Larry R Petersen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 118020 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Larry R Petersen |
| NOMBRES | Larry R |
| APELLIDO | Petersen |
| FIRMA | PETERSEN L R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Memphis |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Religion, Plausibility Structures, and Education's Effect on Attitudes Toward Elective Abortion
This study tests three hypotheses derived from Berger's (1967) plausibility theory. The first hypothesis states that among people who attend church frequently, education's liberalizing effect on attitudes toward elective abortion is weakest among conservative Protestants and Catholics, intermediate among moderate Protestants, and strongest among liberal Protestants and Jews. Hypotheses 2 states that education's effect is weaker among frequent tha…
Religion and Declining Support for Traditional Beliefs about Gender Roles and Homosexual Rights
Journal Article Religion and Declining Support for Traditional Beliefs about Gender Roles and Homosexual Rights Get access Larry R. Petersen, Larry R. Petersen * University of Memphis * Direct correspondence to Larry R. Petersen, Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gregory V. Donnenwerth Gregory V. Donnenwerth University of Memphis Search f…
Secularization and the Influence of Religion on Beliefs about Premarital Sex
Over the past two or three decades there has been a substantial decline in support for traditional beliefs about premarital sex. From theories about religious privatization and religious plausibility structures it was predicted the decline was slower among conservative Protestants who attended church often than among any other group of Christians. The prediction was tested using data from the 1972–93 Cumulative Social Surveys. The findings indica…
Education, Homogamy, and Religious Commitment
L'A. reprend une hypothese de Berger qui met en relation l'education des protestants conservateurs avec l'affiliation religieuse de l'epouse pour finalement influencer l'engagement religieux. L'education a des relations plus negatives (avec plusieurs indicateurs de l'engagement) parmi les conservateurs protestants maries a des gens non affilies religieusement, que parmi les conservateurs maries a des protestants ou des catholiques. Cependant, les…
Socialization Values and Parental Control Techniques
The present study tests competing hypotheses of how parental values affect the use of child-rearing techniques. The results indicate that a value on conformity is positively associated, not only with corporal punishment (as previously demonstrated), but also with the use of lecturing and overall control. Similarly, a value on self-reliance is negatively associated with the use of those three techniques
Institutionalization and Well-Being Among the Elderly
Iatrogenic, prosthetic, and other perspectives are used to derive hypotheses concerning the roles of perceived health and residence satisfaction in mediating the effects of nursing home institutionalization on subjective well-being. The findings show that perceived health and residence satisfaction are important intervening variables. Institutionalization has a positive effect on well-being, mediated by perceived health, but institutionalization …
Religion in Contemporary Society
Orthodoxy, Religious Discordance and Alienation
The purpose of this study is to determine if discordance theory is helpful in understanding the relationship between religiosity and alienation. Using a sample drawn from the general population in Memphis, Tennessee, hypotheses derived from the theory which implicate religious discordance (the perception that socio-cultural change is undermining religious ideals) as an intervening variable between orthodoxy and alienation were tested. Consistent …
Interfaith Marriage and Religious Commitment among Catholics
Based on a sample of Catholics, this study examines the common assertion that interfaith marriages have a secularizing effect on family members by assessing the effects of the respondent's and his/her parents' type of religious marriage on 11 measures of religious commitment. On 3 of these measures (orthodoxy, religious salience, and God's influence on life), offspring of Catholic-conservative Protestant marriages scored highest, followed by offs…
Religiosity, Anxiety, and Meaning and Purpose
Religious Commitment and Conservatism
Gorsuch and Aleshire (1974) have advanced theoretical ideas to explain recurring findings in research which has examined relationships between religiosity and racial conservatism. In this paper, it is argued that these ideas are relevant to understanding not only religion's relationship to racial conservatism, but to other types of conservatism as well. Using a sample of Catholics, eight hypotheses are tested which link several different types of…
Community And Commitment Among Catholics
This study tests Roof's (1972,1976,1978) local-cosmopolitan theory of religious commitment using a sample of Catholics living in west Tennessee. Consistent with Roof's theory, local community reference (localism) had significant positive effects on four measures of religious beliefs and played a limited role in mediating the effects of education, size of hometown, and length of residence on these measures. However, localism had inconsequential ef…
Conjugal Power and Spousal Resources in Patriarchal Cultures
Current sociological theory regarding the antecedents of conjugal power suggests that resource theory can be successfully employed in the prediction and explanation of marital power distributions only in "transitional equalitarian" cultural systems. Anthropologists, however, have employed variations of resource theory in cultures which are clearly patriarchal, and have observed patterns of power distributions which conform to resource theory. In …
Local-Cosmopolitan Theory and Religiosity among Catholic Nuns and Brothers
Roof's (1972, 1976, 1978) local-cosmopolitan theory of religious commitment is tested using a population of Catholic brothers and nuns living in West Tennessee. The findings provide rather strong support for Roof's theory. Local community reference (localism) had appreciable positive effects on seven religious belief and behavioral variables. Moreover, localism played a role (albeit a limited one) in mediating the effects of education, size of ho…
Social Structure, Socialization Values, and Disciplinary Techniques
Previous research suggests that supervision of adults in salient behavioral domains is an important antecedent of differential valuation of conformity and self-reliance in socialization. This study attempts to extend this research by implicating differential valuation of these traits as an antecedent of the use of physical punishment. Using a sample of cultures drawn from the Standard Cross-cultural Sample and the Human Relations Area Files, we f…
Income, Equity, and Wives' Housekeeping Role Expectations
Drawing on equity theory, this study examines the effect of spouses' relative incomes (wife's income/ husband's income) on wives' perceptions of the extent to which their husbands should share housekeeping labor. Multiple regression analysis revealed that spouses' relative income has an appreciable positive effect (wives become more egalitarian in their perceptions as their income becomes more equal to their husbands') which persists with control…
Supervision and Conformity
This paper integrates the existing theories on the antecedents of parental values in socialization, drawing heavily on the work of Kohn; Barry, Child, and Bacon; Stephens; and Olsen. Their theories, although varying in specific hypotheses, may be partially subsumed under the general proposition that supervision of the parent in salient behavioral domains is positively related to a parental value on conformity and negatively related to a value on …
"Religion and the "Right to Life
The small amount of literature on the relationship between religion and attitudes on abortion does not give us a clear indication of the importance of religion in determining attitudes on abortion. But literature on political attitudes indicates that opposition to easy abortion is associated with political conservatism. There is another body of literature indicating that religious and political conservatism/liberalism are highly correlated. The h…
Religion and Declining Support for Traditional Beliefs about Gender Roles and Homosexual Rights
Journal Article Religion and Declining Support for Traditional Beliefs about Gender Roles and Homosexual Rights Get access Larry R. Petersen, Larry R. Petersen * University of Memphis * Direct correspondence to Larry R. Petersen, Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gregory V. Donnenwerth Gregory V. Donnenwerth University of Memphis Search f…
Religiosity, Anxiety, and Meaning and Purpose
Secularization and the Influence of Religion on Beliefs about Premarital Sex
Over the past two or three decades there has been a substantial decline in support for traditional beliefs about premarital sex. From theories about religious privatization and religious plausibility structures it was predicted the decline was slower among conservative Protestants who attended church often than among any other group of Christians. The prediction was tested using data from the 1972–93 Cumulative Social Surveys. The findings indica…
Religion, Plausibility Structures, and Education's Effect on Attitudes Toward Elective Abortion
This study tests three hypotheses derived from Berger's (1967) plausibility theory. The first hypothesis states that among people who attend church frequently, education's liberalizing effect on attitudes toward elective abortion is weakest among conservative Protestants and Catholics, intermediate among moderate Protestants, and strongest among liberal Protestants and Jews. Hypotheses 2 states that education's effect is weaker among frequent tha…
Supervision and Conformity
This paper integrates the existing theories on the antecedents of parental values in socialization, drawing heavily on the work of Kohn; Barry, Child, and Bacon; Stephens; and Olsen. Their theories, although varying in specific hypotheses, may be partially subsumed under the general proposition that supervision of the parent in salient behavioral domains is positively related to a parental value on conformity and negatively related to a value on …
Conjugal Power and Spousal Resources in Patriarchal Cultures
Current sociological theory regarding the antecedents of conjugal power suggests that resource theory can be successfully employed in the prediction and explanation of marital power distributions only in "transitional equalitarian" cultural systems. Anthropologists, however, have employed variations of resource theory in cultures which are clearly patriarchal, and have observed patterns of power distributions which conform to resource theory. In …
"Religion and the "Right to Life
The small amount of literature on the relationship between religion and attitudes on abortion does not give us a clear indication of the importance of religion in determining attitudes on abortion. But literature on political attitudes indicates that opposition to easy abortion is associated with political conservatism. There is another body of literature indicating that religious and political conservatism/liberalism are highly correlated. The h…
Social Structure, Socialization Values, and Disciplinary Techniques
Previous research suggests that supervision of adults in salient behavioral domains is an important antecedent of differential valuation of conformity and self-reliance in socialization. This study attempts to extend this research by implicating differential valuation of these traits as an antecedent of the use of physical punishment. Using a sample of cultures drawn from the Standard Cross-cultural Sample and the Human Relations Area Files, we f…
