Religion and Inequality in America
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations |
| ISBN-13 | 9781139226479 |
| Open Library | OL20324332W |
| Total publications | 16 |
| Coverage period | 2014 - 2014 |
| Language | EN |
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 inequality and well-being, combining and studying mediating factors in new and informative ways, focusing on critical and often understudied groups, and exploring the changing relationship between religion and inequality over time
Intersectionality and Identity: An Exploration of Arab American Women
In the past, research on social stratification focused primarily on the independent contributions of race, socioeconomic status (SES), and gender to status attainment. However, contemporary research in the field recognizes that race, SES, and gender interact to create complicated systems of inequality that go beyond conventional models of stratification. Increasingly, studies add categories such as religion and nativity to the mix and uncover eve…
Social Reproduction and Religious Stratification
Most sociologists agree that religious stratification was a prominent feature of the religious landscape in the thirteen original colonies. Although most also acknowledge that some religious groups still rank higher than others in socioeconomic status, they argue that these differences are smaller than they used to be and are getting smaller all the time (Park and Reimer 2002; Wuthnow 1988). To be sure, there are theoretical and conceptual differ…
Reversing the Arrow?: Economic Inequality's Effect on Religiosity
Religion has long been theoretically linked to processes of stratification, and an impressive body of recent empirical research demonstrates how religious affiliation, practice, and belief are associated with economic outcomes. Given the power of religion and religiosity to explain differences across individuals in education, occupation, income, and wealth, one might easily conclude that increasing religiosity in a society should be expected to c…
The Religious Affiliations of Ivy League Presidents, 1636–2012: A Study in Religious Stratification
Religious stratification was a prominent part of colonial America. Anglicans, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians were so dominant socially, economically, and politically that they became known as “the Protestant Establishment.” Below them was a second stratum consisting of Unitarians and the Religious Society of Friends (a.k.a. Quakers). All other Protestants, such as Baptists and Methodists, occupied a third stratum. Catholics, Jews, and peop…
Recession, Religion, and Happiness, 2006–2010
Happiness became a mainstay of social science research at some point in the last 20 years. Psychologists, economists, and sociologists descended on the moods and morale of ordinary people, each bringing a characteristic disciplinary focus to the subject. Psychologists and behavioral economists examined happiness as an emotional state. Experiences and relationships bring immediate pleasure or displeasure; data must be collected day to day and even…
Religion and Wealth Mobility: The Case of American Latinos
Wealth mobility is rare in the United States, but when it occurs, mobility can offer important insight into the factors that contribute to social and economic inequalities. Wealth , or net worth, is total household assets less total debts; wealth mobility refers to change in the wealth position of an individual or group over time. The benefits of owning even a small amount of wealth can be enormous: It can provide a buffer against financial emerg…
The Association between Religiousness and Psychological Well-Being among Older Adults: Is There an Educational Gradient?
The past three decades have seen remarkable growth in the study of religion and psychological well-being in the general population and especially among older adults (Koenig, McCullough, and Larson 2001). For the most part, the literature reports salutary associations, suggesting that facets of religious involvement promote mental health (George, Ellison, and Larson 2002; Schieman, Bierman, and Ellison, 2012; Smith, McCullough, and Poll 2003). Muc…
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…
God in the Corner Office?: How Religion Advances and Inhibits Professional Mobility in the Higher Circles
Twenty years ago, Roger Friedland and Robert Alford (1991) identified ways in which different institutional sectors reflect their own “logics of action,” emphasizing the different bases of evaluation and the predominance of different action-orientations in particular contexts. For instance, people tend to be more cognitive action-oriented in the marketplace, affective in the family, and evaluative in religion. Society comprises several different …
Does Believing or Belonging Have a Greater Protective Effect on Stressful Life Events among Young Adults?
STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD The stress process model as outlined by Pearlin (1989) and Wheaton (1985) posits that acute stressors such as major traumas or life events (death of a loved one, unemployment) tax the ability of a person to respond and may adversely affect their mental health. Although much research focuses on the mediators or the outcomes of stressors, it is particularly important to study exposure to stressful life event…
The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the United States: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
Much of what is known about the role of religion in women's labor market behavior in the United States is based on studies that are now dated. Analyses of the 1987–8 National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) found relatively low levels of employment among non-Hispanic white conservative Protestant wives with children under age 6 (Lehrer 1995). Using data from the Youth Parent Socialization Panel Study (1965, 1973, 1982), Sherkat (2000) fo…
Religion, Gender, and Educational Attainment among U.S. Immigrants: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey
The United States is a nation comprised mostly of immigrants, who have come in successive waves since the founding of the Anglo nation-state in the 18th century. The vast majority of U.S. immigrants have been European, along with slaves forced to migrate from Africa; sporadic Asian immigration was ended in the early 20th century with a series of immigration acts (Ebaugh 2003). In the 20th century, European immigrants played an important role in t…
Religion and Gender Inequality: From Attitudes to Practices
The family has been famously dubbed a "gender factory" for its foundational role in reproducing social inequalities between men and women (Berk 1985). Given that the principal mission of religious organizations entails the support of families, to what degree is religion an institutional ally in the reproduction of gender differences in the domestic realm? Even more broadly, does religion reinforce gendered systems of privilege in other societal c…
Conservative Protestants, Normative Pathways, and Adult Attainment
Do religious cultures hold enough sway over individuals' life choices that they can be considered causal mechanisms generating inequality in contemporary American society? Can religious identification and participation create normative standards of behavior that either aid or hinder the development of human capital and either encourage or discourage its use to achieve financial success? These have been pressing questions since Max Weber first wro…
