Cyrus Schleifer
Biographic Data
| ID | 199957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cyrus Schleifer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cyrus |
| FAMILY NAME | Schleifer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLEIFER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4264-5697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 215 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
DIY Faith
Young Americans aren’t simply abandoning religion—they’re transforming it. Drawing on a decade of interviews with youth transitioning into adulthood in the early 2000s, the authors show how these youth broke away from traditional religious institutions while celebrating the sacredness of the individual and pursuing new forms of community
Does medium matter? Political orientation and variability in scientific self-perceptions
Trust in scientists has declined among US conservatives, while belief in science itself remains high among nearly everyone. This indicates a political differentiation of scientific authority where political ideologues are increasingly getting their scientific information from different scientific sources. But beyond pure information consumption, those who have eschewed mainstream scientific authority are also more likely to find support for their…
Hispanic intersectional pay in the United States: Measuring the intra‐ and inter‐ethnoracial and gender income differences by Hispanic groups
Most studies on racial income inequality focus on Black–White differences, ignoring the fact that Hispanic individuals are the lowest‐earning ethnoracial group in the United States. Research focusing on Hispanic workers emphasizes either men's or women's labor market experiences, treats Hispanics as a homogenous group. These approaches neglect the intersectional dynamics shaping these processes and overlook the diverse experiences across Hispanic…
The Stalled Revolution versus Secularization: The Dynamic Relationship between Gender Attitudes and Religiosity
Scholars have theorized that as societies move toward gender equity, they move away from religious institutions. Research has relied on cohort turnover and unidirectional models to test these societal transformations; however, these approaches fail to recognize within-person change and mutually reinforcing dynamics between these two social processes. Religiosity may delay a person's adoption of egalitarian gender attitudes, but gender egalitarian…
Breaking Free of the Iron Cage: The Individualization of American Religion
The United States is undergoing a remarkable religious transformation: in just a few decades, the proportion of religious 'nones' surged from 1 in 20 to more than 1 in 4. Through four waves of National Study of Youth and Religion surveys and in-depth interviews (2003-2013) linked with administrative data, this study follows a cohort of adolescents coming of age during the rapid rise of the 'nones' and shifting social values, including growing sup…
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs
During the last decade, health criminology—the study of health outcomes for justice‐involved individuals and their families—has gained traction in the field. We extend health criminology to the study of street gangs by drawing on the stress process perspective. Gang membership is conceptualized as a primary stressor that leads to secondary stressors with direct and indirect adverse effects on mental health. Leaving a gang, we hypothesize, offers …
In Our Own Image: How Americans Rate Jesus on the Ideological Spectrum
How can Americans on the political left and right both claim their views represent those of Jesus? Using nationally-representative data in which Americans rated Jesus on the left-right ideological spectrum, we assess what characteristics are associated with Americans' ratings and consider arguments about causal ordering. Competing expectations are drawn from "images of God" research and research showing political identities influence Americans' r…
Our Kind of American: Christian Nationalism, Race, and Contingent Views of Cultural Membership
American “Christian nationalism” is strongly associated with ethno-racial prejudice and xenophobia, particularly among White Americans. Yet research to date ignores the possibility of Christian nationalism operating similarly for ethno-racial minorities depending on the latter’s identification with the in-group vis-à-vis another out-group. Integrating insights from Christian nationalism research with social identity and group threat theories, we …
My country, white or wrong: Christian nationalism, race, and blind patriotism
A principal concern regarding nationalist sentiment is the tendency to sanctify “the nation” and support it as chosen and pure regardless of its complicity in injustice. Building on research showing the tendency to whitewash America’s past is primarily localized to white Americans, and particularly those who stress its Christian heritage, we theorize Christian nationalism amplifies Americans’ willingness to endorse “blind patriotism” (supporting …
Exploring Different Patterns of Gender Ideology across College Majors
