First Advisor

Alex Stepick

Term of Graduation

Winter 2021

Date of Publication

4-1-2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.) in Sociology

Department

Sociology

Language

English

Subjects

College students -- Conduct of life, Religiousness, Values, Individualism -- Religious aspects, Cosmopolitanism

DOI

10.15760/etd.7551

Physical Description

1 online resource (v, 130 pages)

Abstract

This thesis examines data from a religion and values survey entitled Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG) conducted in the spring of 2018. The data for this research comes from a sample of college undergraduates from diverse nations, Portland State being one of the sites sampled. This research investigates three main research questions: Do the values of college-age youth tend to be more individualistic, the less religious that they are? Do the irreligious still maintain moral values? And is irreligiosity related to a cosmopolitan-humanitarian outlook? This research finds that the overall sample is individualistic while still holding communal values, cosmopolitan humanitarianism is correlated with irreligiosity, and those young people who are not religious in a traditional manner maintain a moral compass in an increasingly secular world.

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/35662

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