Gauging Continuity and Change with the General Social Survey

该项目在2020年综合社会调查（GSS）中增加了一些问题，以研究美国与信仰相关的态度和行为的变化形态。在过去的30年里，这些态度和行为在美国发生了巨大的变化。虽然民意调查已掌握了这些变化的大致情况，但由于目前的调查数据有限，这些变化的原因和后果往往仍未得到充分探讨。GSS是一个公开的数据来源，这意味着任何对研究与信仰有关的态度、行为和文化感兴趣的学者都可以利用这些问题。通过这个项目，大约40-50个关于信仰相关态度和行为的调查问题将被纳入2020年GSS。GSS是一个理想的工具，通过它来研究这种不断变化的景观及其与更广泛的文化价值的联系，原因有很多。首先，GSS仍然是调查研究的黄金标准，其高回复率（超过60%）和面对面的采访是在全国具有代表性的美国人样本中进行的。第二，GSS已经有了关于信仰和其他社会、文化和政治态度的各种各样的问题。结合这些已经存在的问题，我们的模块将允许学者挖掘到与信仰相关的附件，信仰和态度的不同方面，并揭示美国人之间的重要差异。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project adds questions to the 2020 General Social Survey (GSS) to look at the changing shape of faith-related attitudes and behaviors in America. Over the past thirty years, the landscape of these attitudes and behaviors in America has dramatically changed. While the broad contours of these changes have been captured by public opinion surveys, their causes and consequences often remain underexplored because of the limits of current survey data. The GSS is a publicly available data source, which means that any scholar interested in the study of faith-related attitudes and behaviors and culture can draw on these questions.Through this project, a battery of approximately 40-50 survey questions about faith-related attitudes and behaviors will be included on the 2020 GSS. The GSS is an ideal instrument through which to examine this changing landscape and its connection to broader cultural values for a number of reasons. First, the GSS remains the gold standard in survey research, with an exceptionally high response rate (above 60 percent) and interviews that are conducted face to face on a nationally representative sample of Americans. Second, the GSS already has a wide variety of questions relating to faith and on other social, cultural, and political attitudes. In combination with these already existing questions, our module will allow scholars to tap into different aspects of attachments, beliefs, and attitudes related to faith, and to uncover important variation among Americans.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.