Rebekah Peeples Massengill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3875766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebekah Peeples Massengill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebekah Peeples |
| FAMILY NAME | Massengill |
| SIGNATURE | MASSENGILL R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Nonaffiliation and Socioeconomic Status: Differences in Education and Income between Atheists and Agnostics and “Nothing in Particular”s
As recently as only 15 years ago, sociologists of religion were declaring that secularization theory – the perspective that had dominated a previous era of scholarship in predicting the inevitable demise of religious belief in the face of growing pluralism and individualism – was outdated and empirically unable to explain the continued religious vitality witnessed among diverse religious communities throughout the world, particularly in the Unite…
Religion and Inequality in America: Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology. The essays in this volume provide important new details about how and why religion and inequality are related by focusing on new indicators of inequal…
Wal-Mart Wars: Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century
Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty
Upon cursory glance, readers might not expect a book like Faith and Money to make radical claims. Researchers who combine the quantitative studies of religion and stratification tend to speak primarily of correlations and not causation, treading carefully around the thorny overlap between socioeconomic status (SES) and religious affiliation. The idea that people choose religious affiliations based upon their existing place in a socioeconomic orde…
Sociological Writing as Higher-level Thinking: Assignments That Cultivate the Sociological Imagination
Educators agree that developing critical thinking skills is a key goal of college education. While the literature on higher-level thinking emphasizes the significance of writing for developing such skills, teachers often receive little guidance about the kinds of writing assignments that can prove most beneficial for helping students to develop and practice these new forms of thinking. This teaching note describes the course scaffolding surroundi…
Why Evangelicals Like Wal-Mart: Education, Region, and Religious Group Identity
Status gains made by evangelicals in recent decades create new factions within the evangelical movement, potentially distinguishing college-educated evangelicals from their less-educated counterparts in their attitudes on issues that separate other Americans along the dividing lines of social class. This paper tests the influence of evangelical identity upon a particular social issue by investigating Americans’ attitudes about Wal-Mart—a company …
Moral Discourse in Economic Contexts
Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores By Stephen Halebsky Lexington Books. 2008. 248 pages. $80 cloth, $32.95 paper
Journal Article Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores By Stephen Halebsky Lexington Books. 2008. 248 pages. $80 cloth, $32.95 paper Get access Rebekah P. Massengill Rebekah P. Massengill Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 89, Issue 2, December 2010, Pages 710–712, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2010.0083 Published: 01 December 2010
Prayers of the people: Moral metaphors in the right-to-life and faith-based labor movements
Why Organizational Ties Matter for Neighborhood Effects: Resource Access through Childcare Centers
How does neighborhood poverty affect the poor's ability to access resources such as health care and job information? Most studies have focused on individuals or neighborhoods; we focus on organizations — specifically, whether organizations are less connected if located in poor neighborhoods. Our case study is childcare centers. We ask whether centers' organizational ties provide parents access to important resources, and whether neighborhood pove…
Educational Attainment and Cohort Change Among Conservative Protestants, 1972-2004
A growing literature examines how conservative Protestants have made status gains relative to mainline Protestants over the past three decades. The results of these studies are inconclusive: by some measures conservative Protestants have achieved socioeconomic parity, in other accounts significant discrepancies remain. This article examines the relationship between religion of origin and educational attainment, highlighting the significance of bo…
The Texture of Hardship: Qualitative Sociology of Poverty, 1995-2005
Focusing on the past decade, this review considers advances in the qualitative study of working poverty, welfare reform, patterns of family formation, neighborhood effects, class-based patterns of childhood socialization, and the growing European literature on social exclusion. We highlight the increasing importance of qualitative research embedded in large-scale quantitative studies of poverty. Within each of these areas, we suggest new directio…
Why Organizational Ties Matter for Neighborhood Effects: Resource Access through Childcare Centers
How does neighborhood poverty affect the poor's ability to access resources such as health care and job information? Most studies have focused on individuals or neighborhoods; we focus on organizations — specifically, whether organizations are less connected if located in poor neighborhoods. Our case study is childcare centers. We ask whether centers' organizational ties provide parents access to important resources, and whether neighborhood pove…
The Texture of Hardship: Qualitative Sociology of Poverty, 1995-2005
Focusing on the past decade, this review considers advances in the qualitative study of working poverty, welfare reform, patterns of family formation, neighborhood effects, class-based patterns of childhood socialization, and the growing European literature on social exclusion. We highlight the increasing importance of qualitative research embedded in large-scale quantitative studies of poverty. Within each of these areas, we suggest new directio…
Educational Attainment and Cohort Change Among Conservative Protestants, 1972-2004
