Scott T Fitzgerald
Biographic Data
| ID | 126868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott T Fitzgerald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott T |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzgerald |
| SIGNATURE | FITZGERALD S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Middle Class Meltdown in America: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies
Man Looks at the Outward Appearance, God Looks at the Heart: Inclusion and Identity in a High Boundary Religion
In this case study, we bring together literatures on identity and culture to examine the boundary work taking place within the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI), a historically conservative denomination with a fundamentalist orientation toward Christian belief and practice. Our findings demonstrate that boundaries are subject to deviation-and even intentional alteration-at the local level. We introduce the concept of 'self-effacing b…
I Come Back a Better Person: Identity Construction and Maintenance at a Regional Burn Festival
Burn festivals are participatory, non-commodified festivals based in self-expression, creativity, and community and are structured in the model of the original Burning Man festival, established in 1986. This study addresses reflexive identity processes among participants within the context of a regional burn festival. Building on prior research addressing identity processes in counter-cultural social spheres we conceptualize a regional burn festi…
Conceptualizing and understanding the Gülen movement
The Gülen movement (GM) is a controversial international Islamic movement originating in Turkey. Interestingly, the movement seems to be “in between” the standard conceptual categories used by social movement scholars: The GMs' focus on individual transformation and religious practices suggests that it is a religious movement; its extensive outreach into various institutions (i.e., education, health care, and media) suggests a social movement see…
Leaving the Faith: How Religious Switching Changes Pathways to Adulthood among Conservative Protestant Youth
Research revealing associations between Conservative Protestantism and lower socioeconomic status is bedeviled by questions of causal inference. Religious switching offers another way to understand the causal ordering of religious participation and demographic markers of class position. In this article, we look at adolescents who change their religious affiliation across four waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health…
Conservative Protestants, Normative Pathways, and Adult Attainment
Do religious cultures hold enough sway over individuals' life choices that they can be considered causal mechanisms generating inequality in contemporary American society? Can religious identification and participation create normative standards of behavior that either aid or hinder the development of human capital and either encourage or discourage its use to achieve financial success? These have been pressing questions since Max Weber first wro…
Religion and Inequality in America: Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology. The essays in this volume provide important new details about how and why religion and inequality are related by focusing on new indicators of inequal…
The Real Reason 60 is the New 30: Consumer Debt and Income Insecurity in Late Middle Age
In this analysis, we revisit the arguments made in our 2007 book, Post-Industrial Peasants: The Illusion of Middle Class Prosperity, and foreshadow our arguments in our forthcoming book, Middle Class Meltdown in America: Causes, Consequences and Remedies (2014, Routledge). The plight of the American middle class has been growing steadily since the early 1980s, and has been compounded further by the recession of 2008–2009 and its aftermath. We ext…
Introductory Comments: “Does the American Middle Class Have a Future???”
