Eric Woodrum
North Carolina State University
P.O. Box 8107
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Raleigh, North Carolina  27695-8107
eric_woodrum@ncsu.edu

PERSONAL
1143 James Norris Road
Angier, NC 27501
(919) 639-2018

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
 1998, Associate Head

 1978-94, Assistant to Professor

 (919) 515-9027
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Environmental Sociology 
Sociology of Religion

Sociological Theory
 

WORK IN PROGRESS
"Alternative Agriculture is Sustainable Agriculture." with David Conder. Paper to present at Southern Sociological Society Meetings, Atlanta, GA. 2004.

"Influences on Public Acceptance of Biotechnology." with Thomas Hoban Catherine Zimmer  and Ronald Czaja.
 
"Religion and Environmental Behavior." with Thomas Hoban, William Clifford and Jennifer Nooney.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Jennifer Nooney, Eric Woodrum, Thomas Hoban and William Clifford.
  2003
"Environmental World View and Behavior." ENVIRONMENT AND BEHAVIOR. Volume 35, Number 6: pp. 763-779.

Jennifer Nooney and Eric Woodrum.
  2002 "Religious Coping and Church-Based Social Support Effects on Menthal Health." JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Volume 41, Number 2, pp. 359-368.

Christian Eversen, Thomas Hoban and Eric Woodrum
  2000 "Technology and Morality: Influences on Public Attitudes Toward Biotechnology." KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY, Volume 13, Number 1, pp. 43-57.

Eric Woodrum and Michelle Wolkomir
  1997  "Religious Effects on Environmentalism." SOCIOLOGICAL SPECTRUM, Volume 17, Number 2, pp.223-234.
 
Wolkomir, Michelle, Michael Futreal, Eric Woodrum and Thomas Hoban
  1997  "Denominational Subcultures of Environmentalism." REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH. Volume 38, Number 4: pp. 325-343.

Wolkomir, Michelle, Michael Futreal, Eric Woodrum and Thomas Hoban
  1997  "Substantive Religious Belief and Environmentalism." SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY. Volume 78, Number 1: pp. 96-108.

 Woodrum, Eric and Beth L. Davison
  1996  "Images of God and Environmentalism."  RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Volume 7, pp. 75-94.

 Woodrum, Eric and Thomas Hoban
  1994  "Theology and Religiosity Effects on Environmentalism."  REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH, Volume 35, Number 3, pp. 193-206.

 Hoban, Thomas, Eric Woodrum and Ronald Czaja
  1992  "Public Opposition to Genetic Engineering."  RURAL SOCIOLOGY, Volume 57, November 4, pp. 476-493.
 
 Woodrum, Eric
  1992  "Pornography and Moral Attitudes."  SOCIOLOGICAL SPECTRUM, Volume 12, Number 4, pp. 329-347.
 
 Woodrum, Eric and Thomas Hoban
  1992  "Support for Prayer in School and Creationism."  SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, Volume 53, Number 3, pp. 309-321.

 Woodrum, Eric and Beth L. Davison
  1992  "Reexamination of Religious Influences on Abortion Attitudes."  REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH, Volume 33, Number 3, pp. 229-243.

 Woodrum, Eric and Arnold Bell
  1989  "Race, Politics and Religion in Civil Religion among Blacks."   SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, Volume 49, Number 4, pp. 353-367.

  Woodrum, Eric
  1988  "Determinants of Moral Attitudes," JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Volume 27, Number 4, pp. 553-573.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1988  "Moral Conservatism and the 1984 Presidential Election."  JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Volume 27, Number 2, pp. 192-210.

 Woodrum, Eric and P. Nelson Reid
  1987  "Migration, Ethnic Community Organization, and Prosperity among Japanese Americans."  ARETE, Volume 12, Number 1, pp. 31-46, Summer.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1985  "Religion and Economics among Japanese Americans:  A Weberian Study."  SOCIAL FORCES, Volume 64, Number 1, pp. 191-204, September.

