Journal ArticleEvolutionary human sciences · January 2024
Cohort replacement - the replacement in a population of older cohorts by their successors who developed under different conditions - is an important process behind cultural change. Research on public opinion indicates that a large proportion of aggregate c ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2023
It is well-known that the more educated people are, the more liberal views they tend to express. However, it is unclear whether this is due to college attendance itself or because those who go to college differ from those who do not in ways (directly or in ...
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Journal ArticleSociological Science · January 1, 2022
Many aspects of behavior are guided by dispositions that are relatively durable once formed. Political opinions and phonology, for instance, change largely through cohort succession. But evidence for cohort effects has been scarce in artistic and intellect ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Sociology · January 1, 2022
In recent decades, sociologists have generally avoided explicitly discussing the role of culture in processes of social inequality. We argue that the prevailing disciplinary theory of inequality, the framework laid out in Charles Tilly's Durable Inequality ...
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Journal ArticleSociological Forum · December 1, 2021
In this article, I argue that the sociology of culture and cognition is a virtual world and that—although it will be painful—we should try to escape it. This will involve engaging in true interdisciplinary work rather than in a pretense of it. To illustrat ...
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Journal ArticleSociological science · January 2021
Recent work argues that changes in people's responses to the same question over time should be thought of as reflecting a fixed baseline subject to temporary local influences, rather than durable changes in response to new information. Distinguishing betwe ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Sociological Review · June 1, 2020
Models of population-wide cultural change tend to invoke one of two broad models of individual change. One approach theorizes people actively updating their beliefs and behaviors in the face of new information. The other argues that, following early social ...
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Journal ArticlePoetics · June 1, 2018
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Cultural sociologists frequently theorize about choices and decisions, although we tend to shy away from this language, and from concepts that are used by the judgment and decision-making (JDM) sciences. We show that cultural sociology and JDM are compatib ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Sociology · March 1, 2017
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Many accounts of political belief systems conceive of themas networks of interrelated opinions, inwhich some beliefs are central and others peripheral. This article formally shows how such structural features can be used to construct direct measures of bel ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General · March 2016
Does sharing moral values encourage people to connect and form communities? The importance of moral homophily (love of same) has been recognized by social scientists, but the types of moral similarities that drive this phenomenon are still unknown. Using b ...
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Journal ArticleSocius · January 1, 2016
The authors argue that cultural fragmentation models predict that cultural change is driven primarily by period effects, whereas acquired dispositions models predict that cultural change is driven by cohort effects. To ascertain which model is on the right ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Adolescent Research · November 1, 2015
We examined the relationship between moral worldview and number of sexual partners across 6 years in a nationally representative sample of 2,202 emerging adults. Using negative binomial fixed-effects regression models to control for all time-invariant conf ...
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Journal ArticleSocial science research · September 2015
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Debates about the American "culture wars" have led scholars to develop several theories relating morality to political attitudes and behaviors. However, researchers have not adequately compared these theories, nor have they examined the overall contributio ...
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Journal ArticleAnalyses of Social Issues and Public Policy · December 1, 2014
Results from a nationally representative survey (N = 1, 341) provide evidence that self-reported nonvoting behavior is associated with lower endorsement of moral concerns and values (Study 1). Across three studies, five large samples (total N = 27,038), an ...
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Journal ArticlePoetics · October 1, 2014
Though both cultural tastes and social networks have been of interest to sociologists for more than 25 years, investigations of the role that tastes play in shaping networks are relatively new. This paper follows recent research that considers the relation ...
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Journal ArticleTheory and Society · April 24, 2014
Moral culture can mean many things, but two major elements are a concern with moral goods and moral prohibitions. Moral psychologists have developed instruments for assessing both of these and such measures can be directly imported by sociologists. Work by ...
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Journal ArticlePoetics · August 1, 2013
This paper investigates whether substantively distinct moral worldviews can help explain why certain people engage in different types of civic actions. Based on an analysis of survey data from a nationally representative sample of American adults, we find ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Forces · June 1, 2013
Research on the importance of values often focuses primarily on one domain of social predictors (e.g., economic) or limits its scope to a single dimension of values. We conduct a simultaneous analysis of a wide range of theoretically important social influ ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine · November 2011
BackgroundObesity is a substantial problem in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). VHA developed and disseminated the MOVE! Weight Management Program for Veterans to its medical facilities but implementation of the program has been variable.< ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2010
If we could travel back in time and speak with Emile Durkheim or Max Weber, they might be puzzled by this handbook, with its goal to renew “the sociology of morality.” “Can there be,” we imagine them asking, “a sociology that is not a sociology of morality ...
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Journal ArticleSociological Theory · June 1, 2009
While social scientists and geneticists have a shared interest in the personal characteristics instrumental to status attainment, little has been done to integrate these disparate perspectives. This is unfortunate, as the perspectives offer complementary i ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Drug Issues · January 1, 2008
Much research on adolescent deviance has supported a theory of social control, asserting that the lack of ties to institutions (such as school and parents) increases an adolescent's likelihood of using illicit substances. Researchers in this tradition ofte ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Forces · December 1, 2006
The study of education-occupation mismatch, once central to the sociologicalinvestigation of the labor market, has been largely abandoned. While labor economists and scholars in other nations continue to investigate overqualification, it has been more than ...
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Journal ArticleBritish Journal of Industrial Relations · September 1, 2005
This paper examines the perceived quality of jobs held by a sample of members of the International Association of Machinists, a large union in North America. It is argued that useful insights can be obtained by examining the relationships between global an ...
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