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Bad behavior? Understanding the correlation of racial mismatch and teachers' perceptions of student behavior.

Martinez, Matthew James. (, )

Research shows that teachers’ treatment and perceptions of students will vary based upon the race of the teacher and student. When teachers share the same race as the student, the student will benefit in the way of higher ...
Belonging and participation in mixed-race congregations.

Martinez, Brandon C. (, )

There has been a recent push towards racial diversity in congregations by many religious leaders. However, racially diverse congregations, which have been a popular subject amongst researchers, are both rare and seemingly ...
Caste, class, and city : the shaping of religious social capital in contemporary India.

Stroope, Samuel M.

Building on the implications of qualitative work from India and urbanism theories, I aim to understand how religious bonding social capital in contemporary India varies along greater urbanization and whether social class ...
The characteristics of parent-child relationships and their effects on God images.

Pagel, Andrew T.

It has been proposed that an individual's attitudes and beliefs strongly reflect their concepts of what God is and what God represents. However, where do these attitudes and beliefs originate? I theorize that they come ...
Congregational growth, closure, identity, and diversity.

Maier, Jared E.

Despite stories of secularization in America, congregations still possess power as one of America's most prolific social organizations. Their power can be seen by the fact that congregations receive the highest proportion ...
The effects of negative peer and media influences on adolescent religiosity.

Davignon, Philip P.

Many researchers have demonstrated how peer influences can lead to increases in adolescent religiosity, but none have endeavored to examine the effects of media and peer influences that might lead to decreases in adolescent ...
Effervescence and solidarity in religious organizations.

Draper, Scott E. (, )

This project is an effort to test and extend Randall Collins’ interaction ritual theory in the context of religious organizations. The theory proposes that optimal management of bodily copresence, intersubjectivity, and ...
Evangelical Democrats and role conflict.

Rhodes, Jeremy R.

Evangelical Protestants have increasingly aligned with the Republican Party in their voting patterns and opinions since the late 1970’s. As a result, this alignment of Evangelical Protestantism with the GOP could present ...
Expanding the new paradigm: winners and losers among exclusive and nonexclusive religious firms in the Chinese and Japanese communities in the United States, 1850-1945.

Liu, Eric Y.

From the perspective of a refined religious economy theory, the present paper is the first to empirically study the interplay between exclusive and nonexclusive religious bodies. Through reconstructing the historical facts ...
Family values : the empirical impact of internet use.

Ballew, Katherine Chelane. (, )

Family values are a set of ethical viewpoints pertaining to family matters that have the potential to have divisive effects for the private and public spheres. The formation of family values can be broken down into a ...
Federal employment concentration and regional process in nonmetropolitan America.

Johnson, Jodien M.

Nonmetropolitan America has undergone significant changes over the past quarter of a century. From the population turnaround in the 1970s, to population decline in the 1980s, to population rebound in the 1990s, nonmetro ...
Filled with purpose : the effects of deviant religious experiences on sense of purpose.

Edwards, Kimberly D. (Kimberly Denise), 1987- (, )

In 1981 Coleman and Kay asserted a semantic prototype to define the English word lie. Hardin (2010) and Cole (1996) both replicated Coleman and Kay's analysis in Ecuador and Saudi Arabia respectively and analyzed whether ...
The Gods must be making us crazy : the effect of a judgmental God concept on mental health.

Morrow, Lindsay Nadine. (, )

Using Wave III of the Baylor Religion Survey, this research examines the relationship between mental health and religion in a unique way. Many studies have examined church attendance as the most significant way that religion ...
Hispanic assimilation: are we there yet?

McMahon, Debbie L.

Hispanics made up 15% of the population in 2005 and the Census predicts that 25% of this country’s population will be Hispanic by 2050 (Sullivan, 2007). 70% of the nation’s growth during the last decade has been immigrants, ...
The importance of economic surroundings on religious adherence.

Smith, Buster G.

Sociological explanations of religious adherence tend to focus on characteristics of the individual. One exception is the largely discarded concept of relative deprivation. By its nature, relative deprivation is dependent ...
Individualism and religion : the impact of the individualist cultural tradition on religious beliefs and practices.

Griebel, Jenna.

Individualism and its effect on American society has received a great amount of scholarly research. Researchers have established that individualism plays a large role in all areas of society. Using the dual process model ...
Internal Revenue Service and the regulation of religion.

Castronova, Paul.

This study seeks to determine how the Internal Revenue Service influences religion in the United States. Using the theoretical frameworks of organizational ecology and new institutionalism this study examines the assumption ...
Islam, sex, and sect: a quantitative look at women's rights in the Middle East.

González, Alessandra L.

In this paper I analyze Islamic Social Attitudes Survey (ISAS) data to see the effects of religious tradition and religious practice on attitudes about women’s rights among 1139 college students in Kuwait. Specifically, ...
Judge not lest ye be judged : relationships between body mass index and engagement in a religious community.

Granstra, Shanna L.

According to the Center for Disease Control, obesity is currently at epidemic proportions in the United States. Approximately a third of American adults are obese. With the prevalence of obesity in the United States has ...
Labor “meats” religion: economic restructuring in the meatpacking industry and religious adherence in the Midwest.

Palmer-Boyes, Ashley E.

Labor market trends are often examined in light of their economic significance. However, little attention has been devoted to the relationship between economic trends and their potential impact on religion. Focusing on ...