Noy
Biographic Data
| ID | 48318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noy |
| FAMILY NAME | Noy |
| SIGNATURE | NOY |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0755-1652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Public perceptions of scientists’ motives and support for therapeutic gene editing
Political and religious beliefs are closely associated with trust in science, yet little is known about how these beliefs shape perceptions of scientists’ motivations. Using original national survey data from U.S. adults (n = 1510), this article examines how political and religious identities influence perceptions of scientists’ motives and how those perceptions relate to support for therapeutic gene editing (TGE). We develop new measures of moti…
The cultural meanings of science and religion
Scholars often associate science and religion with different spheres of authority, linking science to factual knowledge and religion to moral guidance. Yet individuals often blur these boundaries, with some using science as a basis for moral judgment and others turning to religion to understand empirical facts. Using new survey measures and nationally representative data (n = 1516), our latent class analysis identifies five distinctive perspectiv…
Contemporary Views and Uses of Astrology in the United States
Astrology is a multi-million-dollar industry. Its ubiquity in contemporary social life suggests that astrology may be an important component of Americans’ identity and lived experience. Despite this popularity, scholarly attention to the uses and views of astrology is limited and has largely focused on its relationship with religion and religiosity. Further, little is known about who uses astrology in the United States, how, and why. In this arti…
The Ethics of College Students as Research Participants
Existing research on students participating in human subjects research (HSR) has focused on the implications of these samples for the generalizability and validity of the data and conclusions. In this article, we focus on the ethical dimensions of students as research subjects by analyzing IRB websites framing this issue at 100 universities in the United States. We find differences in the frequency of engagement with this topic across PhD-grantin…
Religion, Perceptions of Scientists' Moral Culture, and Support for Science in the United States
How do perceptions of scientists' moral values relate to support for science in society? Recent advances in the sociology of science and religion suggest that people associate scientists with moral values in addition to factual knowledge, and that concerns about scientists' morality are why members of some religious groups are more critical of science than non-religious people. We test this theory using data from a probability sample of U.S. adul…
Science and the Pulpit
Although public perceptions of science and religion are the focus of a large body of scholarship, we know much less about religious leaders' views of science and its relationship to religion. Using data from a national survey of religious leaders in the United States, our latent class analysis finds three underlying groups of clergy based on their engagement with science and their beliefs about its interface with religion. Those with a modern cle…
Human Subjects Research Guidelines for Undergraduate Researchers
Teaching students about the ethics of Human Subject Research (HSR) should be a fundamental component of students' education about research. In this article, we analyze the Institutional Review Board (IRB) websites of top-ranked Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs) to examine their framing of HSR carried out by undergraduate students. Our descriptive quantitative analysis from 50 top-ranked LACs in the United States indicates that a majority of IRB websit…
Learning Right from Wrong
Opposition to and skepticism of science have important social consequences, as highlighted by contemporary debates about vaccines and climate change. Recent studies suggest that opposition to science is rooted in moral concerns and reflects a belief that science breaks down traditional conceptions of right and wrong. This article turns attention to the education system and to national contexts to examine how people see science as a moral threat. …
Varieties of Atheism in Science, by Elaine Howard ECKLUND and David R. JOHNSON
In this timely, accessible volume, Ecklund and Johnson examine atheism among scientists. They argue that this topic is particularly consequential because it shapes public views of science and how welcome religious people feel in scientific endeavors and spaces. Given the dominant narrative that portrays atheist scientists as hostile to religion, this means that religious people, including ethno-racial minorities and women who are more likely to b…
For the children? A mixed methods analysis of World Bank structural adjustment loans, health projects, and infant mortality in Latin America
BACKGROUND: The World Bank wields immense financial and normative power in health in the developing world. During the 1980s and 1990s, in the face of intense criticism of its structural adjustment policies, the World Bank purportedly turned its attention to "pro-growth and pro-poor" policies and new lending instruments. One focus has been an investment in maternal and infant health. My analysis uses a mixed methods approach to examine the relatio…
Teaching International Development Locally
Sociologists consistently try to activate students’ sociological imagination even as they focus on teaching substantive and methodological information and skills. Teaching international development and other global topics pose particular challenges for engaging students actively in the local context while teaching about global and macro processes and outcomes. In this article, we connect international development and object-based learning at a un…
Did the Arabic Lexicographers Invent Majāz
This article argues that early Arabic philologists developed a robust, if implicit, theory of metaphorical language, one that was not dictated by theological concerns, and one that took shape outside the technical term majāz (commonly: figurative speech). The starting point of the article is the oft-cited claim found in Islamic legal theory, according to which authority over matters of majāz rested in the hands of the lexicographers (or philologi…
Threatening Morality
Recent research suggests that religious opposition to science in the United States is rooted in a belief that science threatens morality. We test this claim using a survey of United States adults (n = 3,763). Regression results indicate that the religious are more likely than the nonreligious to believe that science breaks down people's understanding of right and wrong, which we call moral opposition to science. However, the strength of this rela…
Looking out, working in
Decision-Making in Local Context
Drawing on data from four focus groups with alfalfa farmers conducted in Spring 2014 and 2015 in four counties in Wyoming, USA, we analyse how farmers make decisions about insect pest management. Our generative focus group data allow us to examine how farmers frame and value different sources of information and why and when they rely on them. Our results reveal that in order to be useful, expert information needed to be local and to consider the …
Skin tone and asset inequality in Latin America
Much of our information about the relationship between skin tone, race/ethnicity, and wealth inequality centers on the U.S. context. Latin America, characterised by the highest levels of inequality globally and distinctive racial/ethnic hierarchies, provides a unique opportunity to extend our understanding of these dynamics. Drawing on sociocognitive theories and the preference for whiteness hypothesis, this study uses unique LAPOP data from 18 c…
Political Identity and Confidence in Science and Religion in the United States
This article investigates changes in public perceptions of science and religion in the United States between 1973 and 2018. We argue that the deepening ties between science and religion and opposing moral claims reconfigured the relationship between political identities and confidence in science and religion during this period. Our analysis of 30 waves of General Social Survey data finds that while Republicans once were more likely than Democrats…
An Emergent Sociology of Global Health and Development
Sociologists have much to contribute to the study of global health and development. Our discipline's fundamental concerns with power and inequality uniquely position us to leverage theoretical, conceptual, substantive, and empirical insights for the understanding of engines, outcomes, and processes of global health and development. This special issue highlights the diversity and depth of sociological engagements with the topics of global health a…
Science for good? The effects of education and national context on perceptions of science
Pressing environmental, social, and economic problems require interventions informed by scientific expertise yet skepticism of organized science runs high among some groups. Numerous studies show how individual-level experiences and identities translate into attitudes about science, but less is known about the contextual factors that shape these beliefs. We employ regression models using data from the International Social Survey Program and the W…
Cultural Authority in Comparative Context
Science and religion are among the most influential forces for organizing social life around the world, yet we know little about how national context shapes perceptions of them. Using data from the 2008 International Social Survey Program, we begin to fill this gap by investigating cross-national differences in public attitudes about science, religion, and society. We find that exposure to science is associated with more trust in science relative…
An Intersectional Analysis of Perspectives on Science and Religion in the United States
Using General Social Survey data (n = 3,504), we examine racial, ethnic, and gender divisions in perspectives on science and religion. We find that while blacks and Latinos are each more likely than whites to be oriented toward religion and away from science, gender differentiates this perspective among Latinos and whites but not among blacks. Furthermore, although whites are more likely than blacks and Latinos to be oriented toward both science …
Comparative dynamics of public health spending
Theoretical interest in the effects of globalization and regionalization on national outcomes, coupled with the unprecedented availability of comparable, cross-national data, creates an expanded opportunity for social scientists to test propositions of convergence over time. In this article, we investigate trends and convergence in public health spending in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) compared with Organisation for Economic Co-operation…
