Nancy J Davis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3631025 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nancy J Davis |
| PRENOMES | Nancy J |
| SOBRENOME | Davis |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIS N J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | DePauw University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 474 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Claiming Society for God
Connect with the authors and find study questions on the Claiming Society for God Facebook page
Overcoming Movement Obstacles by the Religiously Orthodox
This article examines four movements of the religiously orthodox that should have failed according to most social movement theory and research. The movements combine (1) an extraordinarily broad agenda, (2) a strict, morally absolutist ideology, and (3) a strong proscription against compromise with other groups, each of which has been identified as a liability that can lead to movement failure. Through inductive, qualitative analyses, the authors…
Using a Research Article to Foster Moral Reflection and Global Awareness in Teaching About Religion and Politics, Theory Testing, and Democracy in the Muslim World
Encouraging students to reflect on their ethical principles and to develop a global outlook have been identified as key pedagogical goals in recent national reports on higher education. This article shows how instructors can use a current article from the American Sociological Review (ASR) to facilitate moral reflection and global awareness. The ASR article, with its focus on the political implications of moral cosmologies of Muslims, its cross-n…
The Egalitarian Face of Islamic Orthodoxy
The authors test two theories linking religion and economic beliefs in predominantly Muslim nations using data from national surveys of Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Moral Cosmology theory posits that because the religiously orthodox are theologically communitarian in viewing individuals as subsumed by a larger community of believers subject to timeless laws and God's greater plan, they are disposed to…
Taking Sex Seriously
Teaching a course that is about sexuality but also about larger cultural themes, social processes, and political struggles poses many challenges. These include: 1) choosing readings from a sexuality literature that is ever-expanding; 2) negotiating student expectations that the course will focus on the sexual behavior of individuals when much of it is on sexual ideologies and sexual regimes; 3) allowing multiple voices to be heard in class, not j…
Theological Modernism, Cultural Libertarianism and Laissez-Faire Economics in Contemporary European Societies
Through analyses of national surveys of 12 European countries and Israel, we test hypotheses relating moral cosmology to cultural and economic attitudes. Modernists are theologically more individualistic than the religiously orthodox in that they see individuals, not a deity, as responsible for their fates and as the ultimate moral arbiters. We hypothesize that modernists, as theological individualists, are culturally individualistic or libertari…
Their Brothers' Keepers? Orthodox Religionists, Modernists, and Economic Justice in Europe
Through analyses of national surveys of 21 European countries and Israel, the authors test the conventional wisdom in Europe that modernists are to the left of the religiously orthodox on economic justice concerns. Modernists are more individualistic than the orthodox in seeing individuals, not a deity, as responsible for their fates and as the ultimate moral arbiters. The authors hypothesize that modernists are also economically individualistic …
Religious Cosmologies, Individualism and Politics in Italy
Through analyses of a national survey of Italians (N = 983) conducted in 1990, we study the effect of moral cosmology on political attitudes. We argue that modernists are more theologically individualistic than the religiously orthodox in that they see individuals themselves, not a deity, as being responsible for their fates and as being the ultimate moral arbiters. We hypothesize that modernists, as theological individualists, are culturally ind…
Do Wives Matter? Class Identities of Wives and Husbands in the United States, 1974-1994
Through analyses of data for the United States from 1974 to 1994, we examine the subjective class identities of married women and men and how these have changed over time. Over the last two decades, husbands and especially wives have increasingly factored in wives' characteristics in assessing their class position. Husbands attach more importance to their own than to their wives' characteristics, but consider some of their wives' characteristics …
Rejoinder to Hunter
qualification of these authors that religious liberalism and conservatism onJy tend align with political liberalism and conservatism. We pointed out, however, that Wuthnow and Hunter strongly implied that individuals at the poles of religious orthodoxy and moral progressivism are like-minded through their portrayal of the sides as camps, their use of war metaphors to describe the religious struggle, their inattention to divisions within the sides…
Religious Orthodoxy in American Society
Through an analysis of national survey data, we test several hypotheses regarding the extent to which the religiously orthodox constitute a monolithic conservative front. We find that the orthodox generally are conservative on social issues of sexuality, reproduction, and schooling of children, but are moderate or liberal on gender, racial, and economic issues. There is little tendency for the orthodox to cohere around a single ideological positi…
