Exploring Social Belonging and Meaning in Religious Groups

Transnational Identities and Religious Traditions: A Case of Religious Double Belonging in India

Exploring social mobility with latent trajectory groups

We present a new methodological approach to the study of social mobility. We use a latent class growth analysis (LCGA) framework to identify five qualitatively distinct social class trajectory groups between 1980 and 2000 for male respondents to the 1970 British Cohort Study. We model the antecedents of trajectory group membership via multinomial logistic regression. Nonresponse, a considerable...

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Religious meaning and subjective well-being in late life.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between religious meaning and subjective well-being. A major emphasis is placed on assessing race differences in the relationship between these constructs. METHODS Interviews were conducted with a nationwide sample of older White and older Black adults. Survey items were administered to assess a sense of meaning in life that ...

Exploring Intercultural Communication in Expats’ Social Media Groups

As international and global organizations grow, so the expatriate communities expand in different regions of the world. Professionals, who are assigned to positions abroad by multinational/international organizations, constitute a multicultural community in which they face similar challenges of settling in, adjusting and joining in social life in a new culture. Since digital communication techn...