Avery M. Guest

TL;DR: Using the General Social Survey (GSS), the authors analyzed trends in socializing with neighbors and friends outside the neighborhood during the 1974-96 period and found that the trend toward decreased neighborhood socializing is small.

TL;DR: The study has shown that the stress threshold model, as formulated by Speare, only works partially, and it has found that subjective satisfaction is a strong predictor of thoughts about moving, which is consistent with Speare's model.

Abstract: Recent theoretical developments propose that when the state deregulates religion pluralism and competition will emerge and overall levels of religious participation will be high. In this essay we return to nineteenth century America when a religious free market was first emerging to examine how pluralism generated higher levels of church attendance. We use data from the state census of 1865 to explore the religious situation in 942 towns and cities of New York State. Our results strongly support the pluralism thesis demonstrate demographic effects on church attendance and explain the conflicting findings of past research on the relationship between pluralism and religious participation. (authors)

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between joblessness family disruption and all three forms of violent death across the black and non-black community area populations of Chicago at two distinct time points corresponding to William Julius Wilsons theory of the evolvement of urban underclass communities.

TL;DR: In this paper, different correlates of residents' evaluative and sentimental feelings toward local areas in the Seattle, Washington metropolitan area were found to affect, although sometimes in dissimilar ways, the probability of individuals' moving and taking political action to defend their community.