Keywords
Race relations -- Religious aspects, Racism -- United States, Religion
Abstract
Building on previous work on racial attitudes among the religious, this study reassesses the effects of religion on individuals’ beliefs about racial inequality. This study relies on recent developments in the sociology of culture, which conceives of culture as a frame through which individuals interpret the world in which they inhabit (Benford and Snow 2000; Harding 2007; Small 2002, 2004). Religion is held to be an important social institution that provides substance to the frames that individuals employ for interpreting racial inequality. Two particular developments from this literature inform this study: first, that individuals can employ different, even contradictory, frames simultaneously, and second, that frames are dynamic processes that can change over time. This study utilizes the General Social Survey from 1985 to 2008 and uses a theoretically informed and improved methodology for assessing beliefs about racial inequality. Three conclusions are drawn: 1) religion continues to play a role in shaping individuals’ beliefs about racial inequality, 2) it is important to differentiate between “pure” frames and frames that combine different explanations for racial inequality when understanding the role of religion in forming beliefs about black-white inequality, and 3) frames for racial inequality undergo change over time, though the pattern of change depends upon the frame for racial inequality.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2011
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Carter, J. Scott
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Sociology
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0003650
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003650
Language
English
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Sciences, Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Kaufman, Jerrold C. II, "Framing Racial Inequality Reassessing The Effect Of Religion On Racial Attitudes" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2062.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/2062