Richard D Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard D Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard D |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Biblical Authority Questions: Two Choices in Identifying Conservative Christian Subcultures
Ammerman (1982) hypothesized that questions concerning Biblical authority could be used to sort fundamentalists from other evangelicals. She further hypothesized that this sorting would be best accomplished by determining which respondents accepted a literal interpretation of the creation story in Genesis. This article presents findings from a split-ballot survey that contradict the two Ammerman hypotheses. Respondents to the creation story quest…
The Fact and Form of Born-Again Religious Conversions and Sociopolitical Conservatism
Richard D. Dixon, Roger C. Lowery, Lloyd P. Jones, The Fact and Form of Born-Again Religious Conversions and Sociopolitical Conservatism, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Dec., 1992), pp. 117-131
Self-Interest and Public Opinion Toward Smoking Policies: A Replication and Extension
Numerous studies report that self-interest has a non significant influence upon various political and social attitudes. In contrast, a recent article by Green and Gerken (1989) reports a California study showing that cigarette smokers are significantly more opposed than nonsmokers to public smoking restrictions and tobacco sales tax increases. The present article replicates and extends this analysis with data from two different states—Illinois (i…
Reply to "A Research Note and Commentary on Dixon, Levy, and Lowery's 'Asking the "Born-Again" Question
Asking the "Born-Again" Question
Sex of Children: A Community Analysis of Preferences and Predetermination Attitudes
A self-administered questionnaire concerning child sex preferences and attitudes toward the exercise of pre- and post-conception sex predetermination was distributed and retrieved from an urbanized area sample of 209 adults aged 18 to 50. A modified (i.e., truncated) version of McClelland's (1979) “stopping rule” measure method was used to assess child sex preferences. It confirmed and extended findings from earlier research in that male first ch…
Fishermen's wives: A case study of a middle atlantic coastal fishing community
Belief in the Existence and Nature of Life after Death: A Research Note
The authors posed two questions regarding the notion of an afterlife to respondents in a recent thanatological investigation. Respectively, these concerned belief in a personal afterlife and—among those who considered it at least somewhat likely—how “good” or “bad” they thought that it would be for them. Virtually all individuals who thought that they were going to experience an afterlife also thought that it was going to be a favorable existence…
Fear of Death and Fertility: New Evidence
The hypothesis of a positive relationship between fear of death and fertility previously was examined by the authors and was confirmed among a sample subset. The present re-investigation of the hypothesis incorporated numerous methodological revisions and produced radically different results using the data drawn from 562 respondents during October, 1978 to March, 1979. These findings amassed considerable evidence for rejection of the hypothesis. …
LP chart careers: Indices and predictors of ascent and descent in popularity
(1982). LP chart careers: Indices and predictors of ascent and descent in popularity. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 8, No. 3-4, pp. 19-43
The "Illegitimacy Runs in Families" Hypothesis Reconsidered
The runs in families hypothesis was reexamined with a sample of young, poor, urban, first-conception, black U.S. females. Data were taken from the abortion clinic and postpartum wards of Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973-75. Subjects were females who had either conceived and delivered legitimately (N = 101), conceived illegitimately and alternatively aborted (N = 133), legitimated (by predelivery marriage: N = 61) or illegitimately …
Fear of Death and Fertility Reconsidered
Kastenbaum raised and examined the hypothesis that fear of death and fertility are directly related phenomena, concluding that procreation was one among several desirable forms of self-continuation. Re-examination of this hypothesis, using Templer's Manifest Death Anxiety Scale and a community sample (N=234) of reproductive and post-reproductive aged males and females, revealed that the hypothesis was confirmed among high school or less educated …
Musical taste cultures and taste publics revisited: A research note of new evidence
(1981). Musical taste cultures and taste publics revisited: A research note of new evidence. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 2-9
Suggested scales for the measurement of musical involvement and genre tastes
(1980). Suggested scales for the measurement of musical involvement and genre tastes. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 223-244
The absence of birth order correlations among unwed and married black first‐conceptors
Re‐examination of the hypothesis that firstborns are overrepresented concerning premarital sexual activity was conducted with a sample of young, poor, black unwed and married first‐conceptors. Contrary to confirming results obtained in earlier studies wherein all—or virtually all—respondents were white, the present study with black females did not support the hypothesis. U.S. black/white cultural differences were considered to account for the dis…
Concert and coliseum: A report concerning leisure activity and locale
An attempt was made to initiate the analysis of organizational features characterizing participants at musical concerts in the United States. This was done by posing self‐administrable questionnaire items to a sample (N = 124) drawn from the audience at a Dolly Parton concert, Trask Coliseum, UNC‐Wilmington campus, May 9, 1978. Questions pertained to group or party size, and type, and age and sex composition. The findings revealed that hardly any…
The cultural diffussion of punk rock in the United States
