Religion and Subjective Social Class in the United States

IF 2.4 1区 哲学 0 RELIGION
P. Schwadel
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Subjective social class identities—lower, working, middle, and upper—are conditioned by culture and social interactions. I argue that conservative Christianity influences subjective class identification because conservative Christian social networks are highly insular, and its culture prioritizes lower- and working-class ideologies. Using nationally representative data, I find that conservative Christians—operationalized with views of the Bible and religious tradition—are relatively likely to identify as lower and working class, and unlikely to identify as middle and upper class; that these associations are partially but not wholly mediated by higher education and family income; and that there are robust associations between religion and subjective class among those with a bachelor’s degree and above-average family incomes, but not among less-educated and lower-income Americans. These results indicate that conservative Christianity promotes a specific class culture, and that this class culture more closely aligns with biblical literalism than with affiliation with evangelical Protestant churches.
宗教与美国的主体社会阶层
主观的社会阶层身份——下层、在职、中产和上层——受到文化和社会互动的制约。我认为,保守的基督教影响主观的阶级认同,因为保守的基督教社会网络是高度孤立的,其文化优先考虑下层和工人阶级的意识形态。使用具有全国代表性的数据,我发现保守派基督徒——以《圣经》和宗教传统的观点为基础——相对来说更有可能认同下层和工人阶级,而不太可能认同中产阶级和上层阶级;这些联系部分但不完全由高等教育和家庭收入调节;在拥有学士学位和家庭收入高于平均水平的人中,宗教和主观阶级之间存在着强烈的联系,但在受教育程度较低和收入较低的美国人中却没有。这些结果表明,保守的基督教提倡一种特定的阶级文化,这种阶级文化与圣经字面主义比与福音派新教教会的关系更为紧密。
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CiteScore
7.50
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6.50%
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34
期刊介绍: Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. The journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. Although theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded articles are the core of what we publish, we also welcome agenda setting essays, comments on previously published works, critical reflections on the research act, and interventions into substantive areas or theoretical debates intended to push the field ahead. Sociology of Religion has published work by renowned scholars from Nancy Ammerman to Robert Wuthnow. Robert Bellah, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Pitirim Sorokin all published in the pages of this journal. More recently, articles published in Sociology of Religion have won the ASA Religion Section’s Distinguished Article Award (Rhys Williams in 2000) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Article Award (Matthew Lawson in 2000 and Fred Kniss in 1998). Building on this legacy, Sociology of Religion aspires to be the premier English-language publication for sociological scholarship on religion and an essential source for agenda-setting work in the field.
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