Institutionalization and Well-Being Among the Elderly
Iatrogenic, prosthetic, and other perspectives are used to derive hypotheses concerning the roles of perceived health and residence satisfaction in mediating the effects of nursing home institutionalization on subjective well-being. The findings show that perceived health and residence satisfaction are important intervening variables. Institutionalization has a positive effect on well-being, mediated by perceived health, but institutionalization …
Socialization Values and Parental Control Techniques
The present study tests competing hypotheses of how parental values affect the use of child-rearing techniques. The results indicate that a value on conformity is positively associated, not only with corporal punishment (as previously demonstrated), but also with the use of lecturing and overall control. Similarly, a value on self-reliance is negatively associated with the use of those three techniques
Interfaith Marriage and Religious Commitment among Catholics
Based on a sample of Catholics, this study examines the common assertion that interfaith marriages have a secularizing effect on family members by assessing the effects of the respondent's and his/her parents' type of religious marriage on 11 measures of religious commitment. On 3 of these measures (orthodoxy, religious salience, and God's influence on life), offspring of Catholic-conservative Protestant marriages scored highest, followed by offs…
Religious Commitment and Conservatism
Gorsuch and Aleshire (1974) have advanced theoretical ideas to explain recurring findings in research which has examined relationships between religiosity and racial conservatism. In this paper, it is argued that these ideas are relevant to understanding not only religion's relationship to racial conservatism, but to other types of conservatism as well. Using a sample of Catholics, eight hypotheses are tested which link several different types of…
Education, Homogamy, and Religious Commitment
L'A. reprend une hypothese de Berger qui met en relation l'education des protestants conservateurs avec l'affiliation religieuse de l'epouse pour finalement influencer l'engagement religieux. L'education a des relations plus negatives (avec plusieurs indicateurs de l'engagement) parmi les conservateurs protestants maries a des gens non affilies religieusement, que parmi les conservateurs maries a des protestants ou des catholiques. Cependant, les…
Religion in Contemporary Society
Local-Cosmopolitan Theory and Religiosity among Catholic Nuns and Brothers
Roof's (1972, 1976, 1978) local-cosmopolitan theory of religious commitment is tested using a population of Catholic brothers and nuns living in West Tennessee. The findings provide rather strong support for Roof's theory. Local community reference (localism) had appreciable positive effects on seven religious belief and behavioral variables. Moreover, localism played a role (albeit a limited one) in mediating the effects of education, size of ho…
Income, Equity, and Wives' Housekeeping Role Expectations
Drawing on equity theory, this study examines the effect of spouses' relative incomes (wife's income/ husband's income) on wives' perceptions of the extent to which their husbands should share housekeeping labor. Multiple regression analysis revealed that spouses' relative income has an appreciable positive effect (wives become more egalitarian in their perceptions as their income becomes more equal to their husbands') which persists with control…
"Religion and the "Right to Life
The small amount of literature on the relationship between religion and attitudes on abortion does not give us a clear indication of the importance of religion in determining attitudes on abortion. But literature on political attitudes indicates that opposition to easy abortion is associated with political conservatism. There is another body of literature indicating that religious and political conservatism/liberalism are highly correlated. The h…
Supervision and Conformity
This paper integrates the existing theories on the antecedents of parental values in socialization, drawing heavily on the work of Kohn; Barry, Child, and Bacon; Stephens; and Olsen. Their theories, although varying in specific hypotheses, may be partially subsumed under the general proposition that supervision of the parent in salient behavioral domains is positively related to a parental value on conformity and negatively related to a value on …
Income, Equity, and Wives' Housekeeping Role Expectations
Drawing on equity theory, this study examines the effect of spouses' relative incomes (wife's income/ husband's income) on wives' perceptions of the extent to which their husbands should share housekeeping labor. Multiple regression analysis revealed that spouses' relative income has an appreciable positive effect (wives become more egalitarian in their perceptions as their income becomes more equal to their husbands') which persists with control…
Social Structure, Socialization Values, and Disciplinary Techniques
Previous research suggests that supervision of adults in salient behavioral domains is an important antecedent of differential valuation of conformity and self-reliance in socialization. This study attempts to extend this research by implicating differential valuation of these traits as an antecedent of the use of physical punishment. Using a sample of cultures drawn from the Standard Cross-cultural Sample and the Human Relations Area Files, we f…
Conjugal Power and Spousal Resources in Patriarchal Cultures