Are the Rumors of War Exaggerated? Religious Orthodoxy and Moral Progressivism in America
Contrary to the popular metaphor of "culture war," the authors find that Americans in a national survey are not divided into religious camps with opposed positions on a broad range of issues. The political conservatism of the religiously orthodox relative to theological progressives is limited to issues of schooling, sexuality, reproductive rights, and the gendered division of labor. the orthodox are no more conservative than progressives on issu…
Bringing It All Together
A capstone course in the broadest sense draws together theoretical and empirical work from disparate areas in sociology, serves as a bridge to graduate work in the discipline, and helps students to assume more active lives as citizens and consumers of knowledge. More specifically, I believe that a capstone course should be constructed to help students achieve the following goals: 1) envisioning what constitutes important sociological questions; 2…
Teaching about Inequality
Three classroom climates in courses focusing on inequality are identified, those of resistance, paralysis, and rage. In resistant classes, students deny the importance of class, gender, race, and other lines of stratification or fail to see their structural sources. In paralyzed classes, students are so overwhelmed by the pervasiveness of inequality that they become debilitated and depressed; social structures are reified, giving them a false aur…
Men's and Women's Consciousness of Gender Inequality
A model explaining consciousness of gender inequality is tested using data for the United States, Great Britain, West Germany, and Austria. Well-educated people tend to be less favorable toward efforts to reduce gender inequality than less well-educated people. Women with employed husbands are less supportive of efforts to reduce gender inequality than women without a male wage earner. Women are more likely to perceive gender inequality than men …
Women and Social Class
The authors of this text set out to review current perspectives in social class analysis and also to demonstrate that research cannot be valid without the inclusion of data on women
The American Perception of Class
Class Identification of Men and Women in the 1970s and 1980s
Employing NORC data for 1974-1978 and 1980-1985, we evaluate three models of class identification for married men and women: (1) an model, in which one's own characteristics outweigh those of one's spouse; (2) a model, in which equal weight is attached to one's own and one's spouse's characteristics; and (3) a model, in which one's spouse's characteristics are more important than one's own. In both decades, married men exhibit an independence mod…
The Female World
Sensitive to conflicts of class, race, & ethnicity as well as to the underlying bonds of gender, The Female World is an exuberant celebration of women's unique strengths and differences. Illuminating and powerful, this magnificent book will be read, cherished, and argued about by women--and men--for years to come
Childless and Single-Childed Women in Early Twentieth-Century America
Over the course of this century, there have been marked fluctuations in the extent of childlessness and single-child fertility. In this article, data from the 1960 U.S. Census are used to examine cohort trends in childlessness and single-child motherhood among women born in the years 1891-1925. A marked rise in low-parity fertility is found among women who reached prime reproductive ages during the 1930s; cohorts born prior to or after these wome…
The continuation of education after marriage among women in the United States
Data from the 1970 National Fertility Study are used to assess the extent and determinants of post-nuptial education among women in the United States. Over one-fifth of all women have attended high school or college since marriage; over one-third either have returned to school or anticipate returning to an academic institution sometime in the future. This phenomenon is apparently increasing since women married less than five years have already at…
Men's and Women's Consciousness of Gender Inequality
A model explaining consciousness of gender inequality is tested using data for the United States, Great Britain, West Germany, and Austria. Well-educated people tend to be less favorable toward efforts to reduce gender inequality than less well-educated people. Women with employed husbands are less supportive of efforts to reduce gender inequality than women without a male wage earner. Women are more likely to perceive gender inequality than men …
Are the Rumors of War Exaggerated? Religious Orthodoxy and Moral Progressivism in America
Contrary to the popular metaphor of "culture war," the authors find that Americans in a national survey are not divided into religious camps with opposed positions on a broad range of issues. The political conservatism of the religiously orthodox relative to theological progressives is limited to issues of schooling, sexuality, reproductive rights, and the gendered division of labor. the orthodox are no more conservative than progressives on issu…
The Egalitarian Face of Islamic Orthodoxy
