Robert M Kunovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 150589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Kunovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kunovich |
| SIGNATURE | KUNOVICH R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2107-6867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 458 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Perspectives on Science and Religion at the Intersection of Political Ideology and Science Work
Using data from the General Social Survey and O*NET, I examine public perspectives on science and religion. I use latent class analysis to identify clusters of people with shared science-religion beliefs, which I label as modernists, traditionalists, and post-secularists. Next, I examine the relationship between these perspectives with political ideology and science-intensive work. I test competing hypotheses predicting that either political ideo…
Work and the public understanding of science
This study examines whether engaging in science work and work that is substantively complex (e.g. requiring independent thought and judgment) is related to interest in science, science knowledge, and confidence in the scientific community in the United States. It also examines whether the conditions of work mediate the relationship between education and these science-related outcomes. Occupation-level data from O*NET are merged with survey data f…
Confidence in Science: Perceptions of Harmful Consequences, Scientific Uncertainty, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest in Scientific Research
The author uses risk society theory to develop hypotheses about sources of confidence in science. The focus is on perceptions that science creates harms, scientific knowledge is uncertain, and scientists pursue self-interests. Controls are included for political and religious identity and ideology, science knowledge, and other variables. Data are from two cross-sectional waves of the General Social Survey. Analyses using additional cross-sectiona…
Perceptions of Racial Group Size in a Minority-majority Area
Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of the majority. Research on perceived racial group size, however, has focused on areas where non-Hispanic whites are dominant and has neglected to examine the impact of group conflict attitudes other than perceived threats. This study examines perceptions of group size in Harris County, Texas, in 2007, which became a minority-majority area by 2006. It also examines whe…
Labour market competition and immigration attitudes in an established gateway
Although anti-immigrant sentiment is often attributed to economic competition with foreign-born workers, research has provided contradictory results. This paper combines survey and occupation data to re-examine the relationship between immigration attitudes and labour market competition in Houston, an established immigration gateway. I analyse data from multiple waves of the Houston Area Survey and the American Community Survey, the Bureau of Lab…
Labor Market Competition and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: Occupations as Contexts
This paper explores the impact of labor market competition measured within occupations on attitudes toward immigrants in the U.S. including perceived group threat and policy preferences. Multilevel analyses of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, O * NET, and the General Social Survey demonstrate that labor market competition accounts for threat perceptions – threat is lower in occupations with gre…
Political knowledge in Poland
Using Polish panel data from 1998, 2003, and 2008, I examine people’s knowledge of the governing parties of the Sejm in 2003. I focus on ability, opportunity, and motivation to explain political knowledge. I also examine the effects of knowledge on changes in political attitudes and behaviors from 2003 to 2008. Major sources of political knowledge are prior political interest and the change in interest from 1998 to 2003, political experience, and…
Perceived Unemployment: The Sources and Consequences of Misperception
A great deal of social research examines macro-micro linkages—for example, by examining how economic conditions influence people's political attitudes and behavior. Rarely, however, do researchers directly examine the mechanisms linking macro-level conditions to individual-level attitudes and behavior, the accuracy of people's perceptions of the larger context, or the consequences of their misperceptions. In this paper, using data from two waves …
The Sources and Consequences of National Identification
This article examines national identification from a comparative and multilevel perspective. Building on the identity, nationalism, and prejudice literatures, I analyze relationships between societies' economic, political, and cultural characteristics (e.g., development, globalization, democratic governance, militarism, and religious and linguistic diversity), individual characteristics (e.g., socioeconomic status and minority status), and prefer…
Gender Dependence and Attitudes toward the Distribution of Household Labor: A Comparative and Multilevel Analysis
We use comparative and multilevel methods to examine attitudes toward the distribution of household labor in 32 countries. We test hypotheses derived from Baxter and Kane's (1995) gender dependence theory, which suggests complex relationships between societal-level gender dependence, individual-level gender dependence, and gender attitudes. Country-level data are from the United Nations and survey data are from the International Social Survey Pro…
An Exploration of the Salience of Christianity for National Identity in Europe
Most scholars of identity focus on processes of boundary maintenance rather than on the cultural content of identity categories (e.g., language, religion). In this article, the author explores the cultural content of national identity categories in Europe. He focuses on individual and collective factors that are associated with the salience of Christianity for national identity in seventeen European countries. At the individual level, the author …
Patient satisfaction and ethnic identity among American Indian older adults
Ethnic conflict, group polarization, and gender attitudes in Croatia
We examine the sources of traditional gender attitudes during a period of social conflict and change. Using survey data from Croatia (Center for the Investigation of Transition and Civil Society, 1996; N= 2,030) we explore the relationships between war-related experiences, in-group and out-group polarization, and two dimensions of gender attitudes: policy attitudes (e.g., attitudes toward divorce and abortion) and gendered family roles (e.g., att…
