Mark Regnerus
American sociologist
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Mark Regnerus's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Masters Sociology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Bachelors Religious Studies Trinity Christian College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mark Daniel Regnerus is a sociologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His main fields of interest are sexual behavior, relationship dynamics, and religion. Education Regnerus graduated from McBain Rural Agricultural High School in McBain, Michigan, in 1989. He then attended Trinity Christian College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1993. He then earned his Master of Arts degree in 1997 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2000 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His doctoral dissertation, Adolescent Socialization and Avoiding Trouble: A Perspective on Religious Influences, was written under the direction of Christian Smith, with whom he subsequently co-wrote several articles about religion and social behavior. He then was postdoctoral researcher at the Carolina Population Center before taking a position as assistant professor at Calvin College, where he remained until 2002. He accepted a position as assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and advanced to associate professor in 2007, and to full professor in 2018.
Mark Regnerus's Published Works
Published Works
- The Measure of American Religion: Toward Improving the State of the Art (2000) (1567)
- Losing My Religion: The Social Sources of Religious Decline in Early Adulthood (2007) (436)
- Mapping American Adolescent Religious Participation (2002) (341)
- Religion and positive adolescent outcomes: A review of research and theory (2003) (324)
- Coital debut: The role of religiosity and sex attitudes in the add health survey (2003) (275)
- Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (2007) (215)
- How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study. (2012) (213)
- Who Gives to the Poor? The Influence of Religious Tradition and Political Location on the Personal Generosity of Americans Toward the Poor (1998) (211)
- Staying on Track in School: Religious Influences in High- and Low-Risk Settings (2003) (206)
- Moral Communities and Adolescent Delinquency: Religious Contexts and Community Social Control (2003) (200)
- Social Context in the Development of Adolescent Religiosity (2004) (199)
- Shaping schooling success: Religious socialization and educational outcomes in metropolitan public schools (2000) (187)
- How Much More XXX is Generation X Consuming? Evidence of Changing Attitudes and Behaviors Related to Pornography Since 1973 (2016) (175)
- Mapping American Adolescent Subjective Religiosity and Attitudes of Alienation Toward Religion: A Research Report (2003) (171)
- Finding faith, losing faith : The prevalence and context of religious transformations during adolescence (2006) (144)
- Documenting Pornography Use in America: A Comparative Analysis of Methodological Approaches (2016) (144)
- Selection effects in studies of religious influence (2005) (144)
- Talking About Sex: Religion and Patterns of Parent–Child Communication about Sex and Contraception (2005) (138)
- Pubertal Transitions, Perceptions of Being Overweight, and Adolescents' Psychological Maladjustment: Gender and Ethnic Differences * (2001) (131)
- Linked Lives, Faith, and Behavior: Intergenerational Religious Influence on Adolescent Delinquency (2003) (130)
- Religion and vulnerability among low-risk adolescents (2003) (106)
- Religion and HIV risk behaviors among married men: Initial results from a study in rural sub-Saharan Africa (2006) (101)
- Religious Change and Adolescent Family Dynamics (2006) (95)
- The Measure of American Religious Traditions: Theoretical and Measurement Considerations (2012) (94)
- The Parent-Child Relationship and Opportunities for Adolescents’ First Sex (2006) (87)
- Selective Deprivatization among American Religious Traditions: The Reversal of the Great Reversal (1998) (86)
- Voting with the Christian Right: Contextual and Individual Patterns of Electoral Influence (1999) (86)
- The Role of Religion in Shaping Sexual Frequency and Satisfaction: Evidence from Married and Unmarried Older Adults (2011) (85)
- When faith divides family: religious discord and adolescent reports of parent-child relations. (2009) (84)
- Religion in the Lives of American Adolescents: A Review of the Literature. A Research Report of the National Study of Youth and Religion. (2003) (80)
- Bare Market: Campus Sex Ratios, Romantic Relationships, and Sexual Behavior (2010) (79)
- Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying (2011) (74)
- Masturbation and Partnered Sex: Substitutes or Complements? (2017) (72)
- Religious Responses to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: An examination of religious congregations in rural Malawi (2005) (65)
- Friends’ influence on adolescent theft and minor delinquency: A developmental test of peer-reported effects (2002) (57)
- Going most of the way: "technical virginity" among American adolescents. (2008) (55)
- Parental same-sex relationships, family instability, and subsequent life outcomes for adult children: Answering critics of the new family structures study with additional analyses. (2012) (43)
