کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
956239 928317 2011 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Age, period, and cohort effects on religious activities and beliefs
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی اجتماعی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Age, period, and cohort effects on religious activities and beliefs
چکیده انگلیسی

Despite the theoretical emphasis on religious decline in modern societies, sociologists remain divided over trends in religious activity and belief that support or refute claims of religious decline. Much of this disagreement stems from the inability to distinguish between period and cohort effects when analyzing repeated cross-sectional survey data. I use the intrinsic estimator, a recently developed method of simultaneously estimating age, period, and cohort effects, to examine changes in Americans’ religious service attendance, prayer, belief in the afterlife, and biblical literalism. Results show that regular service attendance declines, predominantly across cohorts. There are also period- and cohort-based declines in biblical literalism and a cohort-based decline in prayer. Belief in the afterlife is relatively stable across periods and cohorts. These results provide mixed support for theories of religious decline, and they demonstrate the importance of differentiating between period and cohort effects on social change.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Social Science Research - Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 181–192
نویسندگان
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