A sample survey of the audience awaiting admission to the first U.S. performance of the British punk rock group, The Sex Pistols, was conducted in Atlanta, Georgia. A self‐administrable questionnaire was employed, designed to generate comparisions between the audience sample and the NORC subsample of similar age range Southeasterners. The audience sample was revealed to be significantly: higher in socioeconomic status; more politically liberal; l…
Music in the community: A survey of who is paying attention
The present effort was devoted to an examination of numerous sociodemographic, possession, cost, purchase, recording, listening habits and preferences, and background and talent variables associated with music listening and listeners. Subjects (N= 170) were representative of persons aged at least 13 years from a Southeastern U. S. Urbanized Area. The analysis of this community sample was conducted to address a considered deficiency previously ext…
Tourism and Church Attendance: Empirical Findings
Journal Article Tourism and Church Attendance: Empirical Findings Get access Richard D. Dixon Richard D. Dixon University of North Carolina at Wilmington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 3, Fall 1979, Pages 256–259, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710243 Published: 01 October 1979
Self-Interest and Public Opinion Toward Smoking Policies: A Replication and Extension
Numerous studies report that self-interest has a non significant influence upon various political and social attitudes. In contrast, a recent article by Green and Gerken (1989) reports a California study showing that cigarette smokers are significantly more opposed than nonsmokers to public smoking restrictions and tobacco sales tax increases. The present article replicates and extends this analysis with data from two different states—Illinois (i…
Asking the "Born-Again" Question
Fishermen's wives: A case study of a middle atlantic coastal fishing community
Musical taste cultures and taste publics revisited: A research note of new evidence
(1981). Musical taste cultures and taste publics revisited: A research note of new evidence. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 2-9
Suggested scales for the measurement of musical involvement and genre tastes
(1980). Suggested scales for the measurement of musical involvement and genre tastes. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 223-244
The absence of birth order correlations among unwed and married black first‐conceptors
Re‐examination of the hypothesis that firstborns are overrepresented concerning premarital sexual activity was conducted with a sample of young, poor, black unwed and married first‐conceptors. Contrary to confirming results obtained in earlier studies wherein all—or virtually all—respondents were white, the present study with black females did not support the hypothesis. U.S. black/white cultural differences were considered to account for the dis…
The Fact and Form of Born-Again Religious Conversions and Sociopolitical Conservatism
Richard D. Dixon, Roger C. Lowery, Lloyd P. Jones, The Fact and Form of Born-Again Religious Conversions and Sociopolitical Conservatism, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Dec., 1992), pp. 117-131
Sex of Children: A Community Analysis of Preferences and Predetermination Attitudes
A self-administered questionnaire concerning child sex preferences and attitudes toward the exercise of pre- and post-conception sex predetermination was distributed and retrieved from an urbanized area sample of 209 adults aged 18 to 50. A modified (i.e., truncated) version of McClelland's (1979) “stopping rule” measure method was used to assess child sex preferences. It confirmed and extended findings from earlier research in that male first ch…
Music in the community: A survey of who is paying attention
The present effort was devoted to an examination of numerous sociodemographic, possession, cost, purchase, recording, listening habits and preferences, and background and talent variables associated with music listening and listeners. Subjects (N= 170) were representative of persons aged at least 13 years from a Southeastern U. S. Urbanized Area. The analysis of this community sample was conducted to address a considered deficiency previously ext…
LP chart careers: Indices and predictors of ascent and descent in popularity
(1982). LP chart careers: Indices and predictors of ascent and descent in popularity. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 8, No. 3-4, pp. 19-43
Biblical Authority Questions: Two Choices in Identifying Conservative Christian Subcultures
Ammerman (1982) hypothesized that questions concerning Biblical authority could be used to sort fundamentalists from other evangelicals. She further hypothesized that this sorting would be best accomplished by determining which respondents accepted a literal interpretation of the creation story in Genesis. This article presents findings from a split-ballot survey that contradict the two Ammerman hypotheses. Respondents to the creation story quest…
Concert and coliseum: A report concerning leisure activity and locale
An attempt was made to initiate the analysis of organizational features characterizing participants at musical concerts in the United States. This was done by posing self‐administrable questionnaire items to a sample (N = 124) drawn from the audience at a Dolly Parton concert, Trask Coliseum, UNC‐Wilmington campus, May 9, 1978. Questions pertained to group or party size, and type, and age and sex composition. The findings revealed that hardly any…
The cultural diffussion of punk rock in the United States
A sample survey of the audience awaiting admission to the first U.S. performance of the British punk rock group, The Sex Pistols, was conducted in Atlanta, Georgia. A self‐administrable questionnaire was employed, designed to generate comparisions between the audience sample and the NORC subsample of similar age range Southeasterners. The audience sample was revealed to be significantly: higher in socioeconomic status; more politically liberal; l…
Music in the community: A survey of who is paying attention