Social structural position and prejudice: An Exploration of Cross-National Differences in Regression Slopes
Social Structural Sources of Anti-immigrant Prejudice in Europe: The Impact of Social Class and Stratification Position
In sociological theory, structural perspectives postulate that attitudes are a function of individuals, “life situations,” which result from the prevailing social context and their location within it. This article examines individual-level sources of anti-immigrant prejudice in seventeen European countries included in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 1995: National Identity. The focus is on social structural sources of prejudice t…
Ethinic Diversity, Segregation and Inequality: A Structural Model of Ethnic Prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia
Widespread ethnic prejudice is an incomplete explanation for the development of war in the former Yugoslavia. However, high levels of prejudice in ethnic enclaves played an important role in increasing ethnic tensions and facilitating the outbreak of war. The purpose of this article is to explain county differences in average levels of ethnic prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia prior to the wars of national separation. We focus on structural characte…
Ethnic Diversity, Segregation, and Inequality: A Structural Model of Ethnic Prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia
Widespread ethnic prejudice is an incomplete explanation for the development of war in the former Yugoslavia. However, high levels of prejudice in ethnic enclaves played an important role in increasing ethnic tensions and facilitating the outbreak of war. The purpose of this article is to explain county differences in average levels of ethnic prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia prior to the wars of national separation. We focus on structural characte…
Capturing the Complexity of Conflict: Dealing with Violent Ethnic Conflicts of the Post-Cold War Era
Violent conflict and war - old problems (still!) in need of solution a multilevel framework and pretheory of violent conflict and war accessing violent conflict and war accessing violent conflict and war - a simulation-based design modelling violent conflict and war validated research design - relationship of PDS findings to other studies implications for theory - a generic theory of violent conflict and war implications for practice - dealing wi…
Conflict, Religious Identity, and Ethnic Intolerance in Croatia
Civil War, Social Integration and Mental Health in Croatia
Research has shown that social relationships are generally beneficial for mental health (Thoits 1995). However, few scholars have examined this association after the occurrence of a significant shock to the social system as a whole. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between social integration and war-related distress in Croatia immediately following the recent civil war. Does social integration decrease war-related distre…
The Sources and Consequences of National Identification
This article examines national identification from a comparative and multilevel perspective. Building on the identity, nationalism, and prejudice literatures, I analyze relationships between societies' economic, political, and cultural characteristics (e.g., development, globalization, democratic governance, militarism, and religious and linguistic diversity), individual characteristics (e.g., socioeconomic status and minority status), and prefer…
Social structural position and prejudice: An Exploration of Cross-National Differences in Regression Slopes
An Exploration of the Salience of Christianity for National Identity in Europe
Most scholars of identity focus on processes of boundary maintenance rather than on the cultural content of identity categories (e.g., language, religion). In this article, the author explores the cultural content of national identity categories in Europe. He focuses on individual and collective factors that are associated with the salience of Christianity for national identity in seventeen European countries. At the individual level, the author …
Labor Market Competition and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: Occupations as Contexts
This paper explores the impact of labor market competition measured within occupations on attitudes toward immigrants in the U.S. including perceived group threat and policy preferences. Multilevel analyses of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, O * NET, and the General Social Survey demonstrate that labor market competition accounts for threat perceptions – threat is lower in occupations with gre…
Social Structural Sources of Anti-immigrant Prejudice in Europe: The Impact of Social Class and Stratification Position
In sociological theory, structural perspectives postulate that attitudes are a function of individuals, “life situations,” which result from the prevailing social context and their location within it. This article examines individual-level sources of anti-immigrant prejudice in seventeen European countries included in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 1995: National Identity. The focus is on social structural sources of prejudice t…
Ethnic Diversity, Segregation, and Inequality: A Structural Model of Ethnic Prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia
Widespread ethnic prejudice is an incomplete explanation for the development of war in the former Yugoslavia. However, high levels of prejudice in ethnic enclaves played an important role in increasing ethnic tensions and facilitating the outbreak of war. The purpose of this article is to explain county differences in average levels of ethnic prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia prior to the wars of national separation. We focus on structural characte…
Conflict, Religious Identity, and Ethnic Intolerance in Croatia
Gender Dependence and Attitudes toward the Distribution of Household Labor: A Comparative and Multilevel Analysis
We use comparative and multilevel methods to examine attitudes toward the distribution of household labor in 32 countries. We test hypotheses derived from Baxter and Kane's (1995) gender dependence theory, which suggests complex relationships between societal-level gender dependence, individual-level gender dependence, and gender attitudes. Country-level data are from the United Nations and survey data are from the International Social Survey Pro…