The authors test two theories linking religion and economic beliefs in predominantly Muslim nations using data from national surveys of Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Moral Cosmology theory posits that because the religiously orthodox are theologically communitarian in viewing individuals as subsumed by a larger community of believers subject to timeless laws and God's greater plan, they are disposed to…
Class Identification of Men and Women in the 1970s and 1980s
Employing NORC data for 1974-1978 and 1980-1985, we evaluate three models of class identification for married men and women: (1) an model, in which one's own characteristics outweigh those of one's spouse; (2) a model, in which equal weight is attached to one's own and one's spouse's characteristics; and (3) a model, in which one's spouse's characteristics are more important than one's own. In both decades, married men exhibit an independence mod…
Teaching about Inequality
Three classroom climates in courses focusing on inequality are identified, those of resistance, paralysis, and rage. In resistant classes, students deny the importance of class, gender, race, and other lines of stratification or fail to see their structural sources. In paralyzed classes, students are so overwhelmed by the pervasiveness of inequality that they become debilitated and depressed; social structures are reified, giving them a false aur…
Religious Orthodoxy in American Society
Through an analysis of national survey data, we test several hypotheses regarding the extent to which the religiously orthodox constitute a monolithic conservative front. We find that the orthodox generally are conservative on social issues of sexuality, reproduction, and schooling of children, but are moderate or liberal on gender, racial, and economic issues. There is little tendency for the orthodox to cohere around a single ideological positi…
Their Brothers' Keepers? Orthodox Religionists, Modernists, and Economic Justice in Europe
Through analyses of national surveys of 21 European countries and Israel, the authors test the conventional wisdom in Europe that modernists are to the left of the religiously orthodox on economic justice concerns. Modernists are more individualistic than the orthodox in seeing individuals, not a deity, as responsible for their fates and as the ultimate moral arbiters. The authors hypothesize that modernists are also economically individualistic …
Taking Sex Seriously
Teaching a course that is about sexuality but also about larger cultural themes, social processes, and political struggles poses many challenges. These include: 1) choosing readings from a sexuality literature that is ever-expanding; 2) negotiating student expectations that the course will focus on the sexual behavior of individuals when much of it is on sexual ideologies and sexual regimes; 3) allowing multiple voices to be heard in class, not j…
Childless and Single-Childed Women in Early Twentieth-Century America
Over the course of this century, there have been marked fluctuations in the extent of childlessness and single-child fertility. In this article, data from the 1960 U.S. Census are used to examine cohort trends in childlessness and single-child motherhood among women born in the years 1891-1925. A marked rise in low-parity fertility is found among women who reached prime reproductive ages during the 1930s; cohorts born prior to or after these wome…
Overcoming Movement Obstacles by the Religiously Orthodox
This article examines four movements of the religiously orthodox that should have failed according to most social movement theory and research. The movements combine (1) an extraordinarily broad agenda, (2) a strict, morally absolutist ideology, and (3) a strong proscription against compromise with other groups, each of which has been identified as a liability that can lead to movement failure. Through inductive, qualitative analyses, the authors…
The continuation of education after marriage among women in the United States
Data from the 1970 National Fertility Study are used to assess the extent and determinants of post-nuptial education among women in the United States. Over one-fifth of all women have attended high school or college since marriage; over one-third either have returned to school or anticipate returning to an academic institution sometime in the future. This phenomenon is apparently increasing since women married less than five years have already at…
Using a Research Article to Foster Moral Reflection and Global Awareness in Teaching About Religion and Politics, Theory Testing, and Democracy in the Muslim World
Encouraging students to reflect on their ethical principles and to develop a global outlook have been identified as key pedagogical goals in recent national reports on higher education. This article shows how instructors can use a current article from the American Sociological Review (ASR) to facilitate moral reflection and global awareness. The ASR article, with its focus on the political implications of moral cosmologies of Muslims, its cross-n…
Do Wives Matter? Class Identities of Wives and Husbands in the United States, 1974-1994
Through analyses of data for the United States from 1974 to 1994, we examine the subjective class identities of married women and men and how these have changed over time. Over the last two decades, husbands and especially wives have increasingly factored in wives' characteristics in assessing their class position. Husbands attach more importance to their own than to their wives' characteristics, but consider some of their wives' characteristics …
