title: No Money, No Honey, No Church: The Deinstitutionalization of Religious Life Among the White Working Class.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examine trends in religious attendance by educational group, with an emphasis on the "moderately educated:" individuals with a high-school degree but not a 4-year college degree.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conduct multivariate ordinary least-squares (OLS) regression models using data from the General Social Survey (from 1972 to 2010) and the National Survey of Family Growth (from 1982 to 2008).
  
  
  RESULTS
  We find that religious attendance among moderately educated whites has declined relative to attendance among college-educated whites. Economic characteristics, current and past family characteristics, and attitudes toward premarital sex each explain part of this differential decline.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Religion is becoming increasingly deinstitutionalized among whites with moderate levels of education, which suggests further social marginalization of this group. Furthermore, trends in the labor force, American family life, and attitudes appear to have salient ramifications for organized religion. Sociologists of religion need to once again attend to social stratification in religious life.
authors: University of Virginia.
authors: W Bradford
authors: WB
authors: Wilcox
authors: Johns Hopkins University.
authors: Andrew J
authors: AJ
authors: Cherlin
authors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
authors: Jeremy E
authors: JE
authors: Uecker
authors: Johns Hopkins University.
authors: Matthew
authors: M
authors: Messel
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