Conservative Protestant Wealth Conservative Protestants tend to have low wealth. Family structures, educational attainment, and orientations toward money all contribute. The association between cultural orientation and material outcomes is fundamental to sociology research. This article contributes to the understanding of this relationship by exploring how religious affiliation affects wealth ownership for conservative Protestants (CPs). The…
Non-Hispanic whites raised in Roman Catholic families have been upwardly mobile in the wealth distribution in recent decades. This work explores why.
Religious affiliation is strongly associated with wealth ownership. The connection appears to reflect demographic and family patterns as well as religious-based orientations toward saving and money.
Religion and attainment are clearly linked. This paper provides a synthetic model that includes religion as both a background and a mediating component to explain its relationship with outcomes like income and wealth. Abstract Religion is an important determinant of social and economic attainment, but the mechanisms that underlie this relationship are not well understood. Early scholars…
The relationship between religion and inequality is inherently multilevel. This paper draws on attainment ideas to develop a micro-model and ideas from social balance theory to aggregate the model’s outcomes. The synthesis of ideas from these theoretical traditions provides a unique, and potentially useful way to understand the relationship between cultural orientation and material resources.