- Religion in the lives of American adolescents (2003) (42)
- Religious Involvement and Attitudes Toward Parenting Among Low-Income Urban Women (2008) (38)
- Religious Influences on Sensitive Self-Reported Behaviors: The Product of Social Desirability, Deceit, or Embarrassment? (2007) (31)
- Is structural stigma's effect on the mortality of sexual minorities robust? A failure to replicate the results of a published study. (2017) (14)
- RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION AND AIDS-BASED DISCRIMINATION IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA (2007) (14)
- How Corrosive Is College to Religious Faith and Practice (2007) (10)
- Mating Market Dynamics, Sex-Ratio Imbalances, and Their Consequences (2012) (10)
- Red Sex, Blue Sex (2010) (9)
- Response to paul amato, david eggebeen, and cynthia osborne. (2012) (9)
- Pentecostalism and premarital sexual initiation in Brazil (2014) (7)
- Religion and Adolescent Sexual Behavior (2009) (5)
- Premarital Sex in America (2010) (5)
- Social, Emotional, and Relational Distinctions in Patterns of Recent Masturbation Among Young Adults: (2014) (5)
- Controversial Gay-parenting Study Is Severely Flawed, Journal's Audit Finds (2012) (5)
- Comment on Barbara Risman’s review of Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy (2019) (5)
- Sexual Behavior in Young Adulthood (2014) (4)
- "They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall": The Role of Caring in Youth Development and Community Life (review) (2001) (4)
- Sexual Media as Competition in the Heterosexual Relationship Market (2019) (4)
- Losing My Religion: Religious Decline in Early Adulthood (2006) (3)
- Religion and Sexual Initiation in Brazil (2009) (3)
- AIDS Related Stigma in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reconsidering Its Prevalence and Sources (2007) (3)
- Reproducing homes: intergenerational transmission of marriage and relationship legacy (2018) (2)
- Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era (review) (2004) (2)
- Does "Conversion Therapy" Hurt People Who Identify as Transgender? The New JAMA Psychiatry Study Cannot Tell Us (2019) (1)
- Is Homosexuality in the Priesthood Diminishing? Evidence from Sexual Attitudes, Behaviors, and Contexts of Catholic Clergy in the United States (2021) (1)
- Attitudes in the U.S. Toward Hormonal and/or Surgical Interventions for Adolescents Experiencing Gender Dysphoria (2022) (1)
- The Future of Christian Marriage (2020) (1)
- Understanding How the Social Scientific Study of Same-Sex Parenting Works (2020) (1)
- Richard Togman: Nationalizing Sex: Fertility, Fear, and Power. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. v, 285.) (2020) (0)
- Fashioning New Stories from Old Wisdom (2007) (0)
- No Strings Attached (2010) (0)
- The College Campus (2010) (0)
- 4. Religion and Adolescent Sexual Behavior (2020) (0)
- Scientists Have Unwittingly Revealed that the Obergefell Decision Did Nothing to Diminish Sexual Minority Distress (2018) (0)
- Men and Women (2020) (0)
- Relationship Formation Processes Among Emerging Adult Men and Women (2012) (0)
- Village sexual norms and links between religion and HIV infection risk in rural Malawi. (2006) (0)
- Inside Sexual Relationships (2010) (0)
- New Data Show "Gender-Affirming" Surgery Doesn't Really Improve Mental Health. So Why Are the Study's Authors Saying It Does? (2019) (0)
- How the Rise in Unreligious Americans affects Sex and Marriage: Comparative Evidence from New Survey Data (2019) (0)
- Married Men: Initial Results from a Study in (2016) (0)
- The Future of American Sexuality and Family: Five Key Trends (2018) (0)
- Is the Catholic Church in America Experiencing Internal Secularization? Priests’ Assessments of Pope Francis and the Condition of the Church (2022) (0)
- Can Religion Cause Behavior (2007) (0)
- Challenges to Parenting Questionnaire (2013) (0)
- Revitalizing Christian Marriage (2020) (0)
- From Foundation to Capstone (2020) (0)
- "Measurement and analytic vulnerabilities in the study of structural stigma". (2019) (0)
- Marriage in the Minds of Emerging Adults (2010) (0)
- A Typology of Religious Influence (2007) (0)
- Introducing the 2021 Survey of American Catholic Priests: Overview and Selected Findings (2021) (0)
- Sex (2020) (0)
- The Power of Stories and Ten Myths about Sex in Emerging Adulthood (2010) (0)
- Graduate Students: Don't Wait for Tenure to Enjoy Your Life (2019) (0)
- Mating Market Dynamics, Sex-Ratio Imbalances, and Their Consequences (2012) (0)
- Weak Data, Small Samples, and Politicized Conclusions on LGBT Discrimination (2020) (0)
- The Partnerships and Practices of Emerging Adults (2010) (0)
- Imitation Sex and the New Middle‐Class Morality (2007) (0)
- Uncertainty (2020) (0)
- Index to Gender & Society (2006) (0)
- Masturbation and Partnered Sex: Substitutes or Complements? (2017) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era.By John P. Bartkowski and Helen A. Regis. New York University Press, 2003. 213 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.00 (2003) (0)
- Motivating Sexual Decisions (2007) (0)
- Polyamory: Complicated New Identity or Primarily About Sex? (2018) (0)
- Making the grade. (1993) (0)
- Sexual Media as Competition in the Heterosexual Relationship Market (2019) (0)
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