James A Christenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Christenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Christenson |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTENSON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Historicizing the ‘New Wars: The case of Jihad in the early years of Islam
Despite the transformative potential of the ‘New Wars’ paradigm, what might be labeled the ‘first generation’ of scholarship has been subject to a range of cross-disciplinary conceptual and empirical challenges that have called into question many of its key findings. While there is much that is valid in these critiques of the New Wars thesis, ultimately it is premature to conclude that they have fatally undermined the New Wars paradigm as a heuri…
Rural Poverty in America
The Rural Crisis
The "Organization Man" and the Community: The Impact of Organizational Norms and Personal Values on Community Participation and Transfers
James A. Christenson, James G. Hougland, Jr., Thomas W. Ilvento, Jon M. Shepard, The "Organization Man" and the Community: The Impact of Organizational Norms and Personal Values on Community Participation and Transfers, Social Forces, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Mar., 1988), pp. 808-826
Small City and Rural Governance: The Changing Environment
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: Testing the Spatial and Communal Hypotheses
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft often have been and still are equated with the rural-urban continuum and are employed to describe the “way of life” or the “moral basis” for rural/urban living. By employing common American values that seem to represent Gemeinschaftliche or Gesellschaftliche attributes, this article (1) explicates the value basis for the two concepts and (2) tests for the spatial (rural-urban) hypothesis and the communal (collectivis…
Proruralism values and migration behavior
Voluntary Organizations and Dominant American Values
Civil religion, social indicators, and public policy
Civil Religion and Other Religious Identities
Civil religion has been conceptualized as an integrative belief system that transcends denominational sectors of the society. However, this claim has remained unsubstantiated. Neither has it been tested whether the unchurched subscribe to civil religion or whether any differential levels of civil religion among religious groupings can be attributed to other social factors. In this study it is found that practically all the respondents share civil…
Civil Religion and Church and State
Earlier conceptualizations suggest a socially integrative civil religion in the United States and define it as not infringing upon church and state separation. No published empirical evidence exists, however, of the alleged compatibility of these two beliefs in the minds of the citizenry. Because the idea of civil religion rests largely upon such an assumption, the relationship between civil religion and church-state separatism is tested in an an…
Who Is Civil Religious
Civil religious ideology is allegedly shared by a vast majority of Americans. This paper explores civil religious adherence for various religious, political, social, economic, and demographic aggregates. Data were obtained from a statewide survey of 3,054 North Carolinians conducted in 1975. Findings indicate a fairly uniform level of support for tenets of civil religion from most segments of the population. Implications of such support are discu…
Religious Involvement, Values, and Social Compassion
Does religious involvement instill distinctive values? Does it instill a greater sense of social compassion? These and other questions raised by Rokeach are reexamined with a different but related set of values and social compassion issues. Data are taken from a statewide survey. Conclusions differ considerably from those made by Rokeach. People who regularly attend church exhibit no greater social compassion than those who do not attend. However…
An exploratory analysis of select predictors of concern for law and order
Increasing Mail Questionnaire Response: A Four State Comparison
Low response rates, poor data quality and the perceived necessity of limiting oneself to only a few questions have contributed to avoidance of mail questionnaires in studies of the general public. The effectiveness of a particular method for eliciting response to lengthy questionnaires was tested on state-wide samples of the general public in Arizona, Indiana, North Carolina, and Washington. The method, which depends on systematically manipulatin…
Toward the Assessment of Public Values
Journal Article Toward the Assessment of Public Values Get access Don A. Dillman, Don A. Dillman Don A. Dillman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Rural Sociology at Washington State University. James A. Christenson is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Extension Community Resource Specialist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Search for other works by this auth…
Indications for use of the Rorschach in mental hygiene clinics
Clinical application of the Thematic Apperception Test
The Analysis of Personality: A General Study
Increasing Mail Questionnaire Response: A Four State Comparison
Low response rates, poor data quality and the perceived necessity of limiting oneself to only a few questions have contributed to avoidance of mail questionnaires in studies of the general public. The effectiveness of a particular method for eliciting response to lengthy questionnaires was tested on state-wide samples of the general public in Arizona, Indiana, North Carolina, and Washington. The method, which depends on systematically manipulatin…
Who Is Civil Religious
Civil religious ideology is allegedly shared by a vast majority of Americans. This paper explores civil religious adherence for various religious, political, social, economic, and demographic aggregates. Data were obtained from a statewide survey of 3,054 North Carolinians conducted in 1975. Findings indicate a fairly uniform level of support for tenets of civil religion from most segments of the population. Implications of such support are discu…
Toward the Assessment of Public Values
Journal Article Toward the Assessment of Public Values Get access Don A. Dillman, Don A. Dillman Don A. Dillman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Rural Sociology at Washington State University. James A. Christenson is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Extension Community Resource Specialist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Search for other works by this auth…
Civil religion, social indicators, and public policy
Civil Religion and Church and State
Earlier conceptualizations suggest a socially integrative civil religion in the United States and define it as not infringing upon church and state separation. No published empirical evidence exists, however, of the alleged compatibility of these two beliefs in the minds of the citizenry. Because the idea of civil religion rests largely upon such an assumption, the relationship between civil religion and church-state separatism is tested in an an…