Religious Cosmologies, Individualism and Politics in Italy
Through analyses of a national survey of Italians (N = 983) conducted in 1990, we study the effect of moral cosmology on political attitudes. We argue that modernists are more theologically individualistic than the religiously orthodox in that they see individuals themselves, not a deity, as being responsible for their fates and as being the ultimate moral arbiters. We hypothesize that modernists, as theological individualists, are culturally ind…
Rejoinder to Hunter
qualification of these authors that religious liberalism and conservatism onJy tend align with political liberalism and conservatism. We pointed out, however, that Wuthnow and Hunter strongly implied that individuals at the poles of religious orthodoxy and moral progressivism are like-minded through their portrayal of the sides as camps, their use of war metaphors to describe the religious struggle, their inattention to divisions within the sides…
Bringing It All Together
A capstone course in the broadest sense draws together theoretical and empirical work from disparate areas in sociology, serves as a bridge to graduate work in the discipline, and helps students to assume more active lives as citizens and consumers of knowledge. More specifically, I believe that a capstone course should be constructed to help students achieve the following goals: 1) envisioning what constitutes important sociological questions; 2…
The continuation of education after marriage among women in the United States
Data from the 1970 National Fertility Study are used to assess the extent and determinants of post-nuptial education among women in the United States. Over one-fifth of all women have attended high school or college since marriage; over one-third either have returned to school or anticipate returning to an academic institution sometime in the future. This phenomenon is apparently increasing since women married less than five years have already at…
Childless and Single-Childed Women in Early Twentieth-Century America
Over the course of this century, there have been marked fluctuations in the extent of childlessness and single-child fertility. In this article, data from the 1960 U.S. Census are used to examine cohort trends in childlessness and single-child motherhood among women born in the years 1891-1925. A marked rise in low-parity fertility is found among women who reached prime reproductive ages during the 1930s; cohorts born prior to or after these wome…
The Female World
Sensitive to conflicts of class, race, & ethnicity as well as to the underlying bonds of gender, The Female World is an exuberant celebration of women's unique strengths and differences. Illuminating and powerful, this magnificent book will be read, cherished, and argued about by women--and men--for years to come
Class Identification of Men and Women in the 1970s and 1980s
Employing NORC data for 1974-1978 and 1980-1985, we evaluate three models of class identification for married men and women: (1) an model, in which one's own characteristics outweigh those of one's spouse; (2) a model, in which equal weight is attached to one's own and one's spouse's characteristics; and (3) a model, in which one's spouse's characteristics are more important than one's own. In both decades, married men exhibit an independence mod…
Women and Social Class
The authors of this text set out to review current perspectives in social class analysis and also to demonstrate that research cannot be valid without the inclusion of data on women
The American Perception of Class
Men's and Women's Consciousness of Gender Inequality
A model explaining consciousness of gender inequality is tested using data for the United States, Great Britain, West Germany, and Austria. Well-educated people tend to be less favorable toward efforts to reduce gender inequality than less well-educated people. Women with employed husbands are less supportive of efforts to reduce gender inequality than women without a male wage earner. Women are more likely to perceive gender inequality than men …
Teaching about Inequality
Three classroom climates in courses focusing on inequality are identified, those of resistance, paralysis, and rage. In resistant classes, students deny the importance of class, gender, race, and other lines of stratification or fail to see their structural sources. In paralyzed classes, students are so overwhelmed by the pervasiveness of inequality that they become debilitated and depressed; social structures are reified, giving them a false aur…
Bringing It All Together
A capstone course in the broadest sense draws together theoretical and empirical work from disparate areas in sociology, serves as a bridge to graduate work in the discipline, and helps students to assume more active lives as citizens and consumers of knowledge. More specifically, I believe that a capstone course should be constructed to help students achieve the following goals: 1) envisioning what constitutes important sociological questions; 2…
Rejoinder to Hunter
qualification of these authors that religious liberalism and conservatism onJy tend align with political liberalism and conservatism. We pointed out, however, that Wuthnow and Hunter strongly implied that individuals at the poles of religious orthodoxy and moral progressivism are like-minded through their portrayal of the sides as camps, their use of war metaphors to describe the religious struggle, their inattention to divisions within the sides…
