Religion Work and Inequality
Work behaviours and inequality in work-based rewards are essential to financial security and general well-being. Although the benefits of receiving work-based rewards, such as income, benefits and retirement packages, are significant, they are not enjoyed uniformly. This title articulates an agenda for better understanding these social processes.
The Three-Generations Hypothesis
Herberg maintains that the children of immigrants weakened their religious ties while the grandchildren of immigrants exhibit greater religious participation. Lenski, in Detroit, however, found increasing church attendance associated with increasing Americanization for Protestants and Catholics. National sample survey data on Protestants and Catholics support Lenski's Detroit findings. However, when Protestants and Catholics are subdivided by sex and the children-of-immigrants category is confined to people both of whose parents were foreign-born, it is found that (1) Protestants of both sexes show an increasing frequency of church attendance with more generations in the United States; (2) among Catholic men who are children of immigrants church attendance drops; (3) Catholic women show no meaningful changes in church attendance for the various generations. It is thought that these Protestant-Catholic differences stem from the secular orientation of Protestant immigrants.
Philip Roth’s Great Books: A Reading of The Human Stain
Philip Roth belongs to the first generation of American novelists for whom a university education in the liberal arts was the norm. This essay charts Roth’s developing acquaintance with classical literature, the starting point for Great Books courses in the 1950s, and the implications for his fiction of his understanding of the difference in scope and purpose between the two representative classical genres. It focuses on The Human Stain (2000), the novel in which he reflects most directly upon what tragedy and epic once did, and what might happen to novels if they became more like the one or the other.