Race, Gender, Religion and Church-Based Political Action

这项少数民族研究启动计划赠款侧重于黑人妇女中以教会为基础的选举动员过程。尽管宗教被认为是一种影响政治行动的力量，但直到最近，政治学家才试图建立一个理论和经验基础来研究这一主题。由于缺乏研究，在这一领域没有传统的研究可以作为分析宗教黑人妇女选举动员的指南。因此，这项研究的主要目的是发展一幅关于黑人教会如何作为政治社会化的代理人，从而在政治上动员黑人妇女的趋同图景。这项研究将检查来自五个现有数据集的数据。前三项(全国黑人调查、三代家庭研究和全国黑人选举研究)是具有全国代表性的黑人人口样本。后两项(1980年和1984年全国选举研究)是具有代表性的一般人口样本。后两个数据集将用于比较宗教和教会生活对白人女性政治动员的相对影响。通过拥有群体内和种族群体的比较研究框架，调查人员希望更多地了解宗教如何以及为什么影响黑人妇女的政治行为。

This Minority Research Initiation Planning Grant focuses on a church- based process of electoral mobilization among black women. Although religion is thought to be a force that influences political action, it is only recently that political scientists have attempted to build a theoretical and empirical base to study the subject. As a consequence of this dearth of research there is no tradition of research in this field that can act as a guide for analyzing the electoral mobilization of religious black women. Thus, this research has as its main purpose the development of a convergent picture of how the black church acts as an agent of political socialization, thereby politically mobilizing black women. The research will examine data from five existing data sets. The first three (the National Survey of Black Americans, the Three Generational Family Study, and the National Black Election Study) are national representative samples of the black population. The second two (the 1980 and 1984 National Election Studies) are representative samples of the general population. The latter two data sets will be used to compare the relative impact of religion and church life on the political mobilization of white females. By having both a within- group and racial group comparative research framework the investigators hope to learn more about how and why religion influences the political actions of black women.