Di Di
Biographic Data
| ID | 5000394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Di Di |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Di |
| SIGNATURE | DI DI |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0475-9690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inclusion or exclusion
Despite extensive studies on whether religion should be incorporated in the workplace, our understanding of how tech workers perceive this question remains limited. Drawing upon 98 interviews with tech professionals in China and the United States, this study asks: How do tech workers in the two societies view the incorporation of religion in their workplace? This study reveals that US tech workers passively avoid religion, while their Chinese cou…
Navigating ethical boundaries
Tech workers often experience ethical tensions arising from the misalignment of their values and the prevailing unethical or ethically ambiguous practices concerning data and algorithms in the workplace. Despite this, there is an insufficient understanding of how tech professionals address ethical tensions. Based on interviews with 98 tech workers in China and the United States, this study explores ethical tensions, the workers’ responses, and po…
Mijiao formula regulates NAT10-mediated Runx2 mRNA ac4C modification to promote bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell osteogenic differentiation and improve osteoporosis in ovariectomized rats
Faithfully Gendered? How Religious Attendance Shapes Views of Women’s Leadership in Politics and Business Cross-Nationally
Researchers have explored the relationship between religiosity and people’s gendered perspectives within the private sphere. However, there is limited research on how religiosity relates to people’s gendered perspectives in the public sphere. The authors examine the association between religiosity and the view that men make better leaders than women in two public spheres, politics and business, and explore variations by national context. Drawing …
How the Science-Religion Interface of Christian Religious Leaders Shape Their Perceptions of Depression
This study explores the relationship between Christian religious leaders' beliefs about the science and religion interface and their understanding of the causes and treatments for depression. We focus on Christian religious leaders because they often serve as first responders for congregants seeking help with mental health issues and are influential figures in maintaining the authority of religious institutions. Previous research has neglected th…
Evoking, Grounding, and Defining
Social scientific research challenges stereotypes of scientists as irreligious, on the one hand, and lacking aesthetic sensitivity, on the other. Yet, while some research suggests connections between these domains, the question remains as to whether and how scientists themselves connect their religion or spirituality with their aesthetic experiences in science. Drawing on interviews with 71 biologists and physicists in India, Italy, the United Ki…
Work Pray Code
Ethical ambiguity and complexity
Despite extensive studies on ethical data use and algorithms, little is known about the ethical perspectives of tech workers – insiders of a profession that heavily relies on data and algorithms. Nor have there been sufficient cross-national comparisons of their perspectives. Relying on interviews with 98 tech workers in China and the US, this paper is guided by two questions: (1) What are tech workers' perceptions of big data ethics, and (2) wha…
Scientists explain the underrepresentation of women in physics compared to biology in four national contexts
Women are consistently underrepresented in physics when compared to biology. Yet how scientists themselves explain the causes of this underrepresentation is understudied outside the US context. In this research, we ask the following question: How do scientists in different national/regional contexts explain why there are fewer women in physics than biology? Using original survey data collected among academic biologists and physicists in the US ( …
Surviving is Succeeding
This study explores how tech professionals respond to job insecurity during COVID-19. Data for this study came from 51 in-depth interviews with tech professionals employed in tech hubs on the west coast of the US. Depending on the niche market where their companies are situated, tech professionals have diverse experiences of job insecurity. While a minority of my respondents indicate that they felt secure about their job during COVID-19, most hav…
Publishing and Parenting in Academic Science
In the first cross-national, mixed-methods study on gender, family, and science, the authors examined the relationship between research productivity and family life for male and female physicists and biologists in four countries: India, Taiwan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Drawing on surveys of 5,756 respondents and follow-up interviews with 369 participants, the authors found that the relationship between family responsibilities an…
Alternative Spirituality among Global Scientists
Scholars, especially those in the West, often attribute the construction of alternative spirituality to a culture of individualism. Here, we explore how non-religious scientists construct spirituality in different national contexts, focusing on academic physicists and biologists. Two research questions guide our analyses: How do scientists construct an alternative spirituality and to what extent are their constructions conditioned by the contexts…
Family Sacrifices
Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans, by RUSSELL M. JEUNG, SEANAN S. FONG, and HELEN JIN KIM Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans, by RUSSELL M JEUNG, SEANAN S FONG, and HELEN JIN KIM. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, 208 pp.; $29.95 (hardcover). Di Di Di Di Santa Clara University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume…
Gendered Paths to Enlightenment
This study explores how religious adherents construct their ideas regarding gender in Buddhist faith communities. Two temples, one in China and the other in the United States, both affiliated with the same international Buddhist headquarters, are situated in national contexts that endorse different macro-level gender norms. While leaders of both temples teach similar religious gender norms—specifically, that gender is unimportant for spiritual ad…
Are Religious Women More Traditionalist? A Cross‐National Examination of Gender and Religion
Does national context shape the relationship between religious attendance and women's gender ideologies? Although previous studies have examined gender and religion within a single national context (and often in a single faith community), few have done so using a cross‐national comparative perspective. This has left a significant gap in our understanding of how gender and religion operate in distinctive national contexts. Relying on survey data c…
Secularity and Science
In order to take an in-depth look at the relationship between science and religion around the world, the authors of this book completed the most comprehensive international study of scientists’ attitudes toward religion ever undertaken, surveying more than twenty thousand scientists and conducting in-depth interviews with over six hundred of them. From this wealth of data, the authors extract the real story of the relationship between science and…
Responding to Richard
Drawing on 48 in-depth interviews conducted with biologists and physicists at universities in the United Kingdom, this study examines scientists’ perceptions of the role celebrity scientists play in socially contentious public debates. We examine Richard Dawkins’ involvement in public debates related to the relationship between science and religion as a case to analyze scientists’ perceptions of the role celebrity scientists play in the public sp…
Paths to Enlightenment
How do national contexts influence the construction of religious identity in faith communities? In this article, I examine the construction of Buddhist identities in two similar ethnic Chinese Mahayana Buddhist temples but in distinct national contexts, one in mainland China and the other in the United States. While both are Chinese Mahayana Buddhist temples, they have distinctive temple-level cultures: a strict culture in China and a permissive …
A Catholic Science?
Scholars have argued that learning science is linked to a decrease in personal faith among scientists. We do not know much, however, about the so-called secularizing effect of science among scientists outside the US, where such religious processes could operate differently. Because the negotiation between science and religion is more salient when faith is in transition, we examine how scientists in Italy (a predominantly Catholic context) constru…
The Double-Edged Sword
As China continues to open up to the transnational circulation of labor, ideas, technology and capital under globalization, we must wonder: will Chinese society’s more cosmopolitan and transnational groups continue to be guided by guanxi? The authors conducted 40 in-depth interviews with Chinese physicists at 11 research universities in three cities in order to examine the role of ethics, including guanxi, in the professional lives of one of Chin…
Producing Sacredness and Defending Secularity
Although a recent body of scholarship focuses on how business professionals infuse spiritual practices in their workplaces, comparatively little attention has been paid to faith in the scientific workplace, especially in an Eastern, non-Christian context. Between 2014 and 2015, we conducted a survey of 892 scientists in Taiwan and completed interviews with 52 of our survey respondents. In this paper, we examine how scientists navigate religion in…
Debate
Are Religious Women More Traditionalist? A Cross‐National Examination of Gender and Religion
Does national context shape the relationship between religious attendance and women's gender ideologies? Although previous studies have examined gender and religion within a single national context (and often in a single faith community), few have done so using a cross‐national comparative perspective. This has left a significant gap in our understanding of how gender and religion operate in distinctive national contexts. Relying on survey data c…
Publishing and Parenting in Academic Science
In the first cross-national, mixed-methods study on gender, family, and science, the authors examined the relationship between research productivity and family life for male and female physicists and biologists in four countries: India, Taiwan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Drawing on surveys of 5,756 respondents and follow-up interviews with 369 participants, the authors found that the relationship between family responsibilities an…
Scientists explain the underrepresentation of women in physics compared to biology in four national contexts
Women are consistently underrepresented in physics when compared to biology. Yet how scientists themselves explain the causes of this underrepresentation is understudied outside the US context. In this research, we ask the following question: How do scientists in different national/regional contexts explain why there are fewer women in physics than biology? Using original survey data collected among academic biologists and physicists in the US ( …
Producing Sacredness and Defending Secularity
