Bøger af George Yancey

Sociologist George Yancey's groundbreaking research on multiracial churches (including insights from real-life churches and the results of a recent Lilly Endowment study) offers key principles for church leaders who want to minister to--and partner with--people from a variety of racial and cultural backgrounds.

Using an audit technique - providing journalists with similar scenarios but altering key details - the authors evaluate whether reporters write different narratives depending on the characteristics of the principles in the story. The results of this study are important for journalist seeking to move closer to objective standards of reporting.

In this first systematic attempt to substantiate social bias in higher education, George Yancey embarks on an analysis of the social biases and attitudes of faculties in American universities - surveying professors in disciplines from political science to experimental biology and then examining the blogs of 42 sociology professors.

This is a provocative look at anti-Christian sentiments in America. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative research, the authors do not attempt to show the prevalence of anti-Christian attitudes but rather to document it, dig into where it exists, explore who holds these attitudes, and examine how this bias plays itself out in everyday life.