A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Religiosity
A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Religiosity
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-5906.2009.01441.x
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发表时间：
2009-06-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Lizardo, Omar
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作者：
Collett, Jessica L.;Lizardo, Omar
女性比男性更虔诚这一事实是宗教社会学中最一致的发现之一。 Miller 和 Stark（2002）提出，生理起源的风险偏好的性别差异可以解释这一现象。在承认他们的风险偏好机制的实用性的同时，我们认为他们关于这种差异的起源的假设是对生物学的过早让步。回到米勒关于性别、风险和宗教信仰的原始论文，我们利用约翰·哈根及其同事在工作中发展起来的权力控制理论（PCT），为这些差异引入了一个合理的社会化解释。我们使用综合社会调查的数据评估这些说法。由高社会经济地位（SES）母亲抚养长大的女性比由低教育程度母亲抚养长大的女性宗教信仰程度较低，但母亲的社会经济地位对男性不信教的机会几乎没有影响，而父亲的社会经济地位对宗教信仰的性别差异的影响可以忽略不计。
The fact that women are more religious than men is one of the most consistent findings in the sociology of religion. Miller and Stark (2002) propose that a gender difference in risk preference of physiological origin might explain this phenomenon. While acknowledging the utility of their risk-preference mechanism, we believe that their assumption regarding the genesis of this difference is a premature concession to biology. Returning to Miller's original paper on gender, risk, and religiosity, we draw on power-control theory (PCT), developed in the work of John Hagan and colleagues, to introduce a plausible socialization account for these differences. We evaluate these claims using data from the General Social Survey. Women raised by high-socioeconomic status (SES) mothers are less religious than women raised by low-education mothers, but mother's SES has little effect on men's chances of being irreligious and father's SES has a negligible effect on the gender difference in religiosity.