SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 60: Polytheism

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: SOC
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Chenoia Bryant

Document Summary

Religious persuasion seems to relate to political persuasion. Jews and catholics are more likely to be democrats than are protestants. Likewise, jews tend to be more liberal than catholics, who tend to be more liberal than protestants. Membership of religious organizations also correlates positively with socioeconomic status. Anglicans, presbyterians, and jews tend to be wealthy. And catholics, on average, have higher income than comparable members of protestant denominations do. However, these generalizations are just that: general statements. For example, some of the poorest people in the united states belong to the roman catholic church, and considerable differences exist among members of the protestant churches. Some of the wealthiest people now belong to the church of jesus christ of latter day saints (the. The vast majority of americans around 95 percent say they have some form of religious beliefs: in god, heaven, the divine inspiration of scriptures, and so on.