Although a recent body of scholarship focuses on how business professionals infuse spiritual practices in their workplaces, comparatively little attention has been paid to faith in the scientific workplace, especially in an Eastern, non-Christian context. Between 2014 and 2015, we conducted a survey of 892 scientists in Taiwan and completed interviews with 52 of our survey respondents. In this paper, we examine how scientists navigate religion in…
Evoking, Grounding, and Defining
Social scientific research challenges stereotypes of scientists as irreligious, on the one hand, and lacking aesthetic sensitivity, on the other. Yet, while some research suggests connections between these domains, the question remains as to whether and how scientists themselves connect their religion or spirituality with their aesthetic experiences in science. Drawing on interviews with 71 biologists and physicists in India, Italy, the United Ki…
Alternative Spirituality among Global Scientists
Scholars, especially those in the West, often attribute the construction of alternative spirituality to a culture of individualism. Here, we explore how non-religious scientists construct spirituality in different national contexts, focusing on academic physicists and biologists. Two research questions guide our analyses: How do scientists construct an alternative spirituality and to what extent are their constructions conditioned by the contexts…
Gendered Paths to Enlightenment
This study explores how religious adherents construct their ideas regarding gender in Buddhist faith communities. Two temples, one in China and the other in the United States, both affiliated with the same international Buddhist headquarters, are situated in national contexts that endorse different macro-level gender norms. While leaders of both temples teach similar religious gender norms—specifically, that gender is unimportant for spiritual ad…
Debate
A Catholic Science?
Scholars have argued that learning science is linked to a decrease in personal faith among scientists. We do not know much, however, about the so-called secularizing effect of science among scientists outside the US, where such religious processes could operate differently. Because the negotiation between science and religion is more salient when faith is in transition, we examine how scientists in Italy (a predominantly Catholic context) constru…
The Double-Edged Sword
As China continues to open up to the transnational circulation of labor, ideas, technology and capital under globalization, we must wonder: will Chinese society’s more cosmopolitan and transnational groups continue to be guided by guanxi? The authors conducted 40 in-depth interviews with Chinese physicists at 11 research universities in three cities in order to examine the role of ethics, including guanxi, in the professional lives of one of Chin…
Producing Sacredness and Defending Secularity
Although a recent body of scholarship focuses on how business professionals infuse spiritual practices in their workplaces, comparatively little attention has been paid to faith in the scientific workplace, especially in an Eastern, non-Christian context. Between 2014 and 2015, we conducted a survey of 892 scientists in Taiwan and completed interviews with 52 of our survey respondents. In this paper, we examine how scientists navigate religion in…
Responding to Richard
Drawing on 48 in-depth interviews conducted with biologists and physicists at universities in the United Kingdom, this study examines scientists’ perceptions of the role celebrity scientists play in socially contentious public debates. We examine Richard Dawkins’ involvement in public debates related to the relationship between science and religion as a case to analyze scientists’ perceptions of the role celebrity scientists play in the public sp…
Paths to Enlightenment
How do national contexts influence the construction of religious identity in faith communities? In this article, I examine the construction of Buddhist identities in two similar ethnic Chinese Mahayana Buddhist temples but in distinct national contexts, one in mainland China and the other in the United States. While both are Chinese Mahayana Buddhist temples, they have distinctive temple-level cultures: a strict culture in China and a permissive …
Secularity and Science
In order to take an in-depth look at the relationship between science and religion around the world, the authors of this book completed the most comprehensive international study of scientists’ attitudes toward religion ever undertaken, surveying more than twenty thousand scientists and conducting in-depth interviews with over six hundred of them. From this wealth of data, the authors extract the real story of the relationship between science and…
Family Sacrifices
Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans, by RUSSELL M. JEUNG, SEANAN S. FONG, and HELEN JIN KIM Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans, by RUSSELL M JEUNG, SEANAN S FONG, and HELEN JIN KIM. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, 208 pp.; $29.95 (hardcover). Di Di Di Di Santa Clara University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume…
Gendered Paths to Enlightenment
This study explores how religious adherents construct their ideas regarding gender in Buddhist faith communities. Two temples, one in China and the other in the United States, both affiliated with the same international Buddhist headquarters, are situated in national contexts that endorse different macro-level gender norms. While leaders of both temples teach similar religious gender norms—specifically, that gender is unimportant for spiritual ad…
Are Religious Women More Traditionalist? A Cross‐National Examination of Gender and Religion
