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2012-03-03T08:14:46-05:00

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How Best to Help the World’s Poor?

Last updated on: March 3, 2012 at 8:14 am By Bradley Wright

What is the most cost-effective means of helping the World’s poor? Economist Bruce Wydick surveyed a group of developmental economists about 10 popular strategies. Of the ten, the economists deemed donating farm animals, drinking fair trade coffee, and giving poor kids laptop computers as the least effective interventions. What was most effective? Programs that provide clean water to rural villages, and programs that provide medicine for deworming people. He cites a study that found that “regular de-worming treatment in worm-infested... Read more

Brad Wright

2012-03-02T11:33:10-05:00

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Do Secular Colleges Destroy Young Christians’ Faith?

Last updated on: March 2, 2012 at 11:33 am By Bradley Wright

I recently received an e-mail asking about the impact of secular vs. Christian colleges on Christian’s faith. Specifically, the person asking the question had been told that the data are “irrefutable: secular colleges have a tremendously detrimental effect on the faith of college students” and he wanted to know if this is true. My first thought is that this is a difficult question to answer because of selection issues. That is, if students in Christian colleges have more Christian beliefs, actions,... Read more

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2012-04-05T07:33:18-05:00

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Christianity and Attributions

Last updated on: April 5, 2012 at 7:33 am By Bradley Wright

I’m just finishing Martin Seligman’s fascinating book Learned Optimism. Seligman, a psychologist at Penn, makes the case that how we explain the world has a big impact on us—especially when we’re explaining the causes of difficult or unpleasant events. One way of explaining things is what Seligman refers to as a pessimistic attributional style. Here, when something bad happens, we explain it as a permanent event that is due to our own actions and that will affect every part of... Read more

Brad Wright

Social Psychology

2012-03-02T11:42:13-05:00

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Demographic Change: Casualties or Opportunities?

Last updated on: March 2, 2012 at 11:42 am By Bradley Wright

By Richard Flory At the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, we’ve been talking a lot lately about how different communities in the Los Angeles area have undergone significant demographic change, shifting in the last 20 years from predominantly African American to predominantly Latino communities. In fact, there remains only one predominantly African American community in south Los Angeles, while all the others now have majority Latino populations. This change presents many challenges and problems, not the least of... Read more

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2012-03-02T11:42:42-05:00

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Nonmonogamy? Not yet.

Last updated on: March 2, 2012 at 11:42 am By Mark Regnerus

“Nonmonogamy” is a gentle mouthful of a word, a polite replacement of sorts for “promiscuity” and “infidelity” in the lexicons of cosmopolitans. The same kind of transformation has happened to “virginity loss,” “cheating,” and “prostitute,” terms no longer considered appropriate for the more sex-positive among us. In their place we now have sexual debut, extradyadic sex, and sex worker, respectively. As a student of young Americans’ sexual behavior, I’ve found that the lingo alone requires effort to master. But neither... Read more

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2012-03-02T11:43:10-05:00

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Institutional Drift of the Working Class

Last updated on: March 2, 2012 at 11:43 am By Jerry Park

Has something happened to our working class? While much of my research has focused on racial inequalities in America, these investigations usually don’t leave me too far from the broader matter of social class inequalities. When sociologists talk about social inequalities we usually are referring to those who are making low wages or those who are classified in poverty. In class I tend to refer to them as a vulnerable population since many students are working minimum wage jobs and... Read more

2012-02-23T13:12:04-05:00

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Religious Affiliation in the United States by State (Interactive Map)

Last updated on: February 23, 2012 at 1:12 pm By Bradley Wright

One of the joys of studying religion is how much high-quality data are available. For the latest “wow, that’s cool” source of data, check out this interactive map of religion in the United States. Put a cursor over a state and you see the religious distribution of its population. Want to see trends by region? Just move your cursor slowly across groups of states and watch how the bars change. Thanks David Mimms and Kyndria Brown for the link. Read more

Brad Wright

maps

2012-03-02T11:43:39-05:00

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What does Lent tell us about Markets and Morals?

Last updated on: March 2, 2012 at 11:43 am By Margarita A. Mooney

What does Lent, which starts today, have to do with a topic I’m very interested in: markets and morals? Last week I wrote that in order to reform a system, it’s good to have concrete alternatives, often tied to concrete traditions of thought. Through my classes in economic sociology and in social theory, I introduce students to scholars they may not encounter elsewhere in college, such as Friedrich Hayek or Amartya Sen. I use those readings, and this series of... Read more

Margarita Mooney

economics

Pope John Paul II

2012-03-02T11:44:18-05:00

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James Naismith Meet Jeremy Lin

Last updated on: March 2, 2012 at 11:44 am By Bradley Wright

by John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University (Earlier this week, Jerry Park explored the fascinating role of basketball in the lives of second-generation Asian Americans.) More than any other player, Knicks superstar Jeremy Lin connects the game of basketball with its religious origins. Christened the “Taiwanese Tebow” for his outspoken evangelical Christianity, Lin would make basketball inventor James Naismith proud. The story of Naismith’s peach baskets is a well-told tale. So is Lin’s religious testimony. Less obvious is the connection between Naismith’s... Read more

John Schmalzbauer

2012-03-02T11:41:51-05:00

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Contraception, Cheap Sex, and the Nonmarital Birth Rate

Last updated on: March 2, 2012 at 11:41 am By Mark Regnerus

Every once in a while something in the New York Times will bring a smile to my face and offer hope. Well, that wasn’t this week, yet again. In Saturday’s edition came the discouraging news that over half of babies born to American women under age 30 are being born to unmarried mothers. Since the overall total is 41 percent, it means women over age 30 are more apt to be married when childbearing. But I think most reasonable people... Read more

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