Research Area: Ideational Factors:
Culture

Recent Publications

Books

Jayakody, Rukmalie, Arland Thornton, and William Axinn. 2008. International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Moaddel, Mansoor. 2005. Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Inglehart, Ronald F., Miguel Basanez, Jaime Diez-Medrano, Loek Halman, and Ruud Luijkx. 2004. Human Beliefs and Values: a Cross-cultural Sourcebook based on the 1999-2002 Value Surveys. Mexico City: Siglo XXI.

Inglehart, Ronald F., and Pippa Norris. 2003. Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Inglehart, Ronald F. 2003. Culture and Social Change: Findings from the Value Surveys. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.

Kottak, Conrad, and Kathryn A. Koazitis. 2002. On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Johnson, Paul C. 2002. Secrets, Gossip and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé. New York: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

2009

Thornton, Arland, and Dimiter Philipov . 2009. "Sweeping Changes in Marriage, Cohabitation and Childbearing in Central and Eastern Europe: New Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework." European Journal of Population, 25: 123-156. Reprint No. 615.

2008

Tanaka, K., and Johnson, Nan. 2008. "The shifting roles of women in intergenerational mutual caregiving in Japan: The importance of peace, population growth, and economic expansion." Journal of Family History, 33(1): 96-120.

2007

Segar, M.L., Eccles, Jacquelynne S., S.C. Peck, and C.R. Richardson. 2007. "Midlife women's physical activity goals: Sociocultural influences and effects on behavioral regulation." Sex Roles, 57(11-12): 837-849.

2004

Geronimus, Arline T. 2004. "Teenage Childbearing as Cultural Prism." British Medical Bulletin, 69: 155-166.

Renne, Elisha. 2004. "Dressing in the stuff of dreams: sacred dress and religious authority in southwestern Nigeria." Dreaming, 14(2-3): 120-135.

2003

Geronimus, Arline T. 2003. "Damned if you Do: Culture, Identity, Privilege, and Teenage Childbearing in the United States." Social Science and Medicine, 57(5): 881-893.

2002

Snow, Rachel C., T.E. Slanger, F.E. Okonofua, F. Oronsaye, and J. Wacker. 2002. "Female Genital Cutting in Southern Urban and Peri-Urban Nigeria: Self-Reported Validity, Social Determinants and Secular Decline." Tropical Medicine & International Health, 7(1): 91-100.

Renne, Elisha. 2002. "Fundamentals of Fertility: Cosmology and Conversion in a Southwestern Nigerian Town." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8(3): 551-69.

Johnson, Paul C. 2002. "Migrating Bodies, Circulating Signs: Brazilian Candomblé, the Garifuna of the Caribbean, and the Category of ‘Indigenous Religions’." History of Religions, 41(4): 301-327.

Chapters

Johnson, Paul C. 2005. "Religion and transculturation: the Caribbean." In Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan.

PSC Reports

Xie, Yu, and Margaret Gough. 2009. "Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of Immigrants." PSC Research Report No. 09-685. August 2009.

Binstock, Georgina, and Arland Thornton. 2006. "Knowledge and Use of Developmental Thinking about Societies and Families among Teenagers in Argentina." PSC Research Report No. 06-587. January 2006.


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