Labour market competition and immigration attitudes in an established gateway
Although anti-immigrant sentiment is often attributed to economic competition with foreign-born workers, research has provided contradictory results. This paper combines survey and occupation data to re-examine the relationship between immigration attitudes and labour market competition in Houston, an established immigration gateway. I analyse data from multiple waves of the Houston Area Survey and the American Community Survey, the Bureau of Lab…
Civil War, Social Integration and Mental Health in Croatia
Research has shown that social relationships are generally beneficial for mental health (Thoits 1995). However, few scholars have examined this association after the occurrence of a significant shock to the social system as a whole. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between social integration and war-related distress in Croatia immediately following the recent civil war. Does social integration decrease war-related distre…
Perceptions of Racial Group Size in a Minority-majority Area
Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of the majority. Research on perceived racial group size, however, has focused on areas where non-Hispanic whites are dominant and has neglected to examine the impact of group conflict attitudes other than perceived threats. This study examines perceptions of group size in Harris County, Texas, in 2007, which became a minority-majority area by 2006. It also examines whe…
Ethnic conflict, group polarization, and gender attitudes in Croatia
We examine the sources of traditional gender attitudes during a period of social conflict and change. Using survey data from Croatia (Center for the Investigation of Transition and Civil Society, 1996; N= 2,030) we explore the relationships between war-related experiences, in-group and out-group polarization, and two dimensions of gender attitudes: policy attitudes (e.g., attitudes toward divorce and abortion) and gendered family roles (e.g., att…
Perceived Unemployment: The Sources and Consequences of Misperception
A great deal of social research examines macro-micro linkages—for example, by examining how economic conditions influence people's political attitudes and behavior. Rarely, however, do researchers directly examine the mechanisms linking macro-level conditions to individual-level attitudes and behavior, the accuracy of people's perceptions of the larger context, or the consequences of their misperceptions. In this paper, using data from two waves …
Confidence in Science: Perceptions of Harmful Consequences, Scientific Uncertainty, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest in Scientific Research
The author uses risk society theory to develop hypotheses about sources of confidence in science. The focus is on perceptions that science creates harms, scientific knowledge is uncertain, and scientists pursue self-interests. Controls are included for political and religious identity and ideology, science knowledge, and other variables. Data are from two cross-sectional waves of the General Social Survey. Analyses using additional cross-sectiona…
Political knowledge in Poland
Using Polish panel data from 1998, 2003, and 2008, I examine people’s knowledge of the governing parties of the Sejm in 2003. I focus on ability, opportunity, and motivation to explain political knowledge. I also examine the effects of knowledge on changes in political attitudes and behaviors from 2003 to 2008. Major sources of political knowledge are prior political interest and the change in interest from 1998 to 2003, political experience, and…
Conflict, Religious Identity, and Ethnic Intolerance in Croatia
Civil War, Social Integration and Mental Health in Croatia
Research has shown that social relationships are generally beneficial for mental health (Thoits 1995). However, few scholars have examined this association after the occurrence of a significant shock to the social system as a whole. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between social integration and war-related distress in Croatia immediately following the recent civil war. Does social integration decrease war-related distre…
Capturing the Complexity of Conflict: Dealing with Violent Ethnic Conflicts of the Post-Cold War Era
Violent conflict and war - old problems (still!) in need of solution a multilevel framework and pretheory of violent conflict and war accessing violent conflict and war accessing violent conflict and war - a simulation-based design modelling violent conflict and war validated research design - relationship of PDS findings to other studies implications for theory - a generic theory of violent conflict and war implications for practice - dealing wi…
Social Structural Sources of Anti-immigrant Prejudice in Europe: The Impact of Social Class and Stratification Position
In sociological theory, structural perspectives postulate that attitudes are a function of individuals, “life situations,” which result from the prevailing social context and their location within it. This article examines individual-level sources of anti-immigrant prejudice in seventeen European countries included in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 1995: National Identity. The focus is on social structural sources of prejudice t…
Ethinic Diversity, Segregation and Inequality: A Structural Model of Ethnic Prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia
Widespread ethnic prejudice is an incomplete explanation for the development of war in the former Yugoslavia. However, high levels of prejudice in ethnic enclaves played an important role in increasing ethnic tensions and facilitating the outbreak of war. The purpose of this article is to explain county differences in average levels of ethnic prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia prior to the wars of national separation. We focus on structural characte…
Ethnic Diversity, Segregation, and Inequality: A Structural Model of Ethnic Prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia
Widespread ethnic prejudice is an incomplete explanation for the development of war in the former Yugoslavia. However, high levels of prejudice in ethnic enclaves played an important role in increasing ethnic tensions and facilitating the outbreak of war. The purpose of this article is to explain county differences in average levels of ethnic prejudice in Bosnia and Croatia prior to the wars of national separation. We focus on structural characte…
