Louisa Roberts

Dr. Roberts studies trends in the attitudes and behavior of everyday people living around the world, and the role of cultural globalization in shaping those trends. She is currently working on projects on: (1) the partial globalization of the acceptance of homosexuality in public opinion and national law, (2) change over time in worldwide religiosity, (3) the role of individualism in structuring attitudes across different societies, and (4) globalizing influences on the acceptance of intimate partner violence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Dr. Roberts is also involved with a project on the legal response to the Rwandan genocide and has co-authored a book with Cambridge University Press on the historic use and evolution of anti-Semitic rhetoric in West European politics.

Global Sociology, Statistical Research Methods, Medical Sociology, Courtship and Marriage, Introduction to Sociology

Globalization of Culture and Ideas, Global Gay Rights, Trends in Worldwide Religiosity, Attitudes toward Intimate Partner Violence, Individualism, Anti-Semitism

Roberts, Louisa, Do Modern Social Conditions Really Make People Less Religious? An Analysis of Worldwide Data, 1981-2014. Presented at the Website of the Global Religion Research Initiative, Conference cancelled due to covid, PowerPoint slides published online.. (May 2021)
Roberts, Louisa, Is Religious Decline Confined to the West? An Analysis of Worldwide Change in Average Levels of Religiosity and Variation across Generations, 1981-2020.". Presented at the Website of the Global Religion Research Initiative, Conference cancelled due to covid. PowerPoint slides published online.. (May 2021)
Roberts, Louisa, Is Religious Decline Confined to the West? An Analysis of Worldwide Change in Average Levels of Religiosity and Variation across Generations, 1981-2020.". Presented at the Second Annual Social Science Interdisciplinary Consortium (SSIC) Conference, Vermillion, SD. (April 2021)
Roberts, Louisa, "Do Modern Social Conditions Really Make People Less Religious? An Analysis of Worldwide Data, 1981-2014." First Annual Social Science Interdisciplinary Consortium Conference. . Presented at the First Annual Social Science Interdisciplinary Consortium (SSIC) Conference, online (due to covid). (December 2020)
Roberts, Louisa, "Do Modern Social Conditions Cause Secularization? An Analysis of Trends in and Influences on Worldwide Religiosity, 1981-2014" (Cancelled Due to Covid-19). Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (August 11, 2020)
Roberts, Louisa, "Do Modern Social Conditions Reduce Religiosity, and Do They Do So Universally? An Examination of Trends in and Influences on Worldwide Religiosity, 1981-2014." . Presented at the Research and Analysis in the Study of Religion (RASR) Workshop, South Bend, IN.. (March 2020)
Roberts, Louisa L., Is Cultural Globalization Shaping the Ideological Structure of Worldwide Attitudes? The Influence of Individualism as an Organizing Principle, 1994 to 2012. Presented at the Future of World Society Theory Mini-Conference, New York, NY. (August 09, 2019)
Roberts, Louisa L., Explaining Changing Levels of Religiosity, Worldwide: What Role for Wealth and Cultural Globalization?. Presented at the Younger Scholars in the Sociology of Religion Conference, South Bend, Indiana. (April 26, 2019)
Roberts, Louisa, Global Policy Diffusion via Domestic Public Opinion? The Case of Same-Sex Unions and Anti-Discrimination Policy. Presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting Pre-Conference: The Sociology of International Organizations, Philadelphia, PA. (August 10, 2018)

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