Sabrina Marie Danielsen, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

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Contact

SabrinaDanielsen@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Cultural & Social Studies
Sociology
CRHL - Creighton Hall/Administration Building - 426B

Sabrina Marie Danielsen, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

As a sociologist, I am fascinated by the causes and consequences of various patterns in contemporary life.  How are people’s individual lives affected by the social and historical context in which they are living? How do we construct differences between people, such as by race, social class, and gender? How are inequalities based on these differences perpetuated and how can we challenge these inequalities? These are some of the questions that drive my research and teaching. 

In my classes, I want students to gain theoretical and research tools to help them study the structures of society that surround them and concern them. The classes I regularly teach are: 
1. Introduction to Sociology: Self and Society (SOC 101). How is social life organized? This introductory class provides an overview of the field of sociology and seeks to understand how individuals are influenced by the social and historical context in which they are living. 
2. Research Design in the Social Sciences (SOC 312). How do we ask and answer research questions about social life? The aim of this class is for students to better understand how social research is done so that they can more critically read published research and more thoughtfully create their own research studies. 
3. Social Inequality and Stratification (SOC 411). What is the nature, causes, and consequences of social inequality and stratification? This class explores both theory and empirical research related to social inequality in the United States today. 
4. Gender in American Society (SOC 318). How and why do the positions and behavior of women and men in modern American society differ? What are the consequences of these differences? This Doing Social Science course emphasizes both the current state of social science empirical research on gender and how sociologists conduct research. Students will undertake three research projects answering a question of their choosing using three different methods: field observational methods, content analysis methods, and qualitative interview methods. 

Curriculum Vitae

Research Focus

Religion, Climate Change, Politics, Gender

Department

Cultural and Social Studies

Position

Associate Professor

Publications

  • Environmental sociology
    Greenberg Pierce, etal Driving environmental inequality: the unequal harms and benefits of highways, p. 1 - 14 2024
  • Journal for the scientific study of religion
    Greenberg Pierce, etal Using Large‐Scale Location Data to Examine Racial Diversity and Segregation in Church Attendees’ Home Neighborhoods 2024
  • Environmental Research Letters
    Danielsen Sabrina, etal U.S. Catholic bishops' silence and denialism on climate change
    16:11 2021
  • Journal of Church and State
    Danielsen Sabrina, Mobilizing on Abortion
    63:3, p. 461 - 484 2021
  • Danielsen Sabrina, Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants 2020
  • Danielsen Sabrina, Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science 2020
  • Interdisciplinary journal of research on religion
    Danielsen Sabrina, Consensus and Conflict: Abortion, Mainline Protestants, and Religious Restructuring Since 1960
    15 2019
  • Contemporary Sociology-a Journal of Reviews
    Danielsen Sabrina Marie, Review of  'Secular Faith: How Culture has Trumped Religion in American Politics' by Mark A. Smith
    46:2, p. 217 - 219 2017
  • Social Science Research
    Fenelon A., etal Leaving My Religion: Understanding the Relationship between Religious Disaffiliation, Health, and Well-being
    57, p. 49 - 62 2016
  • Journal of Religion and Society, Supplement Series
    Danielsen Sabrina Marie, Shifting Concerns about Social Problems: Religious and Political Identity among Evanglical and Mainline Protestants, 1960-2013, p. 156 - 175 2016
  • AJS: American Journal of Sociology
    Wilde Melissa J., etal Fewer and Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, and Birth Control Reform in America
    119:6, p. 1710 - 1760 2014
  • Danielsen Sabrina, The Rationalization of Miracles 2014
  • American Journal of Sociology
    Wilde Melissa J., etal Fewer and better children
    119:6, p. 1710 - 1760 2014
  • Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion
    Danielsen Sabrina Marie, Fracturing Over Creation Care? Shifting Environmental Beliefs among Evanglicals
    52:1, p. 198 - 215 2013

Grants

  • Marginality from Power and Imagining Changes to the Status Quo to Combat Climate Change/Sponsor: CURAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

Awards

  • Winner of the Distinguished Article Award
    Wilde, Melissa J. and Sabrina Danielsen. “Fewer and Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, and Birth Control Reform in America.” American Journal of Sociology. 119(6): 1710-60.
    Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
  • Winner of the Charles Tilly Best Article Award
    Wilde, Melissa J. and Sabrina Danielsen. “Fewer and Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, and Birth Control Reform in America.” American Journal of Sociology. 119(6): 1710-60.
    American Sociological Association's Comparative and Historical Section
  • Winner of the Distinguished Article Award
    Wilde, Melissa J. and Sabrina Danielsen. “Fewer and Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, and Birth Control Reform in America.” American Journal of Sociology. 119(6): 1710-60.
    American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section.