Robin D Perrin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3820015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin D Perrin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Perrin |
| SIGNATURE | PERRIN R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pepperdine University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Deviance, Absolutist Definitions of
Sociologists define deviance as behavior that violates a norm and is judged negatively by a society. Many, however, misunderstand this conceptualization, instead assuming that the study of deviant behavior is the study of inherently wrong behavior. This absolutist conception, while relevant to our understandings of the origin of norms and reactions, is not a sociological conceptualization of deviance
Physical punishment of children by US parents
Physical punishment remains a common practice in the USA despite significant empirical evidence of its potential harm and ineffectiveness, arguments that its use violates children's human rights, and professional recommendations against its use. The purpose of the current paper is to offer explanations as to why, in the face of a worldwide movement to protect children from violence, the USA continues to support physical punishment of children. Th…
God Hates
I must confess that when I was first invited to review God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right, by Rebecca Barrett-Fox, I wondered why anyone would want to read an entire book about a fringe movement with only 70 members. With all the media attention Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) attracts, didn’t I already know everything I needed to know? But, of course, we sociologists know better, as there is indeed va…
Deviant Beliefs/Cognitive Deviance
Sociological discussions of deviance typically focus on behaviors that violate norms and have been judged negatively by others. Cognitive deviance, on the other hand, refers to deviant beliefs . The study of cognitive deviance “reveals that social rules apply not only to how one behaves but also to how and what one thinks” (Douglas and Waksler, 1982: 366). Deviant beliefs are important to study because they reveal basic social processes and affir…
Deviant Beliefs/Cognitive Deviance
Sociological discussions of deviance typically focus on non‐normative behaviors . Cognitive deviance, on the other hand, refers to deviant beliefs . The study of cognitive deviance “reveals that social rules apply not only to how one behaves but also to how and what one thinks” (Douglas & Waksler 1982: 366). Beliefs are deviant if they fall outside the norms of acceptability and are deemed wrong, irrational, eccentric, or dangerous in a given soc…
When Religion Becomes Deviance
Sociologists have maintained an interest in fringe religion at least since the well-known research by John Lofland and Rodney Stark (1965) on the early years of the Unification church in this country. Fringe religions, often referred to as new religious movements (NRMs) or cults, are a fascinating and theoretically insightful form of deviant behavior. The connection between religion and deviance has not been lost on sociologists, and there is an …
Seeker Churches
Religiosity and Honesty
Family Violence Across the Lifespan
Family Violence across the Lifespan
Examining the Sources of Conservative Church Growth
L'A. montre que les nouveaux mouvements evangeliques sont des congregations formees a partir de convertis et de transfuges. Ceux-ci proviennent en general des rangs catholiques ou protestants mais beaucoup avaient deja evolue dans les cercles evangeliques auparavant. Comme de nombreux transfuges et convertis, ils expriment leurs croyances de maniere franche. Les celebrations dominicales sont l'occasion de temoigner de leur energie religieuse. Il …
Resurgent Evangelicalism in the United States
In this look at evangelicalism in the United States, the author contests the widely ascribed southernization of American thesis, or the idea that the recent resurgence of born-again Christianity represents the spread of southern-style religion from the historically conservative, Protestant South to America's mainstream. He argues that even as evangelicalism changes the face of American culture, it is transformed by its encounter with secularism. …
The Secularization of the Academy
Journal Article The Secularization of the Academy, edited by George M. Marsden and Bradley J. Longfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, v + 323 pp. $35; $15.95 (paper) Get access Robin Perrin, Robin Perrin Pepperdine University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Chris Soper Chris Soper Pepperdine University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religio…
Strictly Speaking
Dan Kelley (1972) recognized a difference between social strength in religious organizations (reflected in member commitment, discipline, and evangelical zeal) and strictness (reflected in absolutism, conformity, and fanaticism). Yet he deplored the apparent fact that strength and stricness are inevitably concomitant, or at least highly correlated. This study offers the Vineyard Christian Fellowship as a counterexample, in which operational measu…
Saints and Seriousness
Secularization and Fundamentalism Reconsidered
Saints and Seekers
American Mainline Religion
Atlas of Religious Change in America, 1971-1980
American Religion in the Post-Aquarian Age
Earlier research has established that during the 1960s and 1970s, conservative Protestant denominations in general greatly increased in membership, while more liberal denominations declined. The major theoretical explanations for this trend have held that both cultural and demographic factors were involved. Of primary interest to researchers have been changes in the values of the youth counterculture of the 1960s, including a decline in church pa…
Examining the Sources of Conservative Church Growth
L'A. montre que les nouveaux mouvements evangeliques sont des congregations formees a partir de convertis et de transfuges. Ceux-ci proviennent en general des rangs catholiques ou protestants mais beaucoup avaient deja evolue dans les cercles evangeliques auparavant. Comme de nombreux transfuges et convertis, ils expriment leurs croyances de maniere franche. Les celebrations dominicales sont l'occasion de temoigner de leur energie religieuse. Il …
Religiosity and Honesty
Strictly Speaking
Dan Kelley (1972) recognized a difference between social strength in religious organizations (reflected in member commitment, discipline, and evangelical zeal) and strictness (reflected in absolutism, conformity, and fanaticism). Yet he deplored the apparent fact that strength and stricness are inevitably concomitant, or at least highly correlated. This study offers the Vineyard Christian Fellowship as a counterexample, in which operational measu…
Saints and Seekers
American Religion in the Post-Aquarian Age
Earlier research has established that during the 1960s and 1970s, conservative Protestant denominations in general greatly increased in membership, while more liberal denominations declined. The major theoretical explanations for this trend have held that both cultural and demographic factors were involved. Of primary interest to researchers have been changes in the values of the youth counterculture of the 1960s, including a decline in church pa…
American Mainline Religion
Atlas of Religious Change in America, 1971-1980
American Religion in the Post-Aquarian Age
Earlier research has established that during the 1960s and 1970s, conservative Protestant denominations in general greatly increased in membership, while more liberal denominations declined. The major theoretical explanations for this trend have held that both cultural and demographic factors were involved. Of primary interest to researchers have been changes in the values of the youth counterculture of the 1960s, including a decline in church pa…
Secularization and Fundamentalism Reconsidered
Saints and Seekers
Saints and Seriousness
Strictly Speaking
Dan Kelley (1972) recognized a difference between social strength in religious organizations (reflected in member commitment, discipline, and evangelical zeal) and strictness (reflected in absolutism, conformity, and fanaticism). Yet he deplored the apparent fact that strength and stricness are inevitably concomitant, or at least highly correlated. This study offers the Vineyard Christian Fellowship as a counterexample, in which operational measu…
The Secularization of the Academy
Journal Article The Secularization of the Academy, edited by George M. Marsden and Bradley J. Longfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, v + 323 pp. $35; $15.95 (paper) Get access Robin Perrin, Robin Perrin Pepperdine University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Chris Soper Chris Soper Pepperdine University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religio…
Family Violence across the Lifespan
Examining the Sources of Conservative Church Growth
L'A. montre que les nouveaux mouvements evangeliques sont des congregations formees a partir de convertis et de transfuges. Ceux-ci proviennent en general des rangs catholiques ou protestants mais beaucoup avaient deja evolue dans les cercles evangeliques auparavant. Comme de nombreux transfuges et convertis, ils expriment leurs croyances de maniere franche. Les celebrations dominicales sont l'occasion de temoigner de leur energie religieuse. Il …
Resurgent Evangelicalism in the United States
In this look at evangelicalism in the United States, the author contests the widely ascribed southernization of American thesis, or the idea that the recent resurgence of born-again Christianity represents the spread of southern-style religion from the historically conservative, Protestant South to America's mainstream. He argues that even as evangelicalism changes the face of American culture, it is transformed by its encounter with secularism. …
Family Violence Across the Lifespan
Religiosity and Honesty
When Religion Becomes Deviance
Sociologists have maintained an interest in fringe religion at least since the well-known research by John Lofland and Rodney Stark (1965) on the early years of the Unification church in this country. Fringe religions, often referred to as new religious movements (NRMs) or cults, are a fascinating and theoretically insightful form of deviant behavior. The connection between religion and deviance has not been lost on sociologists, and there is an …
Seeker Churches
Deviant Beliefs/Cognitive Deviance
Sociological discussions of deviance typically focus on non‐normative behaviors . Cognitive deviance, on the other hand, refers to deviant beliefs . The study of cognitive deviance “reveals that social rules apply not only to how one behaves but also to how and what one thinks” (Douglas & Waksler 1982: 366). Beliefs are deviant if they fall outside the norms of acceptability and are deemed wrong, irrational, eccentric, or dangerous in a given soc…
Deviant Beliefs/Cognitive Deviance
Sociological discussions of deviance typically focus on behaviors that violate norms and have been judged negatively by others. Cognitive deviance, on the other hand, refers to deviant beliefs . The study of cognitive deviance “reveals that social rules apply not only to how one behaves but also to how and what one thinks” (Douglas and Waksler, 1982: 366). Deviant beliefs are important to study because they reveal basic social processes and affir…
God Hates
I must confess that when I was first invited to review God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right, by Rebecca Barrett-Fox, I wondered why anyone would want to read an entire book about a fringe movement with only 70 members. With all the media attention Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) attracts, didn’t I already know everything I needed to know? But, of course, we sociologists know better, as there is indeed va…
Physical punishment of children by US parents
Physical punishment remains a common practice in the USA despite significant empirical evidence of its potential harm and ineffectiveness, arguments that its use violates children's human rights, and professional recommendations against its use. The purpose of the current paper is to offer explanations as to why, in the face of a worldwide movement to protect children from violence, the USA continues to support physical punishment of children. Th…
Deviance, Absolutist Definitions of
Sociologists define deviance as behavior that violates a norm and is judged negatively by a society. Many, however, misunderstand this conceptualization, instead assuming that the study of deviant behavior is the study of inherently wrong behavior. This absolutist conception, while relevant to our understandings of the origin of norms and reactions, is not a sociological conceptualization of deviance
Sociology (17 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (4 works)