Religious Orthodoxy in American Society
Through an analysis of national survey data, we test several hypotheses regarding the extent to which the religiously orthodox constitute a monolithic conservative front. We find that the orthodox generally are conservative on social issues of sexuality, reproduction, and schooling of children, but are moderate or liberal on gender, racial, and economic issues. There is little tendency for the orthodox to cohere around a single ideological positi…
Are the Rumors of War Exaggerated? Religious Orthodoxy and Moral Progressivism in America
Contrary to the popular metaphor of "culture war," the authors find that Americans in a national survey are not divided into religious camps with opposed positions on a broad range of issues. The political conservatism of the religiously orthodox relative to theological progressives is limited to issues of schooling, sexuality, reproductive rights, and the gendered division of labor. the orthodox are no more conservative than progressives on issu…
Do Wives Matter? Class Identities of Wives and Husbands in the United States, 1974-1994
Through analyses of data for the United States from 1974 to 1994, we examine the subjective class identities of married women and men and how these have changed over time. Over the last two decades, husbands and especially wives have increasingly factored in wives' characteristics in assessing their class position. Husbands attach more importance to their own than to their wives' characteristics, but consider some of their wives' characteristics …
Their Brothers' Keepers? Orthodox Religionists, Modernists, and Economic Justice in Europe
Through analyses of national surveys of 21 European countries and Israel, the authors test the conventional wisdom in Europe that modernists are to the left of the religiously orthodox on economic justice concerns. Modernists are more individualistic than the orthodox in seeing individuals, not a deity, as responsible for their fates and as the ultimate moral arbiters. The authors hypothesize that modernists are also economically individualistic …
Religious Cosmologies, Individualism and Politics in Italy
Through analyses of a national survey of Italians (N = 983) conducted in 1990, we study the effect of moral cosmology on political attitudes. We argue that modernists are more theologically individualistic than the religiously orthodox in that they see individuals themselves, not a deity, as being responsible for their fates and as being the ultimate moral arbiters. We hypothesize that modernists, as theological individualists, are culturally ind…
Theological Modernism, Cultural Libertarianism and Laissez-Faire Economics in Contemporary European Societies
Through analyses of national surveys of 12 European countries and Israel, we test hypotheses relating moral cosmology to cultural and economic attitudes. Modernists are theologically more individualistic than the religiously orthodox in that they see individuals, not a deity, as responsible for their fates and as the ultimate moral arbiters. We hypothesize that modernists, as theological individualists, are culturally individualistic or libertari…
Taking Sex Seriously
Teaching a course that is about sexuality but also about larger cultural themes, social processes, and political struggles poses many challenges. These include: 1) choosing readings from a sexuality literature that is ever-expanding; 2) negotiating student expectations that the course will focus on the sexual behavior of individuals when much of it is on sexual ideologies and sexual regimes; 3) allowing multiple voices to be heard in class, not j…
Using a Research Article to Foster Moral Reflection and Global Awareness in Teaching About Religion and Politics, Theory Testing, and Democracy in the Muslim World
Encouraging students to reflect on their ethical principles and to develop a global outlook have been identified as key pedagogical goals in recent national reports on higher education. This article shows how instructors can use a current article from the American Sociological Review (ASR) to facilitate moral reflection and global awareness. The ASR article, with its focus on the political implications of moral cosmologies of Muslims, its cross-n…
The Egalitarian Face of Islamic Orthodoxy
The authors test two theories linking religion and economic beliefs in predominantly Muslim nations using data from national surveys of Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Moral Cosmology theory posits that because the religiously orthodox are theologically communitarian in viewing individuals as subsumed by a larger community of believers subject to timeless laws and God's greater plan, they are disposed to…
Overcoming Movement Obstacles by the Religiously Orthodox
This article examines four movements of the religiously orthodox that should have failed according to most social movement theory and research. The movements combine (1) an extraordinarily broad agenda, (2) a strict, morally absolutist ideology, and (3) a strong proscription against compromise with other groups, each of which has been identified as a liability that can lead to movement failure. Through inductive, qualitative analyses, the authors…
Claiming Society for God
Connect with the authors and find study questions on the Claiming Society for God Facebook page
Sociology (18 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras)