Kuperberg, A., & Stone, P. (2008, June 5). The media depiction of women who opt out. Gender & Society, 22(4), 497–517. doi:10.1177/0891243208319767

Abstract: Through a content analysis of print media and a comparison of media images with trends in women’s behavior, the authors of this article explore the rhetoric and reality surrounding the exit of college-educated women from the workforce to become full-time mothers, a phenomenon that has been dubbed “opting out”.

Corcoran, K. E. (2013, July 11). Divine exchanges: Applying social exchange theory to religious behavior. Rationality and Society, 25(3), 335–369. doi:10.1177/1043463113492306

Abstract: This article applies principles from social exchange theory to religious behavior and argues that the same mechanisms that reduce uncertainty in social exchanges also reduce uncertainty in ‘religious’ exchanges, resulting in higher levels of religious commitment.