Recently scholars have devoted renewed attention to the role of religion in American life.
Thus, it is important that they use the most effective means available to categorize and study …

This chapter reviews social psychological theories relating to political identity and group
behavior. We define individual and social identity, examine the main social psychological …

Virtually every discussion of secularization asserts that high levels of religiosity in the United
States make it a decisive counterexample to the claim that modern societies are prone to …

This book is the culmination of a decades-long joint effort to construct and make available a
usable form of Karl Polanyi's social theory. The two of us first met at the end of the 1960s as …

Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically
conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism and is more likely to identify as …

Now, more than ever, people drive the democratic process. What people think of their
government and its leaders, how (or whether) they vote, and what they do or say about a …

This paper develops a resource model of political participation. The resources considered
are time, money, and civic skills—those communications and organizational capacities that …

Although politics at the elite level has been polarized for some time, a scholarly controversy
has raged over whether ordinary Americans are polarized. This book argues that they are …

Authoritarianism is a classic political psychology variable that traces its history to World War
II and explorations of the widespread complicity of ordinary citizens in atrocities committed …

How can it be, in a nation that elected Barack Obama, that one third of African American
males born in 2001 will spend time in a state or federal prison, and that black men are seven …