A growing literature examines how conservative Protestants have made status gains relative to mainline Protestants over the past three decades. The results of these studies are inconclusive: by some measures conservative Protestants have achieved socioeconomic parity, in other accounts significant discrepancies remain. This article examines the relationship between religion of origin and educational attainment, highlighting the significance of bo…
Sociological Writing as Higher-level Thinking: Assignments That Cultivate the Sociological Imagination
Educators agree that developing critical thinking skills is a key goal of college education. While the literature on higher-level thinking emphasizes the significance of writing for developing such skills, teachers often receive little guidance about the kinds of writing assignments that can prove most beneficial for helping students to develop and practice these new forms of thinking. This teaching note describes the course scaffolding surroundi…
Prayers of the people: Moral metaphors in the right-to-life and faith-based labor movements
The Texture of Hardship: Qualitative Sociology of Poverty, 1995-2005
Focusing on the past decade, this review considers advances in the qualitative study of working poverty, welfare reform, patterns of family formation, neighborhood effects, class-based patterns of childhood socialization, and the growing European literature on social exclusion. We highlight the increasing importance of qualitative research embedded in large-scale quantitative studies of poverty. Within each of these areas, we suggest new directio…
Prayers of the people: Moral metaphors in the right-to-life and faith-based labor movements
Why Organizational Ties Matter for Neighborhood Effects: Resource Access through Childcare Centers
How does neighborhood poverty affect the poor's ability to access resources such as health care and job information? Most studies have focused on individuals or neighborhoods; we focus on organizations — specifically, whether organizations are less connected if located in poor neighborhoods. Our case study is childcare centers. We ask whether centers' organizational ties provide parents access to important resources, and whether neighborhood pove…
Educational Attainment and Cohort Change Among Conservative Protestants, 1972-2004
A growing literature examines how conservative Protestants have made status gains relative to mainline Protestants over the past three decades. The results of these studies are inconclusive: by some measures conservative Protestants have achieved socioeconomic parity, in other accounts significant discrepancies remain. This article examines the relationship between religion of origin and educational attainment, highlighting the significance of bo…
Moral Discourse in Economic Contexts
Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores By Stephen Halebsky Lexington Books. 2008. 248 pages. $80 cloth, $32.95 paper
Journal Article Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores By Stephen Halebsky Lexington Books. 2008. 248 pages. $80 cloth, $32.95 paper Get access Rebekah P. Massengill Rebekah P. Massengill Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 89, Issue 2, December 2010, Pages 710–712, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2010.0083 Published: 01 December 2010
Sociological Writing as Higher-level Thinking: Assignments That Cultivate the Sociological Imagination
Educators agree that developing critical thinking skills is a key goal of college education. While the literature on higher-level thinking emphasizes the significance of writing for developing such skills, teachers often receive little guidance about the kinds of writing assignments that can prove most beneficial for helping students to develop and practice these new forms of thinking. This teaching note describes the course scaffolding surroundi…
Why Evangelicals Like Wal-Mart: Education, Region, and Religious Group Identity
Status gains made by evangelicals in recent decades create new factions within the evangelical movement, potentially distinguishing college-educated evangelicals from their less-educated counterparts in their attitudes on issues that separate other Americans along the dividing lines of social class. This paper tests the influence of evangelical identity upon a particular social issue by investigating Americans’ attitudes about Wal-Mart—a company …
Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty
Upon cursory glance, readers might not expect a book like Faith and Money to make radical claims. Researchers who combine the quantitative studies of religion and stratification tend to speak primarily of correlations and not causation, treading carefully around the thorny overlap between socioeconomic status (SES) and religious affiliation. The idea that people choose religious affiliations based upon their existing place in a socioeconomic orde…
Wal-Mart Wars: Moral Populism in the Twenty-First Century
Nonaffiliation and Socioeconomic Status: Differences in Education and Income between Atheists and Agnostics and “Nothing in Particular”s
As recently as only 15 years ago, sociologists of religion were declaring that secularization theory – the perspective that had dominated a previous era of scholarship in predicting the inevitable demise of religious belief in the face of growing pluralism and individualism – was outdated and empirically unable to explain the continued religious vitality witnessed among diverse religious communities throughout the world, particularly in the Unite…
Religion and Inequality in America: Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification
Despite the growing quantity and quality of research connecting religion to inequality, no single volume to date brings together key figures to discuss various components of this process. This volume aims to fill this gap with contributions from top scholars in the fields of religion and sociology. The essays in this volume provide important new details about how and why religion and inequality are related by focusing on new indicators of inequal…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works)