Research shows that college education and college major are related to attitudes about gender. However, little research has focused on within-major gender differences, and studies that do frequently rely on small, college-specific samples. Larger, national datasets frequently do not include information on college major and are often cross-sectional, making it difficult to account for selection processes. Using the General Social Survey and severa…
Asian Americans and Income Inequality: Disparities Between and Within Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Groups
Asian Americans nearing economic parity with White individuals is unique, particularly given the historical and contemporary disadvantaged position of other racial minorities in the U.S. labor market. While there is growing literature exploring how Asian Americans are reshaping the labor force, most of these studies categorize them as a homogenous group, failing to recognize social, cultural, and historical diversities within the community. Using…
The Religious Work Ethic and the Spirit of Patriarchy: Religiosity and the Gender Gap in Working for Its Own Sake, 1977 to 2018
Societal beliefs about women's work have long been a metric for gender equality, with recent scholarship focusing on trends in these attitudes to assess the progress (or stalling) of the gender revolution. Moving beyond widely critiqued gender attitude questions thought to be the only available items for measuring change over time, this article considers women's and men's views toward their own work over the last half century. Traditional gender …
Family Structure, Gender, and Wages in STEM Work
Drawing upon work effort and gendered organizations perspectives and using data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how family structure types (i.e., combinations of marital and parental statuses) shape within- and between-gender variation in the earnings of highly educated men and women working in STEM and non-STEM occupations. We find that STEM and non-STEM women earn premia for marriage and for motherhood if they are married, with h…
School characteristics associated with active shooter drill implementation
Love the Science, Hate the Scientists: Conservative Identity Protects Belief in Science and Undermines Trust in Scientists
The decline in trust in the scientific community in the United States among political conservatives has been well established. But this observation is complicated by remarkably positive and stable attitudes toward scientific research itself. What explains the persistence of positive belief in science in the midst of such dramatic change? By leveraging research on the performativity of conservative identity, we argue that conservative scientific i…
Political Ideology and Concerns About White‐Collar Crime: Exploring the Switch Hypothesis
Objective Numerous studies show that political conservatives in the United States are more concerned about crime than are political liberals. But, according to the “switch hypothesis,” the direction of the association should reverse when the focus is on reducing and punishing white‐collar crime. Despite the intuitiveness of this hypothesis, however, only one study to date has directly tested it. Method We explore the hypothesis using data from an…
Measuring Automatic Cognition: Advancing Dual-Process Research in Sociology
Dual-process models are increasingly popular in sociology as a framework for theorizing the role of automatic cognition in shaping social behavior. However, empirical studies using dual-process models often rely on ad hoc measures such as forced-choice surveys, observation, and interviews whose relationships to underlying cognitive processes are not fully established. In this article, we advance dual-process research in sociology by (1) proposing…
Clergy Working outside of Congregations, 1976-2018
Changes in the American religious landscape have affected the professional religious labor force in the United States. These changes may be leading clergy to work for multiple congregations (Robbins and Francis in J Empir Theol 27(2):261-280, 2014 ), in multiple occupations (Chang, in: Carroll (ed) Pulpit & pew: research on pastoral leadership, Duke Divinity School, Durham, 2004 ), and/or to seek out clergy work outside of congregations (Chang an…
Are Bivocational Clergy Becoming the New Normal? An Analysis of the Current Population Survey, 1996-2017
Transitions in the American religious landscape including religious nonaffiliation, congregational and seminary enrollment declines, and the proliferation of megachurches have reshaped the clergy labor market and increased the precariousness of this type of work. One potential indication of this growing instability is the supposedly increasing number of bivocational clergy who depend on a second job to supplement their income. There are few relia…
Are the faithful becoming less fruitful? The decline of conservative protestant fertility and the growing importance of religious practice and belief in childbearing in the US
Are the Sanctified Becoming the Pornified? Religious Conservatism, Commitment, and Pornography Use, 1984–2016
