Eric Woodrum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Woodrum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodrum |
| SIGNATURE | WOODRUM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Sociological Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Global Age
Religious Coping and Church-Based Social Support as Predictors of Mental Health Outcomes: Testing a Conceptual Model
This study assesses religious coping and church-based social support as mechanisms explaining religious benefits to mental health. We build on recent research and test an explanatory model using the 1998 General Social Survey. The model considers both institutional and individual aspects of religiousness, and their interrelations, as predictors of mental health outcomes. It considers negative effects of religion along with the well-known positive…
The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Denominational Subcultures of Environmentalism
Religious effects on environmentalism
Understanding of religious influences on environmentalism has been biased by political conflicts. This article summarizes the demographic parameters of environmental concern, then evaluates religious and political influences on that concern and related activity, using General Social Surveys data. It assesses influences on willingness to pay for environmental programs, individual environmental behaviors, and participation in political activities f…
World Order and Religion
Religion and Race: Southern Presbyterians, 1946-1983
Theology and Religiosity Effects on Environmentalism
America, Religions and Religion
Support for Prayer in School and Creationism
This study considers why school prayer and creationism continue to receive widespread public support. One view is that these proposals are simply alternative expressions of religious political conservatism. A competing interpretation is that, although related, school prayer and creationism are distinct issues deriving from significantly different social bases. Original data from a state-wide survey are analyzed using logistic regression to test h…
Reexamination of Religious Influences on Abortion Attitudes
Public Opposition to Genetic Engineering1
The extent and sources of public opposition to the use of genetic engineering in agricultural production are examined through data from telephone interviews with 220 farmers and 332 nonfarmers living in eight North Carolina counties. A model suggesting that public opposition to genetic engineering is influenced by demographic characteristics mediated by three intervening variables (awareness of genetic engineering, faith in government and industr…
Pornography and moral attitudes
Previous research identifies two dissimilar strains of anti‐pornography sentiment: conservative moral traditionalism and feminism. Spokespersons for each of these sources of opposition to pornography have achieved some visibility in the media and political arena, but their general level of support is undetermined. This study analyzes the underpinnings of attitudes toward pornography in the public with data from a citywide survey. Initially, five …
Equal Separation: Understanding the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment
The Political Theory of Liberation Theology: Toward a Reconvergence of Social Values and Social Science
Race, Politics, and Religion in Civil Religion among Blacks
The priestly type of American civil religion legitimates state authority and symbols as God ordained. Black Americans' political and religious history, and Durkheim's and Simmel's theories, suggest that Blacks would be more skeptical of ultimate governmental legitimations than Whites. Alternatively, prior research suggests Blacks are slightly more supportive of priestly civil religion that Whites. These issues are studied with new survey data. Ra…
Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day. Volume 8 of Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity
Determinants of Moral Attitudes
Contemporary controversies over abortion, pornography, homosexual rights, family relations, and prayer in school pit traditional moral conservatives against modern liberal relativists. Prior analyses, especially status politics interpretations, are regularly biased by presuming liberal relativist attitudes and treating moral conservatism alone as warranting explanation. In fact, the spectrum of moral attitudes, from liberal relativist to conserva…
Moral Conservatism and the 1984 Presidential Election
Moral conservatism asserts traditional absolutes in lifestyle, personal relations, and sexuality. Many evaluations of moral conservatism's political influence focus on the New Christian Right. This study assesses moral conservatism among voters directly and its effects on presidential preferences in a causal model with data from a city-wide survey. Moral conservatism effects are significant and contributed to Reagan's victory. Although weaker tha…
Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity
The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism
Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920
Religion and Economics among Japanese Americans: A Weberian Study
Journal Article Religion and Economics Among Japanese Americans: A Weberian Study Get access Eric Woodrum Eric Woodrum North Carolina State University Address correspondence to the author, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8107. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 64, Issue 1, September 1985, Pages 191–204, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Religious Belief Transformation: A Study of This Worldly Religion
The controversy over contemporary this worldly religious beliefs'social effects is reviewed. Critics of cultic religious degenerations and eroding moral consensus disagree with cultural relativists on the central themes of today's this worldly religions, their relation to more classical other worldly religious themes, and the appropriate group for evaluating this worldly religions'effects. These general issues are addressed through a content anal…
Mainstreaming' content analysis in social science: Methodological advantages, obstacles, and solutions
