Craig Michael Rawlings | Scholars@Duke

Craig Michael Rawlings
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Office Hours

Wednesday 2:00-4:00 p.m. and by appointment.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018

Contact Information

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- D.Phil., University of California - Santa Barbara 2008
Expertise
Subject Headings
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Rawlings, C. M. “Becoming an Ideologue: Social Sorting and the Microfoundations of Polarization.” Sociological Science 9 (January 1, 2022): 313–45. https://doi.org/10.15195/V9.A13.
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  - Rawlings, C. M., and C. Childress. “Schemas, Interactions, and Objects in Meaning-Making¹.” Sociological Forum 36, no. S1 (December 1, 2021): 1446–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12759.
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  - Rawlings, C. M., and C. Childress. “Measure Mohr culture.” Poetics 88 (October 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101611.
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  - Nault, J. F., S. Baumann, C. Childress, and C. M. Rawlings. “The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 24, no. 3 (June 1, 2021): 717–40. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494211006090.
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  - Childress, C., S. Baumann, C. M. Rawlings, and J. F. Nault. “Genres, Objects, and the Contemporary Expression of Higher-Status Tastes.” Sociological Science 8 (January 1, 2021): 230–64. https://doi.org/10.15195/v8.a12.
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  - Rawlings, C. M. “Cognitive Authority and the Constraint of Attitude Change in Groups.” American Sociological Review 85, no. 6 (December 1, 2020): 992–1021. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122420967305.
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  - Rawlings, C. M., and C. Childress. “Emergent meanings: Reconciling dispositional and situational accounts of meaning-making from cultural objects.” American Journal of Sociology 124, no. 6 (May 1, 2019): 1763–1809. https://doi.org/10.1086/703203.
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  - Rawlings, C. M., and N. E. Friedkin. “The structural balance theory of sentiment networks: Elaboration and test.” American Journal of Sociology 123, no. 2 (September 1, 2017): 510–48. https://doi.org/10.1086/692757.
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  - Childress, C., C. M. Rawlings, and B. Moeran. “Publishers, authors, and texts: The process of cultural consecration in prize evaluation.” Poetics 60 (February 1, 2017): 48–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2016.10.001.
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  - Rawlings, C. M., D. A. McFarland, L. Dahlander, and D. Wang. “Streams of thought: Knowledge flows and intellectual cohesion in a multidisciplinary era.” Social Forces 93, no. 4 (June 1, 2015): 1687–1722. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sov004.
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  - McFarland, D. A., D. Jurafsky, and C. Rawlings. “Making the connection: Social bonding in courtship situations.” American Journal of Sociology 118, no. 6 (May 1, 2013): 1596–1649. https://doi.org/10.1086/670240.
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  - Rawlings, C. M., and D. A. McFarland. “Influence flows in the academy: Using affiliation networks to assess peer effects among researchers.” Social Science Research 40, no. 3 (May 1, 2011): 1001–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.10.002.
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  - Rawlings, C. M., and M. D. Bourgeois. “The complexity of institutional niches: Credentials and organizational differentiation in a field of U.S. higher education.” Poetics 32, no. 6 (January 1, 2004): 411–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2004.09.002.
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  - Rawlings, C. M. “'Making names': The cutting edge renewal of African art in New York City, 1985-1996.” Poetics 29, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 25–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-422X(00)00034-6.
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- Book Sections
  - Mohr, J. W., and C. M. Rawlings. “Formal models of culture.” In Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology: Second Edition, 85–94, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315267784-10.
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  - Mohr, J. W., and C. Rawlings. “Four ways to measure culture: Social science, hermeneutics, and the cultural turn.” In The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 70–113, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195377767.013.4.
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  - Mohr, J. W., and C. Rawlings. “Formal Methods of Cultural Analysis.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition, 357–67, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.10428-3.
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Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Bass Connections Team Leader. Social Network Dynamics and Social Development among Preschoolers. 2021 - 2022 2021 - 2022
- Bass Connections Team Leader. Social Network Dynamics and Social Development among Preschoolers. 2020 - 2021 2020 - 2021

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Subject Headings

Selected Publications

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Recent Courses

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship