variations in patterns of church attendance are examined for a 1974 national sample of American Protestants and Catholics. Contrary to past results, socioeconomic status and alienation contribute little, but sociodemographic variables contribute more to the explained variance in church attendance. Region and sex affect church attendance more than education, occupation, or income. Religiosity and confidence in the clergy are the most important det…
Socioeconomic Correlates for Four Dimensions of Self-Perceived Satisfaction, 1972
Comparative Evaluation of the Local Police
Gallup data indicating presidential popularity from 1950 to 1974 are analyzed in a distributed lag model which tests the importance of key economic influences. Results indicate that inflation and military expenditures are statistically significant and politically important influences on presidential popularity. The success of this model in revealing hitherto undetected economic influence calls into question the nonfindings of previous simple line…
Attitudes toward Extramarital and Homosexual Relations
Lenski Revisited
This study replicates and extends teh hypotheses proposed by Gerhard Lenski in The Religious Factor regarding differential Protestant-Catholic primary and secondary involvements. The data consist of three National Opinion Research Center General Social Surveys involving national samples. The study demonstrates that a "religious factor" remains, but it now operates in a similar manner for both Protestant and Catholics
Religiosity and Black Militancy
Data from a 1969 nationwide sample of black adults revealed a weaker association between religiosity and militant attitudes than Marx found in a 1964 sample. Further exploration uncovered an interesting reason for this finding. In 1964 blacks who were more religious were less militant within each of several age, sex, and denominational categories Marx examined, whereas in 1969 this was not the case. Among older black adults, males and Baptists, t…
Acceptance of Abortion among White Catholics and Protestants, 1962 and 1975
Two surveys of white American Protestants and Roman Catholics during 1962 and 1975 asked three questions dealing with the legalization of abortion. The data indicate that there has been a slight Protestant-Catholic decrease in attitudinal differences. Nearly all Protestant categories became more favorable toward abortion. By contrast, the Catholics who became relatively more accepting of abortion were primarily those who were young
Extent of Interfaith Marriages among White Americans
White Parental Acceptance of Varying Degrees of School Desegregation
WHITE PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE OF VARYING DEGREES OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION: 1965 AND 1970 MELVIN J. KNAPP, MELVIN J. KNAPP Assistant Professors Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JON P. ALSTON JON P. ALSTON Assistant Professors †Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 4, WINTER 1972, Page…
Three Measures of Current Levels of Religiosity
The myth of sexual permissiveness∗
There exists a current of thought which accepts the belief that most Americans increasingly hold more permissive values in relation to premarital sexual behavior. Similarly, there is the popular idea that the attitudes of males and females toward premarital sex are becoming more congruent, thus gradually eliminating the double standard in terms of both sexual behavior and attitudes held by the general population. However, much of the research dea…
Perceived Strength of Religious Beliefs
Japan as number one
Congregational Size and The Decline of Sectarian Commitment
The analysis of membership and activity data among Jehovah's Witnesses in South and North America during 1950–1976 partially supports a number of hypotheses derived from the traditional Troeltsch-Weber church sect model. Over a period of twenty-six years, the average congregation increased in size and levels of commitment decreased. In addition, the relative proportion of those members who were highly committed decreased over time as congregation…
Japanese and American Attitudes Toward the Abolition of Capital Punishment
Japanese and Americans are compared in terms of the extent each sample believes that capital punishment should be abolished, Blacks and white American females are more likely to approve of the abolition of capital punishment. No differences by sex were found in the Japanese sample. For both countries, those who are younger and more educated hold less punitive attitudes The Japanese as a whole are less likely than Americans to approve of the aboli…
Religious Mobility and Socioeconomic Status
Analysis of a 1955 survey of the American white adult population indicates that only fifteen percent have changed their religious membership. The Catholic, Jewish, and Baptist groups are the most stable. The higher-status Presbyterian, Congregational and Episcopalian denominations had the highest proportions of members who had changed their membership. No differences are found between the religious mobiles and non-mobiles in terms of occupation, …
Who are the Japan Bashers? Evidence from national surveys, 1974-1985
Analysis of surveys of the American population during 1974—1985 displays a relatively stable, positive evaluation of Japan. Almost half (40%) of the 1985 respondents gave Japan one of the three most favorable ratings on a scale of ten. Regression analysis indicates that age, education, and family income form the best predictors of attitudes toward Japan. Those who are older, less educated and poorer hold less favorable attitudes toward Japan
Availability of Archived Data in Sociology of Religion Research
Three Current Religious Issues
W hether or not Catholic priests should be allowed to marry (an organizational issue), the approval of three types of intermarriage (a social issue), and the degree of acceptance of one form of legalized euthanasia (a legal issue) are three religious issues currently being debated for which data exist in the polls. The data dealing with the acceptance of the marriage of Catholic priests compare the attitudes of the French and American Catholic po…
