TY - CHAP AB - Purpose – Conservative Protestantism is conceptualized as a cultural framework influencing class formation and transmission in the United States.Design/Methodology/Approach – The framework is tested using Public-Use Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), Waves I, III, and IV. Four key outcomes – educational attainment, earnings, marriage, and parenting – are modeled as functions of class background and religious affiliation, controlling for other factors.Findings – Religious affiliation and their effects on the normative pathways to adulthood help explain differential social mobility and the imperfect transmission of social class across generations. Religious culture plays an independent role in producing lower adult attainment via the life choices of conservative Protestant youth during the transition to adulthood.Research limitations/Implications – This study is limited by the final age range (24–32 years) of the sample in Wave IV.Originality/Value – Contributes to literature on conservative Protestants' educational attainment and labor force participation by charting the educational and income achievement of youth from varying class origins and identifying how childhood class location and childhood religious affiliation interact to affect adult socioeconomic status. VL - 23 SN - 978-1-78052-347-7, 978-1-78052-346-0/0277-2833 DO - 10.1108/S0277-2833(2012)0000023006 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0277-2833(2012)0000023006 AU - Fitzgerald Scott T. AU - Glass Jennifer L. ED - Lisa A. Keister ED - John Mccarthy ED - Roger Finke PY - 2012 Y1 - 2012/01/01 TI - Conservative Protestants, Early Transitions to Adulthood, and The Intergenerational Transmission of Class T2 - Religion, Work and Inequality T3 - Research in the Sociology of Work PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 49 EP - 72 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -