D Bolger
Biographic Data
| ID | 13380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Bolger |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolger |
| SIGNATURE | BOLGER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4473-3965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The making of an epidemic of pain
Chronic pain in the United States has increased rapidly in recent decades. Social scientists argue that increases in pain are tied to economic conditions, but how the two are related remains a mystery. We draw on 96 immersive interviews with disability recipients and community leaders in one county in Central Appalachia to advance the hypothesis that “social pain”—or the painful feelings resulting from social disconnection—is a critical link betw…
Exploring Variation in Welfare Attitudes Among Low-Income Parents
Community-based organizations and the production of collective efficacy in majority black neighborhoods in Houston, Texas
Getting out and giving back
Receiving assistance can be stigmatizing. As the cash welfare rolls have fallen to near-historic lows, the privatization of the social safety net in many states has brought up new questions about how recipients of assistance meet their material needs without sacrificing their sense of dignity. I draw on 15 months of ethnographic observation and 44 interviews with social service recipients in two majority Black neighborhoods in Houston, Texas to e…
Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties
This study examines the administrative burden imposed by two federal disability assistance programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). We consider how communities in two distinct regions of the United States—and their respective institutions—serve as mediators between citizens and the state. We draw on 68 interviews from Clay County, Kentucky, and Humphreys County, Mississippi—two rural counties w…
The Intersections among Race, Religion, and Science in Explaining Mental Health Conditions
Racial minority groups in the United States often seek out religious support for mental health struggles. Yet past studies have often overlooked religion as a key explanatory factor shaping racial-ethnic differences in perceptions of mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. The authors examine whether views of the relationship between religion and science shape agreement with different explanations for mental health conditions. Dr…
The Connection between Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Viewing Work as a Spiritual Calling
Research shows that perceived workplace discrimination shapes an individual's job satisfaction and intent to leave a job. This study considers whether these impacts may be attenuated if an individual views their work as a spiritual calling. Using data from a nationally representative survey (N = 9,907), our analysis shows that perceived work discrimination due to race, gender, and religion are all independently associated with less job satisfacti…
The Relationship between Workplace Status and Workplace Religious Expression
A growing body of literature explores religious expression in workplaces, but comparatively little research examines how religious expression might be shaped by inequality in workplace status. We hypothesize that perceived work autonomy and socioeconomic status (SES) both function as mediating links between organizational status and religious expression. Drawing on a sample of employed adults from a nationally-representative survey in the United …
Seeing is achieving
Ample research demonstrates how religious commitments influence beliefs about racial inequality within US society without considering how individuals' explanations of inequality might differ with relationship to different racialized structures and institutions. Here we focus on science, an institutional sector perceived to be in tension with religious institutions and marked by persistent disparities in racial representation. Drawing on focus gro…
The Collective Construction of Need
Research finds that faith-based organizations (FBOs) serve highly disadvantaged populations, but few studies explore how such organizations decide who is deserving of assistance. Drawing on 12 months of observation and 24 interviews at two FBOs in neighborhoods with different poverty rates, I find that agency members circumscribe conceptions of who “needs” assistance based on stories of people who take advantage of services. These stories undergi…
Determinants of Confidence in U.S. Institutions
Objectives The political discourse surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election highlighted discontent with both Congress and corporations, a reality corroborated in recent scholarship highlighting declines in institutional confidence among U.S. citizens. Here we test theories of institutional confidence to understand the social and cultural determinants of confidence in Congress and corporations prior to the start of the 2016 presidential cam…
Between the Prophetic and Priestly
Health researchers often seek to leverage pastoral authority in Black churches to forge community partnerships that address racial health disparities in the United States. Yet, researchers have not fully recognized the range (and limits) of pastoral authority as well as the complex role of religion in African American health. Here we explore how health and science are engaged in Black Church contexts and what role pastoral authority plays in this…
Where Would You Go? Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pastor Mental Health Care in Black and Latino Congregations
A growing body of literature explores how religious congregations shape attitudes toward mental health in racial/ethnic minority communities. Such research has primarily focused on the views of Black clergy and congregants, limiting our ability to understand how the views of Black Christians might differ from Christians in other racial/ethnic minority communities. We drew on focus groups with 14 pastors and interviews with 20 congregants from Bla…
The Racial Politics of Place in Faith-Based Social Service Provision
Prior research indicates that faith-based social service providers are overrepresented in disadvantaged neighborhoods, which has led some to advocate for their increased involvement in the U.S. social safety net. Yet, we have little understanding of how they and other social service organizations understand the significance of place in their work. Here I explore how conceptions of place matter for social service provision by drawing on 12 months …
A Nationally Representative Survey of Faith and Work
Research has increasingly highlighted the importance of business leaders allowing people to bring their whole selves to work. And religion is an important part of the whole self for many. However, we lack the large-scale national data needed to explore how Americans see the connections between religion and work. Here, from "Faith at Work: An Empirical Study"-a novel, nationally representative dataset-we explore the extent to which working America…
The Successive Nature of City Parks
This study examines the historical establishment and shifting residential access to city parks over time. It begins by engaging and extending a theory of urbanization as socioenvironmental succession. It then assembles and analyzes longitudinal data on city park creation and neighborhood change in Houston from 1947 to 2015. Results reveal how socially privileged residents have long enjoyed unequal access to city parks as well as strong influence …
Selection versus Socialization? Interrogating the Sources of Secularity in Global Science
Science and secularization have been linked in scholarship and the public imagination. Some suggest that scientific training leads to loss of religion. Yet there is only speculation about the processes by which scientists might become less religious and whether such processes are confined to the west or hold across national contexts. Using original survey data ( N = 5,006) of biologists and physicists in India, Italy, and the United States, as we…
Heaven and Health
Religious congregations have increasingly been viewed as potential access points to health care in underserved communities. Such a perspective stems from a robust literature identifying the unique civic role that churches potentially play in African American and Latino communities. Yet, research on congregational health promotion has often not considered how congregants view the connections between religious faith, physical health, and the church…
Whose Authority? Perceptions of Science Education in Black and Latino Churches
Recent scholarship argues that beliefs in biblical literalism might keep conservative Protestants out of STEM. Two of the groups that are most underrepresented in STEM, black Americans and Latinos, are also two of the most religious populations in the United States, and specifically overrepresented in theologically conservative Christian traditions. Yet, prior work also suggests that churches help promote positive educational outcomes. To interro…
Examining Links Between Religion, Evolution Views, and Climate Change Skepticism
Recent media portrayals link climate change skepticism to evolution skepticism, often as part of a larger “antiscience” tendency related to membership in conservative religious groups. Using national survey data, we examine the link between evolution skepticism and climate change skepticism, and consider religion’s association with both. Our analysis shows a modest association between the two forms of skepticism along with some shared predictors,…
Symposium
Unconventional warrior
General Charles H. Bonesteel III successfully commanded American and South Korean forces during the 1966–69 conflict with North Korean unconventional forces. He organized his troops to detect and combat terrorists, urged and assisted his South Korean counterparts to enact meaningful rural reforms, and kept the Korean national role foremost in combating the attempted insurgency. As a result of Bonesteel's unusual background and talents, he did not…
Savage Peace
Journal Article Savage Peace: Americans at War in the 1990s. By Daniel P. Bolger. (Novato: Presidio, 1995. xii, 420 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-89141-452-5.) Get access Lawrence Freedman Lawrence Freedman King's College, London, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 298–299, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945627 Published: 01 June 1996
Savage Peace
This provocative study addresses the strengths and limitations of American military power as armed conflict becomes even more common in this supposed era of world peace. Through his examination of the history of America's armed interventions along with the political and military context of today's missions, the author reveals the hard realities facing the world's policeman. Photos. Maps
A Power Projection Force
A Nationally Representative Survey of Faith and Work
Research has increasingly highlighted the importance of business leaders allowing people to bring their whole selves to work. And religion is an important part of the whole self for many. However, we lack the large-scale national data needed to explore how Americans see the connections between religion and work. Here, from "Faith at Work: An Empirical Study"-a novel, nationally representative dataset-we explore the extent to which working America…
Savage Peace
This provocative study addresses the strengths and limitations of American military power as armed conflict becomes even more common in this supposed era of world peace. Through his examination of the history of America's armed interventions along with the political and military context of today's missions, the author reveals the hard realities facing the world's policeman. Photos. Maps
Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties
This study examines the administrative burden imposed by two federal disability assistance programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). We consider how communities in two distinct regions of the United States—and their respective institutions—serve as mediators between citizens and the state. We draw on 68 interviews from Clay County, Kentucky, and Humphreys County, Mississippi—two rural counties w…
Between the Prophetic and Priestly
Health researchers often seek to leverage pastoral authority in Black churches to forge community partnerships that address racial health disparities in the United States. Yet, researchers have not fully recognized the range (and limits) of pastoral authority as well as the complex role of religion in African American health. Here we explore how health and science are engaged in Black Church contexts and what role pastoral authority plays in this…
Where Would You Go? Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pastor Mental Health Care in Black and Latino Congregations
A growing body of literature explores how religious congregations shape attitudes toward mental health in racial/ethnic minority communities. Such research has primarily focused on the views of Black clergy and congregants, limiting our ability to understand how the views of Black Christians might differ from Christians in other racial/ethnic minority communities. We drew on focus groups with 14 pastors and interviews with 20 congregants from Bla…
The Racial Politics of Place in Faith-Based Social Service Provision
Prior research indicates that faith-based social service providers are overrepresented in disadvantaged neighborhoods, which has led some to advocate for their increased involvement in the U.S. social safety net. Yet, we have little understanding of how they and other social service organizations understand the significance of place in their work. Here I explore how conceptions of place matter for social service provision by drawing on 12 months …
Selection versus Socialization? Interrogating the Sources of Secularity in Global Science
Science and secularization have been linked in scholarship and the public imagination. Some suggest that scientific training leads to loss of religion. Yet there is only speculation about the processes by which scientists might become less religious and whether such processes are confined to the west or hold across national contexts. Using original survey data ( N = 5,006) of biologists and physicists in India, Italy, and the United States, as we…
Whose Authority? Perceptions of Science Education in Black and Latino Churches
Recent scholarship argues that beliefs in biblical literalism might keep conservative Protestants out of STEM. Two of the groups that are most underrepresented in STEM, black Americans and Latinos, are also two of the most religious populations in the United States, and specifically overrepresented in theologically conservative Christian traditions. Yet, prior work also suggests that churches help promote positive educational outcomes. To interro…
The Intersections among Race, Religion, and Science in Explaining Mental Health Conditions
Racial minority groups in the United States often seek out religious support for mental health struggles. Yet past studies have often overlooked religion as a key explanatory factor shaping racial-ethnic differences in perceptions of mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. The authors examine whether views of the relationship between religion and science shape agreement with different explanations for mental health conditions. Dr…
The Connection between Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Viewing Work as a Spiritual Calling
Research shows that perceived workplace discrimination shapes an individual's job satisfaction and intent to leave a job. This study considers whether these impacts may be attenuated if an individual views their work as a spiritual calling. Using data from a nationally representative survey (N = 9,907), our analysis shows that perceived work discrimination due to race, gender, and religion are all independently associated with less job satisfacti…
Seeing is achieving
Ample research demonstrates how religious commitments influence beliefs about racial inequality within US society without considering how individuals' explanations of inequality might differ with relationship to different racialized structures and institutions. Here we focus on science, an institutional sector perceived to be in tension with religious institutions and marked by persistent disparities in racial representation. Drawing on focus gro…
The Collective Construction of Need
Research finds that faith-based organizations (FBOs) serve highly disadvantaged populations, but few studies explore how such organizations decide who is deserving of assistance. Drawing on 12 months of observation and 24 interviews at two FBOs in neighborhoods with different poverty rates, I find that agency members circumscribe conceptions of who “needs” assistance based on stories of people who take advantage of services. These stories undergi…
Determinants of Confidence in U.S. Institutions
Objectives The political discourse surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election highlighted discontent with both Congress and corporations, a reality corroborated in recent scholarship highlighting declines in institutional confidence among U.S. citizens. Here we test theories of institutional confidence to understand the social and cultural determinants of confidence in Congress and corporations prior to the start of the 2016 presidential cam…
The Successive Nature of City Parks
This study examines the historical establishment and shifting residential access to city parks over time. It begins by engaging and extending a theory of urbanization as socioenvironmental succession. It then assembles and analyzes longitudinal data on city park creation and neighborhood change in Houston from 1947 to 2015. Results reveal how socially privileged residents have long enjoyed unequal access to city parks as well as strong influence …
Heaven and Health
Religious congregations have increasingly been viewed as potential access points to health care in underserved communities. Such a perspective stems from a robust literature identifying the unique civic role that churches potentially play in African American and Latino communities. Yet, research on congregational health promotion has often not considered how congregants view the connections between religious faith, physical health, and the church…
Special Operations and the Grenada Campaign
Two Armies
A Power Projection Force
Savage Peace
This provocative study addresses the strengths and limitations of American military power as armed conflict becomes even more common in this supposed era of world peace. Through his examination of the history of America's armed interventions along with the political and military context of today's missions, the author reveals the hard realities facing the world's policeman. Photos. Maps
Savage Peace
Journal Article Savage Peace: Americans at War in the 1990s. By Daniel P. Bolger. (Novato: Presidio, 1995. xii, 420 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-89141-452-5.) Get access Lawrence Freedman Lawrence Freedman King's College, London, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 298–299, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945627 Published: 01 June 1996
Unconventional warrior
General Charles H. Bonesteel III successfully commanded American and South Korean forces during the 1966–69 conflict with North Korean unconventional forces. He organized his troops to detect and combat terrorists, urged and assisted his South Korean counterparts to enact meaningful rural reforms, and kept the Korean national role foremost in combating the attempted insurgency. As a result of Bonesteel's unusual background and talents, he did not…
Symposium
Examining Links Between Religion, Evolution Views, and Climate Change Skepticism
Recent media portrayals link climate change skepticism to evolution skepticism, often as part of a larger “antiscience” tendency related to membership in conservative religious groups. Using national survey data, we examine the link between evolution skepticism and climate change skepticism, and consider religion’s association with both. Our analysis shows a modest association between the two forms of skepticism along with some shared predictors,…
Heaven and Health
Religious congregations have increasingly been viewed as potential access points to health care in underserved communities. Such a perspective stems from a robust literature identifying the unique civic role that churches potentially play in African American and Latino communities. Yet, research on congregational health promotion has often not considered how congregants view the connections between religious faith, physical health, and the church…
Whose Authority? Perceptions of Science Education in Black and Latino Churches
Recent scholarship argues that beliefs in biblical literalism might keep conservative Protestants out of STEM. Two of the groups that are most underrepresented in STEM, black Americans and Latinos, are also two of the most religious populations in the United States, and specifically overrepresented in theologically conservative Christian traditions. Yet, prior work also suggests that churches help promote positive educational outcomes. To interro…
The Successive Nature of City Parks
This study examines the historical establishment and shifting residential access to city parks over time. It begins by engaging and extending a theory of urbanization as socioenvironmental succession. It then assembles and analyzes longitudinal data on city park creation and neighborhood change in Houston from 1947 to 2015. Results reveal how socially privileged residents have long enjoyed unequal access to city parks as well as strong influence …
Selection versus Socialization? Interrogating the Sources of Secularity in Global Science
Science and secularization have been linked in scholarship and the public imagination. Some suggest that scientific training leads to loss of religion. Yet there is only speculation about the processes by which scientists might become less religious and whether such processes are confined to the west or hold across national contexts. Using original survey data ( N = 5,006) of biologists and physicists in India, Italy, and the United States, as we…
A Nationally Representative Survey of Faith and Work
Research has increasingly highlighted the importance of business leaders allowing people to bring their whole selves to work. And religion is an important part of the whole self for many. However, we lack the large-scale national data needed to explore how Americans see the connections between religion and work. Here, from "Faith at Work: An Empirical Study"-a novel, nationally representative dataset-we explore the extent to which working America…
Determinants of Confidence in U.S. Institutions
Objectives The political discourse surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election highlighted discontent with both Congress and corporations, a reality corroborated in recent scholarship highlighting declines in institutional confidence among U.S. citizens. Here we test theories of institutional confidence to understand the social and cultural determinants of confidence in Congress and corporations prior to the start of the 2016 presidential cam…
Between the Prophetic and Priestly
Health researchers often seek to leverage pastoral authority in Black churches to forge community partnerships that address racial health disparities in the United States. Yet, researchers have not fully recognized the range (and limits) of pastoral authority as well as the complex role of religion in African American health. Here we explore how health and science are engaged in Black Church contexts and what role pastoral authority plays in this…
Where Would You Go? Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pastor Mental Health Care in Black and Latino Congregations
A growing body of literature explores how religious congregations shape attitudes toward mental health in racial/ethnic minority communities. Such research has primarily focused on the views of Black clergy and congregants, limiting our ability to understand how the views of Black Christians might differ from Christians in other racial/ethnic minority communities. We drew on focus groups with 14 pastors and interviews with 20 congregants from Bla…
The Racial Politics of Place in Faith-Based Social Service Provision
Prior research indicates that faith-based social service providers are overrepresented in disadvantaged neighborhoods, which has led some to advocate for their increased involvement in the U.S. social safety net. Yet, we have little understanding of how they and other social service organizations understand the significance of place in their work. Here I explore how conceptions of place matter for social service provision by drawing on 12 months …
Seeing is achieving
Ample research demonstrates how religious commitments influence beliefs about racial inequality within US society without considering how individuals' explanations of inequality might differ with relationship to different racialized structures and institutions. Here we focus on science, an institutional sector perceived to be in tension with religious institutions and marked by persistent disparities in racial representation. Drawing on focus gro…
The Collective Construction of Need
Research finds that faith-based organizations (FBOs) serve highly disadvantaged populations, but few studies explore how such organizations decide who is deserving of assistance. Drawing on 12 months of observation and 24 interviews at two FBOs in neighborhoods with different poverty rates, I find that agency members circumscribe conceptions of who “needs” assistance based on stories of people who take advantage of services. These stories undergi…
The Connection between Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Viewing Work as a Spiritual Calling
Research shows that perceived workplace discrimination shapes an individual's job satisfaction and intent to leave a job. This study considers whether these impacts may be attenuated if an individual views their work as a spiritual calling. Using data from a nationally representative survey (N = 9,907), our analysis shows that perceived work discrimination due to race, gender, and religion are all independently associated with less job satisfacti…
The Relationship between Workplace Status and Workplace Religious Expression
A growing body of literature explores religious expression in workplaces, but comparatively little research examines how religious expression might be shaped by inequality in workplace status. We hypothesize that perceived work autonomy and socioeconomic status (SES) both function as mediating links between organizational status and religious expression. Drawing on a sample of employed adults from a nationally-representative survey in the United …
Racialized Administrative Burden in Disability Assistance Programs in Two Rural Counties
This study examines the administrative burden imposed by two federal disability assistance programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). We consider how communities in two distinct regions of the United States—and their respective institutions—serve as mediators between citizens and the state. We draw on 68 interviews from Clay County, Kentucky, and Humphreys County, Mississippi—two rural counties w…
The Intersections among Race, Religion, and Science in Explaining Mental Health Conditions
Racial minority groups in the United States often seek out religious support for mental health struggles. Yet past studies have often overlooked religion as a key explanatory factor shaping racial-ethnic differences in perceptions of mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. The authors examine whether views of the relationship between religion and science shape agreement with different explanations for mental health conditions. Dr…
Exploring Variation in Welfare Attitudes Among Low-Income Parents
Community-based organizations and the production of collective efficacy in majority black neighborhoods in Houston, Texas
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