Cohort Analysis of Church Attendance, 1939-69
An analysis of five different cohorts spanning a thirty-year period reveals little support for any particular model of church attendance as related to chronological aging. Although cohorts share trends in church attendance by sex and specific dates or time periods, each cohort seems to manifest its own distinct pattern as related to age itself. These findings suggest that even though church attendance varies by age, other factors such as specific…
Attitudes of White Protestants and Catholics toward Nonmarital Sex
Occupational Placement and Mobility of Protestants and Catholics, 1953-1964
Cultural Distances Among Occupational Categories
The responses to 113 national survey questions dealing with a variety of culture-related topics are used to estimate cultural differences among eight broad occupational categories in the United States. The estimated differences are rather small both among the manual categories and among the nonmanual categories, although there is not high consensus among individuals either in the working class or in the class. Both skilled manual workers and farm…
Religious Humor
A content analysis of cartoons dealing with religious themes published in The New Yorker magazine during 1930–68 suggests changing attitudes toward religion. Biblical and Puritan themes do not occur in significant proportions until 1960. There is also a large increase during 1960–68 of cartoons dealing with supernatural objects. More important, the amount of criticism of the clergy increases during 1930 to 1953 and then gradually decreases to a n…
Occupational Placement and Mobility of Protestants and Catholics, 1953-1964
The Working Class
Black Catholics
The Black Population in Urbanized Areas, 1960
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the socioeconomic profile of blacks residing in the central cities and the urban fringes of the 213 urbanized areas during 1960. The tremendous growth of the population in urbanized areas since 1945 has resulted in an increased need for statistical descriptions of the demographic characteristics of their populations. The urbanized areas have increased in population to a much greater extent than has the nati…
Social Variables Associated with Church Attendance, 1965 and 1969
It seems useful to array here, in a conveniently available place, the correlates of church attendance that can be discovered by analyzing two recent Gallup Polls using representative samples of the American population. Unfortunately, such data are not generally available to the interested reader using controls which allows for unambiguous analysis.' No interpretation will be included, as the focus is restricted to the presentation of data unpubli…
Religious Mobility and Socioeconomic Status
Analysis of a 1955 survey of the American white adult population indicates that only fifteen percent have changed their religious membership. The Catholic, Jewish, and Baptist groups are the most stable. The higher-status Presbyterian, Congregational and Episcopalian denominations had the highest proportions of members who had changed their membership. No differences are found between the religious mobiles and non-mobiles in terms of occupation, …
Social Stratification
Social Stratification
Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Attitudes toward Welfare Recipients and the Causes of Poverty
Data are presented which show the association of the socioeconomic factors of age, sex, education, and occupation with the responses of a national sample of the white population in 1964 to questions about the causes of poverty, selected aspects of welfare programs, and the legitimacy of the need to receive aid
White Parental Acceptance of Varying Degrees of School Desegregation
WHITE PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE OF VARYING DEGREES OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION: 1965 AND 1970 MELVIN J. KNAPP, MELVIN J. KNAPP Assistant Professors Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JON P. ALSTON JON P. ALSTON Assistant Professors †Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 4, WINTER 1972, Page…
Religion USA
Black Attitudes Toward Speed of School Integration, 1969
The nature of black protest remains misunderstood by both blacks and whites in America (Zangrando and Zangrando, 1970). One reason for this is that social scientists have tended to ignore how blacks themselves feel about civil rights and school integration. Instead, systematic research interests have generally been limited to how whites feel and what are their attitudes (cf. Muir, 1971; Hyman and Sheatsley, 1956; Sheatsley, 1966). This lack of kn…
Attitudes toward Making Birth Control Pills Available
Church Attendance and Size of Community
Socioeconomic Correlates of Belief
Correlates of Perceived Secularization
Evaluation of Church Officials
Religiosity and Black Militancy
Data from a 1969 nationwide sample of black adults revealed a weaker association between religiosity and militant attitudes than Marx found in a 1964 sample. Further exploration uncovered an interesting reason for this finding. In 1964 blacks who were more religious were less militant within each of several age, sex, and denominational categories Marx examined, whereas in 1969 this was not the case. Among older black adults, males and Baptists, t…
The myth of sexual permissiveness∗
There exists a current of thought which accepts the belief that most Americans increasingly hold more permissive values in relation to premarital sexual behavior. Similarly, there is the popular idea that the attitudes of males and females toward premarital sex are becoming more congruent, thus gradually eliminating the double standard in terms of both sexual behavior and attitudes held by the general population. However, much of the research dea…
Aggregate Social Mobility among Major Protestant Denominations and Major Religious Groups, 1939-1969
Comparisons of French and American Church Attendance Patterns
Acceptance of Religious and Civil Liberties
Perceived Strength of Religious Beliefs
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