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Larry
Hunt
Associate
Professor
Ph.D.
Indiana University, 1968
Office:
4143 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301 405-6438
Email: lhunt@socy.umd.edu
Departmental Specialty Areas:
Social Psychology
Dr. Hunt's interests
lie at the intersection of social stratification
and sociology of religion, with a substantive
focus on race, religion, and region. In the area
of race and religion, I have been examining the
socio-economic antecedents and consequences of
membership in religious groups that deviate from
the mainstream religious tradition of specific
race/ethnic minority groups. Specifically, I have
published a series of articles (see below) that
explore "minority" religious affiliations
within "minority" race/ethnic groups
(i.e., the growth of Catholicism among African-Americans
and Protestantism among Hispanics/Latinos in the
United States and in Latin America).
With regard to region, I have examined regional
variations in religious involvement among African-Americans
and among whites in the North and the South. My
research in progress includes (a) a nationwide
comparative study of ethnic identification among
Euro-Americans, African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans,
(b) a comparative study that explores structural
and social-psychological factors that account
for the pervasive "absence" of ethnic
identification among both whites and African-Americans
in the South, and (c) a study of the push/pull
factors underlying the "return migration"
of African-Americans to the South that has been
emerging over the past three decades.
Undergraduate
Courses:
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Introduction
to Sociology
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Introduction
to Social Psychology
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Social Problems
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American Society
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Sociology of Deviance
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Social Structure and Identity
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Inequality in American Society
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Sociological Theory
Graduate
Courses:
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Seminar in Symbolic Interaction
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Development of European and American Sociological
Theory
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Sociological Methodology
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Sociology of the Self-Concept
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Technical Writing for Professional Journals
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