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Christian Popa, "Are Americans Faking Religiosity?," reasonWeekly (Oct. 15, 2009)
The argument is that if you take the number of people who affirm on surveys that they attend church weekly, you end up with a figure much too high to be accommodated in all American churches put together. The weakness seems to be that of course we don't really know how many people can fit into all the churches, or how many services they hold per week, or whatever. Still, it's an interesting idea.
Connecting College Majors and Religiosity - Student Affairs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
More on the U of M study. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?1fi4t
News: God and Majors - Inside Higher Ed
More on the U of M study showing a decline in religiosity among humanities and social science majors.
Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity
An abstract of the study, which has been receiving a fair amount of publicity, from the University of Michigan, which shows that the humanities are bad for religious faith (to put it in a ridiculously oversimplified form).
Study: Religiosity of Humanities Students Most Likely to Wane | Christianpost.com
An interesting study suggesting that college students who start school very religious tend to be attracted to humanities and social science majors, but that they often either find their religious faith challenged or they leave their majors. Apparently Christian students tend to feel most comfortable as education majors.
Dewi Cooke, "Religion less crucial in wedlock," Sydney Morning Herald (July 20, 2009)
From the article: "A researcher, Genevieve Heard, said as Australia became a more secular society, the role of religion in some individuals' lives would also change. 'It doesn't mean an absence of religion; it means the withdrawal of religion from everyday life and practices, including partnering,' she said." I would argue that it means, rather, a redefinition of popular understandings of religious identity and practice.
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Why Incompetence Spreads through Big Organizations
On "The Peter Principle revisited": "It's not so hard to see that a new position in an organization requires different skills, so the competent performance of one task may not correlate well with the ability to perform another task well. Peter pointed out that in large organizations where these practices are used, it is inevitable that individuals will be promoted until they reach their level of maximum incompetence."
Contexts » Understanding People In Their Social Worlds
An online sociology journal. A combination of blogs, full-length free articles, and pay content.
Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds - USATODAY.com
This article -- on the results of the new ARIS survey -- has attracted a fair amount of attention. I really ought to read it.
Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, "Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment," SSRN Working Papers Series (November 1998)
Abstract: "Theoretical models of financial markets built on the assumption that some investors are overconfident yield one central prediction: overconfident investors will trade too much. We test this prediction by partitioning investors on the basis of a variable that provides a natural proxy for overconfidence--gender. Psychological research has established that men are more prone to overconfidence than women. Thus, models of investor overconfidence predict that men will trade more and perform worse than women. Using account data for over 35,000 households from a large discount brokerage firm, we analyze the common stock investments of men and women from February 1991 through January 1997. Consistent with the predictions of the overconfidence models, we document that men trade 45 percent more than women and earn annual risk-adjusted net returns that are 1.4 percent less than those earned by women. These differences are more pronounced between single men and single women; single men trade 67 percent more than single women and earn annual risk-adjusted net returns that are 2.3 percent less than those earned by single women."
Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University
I think Rodney Stark is connected with this institute.
The Associated Press: Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views
A study finds that, while college faculty tend to be more liberal than the general population, college students' political beliefs are more strongly influenced by their peers than by their teachers. Intuitively this makes a lot of sense to me given my sense of a culture gap between faculty and students at many institutions.
Religion & the Public Sphere (Social Science Research Council)
A massive source of information on the SSRC's current programs on religion.
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