Regardless of where one looks or who one reads, the American middle class has occupied the popular imagination of journalists, writers, immigrants, and politicians since the American Revolution. Fo
Risk Society, Media, and Power: The Case of Nanotechnology
Risk society theory posits that the transformation of industrial to postindustrial society corresponded with a transformation of societal power structured by capital, to one structured by the ability to define risk. Perceptions of risk are, in part, socially constructed and created through the framing efforts of various institutional actors. The resulting struggle over meaning is particularly acute when the issues contain many unknown elements—as…
Can Early Family Formation Explain the Lower Educational Attainment of U.S. Conservative Protestants
Using nationally representative data, this article assesses whether the timing of life course transitions (i.e., marriage and childbirth) can explain the lower educational attainment of individuals raised in conservative Protestant (CP) households. A key finding is that early family formation affects educational attainment for both white and black women raised in CP households. For white women, the timing of family formation, net of controls, red…
Research on Homelessness: Sources and Implications of Uncertainty
The difficulties surrounding research on homelessness are numerous and substantial. Using a statewide census of homelessness, this article analyzes and critiques common methodological techniques employed in that study. In addition, using cross-tabulation and loglinear modeling, the relationship between key demographic variables and the cited primary cause of homelessness, as well as the types of housing needed, are assessed. Through a multiphased…
Methodologies for Examining Homelessness and Their Application to a Mandated Statewide Study
Using findings from a federally mandated statewide study of homelessness in the state of Iowa, this paper presents methodologies developed to address various aspects of homeless research, including enumeration of the population, screening for reporting duplications, estimating the annual number of incidents of homelessness, and exploring county‐level estimates of homelessness. After implementing an algorithm to eliminate duplicate reporting, and …
Can Early Family Formation Explain the Lower Educational Attainment of U.S. Conservative Protestants
Using nationally representative data, this article assesses whether the timing of life course transitions (i.e., marriage and childbirth) can explain the lower educational attainment of individuals raised in conservative Protestant (CP) households. A key finding is that early family formation affects educational attainment for both white and black women raised in CP households. For white women, the timing of family formation, net of controls, red…
Leaving the Faith: How Religious Switching Changes Pathways to Adulthood among Conservative Protestant Youth
Research revealing associations between Conservative Protestantism and lower socioeconomic status is bedeviled by questions of causal inference. Religious switching offers another way to understand the causal ordering of religious participation and demographic markers of class position. In this article, we look at adolescents who change their religious affiliation across four waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health…
Conceptualizing and understanding the Gülen movement
The Gülen movement (GM) is a controversial international Islamic movement originating in Turkey. Interestingly, the movement seems to be “in between” the standard conceptual categories used by social movement scholars: The GMs' focus on individual transformation and religious practices suggests that it is a religious movement; its extensive outreach into various institutions (i.e., education, health care, and media) suggests a social movement see…
Risk Society, Media, and Power: The Case of Nanotechnology
Risk society theory posits that the transformation of industrial to postindustrial society corresponded with a transformation of societal power structured by capital, to one structured by the ability to define risk. Perceptions of risk are, in part, socially constructed and created through the framing efforts of various institutional actors. The resulting struggle over meaning is particularly acute when the issues contain many unknown elements—as…
Methodologies for Examining Homelessness and Their Application to a Mandated Statewide Study
Using findings from a federally mandated statewide study of homelessness in the state of Iowa, this paper presents methodologies developed to address various aspects of homeless research, including enumeration of the population, screening for reporting duplications, estimating the annual number of incidents of homelessness, and exploring county‐level estimates of homelessness. After implementing an algorithm to eliminate duplicate reporting, and …
I Come Back a Better Person: Identity Construction and Maintenance at a Regional Burn Festival
Burn festivals are participatory, non-commodified festivals based in self-expression, creativity, and community and are structured in the model of the original Burning Man festival, established in 1986. This study addresses reflexive identity processes among participants within the context of a regional burn festival. Building on prior research addressing identity processes in counter-cultural social spheres we conceptualize a regional burn festi…
Man Looks at the Outward Appearance, God Looks at the Heart: Inclusion and Identity in a High Boundary Religion
In this case study, we bring together literatures on identity and culture to examine the boundary work taking place within the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI), a historically conservative denomination with a fundamentalist orientation toward Christian belief and practice. Our findings demonstrate that boundaries are subject to deviation-and even intentional alteration-at the local level. We introduce the concept of 'self-effacing b…
Research on Homelessness: Sources and Implications of Uncertainty