  1987  Reprinted in PACIFIC/ASIAN AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER RESEARCH REVIEW, Vol. 6, Numbers ½, pp. 5-7, January/April.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1985  "Religious Belief Transformation:  A Study of This Worldly Religion."  SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY, Volume 55, Number 1, pp. 16-37, Winter.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1984  "`Mainstreaming' Content Analysis in Social Science:  Methodological Advantages, Obstacles, and Solutions." SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH, Volume 13, Number 1, pp. 1-19, March.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1982  "Religious Organizational Change:  An Analysis Based on the TM Movement."  REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH, Volume 24, Number 2, pp. 89-103, December.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1981  "An Assessment of Japanese American Assimilation, Pluralism, and Subordination."  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Volume 87, Number 1, pp. 157-169, July.

  1984  Reprinted in PACIFIC/ASIAN AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER RESEARCH REVIEW, Volume 3, Number 1, pp. 4-8, January.

 Rhodes, Colbert and Eric Woodrum
  1980  "Contending Hypotheses of Minority Fertility:  Three Generations of Japanese Americans."  THE CALIFORNIA SOCIOLOGIST, Volume 3, Number 2, pp. 166-183, Summer.

 Woodrum, Eric, Colbert Rhodes and Joe Feagin
  1980  "Japanese American Economic Behavior:  Its Types, Determinants, and Consequences."  SOCIAL FORCES, Volume 58, Number 4, pp. 1235- 1254, June.

  1998  Reprinted in ASIANS IN AMERICA: THE PEOPLES OF EAST, SOUTHEAST, AND SOUTH ASIA IN AMERICAN LIFE AND CULTURE, edited by Franklin Ng, Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1978  "Towards a Theory of Tension in American Protestantism." SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, Volume 39, Number 3, pp. 219-227, Fall.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1977  "The Development of the Transcendental Meditation Movement."  THE ZETETIC (now THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER) Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 38- 48, Spring-Summer.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
 Woodrum, Eric
  1999  "Environmental Sociology: Potentials, Obstacles and Models." SOCIATION, Volume 25, Number 2.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1991  "Trends in North Carolina and the Ormond Center."  J.M. Ormond Center Consultation pp. 18-23.  Durham, North Carolina: The Duke Endowment, Rural Church Division.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1991  "Teaching materials for "Religion and Society," junior level course cross listed Sociology 309/Religion 309, in Dallas A. Blanchard and Madeleine Adriance (eds.) Syllabi and Instructional Materials for the Sociology of Religion, (Second  Edition).  Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1988  "The Challenge:  To Balanace Relativism and Moral Commitment."  North Carolina State Alumni Magazine, Volume 60, Number 6, p. 36, June.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1987  "Course Description, Syllabus, and Assignments" and "Guidelines for Oral Presentation and Paper." Pp. 119-124 in Madeleine Adriance and Dallas Blanchard (eds.), Syllabi and Instructional Materials for the Sociology of Religion. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center.

 Woodrum, Eric
  1981  "Guidelines for Oral Presentation and Paper."  Pp. 138-139 in Wilhelmina E. Perry (ed.), Sociology of Minority Groups Course:  Syllabi and Related Materials.  Washington, D.C.:  American Sociological Association Teaching Resources Center.

PUBLISHED REVIEWS
  1998  The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology edited by Michael Redclift and Graham Woodgate. CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY, Volume 27, Number 4.

  1996  Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Life-Styles, Fifth Edition, by William M. Kephart and William W. Zellner. DEVIANT BEHAVIOR, Volume 17:122-125.

  1995  Religion and Race: Southern Presbyterians, 1946-1983, by Joel L. Alvis, Jr.,
      JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Volume 34, Number 2, June.

  1995  Religion and World Order, edited by Wade Clark Roof, SOCIAL FORCES, Volume 73, Number 3, March.
 
  1993  America, Religions and Religion, Second Edition by Catherine L. Albanese, REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH, Volume 34, Number 4, June.