Objectives Americans are generally increasing in their pornography viewership. While devout, theologically conservative Christians have been among the most ardent opponents to pornography's dissemination and use historically, there is a growing—but thus far untested—assumption that they too are following this same trend. This study examines (1) whether committed or conservative Christians are increasing in rates of porn viewership similar to othe…
The Rise of Rational Choice Theory as a Scientific/Intellectual Movement in Sociology
Understanding the Rise of Born-Again Catholics in the United States: The Role of Educational Attainment
Having a "born-again" experience has historically been a marker of sectarian or evangelical Protestantism. Yet the percentage of American Catholics reporting a born-again experience has nearly doubled in the past few decades-from 14% in 2004 to 27% in 2016-a much faster increase than that of evangelicals or any other religious group. How do we explain the disproportionate rise of born-again Catholics? Drawing on data from the 2004-2016 waves of t…
Patterns of Conservative Religious Belief and Religious Practice across College Majors
This study addresses the question: Do individuals who have completed different college majors show different patterns of conservative religious belief and religious practice? Previous research on the relationship between college education and religion focused on institutional factors and precollege characteristics. Few studies, however, accounted for the role of college majors in shaping these processes. Research that looked at college majors emp…
Occupational Gender Inequality among American Clergy, 1976-2016: Revisiting the Stained-Glass Ceiling
The number of female clergy in the United States has steadily increased over the last 40years. Several occupational theories suggest that the ratio of males to females within an occupation can affect occupational income inequality. Previous research on clergy has found meaningful gender differences in pay. However, this research has focused on particular denominations and has not captured trends in the national clergy labor market. Using the Curr…
Measuring Automatic Cognition: Advancing Dual-Process Research in Sociology
Dual-process models are increasingly popular in sociology as a framework for theorizing the role of automatic cognition in shaping social behavior. However, empirical studies using dual-process models often rely on ad hoc measures such as forced-choice surveys, observation, and interviews whose relationships to underlying cognitive processes are not fully established. In this article, we advance dual-process research in sociology by (1) proposing…
Family Formation and Religious Service Attendance: Untangling Marital and Parental Effects
The positive relationship between family formation and regular weekly religious service attendance is well established, but cross-sectional data make it difficult to be confident that this relationship is causal. Moreover, if the relationship is causal, cross-sectional data make it difficult to disentangle the effects of three distinct family-formation events: marrying, having a child, and having a child who reaches school age. We use three waves…
Till Porn Do Us Part? A Longitudinal Examination of Pornography Use and Divorce
As pornography use becomes more commonplace in the United States, and increasingly so among younger cohorts, a growing literature is considering its potential connection to key social and cultural institutions. The current study examined the relationship between pornography use and one such institution: marriage. We drew on three-wave longitudinal data from 2006 to 2014 General Social Survey panel studies to determine whether married Americans' p…
Our Kind of American: Christian Nationalism, Race, and Contingent Views of Cultural Membership
American “Christian nationalism” is strongly associated with ethno-racial prejudice and xenophobia, particularly among White Americans. Yet research to date ignores the possibility of Christian nationalism operating similarly for ethno-racial minorities depending on the latter’s identification with the in-group vis-à-vis another out-group. Integrating insights from Christian nationalism research with social identity and group threat theories, we …
Are the faithful becoming less fruitful? The decline of conservative protestant fertility and the growing importance of religious practice and belief in childbearing in the US
Occupational Gender Inequality among American Clergy, 1976-2016: Revisiting the Stained-Glass Ceiling
The number of female clergy in the United States has steadily increased over the last 40years. Several occupational theories suggest that the ratio of males to females within an occupation can affect occupational income inequality. Previous research on clergy has found meaningful gender differences in pay. However, this research has focused on particular denominations and has not captured trends in the national clergy labor market. Using the Curr…
Race and Trends in Pornography Viewership, 1973–2016: Examining the Moderating Roles of Gender and Religion