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…
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Intersectionality and Identity: An Exploration of Arab American Women
In the past, research on social stratification focused primarily on the independent contributions of race, socioeconomic status (SES), and gender to status attainment. However, contemporary research in the field recognizes that race, SES, and gender interact to create complicated systems of inequality that go beyond conventional models of stratification. Increasingly, studies add categories such as religion and nativity to the mix and uncover eve…
Social Reproduction and Religious Stratification
Most sociologists agree that religious stratification was a prominent feature of the religious landscape in the thirteen original colonies. Although most also acknowledge that some religious groups still rank higher than others in socioeconomic status, they argue that these differences are smaller than they used to be and are getting smaller all the time (Park and Reimer 2002; Wuthnow 1988). To be sure, there are theoretical and conceptual differ…
Reversing the Arrow?: Economic Inequality's Effect on Religiosity
Religion has long been theoretically linked to processes of stratification, and an impressive body of recent empirical research demonstrates how religious affiliation, practice, and belief are associated with economic outcomes. Given the power of religion and religiosity to explain differences across individuals in education, occupation, income, and wealth, one might easily conclude that increasing religiosity in a society should be expected to c…
The Religious Affiliations of Ivy League Presidents, 1636–2012: A Study in Religious Stratification
Religious stratification was a prominent part of colonial America. Anglicans, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians were so dominant socially, economically, and politically that they became known as “the Protestant Establishment.” Below them was a second stratum consisting of Unitarians and the Religious Society of Friends (a.k.a. Quakers). All other Protestants, such as Baptists and Methodists, occupied a third stratum. Catholics, Jews, and peop…
Recession, Religion, and Happiness, 2006–2010
Happiness became a mainstay of social science research at some point in the last 20 years. Psychologists, economists, and sociologists descended on the moods and morale of ordinary people, each bringing a characteristic disciplinary focus to the subject. Psychologists and behavioral economists examined happiness as an emotional state. Experiences and relationships bring immediate pleasure or displeasure; data must be collected day to day and even…
Religion and Wealth Mobility: The Case of American Latinos
Wealth mobility is rare in the United States, but when it occurs, mobility can offer important insight into the factors that contribute to social and economic inequalities. Wealth , or net worth, is total household assets less total debts; wealth mobility refers to change in the wealth position of an individual or group over time. The benefits of owning even a small amount of wealth can be enormous: It can provide a buffer against financial emerg…
The Association between Religiousness and Psychological Well-Being among Older Adults: Is There an Educational Gradient?
The past three decades have seen remarkable growth in the study of religion and psychological well-being in the general population and especially among older adults (Koenig, McCullough, and Larson 2001). For the most part, the literature reports salutary associations, suggesting that facets of religious involvement promote mental health (George, Ellison, and Larson 2002; Schieman, Bierman, and Ellison, 2012; Smith, McCullough, and Poll 2003). Muc…
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…
God in the Corner Office?: How Religion Advances and Inhibits Professional Mobility in the Higher Circles
Twenty years ago, Roger Friedland and Robert Alford (1991) identified ways in which different institutional sectors reflect their own “logics of action,” emphasizing the different bases of evaluation and the predominance of different action-orientations in particular contexts. For instance, people tend to be more cognitive action-oriented in the marketplace, affective in the family, and evaluative in religion. Society comprises several different …
Does Believing or Belonging Have a Greater Protective Effect on Stressful Life Events among Young Adults?
STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD The stress process model as outlined by Pearlin (1989) and Wheaton (1985) posits that acute stressors such as major traumas or life events (death of a loved one, unemployment) tax the ability of a person to respond and may adversely affect their mental health. Although much research focuses on the mediators or the outcomes of stressors, it is particularly important to study exposure to stressful life event…
The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the United States: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
Much of what is known about the role of religion in women's labor market behavior in the United States is based on studies that are now dated. Analyses of the 1987–8 National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) found relatively low levels of employment among non-Hispanic white conservative Protestant wives with children under age 6 (Lehrer 1995). Using data from the Youth Parent Socialization Panel Study (1965, 1973, 1982), Sherkat (2000) fo…
Religion, Gender, and Educational Attainment among U.S. Immigrants: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey
The United States is a nation comprised mostly of immigrants, who have come in successive waves since the founding of the Anglo nation-state in the 18th century. The vast majority of U.S. immigrants have been European, along with slaves forced to migrate from Africa; sporadic Asian immigration was ended in the early 20th century with a series of immigration acts (Ebaugh 2003). In the 20th century, European immigrants played an important role in t…
Religion and Gender Inequality: From Attitudes to Practices
The family has been famously dubbed a "gender factory" for its foundational role in reproducing social inequalities between men and women (Berk 1985). Given that the principal mission of religious organizations entails the support of families, to what degree is religion an institutional ally in the reproduction of gender differences in the domestic realm? Even more broadly, does religion reinforce gendered systems of privilege in other societal c…
Conservative Protestants, Normative Pathways, and Adult Attainment
Do religious cultures hold enough sway over individuals' life choices that they can be considered causal mechanisms generating inequality in contemporary American society? Can religious identification and participation create normative standards of behavior that either aid or hinder the development of human capital and either encourage or discourage its use to achieve financial success? These have been pressing questions since Max Weber first wro…
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…