  1991  Equal Separation:  Understanding the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment, by Paul J. Weber, REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH, Volume 33, Number 1, September.

  1991  The Political Theory of Liberation Theology, by John R. Pottenger, REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH, Volume 32, Number 3, March.

  1989  Civil Religion and the Presidency by Richard V. Pierard and Robert L. Linder, JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, Volume 31, Number 3, Autumn.

  1988  Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day, by Douglas E. Oakman,  REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH, Volume 29, Number 3, March.

  1987  Italian Americans:  Into the Twilight of Ethnicity, by Richard D. Alba, SOCIAL FORCES, Volume 65, Number 4, June.

  1986  Ministers of Reform:  The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920 by Robert Crunden, REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH, Volume 28, Number 2, December.

  1986  The Black Spiritual Movement:  A Religious Response to Racism, by Hans Baer, SOCIAL FORCES, Volume 64, Number 3, March.

  1985  Religion and Social Theory:  A Materialistic Perspective, by Bryan Turner, RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Volume 11, Number 2, April.
 
  1980  The Third Electoral System, 1853-1892, by Paul Kleppner, JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Volume 19, Number 2, June.

  1980  The Politics of Benevolence, by John Hammond, SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, Volume 41, Number 2, Summer.

  1979  The Religious Drop-Outs:  Apostasy Among College Graduates, by David Caplovitz and Fred Sherrow, REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS RESEARCH, Volume 20, Number 3, Summer.

  1978  `Short Book Review' of Counterpoint:  Perspectives on Asian America, by Emma Gee, et al. CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY, Volume 7, Number 2, March.

  1978  `Short Book Review' of Discrimination, Income, Human Capital Investment, and Asian Americans, by Jared Young, CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY, Volume 7, Number 2, March.
 
PAPERS PRESENTED
David Conder and Eric Woodrum.
  2004 "Alternative Agriculture is Sustainable Agriculture." Paper will be presented at Southern Sociological Society Meetings. Atlanta GA, April.

Eric Woodrum, Thomas Hoban, William Clifford and Jennifer Nooney.
  2003
"Environmental Behaviors: What are the Religious Effects?

Jennifer Nooney and Eric Woodrum.
  2000 "The Role of Religious Coping and Church-Based Social Support in Mental Health Outcomes." Religious Research Association Meetings, Houston, TX, October.
 
Jennifer Nooney, Eric Woodrum, Thomas Hoban and William Clifford.
  2000 "The New Environmental Paradigm and Environmental Behavior." Southern Sociological Society Meetings, New Orleans, LA, April.

Woodrum, Eric, Thomas Hoban and William Clifford
  1999 " Are Environmentalism and Religion Mutually Supportive or Antagonistic?" Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings, Boston, MA, November.

Lisa Briggs, Richard Della Fave and Eric Woodrum
  1999 "An Ecological Analysis of Black Church Fires." Southern Sociologial Society Meetings, Nashville, Tennessee, April.

M. Jennifer Simmons and Eric Woodrum.
  1999 "Gender Influences on Clergy Careers." Southern Sociologial Society Meetings, Nashville, Tennessee, April, 1999

Woodrum, Eric.
  1999 "Environmental Sociology Opportunities, Obstacles and Models." North Carolina Sociological Association Meetings, Research Triangle Park, N. Carolina, February.
 
Hoban, Thomas, Eric Woodrum, Cathy Zimmer and Ron Czaja
  1997 "Influences on Public Acceptance of Biotechnology." Southern Sociological Society      Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana, April.

Wolkomir, Michelle, Michael Futreal, Eric Woodrum and Thomas Hoban.
  1996 "Denominational Subcultures of Environmentalism." Southern Sociological Society Meetings, Richmond, Virginia, April.
 
Woodrum, Eric and Michelle Wolkomir.
   1995 "A Contextual Analysis of Religious Influences on Environmental Attitudes and Behavior." Religious Research Association Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri, October.