Religious Coping and Church-Based Social Support as Predictors of Mental Health Outcomes: Testing a Conceptual Model
This study assesses religious coping and church-based social support as mechanisms explaining religious benefits to mental health. We build on recent research and test an explanatory model using the 1998 General Social Survey. The model considers both institutional and individual aspects of religiousness, and their interrelations, as predictors of mental health outcomes. It considers negative effects of religion along with the well-known positive…
Theology and Religiosity Effects on Environmentalism
Denominational Subcultures of Environmentalism
An Assessment of Japanese American Assimilation, Pluralism, and Subordination
Japanese Americans are an atypical American minority with traits characteristic of both European immigrants and subordinated racial groups. They provide a test for the influence of relatively free labor versus racial minority statuses. Japanese American assimilation, pluralism, and subordination are assessed with census data and with generation-specific surveys by the Japanese American Research Project. Assimilation trends in language, residence,…
Determinants of Moral Attitudes
Contemporary controversies over abortion, pornography, homosexual rights, family relations, and prayer in school pit traditional moral conservatives against modern liberal relativists. Prior analyses, especially status politics interpretations, are regularly biased by presuming liberal relativist attitudes and treating moral conservatism alone as warranting explanation. In fact, the spectrum of moral attitudes, from liberal relativist to conserva…
Religious effects on environmentalism
Understanding of religious influences on environmentalism has been biased by political conflicts. This article summarizes the demographic parameters of environmental concern, then evaluates religious and political influences on that concern and related activity, using General Social Surveys data. It assesses influences on willingness to pay for environmental programs, individual environmental behaviors, and participation in political activities f…
Public Opposition to Genetic Engineering1
The extent and sources of public opposition to the use of genetic engineering in agricultural production are examined through data from telephone interviews with 220 farmers and 332 nonfarmers living in eight North Carolina counties. A model suggesting that public opposition to genetic engineering is influenced by demographic characteristics mediated by three intervening variables (awareness of genetic engineering, faith in government and industr…
Mainstreaming' content analysis in social science: Methodological advantages, obstacles, and solutions
Race, Politics, and Religion in Civil Religion among Blacks
The priestly type of American civil religion legitimates state authority and symbols as God ordained. Black Americans' political and religious history, and Durkheim's and Simmel's theories, suggest that Blacks would be more skeptical of ultimate governmental legitimations than Whites. Alternatively, prior research suggests Blacks are slightly more supportive of priestly civil religion that Whites. These issues are studied with new survey data. Ra…
Support for Prayer in School and Creationism
This study considers why school prayer and creationism continue to receive widespread public support. One view is that these proposals are simply alternative expressions of religious political conservatism. A competing interpretation is that, although related, school prayer and creationism are distinct issues deriving from significantly different social bases. Original data from a state-wide survey are analyzed using logistic regression to test h…
Reexamination of Religious Influences on Abortion Attitudes
Moral Conservatism and the 1984 Presidential Election
Moral conservatism asserts traditional absolutes in lifestyle, personal relations, and sexuality. Many evaluations of moral conservatism's political influence focus on the New Christian Right. This study assesses moral conservatism among voters directly and its effects on presidential preferences in a causal model with data from a city-wide survey. Moral conservatism effects are significant and contributed to Reagan's victory. Although weaker tha…
Religious Organizational Change: An Analysis Based on the TM Movement
Pornography and moral attitudes
Previous research identifies two dissimilar strains of anti‐pornography sentiment: conservative moral traditionalism and feminism. Spokespersons for each of these sources of opposition to pornography have achieved some visibility in the media and political arena, but their general level of support is undetermined. This study analyzes the underpinnings of attitudes toward pornography in the public with data from a citywide survey. Initially, five …
Religious Belief Transformation: A Study of This Worldly Religion
The controversy over contemporary this worldly religious beliefs'social effects is reviewed. Critics of cultic religious degenerations and eroding moral consensus disagree with cultural relativists on the central themes of today's this worldly religions, their relation to more classical other worldly religious themes, and the appropriate group for evaluating this worldly religions'effects. These general issues are addressed through a content anal…
Discrimination, Income, Human Capital Investment, and Asian-Americans
Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America
Towards a Theory of Tension in American Protestantism
A modelfor tension in A merican Protestantism is constructed building on Weber, mod~ca-tions of his work, and earlier explanations. It argues that conflicts over "mission " reflect structurally rooted differences in secular accommodation among laity, parish clergy, and supra-congregational staff Religious professionals ' domination of informal power structures and lay independence of church organizations influence outcomes of Protestant disputes.…
The Religious Drop-Outs: Apostasy among College Graduates
The Politics of Benevolence: Revival Religion and American Voting Behavior
