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Michael R. Welch
Researcher at University of Notre Dame
Publications - 36
Citations - 1820
Michael R. Welch is an academic researcher from University of Notre Dame. The author has contributed to research in topics: Religiosity & Religious values. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 36 publications receiving 1704 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael R. Welch include Florida Atlantic University.
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Religiosity and Deviance: Toward a Contingency Theory of Constraining Effects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between individual religiosity and deviance and contextual properties thought to condition the relationship and found that religious participation can operate as a unique deviance inhibitor only when conformity inducing mechanisms characteristic of religious communities are not reproduced in the larger community.
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The Radius of Trust: Religion, Social Embeddedness and Trust in Strangers
TL;DR: This paper examined relationships among measures of religious orientation, embeddedness in social networks and the level of trust individuals direct toward others using data from the 2002 Religion and Public Activism Survey and found that older persons and those who are more trusting of acquaintances show greater trust.
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Determinants and Consequences of Social Trust
Michael R. Welch,Roberto E. N. Rivera,Brian Conway,Jennifer Yonkoski,Paul M. Lupton,Russell Giancola +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of social trust, examining its various aspects and components, concluding that trust is best understood in a sociological sense by focusing on its important relational characteristic.
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Religion and Deviance among Adult Catholics: A Test of the "Moral Communities" Hypothesis
TL;DR: The authors found that the level of religiosity within a given social context affects projected deviance, although there was no evidence of any substantial interaction between personal-and community-level religiosity.
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Hate crime reporting as a successful social movement outcome
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of civil rights organizations in promoting compliance with public policies across local settings is examined through an analysis of the number of reported hate crime incidents in United States counties.