Publications and Working Papers (Project Overview)
Publications
Croll, Paul R. "Modeling Determinants of White Racial Identity: Results from a New National Survey." Social Forces, forthcoming.
Edgell, Penny and Danielle Docka. 2007. “Beyond the Nuclear Family? Familism and
Gender Ideology in Diverse Religious Communities.” Sociological Forum 22 (1): 26-51. (PDF)
Edgell, Penny, Joseph Gerteis, and Douglas Hartmann. 2006. “Atheists as ‘Other’: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in American Society.” American Sociological Review 71 (2): 211-234. (PDF) (Copyright)
Edgell, Penny and Eric Tranby. 2007. “Religious Influences on Understandings of Racial
Inequality in the United States.” Social Problems 54 (2): 263-288. (PDF)
Hartmann, Douglas and Joyce Bell. “Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural
Ambiguities and Consequences of ‘Happy Talk.’” American Sociological Review,
forthcoming.
Hartmann, Douglas and Paul R. Croll. 2006. “Measuring Whiteness.” in Encyclopedia of
Race, Ethnicity, and Society, edited by Richard T. Schaefer. SAGE Publications, Inc.
Hartmann, Douglas and Joseph Gerteis. 2005. “Dealing with Diversity: Mapping
Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms.” Sociological Theory 23 (2): 218-240. (PDF)
Hartmann, Douglas, Xeufeng Zhang, and William Wischstadt. 2005. “One
(Multicultural) Nation Under God? Changing Uses and Meanings of the Term ‘Judeo-Christian’ in the American Media.” Journal of Media and Religion 4 (4): 207-240.
King, Ryan D. and Melissa Weiner. 2007. “Group Position, Collective Threat, and
American Anti-Semitism.” Social Problems 54 (1): 57-77. (PDF)
King, Ryan D. and Darren Wheelock. 2007. “Group Threat and Social Control: Race,
Perceptions of Minorities and the Desire to Punish.” Social Forces 85 (3):1255-1280. (PDF)Working Papers
Alaniz, Ryan. “How Diversity Works.”
Ammons, Sam and Dan Winchester. “Building Strong Associations Being Interfaith: Struggles, Strains and Benefits.”
Baiocchi, Arturo and Shannon Golden. “American Visions of Difference: Applying the Theory.”
Croll, Paul R. "Racial Inequality as Racial Advantage: Exploring Americans' Understanding of White Privilege."
Docka, Danielle and Matthew Wolf-Meyer. “Governing Hollywood, or Security, Murder, Homelessness, and Other Imaginary Things in Frontier America.”
Edgell, Penny. “The Matrix Revisited: Gender and Diversity in American Life.”
Edgell, Penny and Doug Hartmann. “Religiosity in the Lives of Young Adults.” Emily Buhrow, research assistant.
Edgell, Penny and Darin Mather. “Who are the Individualists?”
Edgell, Penny, Darin Mather, Shannon Golden, and Eric Tranby. “Religion in Public Life: Attitudes of Ordinary Americans.”
Edgell, Penny and Eric Tranby. “Shared Visions, Imagined America: Symbolic Boundaries in American Life.” (PDF)
Gerteis, Joseph, Douglas Hartmann, and Penny Edgell. “The Multiple Meanings of Diversity: How Americans Express its Possibilities and Problems.”
Hartmann, Douglas, Joseph Gerteis, and Paul Croll. "An Empirical Assessment of Whiteness Theory: Hidden from How Many?"
Hartmann, Douglas, Joseph Gerteis and Penny Edgell. The New American Mosaic: Race, Religion and the Problematic Culture of Diversity. Book prospectus.
Hartmann, Douglas, Daniel Winchester, Joseph Gerteis, and Penny Edgell. “Diversity in Two Dimensions: A Comparison of Attitudes About Race and Religion from a New National Survey.” (Abstract)
Pendaz, Sadie and Xuefeng Zhang. “The Resurgence of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Contemporary America: The Significance of Race and Religion.”
Pereira, Ana Prata and Sadie Pendaz. “Networks and Diversity.” (Abstract) (Presentation)
Smith, Trina. “Drawing Boundaries: Comparing Neighborhoods and Diversity.”
Smith, Trina and Joseph Gerteis. “Experiencing Difference in American Neighborhoods.”
Wald, Pam and Yakov Shchukin. “How Stratification Beliefs Shape Welfare Attitudes among African-Americans, Hispanics, and Whites.” (Doc)
Wheelock, Darren, Pam Wald, and Yakov Shchukin. “Welfare and Criminal Punishment as Social Control: Racial Attitudes and Perceptions of Welfare and Punitiveness.”