Journal Article The Politics of Benevolence: Revival Religion and American Voting Behavior, by John L. Hammond. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1979, xi + 243 pp. $14.95 Get access Eric Woodrum Eric Woodrum North Carolina State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 41, Issue 2, Summer 1980, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709912 Published: 01 July 198…
Japanese American Economic Behavior: Its Types, Determinants, and Consequences
This paper argues that immigrant economic adaptations should be analyzed as vehicles through which factors in the society of origin influence experiences following migration and as predictors of noneconomic characteristics. The strategy is applied to first generation Japanese Americans (Issei) with national survey data from the Japanese American Research Project. Six economic adaptive modes are isolated by cross-classifying occupational categorie…
An Assessment of Japanese American Assimilation, Pluralism, and Subordination
Japanese Americans are an atypical American minority with traits characteristic of both European immigrants and subordinated racial groups. They provide a test for the influence of relatively free labor versus racial minority statuses. Japanese American assimilation, pluralism, and subordination are assessed with census data and with generation-specific surveys by the Japanese American Research Project. Assimilation trends in language, residence,…
Religious Organizational Change: An Analysis Based on the TM Movement
Mainstreaming' content analysis in social science: Methodological advantages, obstacles, and solutions
Religion and Economics among Japanese Americans: A Weberian Study
Journal Article Religion and Economics Among Japanese Americans: A Weberian Study Get access Eric Woodrum Eric Woodrum North Carolina State University Address correspondence to the author, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8107. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 64, Issue 1, September 1985, Pages 191–204, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Religious Belief Transformation: A Study of This Worldly Religion
The controversy over contemporary this worldly religious beliefs'social effects is reviewed. Critics of cultic religious degenerations and eroding moral consensus disagree with cultural relativists on the central themes of today's this worldly religions, their relation to more classical other worldly religious themes, and the appropriate group for evaluating this worldly religions'effects. These general issues are addressed through a content anal…
The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism
Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920
Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity
Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day. Volume 8 of Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity
Determinants of Moral Attitudes
Contemporary controversies over abortion, pornography, homosexual rights, family relations, and prayer in school pit traditional moral conservatives against modern liberal relativists. Prior analyses, especially status politics interpretations, are regularly biased by presuming liberal relativist attitudes and treating moral conservatism alone as warranting explanation. In fact, the spectrum of moral attitudes, from liberal relativist to conserva…
Moral Conservatism and the 1984 Presidential Election
Moral conservatism asserts traditional absolutes in lifestyle, personal relations, and sexuality. Many evaluations of moral conservatism's political influence focus on the New Christian Right. This study assesses moral conservatism among voters directly and its effects on presidential preferences in a causal model with data from a city-wide survey. Moral conservatism effects are significant and contributed to Reagan's victory. Although weaker tha…
Race, Politics, and Religion in Civil Religion among Blacks
The priestly type of American civil religion legitimates state authority and symbols as God ordained. Black Americans' political and religious history, and Durkheim's and Simmel's theories, suggest that Blacks would be more skeptical of ultimate governmental legitimations than Whites. Alternatively, prior research suggests Blacks are slightly more supportive of priestly civil religion that Whites. These issues are studied with new survey data. Ra…
Equal Separation: Understanding the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment
The Political Theory of Liberation Theology: Toward a Reconvergence of Social Values and Social Science
Support for Prayer in School and Creationism
This study considers why school prayer and creationism continue to receive widespread public support. One view is that these proposals are simply alternative expressions of religious political conservatism. A competing interpretation is that, although related, school prayer and creationism are distinct issues deriving from significantly different social bases. Original data from a state-wide survey are analyzed using logistic regression to test h…
Reexamination of Religious Influences on Abortion Attitudes
Public Opposition to Genetic Engineering1
The extent and sources of public opposition to the use of genetic engineering in agricultural production are examined through data from telephone interviews with 220 farmers and 332 nonfarmers living in eight North Carolina counties. A model suggesting that public opposition to genetic engineering is influenced by demographic characteristics mediated by three intervening variables (awareness of genetic engineering, faith in government and industr…
Pornography and moral attitudes
Previous research identifies two dissimilar strains of anti‐pornography sentiment: conservative moral traditionalism and feminism. Spokespersons for each of these sources of opposition to pornography have achieved some visibility in the media and political arena, but their general level of support is undetermined. This study analyzes the underpinnings of attitudes toward pornography in the public with data from a citywide survey. Initially, five …
America, Religions and Religion
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