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: Testing the Spatial and Communal Hypotheses
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft often have been and still are equated with the rural-urban continuum and are employed to describe the “way of life” or the “moral basis” for rural/urban living. By employing common American values that seem to represent Gemeinschaftliche or Gesellschaftliche attributes, this article (1) explicates the value basis for the two concepts and (2) tests for the spatial (rural-urban) hypothesis and the communal (collectivis…
Civil Religion and Other Religious Identities
Civil religion has been conceptualized as an integrative belief system that transcends denominational sectors of the society. However, this claim has remained unsubstantiated. Neither has it been tested whether the unchurched subscribe to civil religion or whether any differential levels of civil religion among religious groupings can be attributed to other social factors. In this study it is found that practically all the respondents share civil…
An exploratory analysis of select predictors of concern for law and order
The "Organization Man" and the Community: The Impact of Organizational Norms and Personal Values on Community Participation and Transfers
James A. Christenson, James G. Hougland, Jr., Thomas W. Ilvento, Jon M. Shepard, The "Organization Man" and the Community: The Impact of Organizational Norms and Personal Values on Community Participation and Transfers, Social Forces, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Mar., 1988), pp. 808-826
Small City and Rural Governance: The Changing Environment
Proruralism values and migration behavior
Religious Involvement, Values, and Social Compassion
Does religious involvement instill distinctive values? Does it instill a greater sense of social compassion? These and other questions raised by Rokeach are reexamined with a different but related set of values and social compassion issues. Data are taken from a statewide survey. Conclusions differ considerably from those made by Rokeach. People who regularly attend church exhibit no greater social compassion than those who do not attend. However…
Clinical application of the Thematic Apperception Test
The Analysis of Personality: A General Study
Clinical application of the Thematic Apperception Test
Indications for use of the Rorschach in mental hygiene clinics
An exploratory analysis of select predictors of concern for law and order
Increasing Mail Questionnaire Response: A Four State Comparison
Low response rates, poor data quality and the perceived necessity of limiting oneself to only a few questions have contributed to avoidance of mail questionnaires in studies of the general public. The effectiveness of a particular method for eliciting response to lengthy questionnaires was tested on state-wide samples of the general public in Arizona, Indiana, North Carolina, and Washington. The method, which depends on systematically manipulatin…
Toward the Assessment of Public Values
Journal Article Toward the Assessment of Public Values Get access Don A. Dillman, Don A. Dillman Don A. Dillman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Rural Sociology at Washington State University. James A. Christenson is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Extension Community Resource Specialist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Search for other works by this auth…
Religious Involvement, Values, and Social Compassion
Does religious involvement instill distinctive values? Does it instill a greater sense of social compassion? These and other questions raised by Rokeach are reexamined with a different but related set of values and social compassion issues. Data are taken from a statewide survey. Conclusions differ considerably from those made by Rokeach. People who regularly attend church exhibit no greater social compassion than those who do not attend. However…
Who Is Civil Religious
Civil religious ideology is allegedly shared by a vast majority of Americans. This paper explores civil religious adherence for various religious, political, social, economic, and demographic aggregates. Data were obtained from a statewide survey of 3,054 North Carolinians conducted in 1975. Findings indicate a fairly uniform level of support for tenets of civil religion from most segments of the population. Implications of such support are discu…
Civil Religion and Church and State
Earlier conceptualizations suggest a socially integrative civil religion in the United States and define it as not infringing upon church and state separation. No published empirical evidence exists, however, of the alleged compatibility of these two beliefs in the minds of the citizenry. Because the idea of civil religion rests largely upon such an assumption, the relationship between civil religion and church-state separatism is tested in an an…
Civil Religion and Other Religious Identities
Civil religion has been conceptualized as an integrative belief system that transcends denominational sectors of the society. However, this claim has remained unsubstantiated. Neither has it been tested whether the unchurched subscribe to civil religion or whether any differential levels of civil religion among religious groupings can be attributed to other social factors. In this study it is found that practically all the respondents share civil…
Voluntary Organizations and Dominant American Values
Civil religion, social indicators, and public policy
Proruralism values and migration behavior
Small City and Rural Governance: The Changing Environment
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: Testing the Spatial and Communal Hypotheses
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft often have been and still are equated with the rural-urban continuum and are employed to describe the “way of life” or the “moral basis” for rural/urban living. By employing common American values that seem to represent Gemeinschaftliche or Gesellschaftliche attributes, this article (1) explicates the value basis for the two concepts and (2) tests for the spatial (rural-urban) hypothesis and the communal (collectivis…
The "Organization Man" and the Community: The Impact of Organizational Norms and Personal Values on Community Participation and Transfers
James A. Christenson, James G. Hougland, Jr., Thomas W. Ilvento, Jon M. Shepard, The "Organization Man" and the Community: The Impact of Organizational Norms and Personal Values on Community Participation and Transfers, Social Forces, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Mar., 1988), pp. 808-826
Rural Poverty in America
The Rural Crisis
Historicizing the ‘New Wars: The case of Jihad in the early years of Islam
Despite the transformative potential of the ‘New Wars’ paradigm, what might be labeled the ‘first generation’ of scholarship has been subject to a range of cross-disciplinary conceptual and empirical challenges that have called into question many of its key findings. While there is much that is valid in these critiques of the New Wars thesis, ultimately it is premature to conclude that they have fatally undermined the New Wars paradigm as a heuri…
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