parental religiosity

(noun)

The biggest predictor of adult religiosity is parental religiosity; if a person's parents were religious when he was a child, he is likely to be religious when he grows up.

Related Terms

  • agents of socialization
  • religion
  • sociology of religion

Examples of parental religiosity in the following topics:

  • Religion

    • Parental religious participation is the most influential part of religious socialization–more so than religious peers or religious beliefs.
    • For example, children raised in religious homes are more likely to have some degree of religiosity in their lives.
    • The biggest predictor of adult religiosity is parental religiosity; if a person's parents were religious when he was a child, he is likely to be religious when he grows up.
    • Children are socialized into religion by their parents and their peers and, as a result, they tend to stay in religions.
    • Explain how people come to be socialized in terms of religion and how parental influence is a key factor in religiosity
  • Theories of Religion

    • Batson et. al. and Spilka, Hunsberger, Gorsuch, and Hood also point to this factor as an explanation for the continued interest in religiosity.
    • The biggest predictor of adult religiosity is parental religiosity; if a person's parents were religious when he was a child, he is likely to be religious when he grows up.
    • Children are socialized into religion by their parents and their peers and, as a result, they tend to stay in religions.
    • Combined, these three social-psychological components explain, with the help of religious pluralism, the continued high levels of religiosity in the U.S.
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  • Religion

    • Social class is associated with individuals' religious affiliations and practices but not with religiosity itself.
    • This affiliation has more to do with how religion is practiced rather than degree of religiosity.
    • Social class is not significantly correlated to religiosity, an index of how strongly religious a person is.
    • Members of each social class show a range of religiosity.
    • Explain how social class relates to religious affiliation, denomination and religiosity
  • Religion and Other Social Factors

    • Johnson found a dichotomization of religiosity as a result of college education.
    • The relationship between education and religiosity is a dichotomization – college education strengthens both religiosity and irreligiosity, it just depends on where you end up.
    • Batson et. al. distinguish between three types of religiosity.
    • These types or orientations stem from the work of Gordon Allport who distinguished two types of religiosity and provided their corresponding labels: intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity.
    • Batson et. al. add a third – quest religiosity.
  • Influence of Parenting Style on Child Development

    • There are four main parenting styles that most parents fall into: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved/neglectful.
    • Parenting style refers to the way in which parents choose to raise their children.
    • In her research, Diana Baumrind (1966) found what she considered to be the two basic elements that help shape successful parenting: parental responsiveness and parental demandingness.
    • Through her studies, Baumrind identified three initial parenting styles: authoritative parenting, authoritarian parenting, and permissive parenting.
    • Neglectful parents may look to their children for support and guidance, and these children often end up "parenting their parents."
  • Parenthood

    • Parenting is usually carried out by the biological parents of the child in question, although governments and society take a role as well.
    • An uninvolved parenting style is when parents are often emotionally absent and sometimes even physically absent.
    • Helicopter Parenting: over-parenting; parents are constantly involving themselves, interrupting the child's ability to function on their own
    • Strict Parenting: focused on strict discipline; demanding, with high expectations from the parents
    • Parenting is a lifelong process.
  • Authority Patterns

    • Parenting is usually done by the biological parents of the child in question, although governments and society take a role as well.
    • In many cases, orphaned or abandoned children receive parental care from non-parent blood relations.
    • Authoritarian parenting styles can be very rigid and strict.
    • Parents who practice authoritarian style parenting have a strict set of rules and expectations and require rigid obedience.
    • An uninvolved parenting style is when parents are often emotionally absent and sometimes even physically absent.
  • Child Custody Laws

    • Child custody and guardianship are legal terms, which are used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent's duty to care for the child.
    • While the child is with the parent, that parent retains sole authority over the child.
    • If a child lives with both parents, each parent shares "joint physical custody" and each parent is said to be a "custodial parent. " Thus, in joint physical custody, neither parent is said to be a "non-custodial parent. "
    • A custodial parent is a parent who is given physical and/or legal custody of a child by court order.
    • A non-custodial parent is a parent who does not have physical and/or legal custody of his/her child by court order.
  • The Future of Religion

    • Freud, Weber) believed that as society modernized it would also see a decline in levels of religiosity.
    • The most common meaning is in reference to the decline of levels of religiosity in society, but this is a broad and diffuse meaning that should be clarified by referring to one of the more specific meanings outlined below.
    • 5) When discussing populations, secularization can refer to a societal decline in levels of religiosity (as opposed to the individual-level secularization of definition four).
    • Some scholars have argued that levels of religiosity are not declining (though their argument tends to be limited to the U.S., an admitted anomaly in the developed world).
  • Introduction to conditional probability (special topic)

    • Are students more likely to use marijuana when their parents used drugs?
    • The parents variable takes the value used if at least one of the parents used drugs, including alcohol.
    • P(student = uses given parents = used) = 125/210 = 0.60
    • What is the probability that at least one of her parents used?
    • P(parents = used given student = not) = 85/226 = 0.376
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