While some research has uncovered racial differences in patterns of pornography viewership, no studies to date have considered how these patterns may be changing over time or how these trends may be moderated by other key predictors of pornography viewership-specifically, gender and religion. Using nationally representative data from the 1973-2016 General Social Survey (GSS; N = 20,620), and taking into account different ethnoreligious histories …
The Price of the Calling: Exploring Clergy Compensation Using Current Population Survey Data
Previous research shows that clergy make less money than others with similar levels of education. We use Current Population Survey data to offer five contributions to knowledge about clergy compensation. First, we document and take into account the shift in clergy compensation from the provision of free housing to the payment of housing allowances. Second, although the clergy earnings disadvantage appears to have increased over the last 40 years …
Understanding the Rise of Born-Again Catholics in the United States: The Role of Educational Attainment
Having a "born-again" experience has historically been a marker of sectarian or evangelical Protestantism. Yet the percentage of American Catholics reporting a born-again experience has nearly doubled in the past few decades-from 14% in 2004 to 27% in 2016-a much faster increase than that of evangelicals or any other religious group. How do we explain the disproportionate rise of born-again Catholics? Drawing on data from the 2004-2016 waves of t…
Breaking Free of the Iron Cage: The Individualization of American Religion
The United States is undergoing a remarkable religious transformation: in just a few decades, the proportion of religious 'nones' surged from 1 in 20 to more than 1 in 4. Through four waves of National Study of Youth and Religion surveys and in-depth interviews (2003-2013) linked with administrative data, this study follows a cohort of adolescents coming of age during the rapid rise of the 'nones' and shifting social values, including growing sup…
Family Structure, Gender, and Wages in STEM Work
Drawing upon work effort and gendered organizations perspectives and using data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how family structure types (i.e., combinations of marital and parental statuses) shape within- and between-gender variation in the earnings of highly educated men and women working in STEM and non-STEM occupations. We find that STEM and non-STEM women earn premia for marriage and for motherhood if they are married, with h…
Are Bivocational Clergy Becoming the New Normal? An Analysis of the Current Population Survey, 1996-2017
Transitions in the American religious landscape including religious nonaffiliation, congregational and seminary enrollment declines, and the proliferation of megachurches have reshaped the clergy labor market and increased the precariousness of this type of work. One potential indication of this growing instability is the supposedly increasing number of bivocational clergy who depend on a second job to supplement their income. There are few relia…
Clergy Working outside of Congregations, 1976-2018
Changes in the American religious landscape have affected the professional religious labor force in the United States. These changes may be leading clergy to work for multiple congregations (Robbins and Francis in J Empir Theol 27(2):261-280, 2014 ), in multiple occupations (Chang, in: Carroll (ed) Pulpit & pew: research on pastoral leadership, Duke Divinity School, Durham, 2004 ), and/or to seek out clergy work outside of congregations (Chang an…
In Our Own Image: How Americans Rate Jesus on the Ideological Spectrum
How can Americans on the political left and right both claim their views represent those of Jesus? Using nationally-representative data in which Americans rated Jesus on the left-right ideological spectrum, we assess what characteristics are associated with Americans' ratings and consider arguments about causal ordering. Competing expectations are drawn from "images of God" research and research showing political identities influence Americans' r…
The Religious Work Ethic and the Spirit of Patriarchy: Religiosity and the Gender Gap in Working for Its Own Sake, 1977 to 2018
Societal beliefs about women's work have long been a metric for gender equality, with recent scholarship focusing on trends in these attitudes to assess the progress (or stalling) of the gender revolution. Moving beyond widely critiqued gender attitude questions thought to be the only available items for measuring change over time, this article considers women's and men's views toward their own work over the last half century. Traditional gender …
Political Ideology and Concerns About White‐Collar Crime: Exploring the Switch Hypothesis
Objective Numerous studies show that political conservatives in the United States are more concerned about crime than are political liberals. But, according to the “switch hypothesis,” the direction of the association should reverse when the focus is on reducing and punishing white‐collar crime. Despite the intuitiveness of this hypothesis, however, only one study to date has directly tested it. Method We explore the hypothesis using data from an…
Patterns of Conservative Religious Belief and Religious Practice across College Majors
This study addresses the question: Do individuals who have completed different college majors show different patterns of conservative religious belief and religious practice? Previous research on the relationship between college education and religion focused on institutional factors and precollege characteristics. Few studies, however, accounted for the role of college majors in shaping these processes. Research that looked at college majors emp…
The Stalled Revolution versus Secularization: The Dynamic Relationship between Gender Attitudes and Religiosity
Scholars have theorized that as societies move toward gender equity, they move away from religious institutions. Research has relied on cohort turnover and unidirectional models to test these societal transformations; however, these approaches fail to recognize within-person change and mutually reinforcing dynamics between these two social processes. Religiosity may delay a person's adoption of egalitarian gender attitudes, but gender egalitarian…
Asian Americans and Income Inequality: Disparities Between and Within Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Groups
Asian Americans nearing economic parity with White individuals is unique, particularly given the historical and contemporary disadvantaged position of other racial minorities in the U.S. labor market. While there is growing literature exploring how Asian Americans are reshaping the labor force, most of these studies categorize them as a homogenous group, failing to recognize social, cultural, and historical diversities within the community. Using…
The Rise of Rational Choice Theory as a Scientific/Intellectual Movement in Sociology
Hispanic intersectional pay in the United States: Measuring the intra‐ and inter‐ethnoracial and gender income differences by Hispanic groups
Most studies on racial income inequality focus on Black–White differences, ignoring the fact that Hispanic individuals are the lowest‐earning ethnoracial group in the United States. Research focusing on Hispanic workers emphasizes either men's or women's labor market experiences, treats Hispanics as a homogenous group. These approaches neglect the intersectional dynamics shaping these processes and overlook the diverse experiences across Hispanic…
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs
During the last decade, health criminology—the study of health outcomes for justice‐involved individuals and their families—has gained traction in the field. We extend health criminology to the study of street gangs by drawing on the stress process perspective. Gang membership is conceptualized as a primary stressor that leads to secondary stressors with direct and indirect adverse effects on mental health. Leaving a gang, we hypothesize, offers …
Exploring Different Patterns of Gender Ideology across College Majors
Research shows that college education and college major are related to attitudes about gender. However, little research has focused on within-major gender differences, and studies that do frequently rely on small, college-specific samples. Larger, national datasets frequently do not include information on college major and are often cross-sectional, making it difficult to account for selection processes. Using the General Social Survey and severa…
The Price of the Calling: Exploring Clergy Compensation Using Current Population Survey Data
Previous research shows that clergy make less money than others with similar levels of education. We use Current Population Survey data to offer five contributions to knowledge about clergy compensation. First, we document and take into account the shift in clergy compensation from the provision of free housing to the payment of housing allowances. Second, although the clergy earnings disadvantage appears to have increased over the last 40 years …
Race and Trends in Pornography Viewership, 1973–2016: Examining the Moderating Roles of Gender and Religion
While some research has uncovered racial differences in patterns of pornography viewership, no studies to date have considered how these patterns may be changing over time or how these trends may be moderated by other key predictors of pornography viewership-specifically, gender and religion. Using nationally representative data from the 1973-2016 General Social Survey (GSS; N = 20,620), and taking into account different ethnoreligious histories …
Till Porn Do Us Part? A Longitudinal Examination of Pornography Use and Divorce
As pornography use becomes more commonplace in the United States, and increasingly so among younger cohorts, a growing literature is considering its potential connection to key social and cultural institutions. The current study examined the relationship between pornography use and one such institution: marriage. We drew on three-wave longitudinal data from 2006 to 2014 General Social Survey panel studies to determine whether married Americans' p…
Family Formation and Religious Service Attendance: Untangling Marital and Parental Effects
The positive relationship between family formation and regular weekly religious service attendance is well established, but cross-sectional data make it difficult to be confident that this relationship is causal. Moreover, if the relationship is causal, cross-sectional data make it difficult to disentangle the effects of three distinct family-formation events: marrying, having a child, and having a child who reaches school age. We use three waves…
Are the Sanctified Becoming the Pornified? Religious Conservatism, Commitment, and Pornography Use, 1984–2016
Objectives Americans are generally increasing in their pornography viewership. While devout, theologically conservative Christians have been among the most ardent opponents to pornography's dissemination and use historically, there is a growing—but thus far untested—assumption that they too are following this same trend. This study examines (1) whether committed or conservative Christians are increasing in rates of porn viewership similar to othe…
The Rise of Rational Choice Theory as a Scientific/Intellectual Movement in Sociology
Understanding the Rise of Born-Again Catholics in the United States: The Role of Educational Attainment
Having a "born-again" experience has historically been a marker of sectarian or evangelical Protestantism. Yet the percentage of American Catholics reporting a born-again experience has nearly doubled in the past few decades-from 14% in 2004 to 27% in 2016-a much faster increase than that of evangelicals or any other religious group. How do we explain the disproportionate rise of born-again Catholics? Drawing on data from the 2004-2016 waves of t…
Patterns of Conservative Religious Belief and Religious Practice across College Majors
This study addresses the question: Do individuals who have completed different college majors show different patterns of conservative religious belief and religious practice? Previous research on the relationship between college education and religion focused on institutional factors and precollege characteristics. Few studies, however, accounted for the role of college majors in shaping these processes. Research that looked at college majors emp…
Occupational Gender Inequality among American Clergy, 1976-2016: Revisiting the Stained-Glass Ceiling
The number of female clergy in the United States has steadily increased over the last 40years. Several occupational theories suggest that the ratio of males to females within an occupation can affect occupational income inequality. Previous research on clergy has found meaningful gender differences in pay. However, this research has focused on particular denominations and has not captured trends in the national clergy labor market. Using the Curr…
Political Ideology and Concerns About White‐Collar Crime: Exploring the Switch Hypothesis
Objective Numerous studies show that political conservatives in the United States are more concerned about crime than are political liberals. But, according to the “switch hypothesis,” the direction of the association should reverse when the focus is on reducing and punishing white‐collar crime. Despite the intuitiveness of this hypothesis, however, only one study to date has directly tested it. Method We explore the hypothesis using data from an…
Measuring Automatic Cognition: Advancing Dual-Process Research in Sociology
Dual-process models are increasingly popular in sociology as a framework for theorizing the role of automatic cognition in shaping social behavior. However, empirical studies using dual-process models often rely on ad hoc measures such as forced-choice surveys, observation, and interviews whose relationships to underlying cognitive processes are not fully established. In this article, we advance dual-process research in sociology by (1) proposing…
Clergy Working outside of Congregations, 1976-2018
Changes in the American religious landscape have affected the professional religious labor force in the United States. These changes may be leading clergy to work for multiple congregations (Robbins and Francis in J Empir Theol 27(2):261-280, 2014 ), in multiple occupations (Chang, in: Carroll (ed) Pulpit & pew: research on pastoral leadership, Duke Divinity School, Durham, 2004 ), and/or to seek out clergy work outside of congregations (Chang an…
Are Bivocational Clergy Becoming the New Normal? An Analysis of the Current Population Survey, 1996-2017
Transitions in the American religious landscape including religious nonaffiliation, congregational and seminary enrollment declines, and the proliferation of megachurches have reshaped the clergy labor market and increased the precariousness of this type of work. One potential indication of this growing instability is the supposedly increasing number of bivocational clergy who depend on a second job to supplement their income. There are few relia…
Are the faithful becoming less fruitful? The decline of conservative protestant fertility and the growing importance of religious practice and belief in childbearing in the US
Love the Science, Hate the Scientists: Conservative Identity Protects Belief in Science and Undermines Trust in Scientists
The decline in trust in the scientific community in the United States among political conservatives has been well established. But this observation is complicated by remarkably positive and stable attitudes toward scientific research itself. What explains the persistence of positive belief in science in the midst of such dramatic change? By leveraging research on the performativity of conservative identity, we argue that conservative scientific i…
