American Piety: The Nature of Religious Commitment
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 164
ISSN: 2325-7873
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In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 164
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 97
ISSN: 2325-7873
Racial tension divides American society. Racial equality remains a distant goal. Although the potion of Black Americans has improved in recent years, the widespread enthusiasm for the Civil Rights movement has waned. Why has progress slowed? What makes racial problems in America so difficult to solve? A principal cause, according to The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes, is the way in which white Americans explain, or account for, the social conditions in which most black Americans find themselves. A substantial proportion of whites believe that stereotypes that Black Americans are relatively less well off because blacks do not try hard enough to better themselves or because of the difference due to genertics or to God's plan. Whites who hold such views have relatively little sympathy for programs designed to improve the social conditions. In contrast, whites who believe that Black Americans are kept back either by deliberate discrimination or by the accumulated social results of past discrimination are much more receptive to policies designed to help blacks. Using qualitative and quantitive data, this book explores the variety and extent of these explanations for social differences; it also describes how each explanation--or combination of explanations--influences a person's views on policies designed to bring about greater racial equality. This study promises to influence not only the course of future academic research on race relations but also the formulation of public policy to deal with racial problems. It reveals that the resistance of many whites to policies favorable to racial equality are not isolated phenomenon but instead is part of a comprehensive view of how society works. If strides toward racial equality are to be made in the foreseeable future, the insights provided here must be considered seriously by policy makers and be incorporated
Contents -- Introduction -- Survey Design and Analysis in Sociology / Charles Y. Glock -- Survey Research in Political Science / Herbert McClosky -- The Practice and Potential of Survey Methods in Psychological Research / Daniel Katz -- Contributions of Survey Research to Economics / James N. Morgan -- Sociocultural Anthropology and Survey Research / John W. Bennett and Gustav Thaiss -- Education and Survey Research / Martin Trow -- The Survey Method in Social Work: Past, Present, and Potential / Fred Massarik -- The Survey Method Applied to Public Health and Medicine / Edward A. Suchman
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 226
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: Their Patterns of religious commitment v. 1
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 167
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 211