A Nation Divided
Elites often mobilize science and religion to support opposing positions on issues ranging from abortion to families to criminal justice. However, there is little research on the extent to which public preferences for scientific and religious understandings relate to public opinion about these and other controversies. The authors analyze how perspectives on science and religion map onto public attitudes about a wide range of social, political, an…
Social Rights and Migrant Realities
Modernization, Globalization, Trends, and Convergence in Health Expenditure in Latin America and the Caribbean
Are health care systems converging in developing nations? We use the case of health care financing in Latin America between 1995 and 2009 to assess the predictions of modernization theory, competing strands of globalization theory, and accounts of persistent cross-national differences. As predicted by modernization theory, we find convergence in overall health spending. The public share of health spending increased over this time period, with no …
Traditional, Modern, and Post-Secular Perspectives on Science and Religion in the United States
Using General Social Survey data, we examine perspectives on science and religion in the United States. Latent class analysis reveals three groups based on knowledge and attitudes about science, religiosity, and preferences for certain religious interpretations of the world. The traditional perspective (43 percent) is marked by a preference for religion compared to science; the modern perspective (36 percent) holds the opposite view. A third pers…
A Nation Divided
Elites often mobilize science and religion to support opposing positions on issues ranging from abortion to families to criminal justice. However, there is little research on the extent to which public preferences for scientific and religious understandings relate to public opinion about these and other controversies. The authors analyze how perspectives on science and religion map onto public attitudes about a wide range of social, political, an…
Graduate Students' Perceptions of Their Advisors
We explore how race and gender shape graduate students' perceptions of their advisors. We find evidence that women of color and students in the biological/physical sciences report significantly less support than other groups. Our findings speak to the utility of the intersectionality framework for examining interpersonal relations in higher education and suggest that advisor support in doctoral education is raced and gendered. We conclude by offe…
Political Identity and Confidence in Science and Religion in the United States
This article investigates changes in public perceptions of science and religion in the United States between 1973 and 2018. We argue that the deepening ties between science and religion and opposing moral claims reconfigured the relationship between political identities and confidence in science and religion during this period. Our analysis of 30 waves of General Social Survey data finds that while Republicans once were more likely than Democrats…
New contexts, different patterns? A comparative analysis of social spending and government health expenditure in Latin America and the OECD
Much of our knowledge of the development of the welfare state centers on historical contingencies that characterized the industrial, political, and demographic context of Western Europe and North America. However, young welfare states in developing countries are emerging in response to different pressures than those faced by early welfare state; while globalization influences both young and established welfare states. Using newly released data fo…
An Intersectional Analysis of Perspectives on Science and Religion in the United States
Using General Social Survey data (n = 3,504), we examine racial, ethnic, and gender divisions in perspectives on science and religion. We find that while blacks and Latinos are each more likely than whites to be oriented toward religion and away from science, gender differentiates this perspective among Latinos and whites but not among blacks. Furthermore, although whites are more likely than blacks and Latinos to be oriented toward both science …
Social Rights and Migrant Realities
Cultural Authority in Comparative Context
Science and religion are among the most influential forces for organizing social life around the world, yet we know little about how national context shapes perceptions of them. Using data from the 2008 International Social Survey Program, we begin to fill this gap by investigating cross-national differences in public attitudes about science, religion, and society. We find that exposure to science is associated with more trust in science relative…
Secrets and the Sociological Imagination
Introductory sociology classes afford instructors an opportunity to expose students, often from a variety of backgrounds and majors, to the sociological imagination. In this article, I describe how the use of secrets from a popular website, PostSecret.com , can help teach students about the sociological imagination and incorporate biographical examples in explanations of broader social trends and sociological concepts. I present results from a su…
The W ashington Consensus and Social Policy
International financial institutions—namely the I nternational M onetary F und and the W orld B ank—have been central in diffusing neoliberal ideas. However, little is known about the W orld B ank's involvement in health policy reform in L atin A merican countries, and even less about governments' responses to these recommendations and directives. I use W orld B ank project and loan documents together with national policy documents to examine hea…
Skin tone and asset inequality in Latin America
Much of our information about the relationship between skin tone, race/ethnicity, and wealth inequality centers on the U.S. context. Latin America, characterised by the highest levels of inequality globally and distinctive racial/ethnic hierarchies, provides a unique opportunity to extend our understanding of these dynamics. Drawing on sociocognitive theories and the preference for whiteness hypothesis, this study uses unique LAPOP data from 18 c…
Learning Right from Wrong
Opposition to and skepticism of science have important social consequences, as highlighted by contemporary debates about vaccines and climate change. Recent studies suggest that opposition to science is rooted in moral concerns and reflects a belief that science breaks down traditional conceptions of right and wrong. This article turns attention to the education system and to national contexts to examine how people see science as a moral threat. …
Threatening Morality
Recent research suggests that religious opposition to science in the United States is rooted in a belief that science threatens morality. We test this claim using a survey of United States adults (n = 3,763). Regression results indicate that the religious are more likely than the nonreligious to believe that science breaks down people's understanding of right and wrong, which we call moral opposition to science. However, the strength of this rela…
Science and the Pulpit
Although public perceptions of science and religion are the focus of a large body of scholarship, we know much less about religious leaders' views of science and its relationship to religion. Using data from a national survey of religious leaders in the United States, our latent class analysis finds three underlying groups of clergy based on their engagement with science and their beliefs about its interface with religion. Those with a modern cle…
Teaching International Development Locally
Sociologists consistently try to activate students’ sociological imagination even as they focus on teaching substantive and methodological information and skills. Teaching international development and other global topics pose particular challenges for engaging students actively in the local context while teaching about global and macro processes and outcomes. In this article, we connect international development and object-based learning at a un…
Comparative dynamics of public health spending
Theoretical interest in the effects of globalization and regionalization on national outcomes, coupled with the unprecedented availability of comparable, cross-national data, creates an expanded opportunity for social scientists to test propositions of convergence over time. In this article, we investigate trends and convergence in public health spending in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) compared with Organisation for Economic Co-operation…
Human Subjects Research Guidelines for Undergraduate Researchers
Teaching students about the ethics of Human Subject Research (HSR) should be a fundamental component of students' education about research. In this article, we analyze the Institutional Review Board (IRB) websites of top-ranked Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs) to examine their framing of HSR carried out by undergraduate students. Our descriptive quantitative analysis from 50 top-ranked LACs in the United States indicates that a majority of IRB websit…
Looking out, working in
Decision-Making in Local Context
Drawing on data from four focus groups with alfalfa farmers conducted in Spring 2014 and 2015 in four counties in Wyoming, USA, we analyse how farmers make decisions about insect pest management. Our generative focus group data allow us to examine how farmers frame and value different sources of information and why and when they rely on them. Our results reveal that in order to be useful, expert information needed to be local and to consider the …
New contexts, different patterns? A comparative analysis of social spending and government health expenditure in Latin America and the OECD
Much of our knowledge of the development of the welfare state centers on historical contingencies that characterized the industrial, political, and demographic context of Western Europe and North America. However, young welfare states in developing countries are emerging in response to different pressures than those faced by early welfare state; while globalization influences both young and established welfare states. Using newly released data fo…
Graduate Students' Perceptions of Their Advisors
We explore how race and gender shape graduate students' perceptions of their advisors. We find evidence that women of color and students in the biological/physical sciences report significantly less support than other groups. Our findings speak to the utility of the intersectionality framework for examining interpersonal relations in higher education and suggest that advisor support in doctoral education is raced and gendered. We conclude by offe…
Secrets and the Sociological Imagination
Introductory sociology classes afford instructors an opportunity to expose students, often from a variety of backgrounds and majors, to the sociological imagination. In this article, I describe how the use of secrets from a popular website, PostSecret.com , can help teach students about the sociological imagination and incorporate biographical examples in explanations of broader social trends and sociological concepts. I present results from a su…
Modernization, Globalization, Trends, and Convergence in Health Expenditure in Latin America and the Caribbean
Are health care systems converging in developing nations? We use the case of health care financing in Latin America between 1995 and 2009 to assess the predictions of modernization theory, competing strands of globalization theory, and accounts of persistent cross-national differences. As predicted by modernization theory, we find convergence in overall health spending. The public share of health spending increased over this time period, with no …
The W ashington Consensus and Social Policy
International financial institutions—namely the I nternational M onetary F und and the W orld B ank—have been central in diffusing neoliberal ideas. However, little is known about the W orld B ank's involvement in health policy reform in L atin A merican countries, and even less about governments' responses to these recommendations and directives. I use W orld B ank project and loan documents together with national policy documents to examine hea…
Traditional, Modern, and Post-Secular Perspectives on Science and Religion in the United States
Using General Social Survey data, we examine perspectives on science and religion in the United States. Latent class analysis reveals three groups based on knowledge and attitudes about science, religiosity, and preferences for certain religious interpretations of the world. The traditional perspective (43 percent) is marked by a preference for religion compared to science; the modern perspective (36 percent) holds the opposite view. A third pers…
Comparative dynamics of public health spending
Theoretical interest in the effects of globalization and regionalization on national outcomes, coupled with the unprecedented availability of comparable, cross-national data, creates an expanded opportunity for social scientists to test propositions of convergence over time. In this article, we investigate trends and convergence in public health spending in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) compared with Organisation for Economic Co-operation…
A Nation Divided
Elites often mobilize science and religion to support opposing positions on issues ranging from abortion to families to criminal justice. However, there is little research on the extent to which public preferences for scientific and religious understandings relate to public opinion about these and other controversies. The authors analyze how perspectives on science and religion map onto public attitudes about a wide range of social, political, an…
Social Rights and Migrant Realities
Cultural Authority in Comparative Context
Science and religion are among the most influential forces for organizing social life around the world, yet we know little about how national context shapes perceptions of them. Using data from the 2008 International Social Survey Program, we begin to fill this gap by investigating cross-national differences in public attitudes about science, religion, and society. We find that exposure to science is associated with more trust in science relative…
An Intersectional Analysis of Perspectives on Science and Religion in the United States
Using General Social Survey data (n = 3,504), we examine racial, ethnic, and gender divisions in perspectives on science and religion. We find that while blacks and Latinos are each more likely than whites to be oriented toward religion and away from science, gender differentiates this perspective among Latinos and whites but not among blacks. Furthermore, although whites are more likely than blacks and Latinos to be oriented toward both science …
An Emergent Sociology of Global Health and Development
Sociologists have much to contribute to the study of global health and development. Our discipline's fundamental concerns with power and inequality uniquely position us to leverage theoretical, conceptual, substantive, and empirical insights for the understanding of engines, outcomes, and processes of global health and development. This special issue highlights the diversity and depth of sociological engagements with the topics of global health a…
Science for good? The effects of education and national context on perceptions of science
Pressing environmental, social, and economic problems require interventions informed by scientific expertise yet skepticism of organized science runs high among some groups. Numerous studies show how individual-level experiences and identities translate into attitudes about science, but less is known about the contextual factors that shape these beliefs. We employ regression models using data from the International Social Survey Program and the W…
Looking out, working in
Decision-Making in Local Context
Drawing on data from four focus groups with alfalfa farmers conducted in Spring 2014 and 2015 in four counties in Wyoming, USA, we analyse how farmers make decisions about insect pest management. Our generative focus group data allow us to examine how farmers frame and value different sources of information and why and when they rely on them. Our results reveal that in order to be useful, expert information needed to be local and to consider the …
Skin tone and asset inequality in Latin America
Much of our information about the relationship between skin tone, race/ethnicity, and wealth inequality centers on the U.S. context. Latin America, characterised by the highest levels of inequality globally and distinctive racial/ethnic hierarchies, provides a unique opportunity to extend our understanding of these dynamics. Drawing on sociocognitive theories and the preference for whiteness hypothesis, this study uses unique LAPOP data from 18 c…
Political Identity and Confidence in Science and Religion in the United States
This article investigates changes in public perceptions of science and religion in the United States between 1973 and 2018. We argue that the deepening ties between science and religion and opposing moral claims reconfigured the relationship between political identities and confidence in science and religion during this period. Our analysis of 30 waves of General Social Survey data finds that while Republicans once were more likely than Democrats…
For the children? A mixed methods analysis of World Bank structural adjustment loans, health projects, and infant mortality in Latin America
BACKGROUND: The World Bank wields immense financial and normative power in health in the developing world. During the 1980s and 1990s, in the face of intense criticism of its structural adjustment policies, the World Bank purportedly turned its attention to "pro-growth and pro-poor" policies and new lending instruments. One focus has been an investment in maternal and infant health. My analysis uses a mixed methods approach to examine the relatio…
Teaching International Development Locally
Sociologists consistently try to activate students’ sociological imagination even as they focus on teaching substantive and methodological information and skills. Teaching international development and other global topics pose particular challenges for engaging students actively in the local context while teaching about global and macro processes and outcomes. In this article, we connect international development and object-based learning at a un…
Did the Arabic Lexicographers Invent Majāz
This article argues that early Arabic philologists developed a robust, if implicit, theory of metaphorical language, one that was not dictated by theological concerns, and one that took shape outside the technical term majāz (commonly: figurative speech). The starting point of the article is the oft-cited claim found in Islamic legal theory, according to which authority over matters of majāz rested in the hands of the lexicographers (or philologi…
Threatening Morality
Recent research suggests that religious opposition to science in the United States is rooted in a belief that science threatens morality. We test this claim using a survey of United States adults (n = 3,763). Regression results indicate that the religious are more likely than the nonreligious to believe that science breaks down people's understanding of right and wrong, which we call moral opposition to science. However, the strength of this rela…
Varieties of Atheism in Science, by Elaine Howard ECKLUND and David R. JOHNSON
In this timely, accessible volume, Ecklund and Johnson examine atheism among scientists. They argue that this topic is particularly consequential because it shapes public views of science and how welcome religious people feel in scientific endeavors and spaces. Given the dominant narrative that portrays atheist scientists as hostile to religion, this means that religious people, including ethno-racial minorities and women who are more likely to b…
Human Subjects Research Guidelines for Undergraduate Researchers
Teaching students about the ethics of Human Subject Research (HSR) should be a fundamental component of students' education about research. In this article, we analyze the Institutional Review Board (IRB) websites of top-ranked Liberal Arts Colleges (LACs) to examine their framing of HSR carried out by undergraduate students. Our descriptive quantitative analysis from 50 top-ranked LACs in the United States indicates that a majority of IRB websit…
Learning Right from Wrong
Opposition to and skepticism of science have important social consequences, as highlighted by contemporary debates about vaccines and climate change. Recent studies suggest that opposition to science is rooted in moral concerns and reflects a belief that science breaks down traditional conceptions of right and wrong. This article turns attention to the education system and to national contexts to examine how people see science as a moral threat. …
Science and the Pulpit
Although public perceptions of science and religion are the focus of a large body of scholarship, we know much less about religious leaders' views of science and its relationship to religion. Using data from a national survey of religious leaders in the United States, our latent class analysis finds three underlying groups of clergy based on their engagement with science and their beliefs about its interface with religion. Those with a modern cle…
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