Patient satisfaction and ethnic identity among American Indian older adults
Ethnic conflict, group polarization, and gender attitudes in Croatia
We examine the sources of traditional gender attitudes during a period of social conflict and change. Using survey data from Croatia (Center for the Investigation of Transition and Civil Society, 1996; N= 2,030) we explore the relationships between war-related experiences, in-group and out-group polarization, and two dimensions of gender attitudes: policy attitudes (e.g., attitudes toward divorce and abortion) and gendered family roles (e.g., att…
Social structural position and prejudice: An Exploration of Cross-National Differences in Regression Slopes
An Exploration of the Salience of Christianity for National Identity in Europe
Most scholars of identity focus on processes of boundary maintenance rather than on the cultural content of identity categories (e.g., language, religion). In this article, the author explores the cultural content of national identity categories in Europe. He focuses on individual and collective factors that are associated with the salience of Christianity for national identity in seventeen European countries. At the individual level, the author …
Gender Dependence and Attitudes toward the Distribution of Household Labor: A Comparative and Multilevel Analysis
We use comparative and multilevel methods to examine attitudes toward the distribution of household labor in 32 countries. We test hypotheses derived from Baxter and Kane's (1995) gender dependence theory, which suggests complex relationships between societal-level gender dependence, individual-level gender dependence, and gender attitudes. Country-level data are from the United Nations and survey data are from the International Social Survey Pro…
The Sources and Consequences of National Identification
This article examines national identification from a comparative and multilevel perspective. Building on the identity, nationalism, and prejudice literatures, I analyze relationships between societies' economic, political, and cultural characteristics (e.g., development, globalization, democratic governance, militarism, and religious and linguistic diversity), individual characteristics (e.g., socioeconomic status and minority status), and prefer…
Perceived Unemployment: The Sources and Consequences of Misperception
A great deal of social research examines macro-micro linkages—for example, by examining how economic conditions influence people's political attitudes and behavior. Rarely, however, do researchers directly examine the mechanisms linking macro-level conditions to individual-level attitudes and behavior, the accuracy of people's perceptions of the larger context, or the consequences of their misperceptions. In this paper, using data from two waves …
Labor Market Competition and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: Occupations as Contexts
This paper explores the impact of labor market competition measured within occupations on attitudes toward immigrants in the U.S. including perceived group threat and policy preferences. Multilevel analyses of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, O * NET, and the General Social Survey demonstrate that labor market competition accounts for threat perceptions – threat is lower in occupations with gre…
Political knowledge in Poland
Using Polish panel data from 1998, 2003, and 2008, I examine people’s knowledge of the governing parties of the Sejm in 2003. I focus on ability, opportunity, and motivation to explain political knowledge. I also examine the effects of knowledge on changes in political attitudes and behaviors from 2003 to 2008. Major sources of political knowledge are prior political interest and the change in interest from 1998 to 2003, political experience, and…
Perceptions of Racial Group Size in a Minority-majority Area
Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of the majority. Research on perceived racial group size, however, has focused on areas where non-Hispanic whites are dominant and has neglected to examine the impact of group conflict attitudes other than perceived threats. This study examines perceptions of group size in Harris County, Texas, in 2007, which became a minority-majority area by 2006. It also examines whe…
Labour market competition and immigration attitudes in an established gateway
Although anti-immigrant sentiment is often attributed to economic competition with foreign-born workers, research has provided contradictory results. This paper combines survey and occupation data to re-examine the relationship between immigration attitudes and labour market competition in Houston, an established immigration gateway. I analyse data from multiple waves of the Houston Area Survey and the American Community Survey, the Bureau of Lab…
Confidence in Science: Perceptions of Harmful Consequences, Scientific Uncertainty, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest in Scientific Research
The author uses risk society theory to develop hypotheses about sources of confidence in science. The focus is on perceptions that science creates harms, scientific knowledge is uncertain, and scientists pursue self-interests. Controls are included for political and religious identity and ideology, science knowledge, and other variables. Data are from two cross-sectional waves of the General Social Survey. Analyses using additional cross-sectiona…
Work and the public understanding of science
This study examines whether engaging in science work and work that is substantively complex (e.g. requiring independent thought and judgment) is related to interest in science, science knowledge, and confidence in the scientific community in the United States. It also examines whether the conditions of work mediate the relationship between education and these science-related outcomes. Occupation-level data from O*NET are merged with survey data f…
Perspectives on Science and Religion at the Intersection of Political Ideology and Science Work
Using data from the General Social Survey and O*NET, I examine public perspectives on science and religion. I use latent class analysis to identify clusters of people with shared science-religion beliefs, which I label as modernists, traditionalists, and post-secularists. Next, I examine the relationship between these perspectives with political ideology and science-intensive work. I test competing hypotheses predicting that either political ideo…
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)