The difficulties surrounding research on homelessness are numerous and substantial. Using a statewide census of homelessness, this article analyzes and critiques common methodological techniques employed in that study. In addition, using cross-tabulation and loglinear modeling, the relationship between key demographic variables and the cited primary cause of homelessness, as well as the types of housing needed, are assessed. Through a multiphased…
Methodologies for Examining Homelessness and Their Application to a Mandated Statewide Study
Using findings from a federally mandated statewide study of homelessness in the state of Iowa, this paper presents methodologies developed to address various aspects of homeless research, including enumeration of the population, screening for reporting duplications, estimating the annual number of incidents of homelessness, and exploring county‐level estimates of homelessness. After implementing an algorithm to eliminate duplicate reporting, and …
Research on Homelessness: Sources and Implications of Uncertainty
The difficulties surrounding research on homelessness are numerous and substantial. Using a statewide census of homelessness, this article analyzes and critiques common methodological techniques employed in that study. In addition, using cross-tabulation and loglinear modeling, the relationship between key demographic variables and the cited primary cause of homelessness, as well as the types of housing needed, are assessed. Through a multiphased…
Can Early Family Formation Explain the Lower Educational Attainment of U.S. Conservative Protestants
Using nationally representative data, this article assesses whether the timing of life course transitions (i.e., marriage and childbirth) can explain the lower educational attainment of individuals raised in conservative Protestant (CP) households. A key finding is that early family formation affects educational attainment for both white and black women raised in CP households. For white women, the timing of family formation, net of controls, red…
Risk Society, Media, and Power: The Case of Nanotechnology
Risk society theory posits that the transformation of industrial to postindustrial society corresponded with a transformation of societal power structured by capital, to one structured by the ability to define risk. Perceptions of risk are, in part, socially constructed and created through the framing efforts of various institutional actors. The resulting struggle over meaning is particularly acute when the issues contain many unknown elements—as…
Conservative Protestants, Normative Pathways, and Adult Attainment
Do religious cultures hold enough sway over individuals' life choices that they can be considered causal mechanisms generating inequality in contemporary American society? Can religious identification and participation create normative standards of behavior that either aid or hinder the development of human capital and either encourage or discourage its use to achieve financial success? These have been pressing questions since Max Weber first wro…
Religion and Inequality in America: Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology. The essays in this volume provide important new details about how and why religion and inequality are related by focusing on new indicators of inequal…
The Real Reason 60 is the New 30: Consumer Debt and Income Insecurity in Late Middle Age
In this analysis, we revisit the arguments made in our 2007 book, Post-Industrial Peasants: The Illusion of Middle Class Prosperity, and foreshadow our arguments in our forthcoming book, Middle Class Meltdown in America: Causes, Consequences and Remedies (2014, Routledge). The plight of the American middle class has been growing steadily since the early 1980s, and has been compounded further by the recession of 2008–2009 and its aftermath. We ext…
Introductory Comments: “Does the American Middle Class Have a Future???”
Regardless of where one looks or who one reads, the American middle class has occupied the popular imagination of journalists, writers, immigrants, and politicians since the American Revolution. Fo
Leaving the Faith: How Religious Switching Changes Pathways to Adulthood among Conservative Protestant Youth
Research revealing associations between Conservative Protestantism and lower socioeconomic status is bedeviled by questions of causal inference. Religious switching offers another way to understand the causal ordering of religious participation and demographic markers of class position. In this article, we look at adolescents who change their religious affiliation across four waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health…
Conceptualizing and understanding the Gülen movement
The Gülen movement (GM) is a controversial international Islamic movement originating in Turkey. Interestingly, the movement seems to be “in between” the standard conceptual categories used by social movement scholars: The GMs' focus on individual transformation and religious practices suggests that it is a religious movement; its extensive outreach into various institutions (i.e., education, health care, and media) suggests a social movement see…
I Come Back a Better Person: Identity Construction and Maintenance at a Regional Burn Festival
Burn festivals are participatory, non-commodified festivals based in self-expression, creativity, and community and are structured in the model of the original Burning Man festival, established in 1986. This study addresses reflexive identity processes among participants within the context of a regional burn festival. Building on prior research addressing identity processes in counter-cultural social spheres we conceptualize a regional burn festi…
Middle Class Meltdown in America: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies
Man Looks at the Outward Appearance, God Looks at the Heart: Inclusion and Identity in a High Boundary Religion
In this case study, we bring together literatures on identity and culture to examine the boundary work taking place within the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI), a historically conservative denomination with a fundamentalist orientation toward Christian belief and practice. Our findings demonstrate that boundaries are subject to deviation-and even intentional alteration-at the local level. We introduce the concept of 'self-effacing b…
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