The present effort was devoted to an examination of numerous sociodemographic, possession, cost, purchase, recording, listening habits and preferences, and background and talent variables associated with music listening and listeners. Subjects (N= 170) were representative of persons aged at least 13 years from a Southeastern U. S. Urbanized Area. The analysis of this community sample was conducted to address a considered deficiency previously ext…
Tourism and Church Attendance: Empirical Findings
Journal Article Tourism and Church Attendance: Empirical Findings Get access Richard D. Dixon Richard D. Dixon University of North Carolina at Wilmington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 3, Fall 1979, Pages 256–259, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710243 Published: 01 October 1979
Suggested scales for the measurement of musical involvement and genre tastes
(1980). Suggested scales for the measurement of musical involvement and genre tastes. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 223-244
The absence of birth order correlations among unwed and married black first‐conceptors
Re‐examination of the hypothesis that firstborns are overrepresented concerning premarital sexual activity was conducted with a sample of young, poor, black unwed and married first‐conceptors. Contrary to confirming results obtained in earlier studies wherein all—or virtually all—respondents were white, the present study with black females did not support the hypothesis. U.S. black/white cultural differences were considered to account for the dis…
The "Illegitimacy Runs in Families" Hypothesis Reconsidered
The runs in families hypothesis was reexamined with a sample of young, poor, urban, first-conception, black U.S. females. Data were taken from the abortion clinic and postpartum wards of Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973-75. Subjects were females who had either conceived and delivered legitimately (N = 101), conceived illegitimately and alternatively aborted (N = 133), legitimated (by predelivery marriage: N = 61) or illegitimately …
Fear of Death and Fertility Reconsidered
Kastenbaum raised and examined the hypothesis that fear of death and fertility are directly related phenomena, concluding that procreation was one among several desirable forms of self-continuation. Re-examination of this hypothesis, using Templer's Manifest Death Anxiety Scale and a community sample (N=234) of reproductive and post-reproductive aged males and females, revealed that the hypothesis was confirmed among high school or less educated …
Musical taste cultures and taste publics revisited: A research note of new evidence
(1981). Musical taste cultures and taste publics revisited: A research note of new evidence. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 2-9
Fear of Death and Fertility: New Evidence
The hypothesis of a positive relationship between fear of death and fertility previously was examined by the authors and was confirmed among a sample subset. The present re-investigation of the hypothesis incorporated numerous methodological revisions and produced radically different results using the data drawn from 562 respondents during October, 1978 to March, 1979. These findings amassed considerable evidence for rejection of the hypothesis. …
LP chart careers: Indices and predictors of ascent and descent in popularity
(1982). LP chart careers: Indices and predictors of ascent and descent in popularity. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 8, No. 3-4, pp. 19-43
Belief in the Existence and Nature of Life after Death: A Research Note
The authors posed two questions regarding the notion of an afterlife to respondents in a recent thanatological investigation. Respectively, these concerned belief in a personal afterlife and—among those who considered it at least somewhat likely—how “good” or “bad” they thought that it would be for them. Virtually all individuals who thought that they were going to experience an afterlife also thought that it was going to be a favorable existence…
Fishermen's wives: A case study of a middle atlantic coastal fishing community
Sex of Children: A Community Analysis of Preferences and Predetermination Attitudes
A self-administered questionnaire concerning child sex preferences and attitudes toward the exercise of pre- and post-conception sex predetermination was distributed and retrieved from an urbanized area sample of 209 adults aged 18 to 50. A modified (i.e., truncated) version of McClelland's (1979) “stopping rule” measure method was used to assess child sex preferences. It confirmed and extended findings from earlier research in that male first ch…
Asking the "Born-Again" Question
Reply to "A Research Note and Commentary on Dixon, Levy, and Lowery's 'Asking the "Born-Again" Question
Self-Interest and Public Opinion Toward Smoking Policies: A Replication and Extension
Numerous studies report that self-interest has a non significant influence upon various political and social attitudes. In contrast, a recent article by Green and Gerken (1989) reports a California study showing that cigarette smokers are significantly more opposed than nonsmokers to public smoking restrictions and tobacco sales tax increases. The present article replicates and extends this analysis with data from two different states—Illinois (i…
Biblical Authority Questions: Two Choices in Identifying Conservative Christian Subcultures
Ammerman (1982) hypothesized that questions concerning Biblical authority could be used to sort fundamentalists from other evangelicals. She further hypothesized that this sorting would be best accomplished by determining which respondents accepted a literal interpretation of the creation story in Genesis. This article presents findings from a split-ballot survey that contradict the two Ammerman hypotheses. Respondents to the creation story quest…
The Fact and Form of Born-Again Religious Conversions and Sociopolitical Conservatism
Richard D. Dixon, Roger C. Lowery, Lloyd P. Jones, The Fact and Form of Born-Again Religious Conversions and Sociopolitical Conservatism, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Dec., 1992), pp. 117-131
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