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Accelerated and micro-longitudinal approaches to understanding depressive symptoms and human flourishing.
(2018-03-16)The three studies presented here assess self-reported depressive symptoms in two large samples of U.S. respondents. The first two examine the National Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), an ongoing nationally ... -
Age, period, and cohort effects on trust of government in rural America.
(2018-04-16)After the Presidential Election of 2016, natural surprise was offered as to the impact of rural communities and working-class voters on the outcome. While much research has been done on racial, gender, and individual ... -
Are we happy now? : assessing the role of electronic technology in family ritual and parental well-being.
(2016-02-29)The ubiquitous nature of electronic devices today has led to questioning of the unintended consequences of technology on our relationships. Meanwhile, it is widely argued that the family meal can provide a place for regular ... -
Bad behavior? Understanding the correlation of racial mismatch and teachers' perceptions of student behavior.
(, 2012-08-08)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.
(, 2012-08-08)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 ... -
Better than I deserve : evangelical Protestantism's effect on subjective social status.
(2020-03-26)Subjective social status (SSS), a measure of a person’s self-perceived social ranking compared to a reference group on socioeconomic variables (income, occupation, and education), is an effective indicator of a person’s ... -
Caste, class, and city : the shaping of religious social capital in contemporary India.
(2010-06-23)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 ... -
Changing patterns in marijuana use among high school seniors : latent modeling of time-series cross-sections (1976 – 2013).
(2016-04-19)Public support for the legalization of marijuana is on the rise. As states are increasingly passing legislation decriminalizing marijuana possession and consumption, a great deal of research is needed to inform policy-makers ... -
The characteristics of parent-child relationships and their effects on God images.
(2011-05-12)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 ... -
Community satisfaction : the solution for rural communities.
(, 2013-09-24)Why do people like where they live? Why do people decide to stay at their current residence? Are residents satisfied with their community? All of these questions and more have been explored and investigated for decades ... -
Congregational growth, closure, identity, and diversity.
(2010-06-23)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 ... -
Cross-national analysis of the association between subjective social status and health.
(2017-07-26)Socioeconomic discrepancies and their associations with health have been a persistent issue in the sociology of health and illness across the globe. Throughout the extensive research effort, subjective social status (SSS) ... -
Educational attainment in second generation immigrants : creating context for predicting college graduation.
(, 2013-09-16)Educational attainment is a commonly used variable when looking at outcomes of immigration in the United States. This paper contributes to educational and immigrant research in three ways. First, this paper will account ... -
Educational outcomes during the Great Recession : effects of community, homeownership, and race.
(2020-04-08)The 2007 Great Recession had a considerable impact on the economic status of many Americans. However, this crisis did not affect all households equally, with members of disadvantaged populations often experiencing the most ... -
The effects of negative peer and media influences on adolescent religiosity.
(2011-05-12)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.
(, 2012-08-08)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.
(2008-06-09)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.
(2006-07-24)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.
(, 2011-09-14)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.
(2008-10-15)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 ...