Does Funding Impact Our Research? Causality, Normativity, and Diversity in 40 Years of U.S. Sociology of Religion
In this article we use a sample of 40 years of sociology journal articles (N = 1,024) on religion to ask what role funding plays in some of the leading trends in the subdiscipline. Our analysis reveals a considerable increase in the number of published articles on religion with funding over the past...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Publié: |
Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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Dans: |
Journal for the scientific study of religion
Année: 2018, Volume: 57, Numéro: 3, Pages: 432-449 |
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
USA
/ Sociologie des religions
/ Objet de recherche
/ Financement
/ Influence
/ Histoire 1971-2011
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions KBQ Amérique du Nord |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Methodology
B pro-religiousness B Funding B sociocultural context |
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Résumé: | In this article we use a sample of 40 years of sociology journal articles (N = 1,024) on religion to ask what role funding plays in some of the leading trends in the subdiscipline. Our analysis reveals a considerable increase in the number of published articles on religion with funding over the past 40 years as well as a shift away from public funding as the primary source of funding. Engaging our findings in previous analyses of this database, we surprisingly find a positive correlation between public funding and positive socio-evaluative findings in articles on religion, but not between private funding and positive socio-evaluative findings. We also find a positive correlation between funding from religious organizations and research on religion in the United States and a weak, but negative, correlation between funding from religious organizations and research on non-Christian religious traditions. We do not find a relationship between funding and causal order. |
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ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12536 |