Wolkomir, Michelle, Michael Futreal, Eric Woodrum and Thomas Hoban.
  1995 "Religion and Environmentalism:  Understanding Biblical Literalism and Religious Salience as Conceptually Distinct from Dominion Belief." Southern Sociological Society Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia.

Jarrett, Kathryn, Eric Woodrum and Thomas Hoban.
    1994 "Religious and Secular Influences on Attitudes Toward Biotechnology."  Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings. Albuquerque, N.M., November.

Evensen, Chris, Thomas J. Hoban and Eric Woodrum.
  1994  "Technology and Ethics: The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology." Southern Sociological Society Meetings.  Raleigh, N.C., April.

 Woodrum, Eric and Kathryn Jarrett.
  1993  "Religion and Health: An Application of Rational Choice Theory."  Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings.  Raleigh, N.C., October.

 Strugatz, Elizabeth and Eric Woodrum.
  1993  "Religion and Denominational Development: Building a Theory from Induction." Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings.  Raleigh, N.C., October.
 
 Woodrum, Eric and Beth L. Davison.
  1992  "Images of God and Environmental Concern."  Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings.  Washington, D.C., November.

 Strugatz, Elizabeth and Eric Woodrum.
  1992  "African American Denominationalism."  Religious Research Association Annual Meetings.  Washington, D.C., November.

 Woodrum, Eric and Thomas Hoban.
  1991  "Theology and Religiosity Effects on Environmental Concern and Activism." Religious Research Association Meetings.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November.

 Woodrum, Eric and Beth L. Davison.
  1990  "Reexamination of Religious Influences on Abortion Attitudes." Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings.  Virginia Beach, Virginia, November.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1990  "Pornography and Moral Attitudes."  Religious Research Association Meetings.  Virginia Beach, Virginia, November.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1990  "Intergender and Interracial Violence."  Southern Sociological Society Meetings.  Louisville, Kentucky, March.

 Woodrum, Eric and Thomas Hoban.
  1989  "Religious and Other Influences on Support for Prayer in School and Creationism."  Religious Research Association.  Salt Lake City, Utah.  October.

 Hoban, Thomas and Eric Woodrum.
  1989  "Religious Influences on Environmentalism and Attitudes Toward Genetic Engineering."  Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Salt Lake City, Utah.  October.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1987  "Moral Conservatism and the 1984 Presidential Election."  Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings, Louisville, Kentucky, October-November, 1987.

 Bell, Arnold and Eric Woodrum.
  1985  "Black and White Civil Religion in a Southern Community."  Southern Sociological Society Meetings, Charlotte, North Carolina, April.

 Reid, P. Nelson and Eric Woodrum.
  1985  "Social Policy Implications of Japanese American Migration Experience." Council on Social Work Education Meetings, Washington, D. C., February.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1983  "Religion and Economics among Japanese Americans:  A Weberian Study." Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Meetings, Knoxville, Tennessee, November.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1983  "`Mainstreaming' Content Analysis in Social Science:  Methodological Advantages, Obstacles and Solutions."  Southern Sociological Society Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, April.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1981  "The Metamorphosis of a Popular Religious Movement."  Southern Sociological Society Meetings, Louisville, Kentucky, April.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1979  "Japanese Americans:  A Test of the Assimilation Success Story." Southern Sociological Society Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, April.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1978  "Economic Competition and the Internment of Japanese Americans." Southwestern Sociological Association Meetings, Houston, Texas, April.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1977  "Religion and Ethnicity During Assimilation."  Southwestern Sociological Association Meetings, Dallas, Texas, March.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1977  "Towards a Theory of Tension in American Protestantism." Southwestern Sociological Association Meetings, Dallas, Texas, March.

 Woodrum, Eric.
  1976  "The Development of the Transcendental Meditation Movement." Southwestern Sociological Association Meetings, Dallas, Texas, April.


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 American Sociological Association
 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
 Association for the Sociology of Religion
 Religious Research Association
 Southern Sociological Society
 Mid-South Sociological Association
 Southwestern Social Science Association
 North Carolina Sociological Association
 Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociological Honor Society


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