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Religion and Inequality: The Role of Status Attainment and Social Balance Processes
dc.contributor.author | Keister, Lisa A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Eagle, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-18T14:17:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-18T14:17:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-01-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Thought and Research, Volume 33 (2014), pp. 141-171. DOI:10.17161/STR.1808.18449 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18449 | |
dc.description.abstract | Religion is an important determinant of social and economic inequality, but the mechanisms that underlie this relationship are not well-understood. Early scholars recognized this connection, but their ideas do not adequately explain contemporary stratification patterns. Recent research documents robust empirical relationships between religion and material outcomes but has not yet begun to identify causes of these patterns. We fill this gap by providing a theoretical explanation of the religion-inequality link that synthesizes ideas from early and recent sociology. We propose that the process is inherently multilevel. We draw on ideas from status attainment theory to develop a micro-model and ideas from social balance theory to aggregate the model’s outcomes. The synthesis of ideas from these theoretical traditions provides a unique, and potentially useful way to understand the relationship between cultural orientation and material resources. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Department of Sociology, University of Kansas | en_US |
dc.title | Religion and Inequality: The Role of Status Attainment and Social Balance Processes | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17161/STR.1808.18449 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |