A Replication of Lenski's Detroit Area Study

兰斯基底特律地区研究的复制

• 批准号: 8712119
• 负责人: Duane Alwin
• 金额: $ 23.18万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-09-01 至 1990-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8712119&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Replication; Lenski; Detroit; Area; Study

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.

1958年，社会学家格哈德·伦斯基（Gerhard Lenski）在底特律大都会进行了一项调查，重点关注人们的宗教态度和经历，以及它们在各种非宗教背景下影响人们行为的方式。在他们的家庭生活、政治取向、友谊网络等方面，Lenski记录了新教徒、天主教徒和犹太人之间一贯不同的模式。伦斯基在随后出版的《宗教因素》一书中报告了他的大部分主要发现。这本书被广泛认为是美国宗教研究的里程碑，在Lenski的研究之后的30年里，对Lenski的发现的具体方面进行了许多详细的检查。然而，最近的分析没有一个接近于完全复制。阿尔文将调查底特律大都会的一个有代表性的样本，与兰斯基抽样的人口相同。将提出同样的问题，并补充最近全国调查中出现的问题。因此，将底特律地区的调查结果与30年前的他们自己以及全国的模式联系起来是可能的。分析将侧重于主要宗教内部的趋势以及在人们的世俗生活中，主要宗教教派之间趋同的程度。