Current sociological theory regarding the antecedents of conjugal power suggests that resource theory can be successfully employed in the prediction and explanation of marital power distributions only in "transitional equalitarian" cultural systems. Anthropologists, however, have employed variations of resource theory in cultures which are clearly patriarchal, and have observed patterns of power distributions which conform to resource theory. In …
Local-Cosmopolitan Theory and Religiosity among Catholic Nuns and Brothers
Roof's (1972, 1976, 1978) local-cosmopolitan theory of religious commitment is tested using a population of Catholic brothers and nuns living in West Tennessee. The findings provide rather strong support for Roof's theory. Local community reference (localism) had appreciable positive effects on seven religious belief and behavioral variables. Moreover, localism played a role (albeit a limited one) in mediating the effects of education, size of ho…
Religious Commitment and Conservatism
Gorsuch and Aleshire (1974) have advanced theoretical ideas to explain recurring findings in research which has examined relationships between religiosity and racial conservatism. In this paper, it is argued that these ideas are relevant to understanding not only religion's relationship to racial conservatism, but to other types of conservatism as well. Using a sample of Catholics, eight hypotheses are tested which link several different types of…
Community And Commitment Among Catholics
This study tests Roof's (1972,1976,1978) local-cosmopolitan theory of religious commitment using a sample of Catholics living in west Tennessee. Consistent with Roof's theory, local community reference (localism) had significant positive effects on four measures of religious beliefs and played a limited role in mediating the effects of education, size of hometown, and length of residence on these measures. However, localism had inconsequential ef…
Religiosity, Anxiety, and Meaning and Purpose
Interfaith Marriage and Religious Commitment among Catholics
Based on a sample of Catholics, this study examines the common assertion that interfaith marriages have a secularizing effect on family members by assessing the effects of the respondent's and his/her parents' type of religious marriage on 11 measures of religious commitment. On 3 of these measures (orthodoxy, religious salience, and God's influence on life), offspring of Catholic-conservative Protestant marriages scored highest, followed by offs…
Religion in Contemporary Society
Orthodoxy, Religious Discordance and Alienation
The purpose of this study is to determine if discordance theory is helpful in understanding the relationship between religiosity and alienation. Using a sample drawn from the general population in Memphis, Tennessee, hypotheses derived from the theory which implicate religious discordance (the perception that socio-cultural change is undermining religious ideals) as an intervening variable between orthodoxy and alienation were tested. Consistent …
Socialization Values and Parental Control Techniques
The present study tests competing hypotheses of how parental values affect the use of child-rearing techniques. The results indicate that a value on conformity is positively associated, not only with corporal punishment (as previously demonstrated), but also with the use of lecturing and overall control. Similarly, a value on self-reliance is negatively associated with the use of those three techniques
Institutionalization and Well-Being Among the Elderly
Iatrogenic, prosthetic, and other perspectives are used to derive hypotheses concerning the roles of perceived health and residence satisfaction in mediating the effects of nursing home institutionalization on subjective well-being. The findings show that perceived health and residence satisfaction are important intervening variables. Institutionalization has a positive effect on well-being, mediated by perceived health, but institutionalization …
Education, Homogamy, and Religious Commitment
L'A. reprend une hypothese de Berger qui met en relation l'education des protestants conservateurs avec l'affiliation religieuse de l'epouse pour finalement influencer l'engagement religieux. L'education a des relations plus negatives (avec plusieurs indicateurs de l'engagement) parmi les conservateurs protestants maries a des gens non affilies religieusement, que parmi les conservateurs maries a des protestants ou des catholiques. Cependant, les…
Secularization and the Influence of Religion on Beliefs about Premarital Sex
Over the past two or three decades there has been a substantial decline in support for traditional beliefs about premarital sex. From theories about religious privatization and religious plausibility structures it was predicted the decline was slower among conservative Protestants who attended church often than among any other group of Christians. The prediction was tested using data from the 1972–93 Cumulative Social Surveys. The findings indica…
Religion and Declining Support for Traditional Beliefs about Gender Roles and Homosexual Rights
Journal Article Religion and Declining Support for Traditional Beliefs about Gender Roles and Homosexual Rights Get access Larry R. Petersen, Larry R. Petersen * University of Memphis * Direct correspondence to Larry R. Petersen, Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gregory V. Donnenwerth Gregory V. Donnenwerth University of Memphis Search f…
Religion, Plausibility Structures, and Education's Effect on Attitudes Toward Elective Abortion
This study tests three hypotheses derived from Berger's (1967) plausibility theory. The first hypothesis states that among people who attend church frequently, education's liberalizing effect on attitudes toward elective abortion is weakest among conservative Protestants and Catholics, intermediate among moderate Protestants, and strongest among liberal Protestants and Jews. Hypotheses 2 states that education's effect is weaker among frequent tha…
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