School characteristics associated with active shooter drill implementation
The Religious Work Ethic and the Spirit of Patriarchy: Religiosity and the Gender Gap in Working for Its Own Sake, 1977 to 2018
Societal beliefs about women's work have long been a metric for gender equality, with recent scholarship focusing on trends in these attitudes to assess the progress (or stalling) of the gender revolution. Moving beyond widely critiqued gender attitude questions thought to be the only available items for measuring change over time, this article considers women's and men's views toward their own work over the last half century. Traditional gender …
Family Structure, Gender, and Wages in STEM Work
Drawing upon work effort and gendered organizations perspectives and using data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how family structure types (i.e., combinations of marital and parental statuses) shape within- and between-gender variation in the earnings of highly educated men and women working in STEM and non-STEM occupations. We find that STEM and non-STEM women earn premia for marriage and for motherhood if they are married, with h…
My country, white or wrong: Christian nationalism, race, and blind patriotism
A principal concern regarding nationalist sentiment is the tendency to sanctify “the nation” and support it as chosen and pure regardless of its complicity in injustice. Building on research showing the tendency to whitewash America’s past is primarily localized to white Americans, and particularly those who stress its Christian heritage, we theorize Christian nationalism amplifies Americans’ willingness to endorse “blind patriotism” (supporting …
Exploring Different Patterns of Gender Ideology across College Majors
Research shows that college education and college major are related to attitudes about gender. However, little research has focused on within-major gender differences, and studies that do frequently rely on small, college-specific samples. Larger, national datasets frequently do not include information on college major and are often cross-sectional, making it difficult to account for selection processes. Using the General Social Survey and severa…
Asian Americans and Income Inequality: Disparities Between and Within Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Groups
Asian Americans nearing economic parity with White individuals is unique, particularly given the historical and contemporary disadvantaged position of other racial minorities in the U.S. labor market. While there is growing literature exploring how Asian Americans are reshaping the labor force, most of these studies categorize them as a homogenous group, failing to recognize social, cultural, and historical diversities within the community. Using…
Leaving the gang is good for your health: A stress process perspective on disengagement from gangs
During the last decade, health criminology—the study of health outcomes for justice‐involved individuals and their families—has gained traction in the field. We extend health criminology to the study of street gangs by drawing on the stress process perspective. Gang membership is conceptualized as a primary stressor that leads to secondary stressors with direct and indirect adverse effects on mental health. Leaving a gang, we hypothesize, offers …
In Our Own Image: How Americans Rate Jesus on the Ideological Spectrum
How can Americans on the political left and right both claim their views represent those of Jesus? Using nationally-representative data in which Americans rated Jesus on the left-right ideological spectrum, we assess what characteristics are associated with Americans' ratings and consider arguments about causal ordering. Competing expectations are drawn from "images of God" research and research showing political identities influence Americans' r…
Our Kind of American: Christian Nationalism, Race, and Contingent Views of Cultural Membership
American “Christian nationalism” is strongly associated with ethno-racial prejudice and xenophobia, particularly among White Americans. Yet research to date ignores the possibility of Christian nationalism operating similarly for ethno-racial minorities depending on the latter’s identification with the in-group vis-à-vis another out-group. Integrating insights from Christian nationalism research with social identity and group threat theories, we …
Hispanic intersectional pay in the United States: Measuring the intra‐ and inter‐ethnoracial and gender income differences by Hispanic groups
Most studies on racial income inequality focus on Black–White differences, ignoring the fact that Hispanic individuals are the lowest‐earning ethnoracial group in the United States. Research focusing on Hispanic workers emphasizes either men's or women's labor market experiences, treats Hispanics as a homogenous group. These approaches neglect the intersectional dynamics shaping these processes and overlook the diverse experiences across Hispanic…
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