Does national context shape the relationship between religious attendance and women's gender ideologies? Although previous studies have examined gender and religion within a single national context (and often in a single faith community), few have done so using a cross‐national comparative perspective. This has left a significant gap in our understanding of how gender and religion operate in distinctive national contexts. Relying on survey data c…
Surviving is Succeeding
This study explores how tech professionals respond to job insecurity during COVID-19. Data for this study came from 51 in-depth interviews with tech professionals employed in tech hubs on the west coast of the US. Depending on the niche market where their companies are situated, tech professionals have diverse experiences of job insecurity. While a minority of my respondents indicate that they felt secure about their job during COVID-19, most hav…
Publishing and Parenting in Academic Science
In the first cross-national, mixed-methods study on gender, family, and science, the authors examined the relationship between research productivity and family life for male and female physicists and biologists in four countries: India, Taiwan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Drawing on surveys of 5,756 respondents and follow-up interviews with 369 participants, the authors found that the relationship between family responsibilities an…
Alternative Spirituality among Global Scientists
Scholars, especially those in the West, often attribute the construction of alternative spirituality to a culture of individualism. Here, we explore how non-religious scientists construct spirituality in different national contexts, focusing on academic physicists and biologists. Two research questions guide our analyses: How do scientists construct an alternative spirituality and to what extent are their constructions conditioned by the contexts…
Ethical ambiguity and complexity
Despite extensive studies on ethical data use and algorithms, little is known about the ethical perspectives of tech workers – insiders of a profession that heavily relies on data and algorithms. Nor have there been sufficient cross-national comparisons of their perspectives. Relying on interviews with 98 tech workers in China and the US, this paper is guided by two questions: (1) What are tech workers' perceptions of big data ethics, and (2) wha…
Scientists explain the underrepresentation of women in physics compared to biology in four national contexts
Women are consistently underrepresented in physics when compared to biology. Yet how scientists themselves explain the causes of this underrepresentation is understudied outside the US context. In this research, we ask the following question: How do scientists in different national/regional contexts explain why there are fewer women in physics than biology? Using original survey data collected among academic biologists and physicists in the US ( …
Mijiao formula regulates NAT10-mediated Runx2 mRNA ac4C modification to promote bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell osteogenic differentiation and improve osteoporosis in ovariectomized rats
Faithfully Gendered? How Religious Attendance Shapes Views of Women’s Leadership in Politics and Business Cross-Nationally
Researchers have explored the relationship between religiosity and people’s gendered perspectives within the private sphere. However, there is limited research on how religiosity relates to people’s gendered perspectives in the public sphere. The authors examine the association between religiosity and the view that men make better leaders than women in two public spheres, politics and business, and explore variations by national context. Drawing …
How the Science-Religion Interface of Christian Religious Leaders Shape Their Perceptions of Depression
This study explores the relationship between Christian religious leaders' beliefs about the science and religion interface and their understanding of the causes and treatments for depression. We focus on Christian religious leaders because they often serve as first responders for congregants seeking help with mental health issues and are influential figures in maintaining the authority of religious institutions. Previous research has neglected th…
Evoking, Grounding, and Defining
Social scientific research challenges stereotypes of scientists as irreligious, on the one hand, and lacking aesthetic sensitivity, on the other. Yet, while some research suggests connections between these domains, the question remains as to whether and how scientists themselves connect their religion or spirituality with their aesthetic experiences in science. Drawing on interviews with 71 biologists and physicists in India, Italy, the United Ki…
Work Pray Code
Navigating ethical boundaries
Tech workers often experience ethical tensions arising from the misalignment of their values and the prevailing unethical or ethically ambiguous practices concerning data and algorithms in the workplace. Despite this, there is an insufficient understanding of how tech professionals address ethical tensions. Based on interviews with 98 tech workers in China and the United States, this study explores ethical tensions, the workers’ responses, and po…
Inclusion or exclusion
Despite extensive studies on whether religion should be incorporated in the workplace, our understanding of how tech workers perceive this question remains limited. Drawing upon 98 interviews with tech professionals in China and the United States, this study asks: How do tech workers in the two societies view the incorporation of religion in their workplace? This study reveals that US tech workers passively avoid religion, while their Chinese cou…
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