A Replication of Lenski's Detroit Area Study

摘要 1958年，社会学家格哈德·伦斯基（Gerhard Lenski）在美国进行了一项调查。 底特律大都市关注人们的宗教态度 和经验，以及它们影响人们行为的方式， 各种非宗教背景。在他们的家庭生活中， 政治倾向，他们的友谊网络，等等， Lenski记录了不同的模式， 新教徒，天主教徒和犹太人。 Lenski在随后的一本书中报告了他的大部分主要发现 名为《宗教因素》。这本书被广泛认为是 是美国宗教研究的里程碑， 自从Lenski的研究以来， 对Lenski发现的具体方面进行检查。然而，在这方面， 最近的分析都没有接近一个完整的 复制的 阿尔文将调查大都会的代表性样本 底特律，也是伦斯基取样的人群。相同的 将提出问题，并补充问题， 出现在最近的全国调查中。因此可以 有可能将底特律地区的调查结果与自己联系起来，30 多年前，以及国家模式。分析 将重点放在两个主要宗教和 在人们的世俗生活中， 主要宗教派别之间的融合。

Abstract In l958, Sociologist Gerhard Lenski conducted a survey in metropolitan Detroit focusing upon people's religious attitudes and experiences, and the way they affected people's behavior in a variety of non-religious contexts. In their family lives, their political orientations, their friendships networks, and so on, Lenski documented consistently different patterns among Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Lenski reported most of his major findings in a subsequent book entitled, The Religious Factor. This book is widely considered to be a landmark study of religion in America, and in the 30 years since Lenski's study there have been numerous detailed examinations of specific aspects of Lenski's findings. However, none of the more recent analyses have approximated a complete replication. Alwin will survey a representative sample of Metropolitan Detroit, the same population from which Lenski sampled. The same questions will be asked, supplemented by questions which have appeared in more recent national surveys. Thus, it will be possible to relate the Detroit Area findings to themselves, 30 years earlier, and to national patterns as well. The analysis will focus both upon trends within the major religions and the degree to which, in people's secular lives, there has been convergence among the major religious denominations.