Gordon Gauchat
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3632753 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gordon Gauchat |
| NOMBRES | Gordon |
| APELLIDO | Gauchat |
| FIRMA | GAUCHAT G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6258-5900 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 479 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Reimagining public understanding
Public understanding of science is often framed as either factual knowledge or generalized trust in experts. This article advances an alternative: an institutional model, grounded in cultural awareness of the norms, practices, and boundaries through which science produces credible knowledge. Existing approaches struggle to distinguish scientific controversy from broader social conflict, limiting their ability to explain why science’s legitimacy f…
Partisan Polarization and Public Trust in Vaccine Science
Public trust in science and scientific authorities is pivotal to effective vaccine policy and public health. This article develops a cultural-cognitive model to explain how ideological identity structures trust in vaccine-related authorities. Drawing on a novel survey instrument, it examines how partisanship shapes perceptions of scientific authority and the legitimacy of science in public health. Findings reveal that conservatives consistently e…
The Legitimacy of Science
The ongoing pandemic and quickening climate crisis make it difficult to overstate the significance of science and science policy to our world. These global catastrophes have laid bare the fragility of science's legitimacy and its dependence on broader cultural understandings and institutional norms. Challenges to science's legitimacy are numerous and daunting in the early twenty-first century but also nothing new. This review interrogates science…
Religion vs. Science
The Cultural-Cognitive Mapping of Scientific Professions
Even with widespread interest, public perceptions of science remain understudied and poorly theorized by social scientists. A central issue has been the persistent assumption that publics require a base of scientific knowledge for science to have broad cultural meaning. Yet, recent advances in cultural and cognitive sociology point to alternative research programs seeking to identify how publics come to understand complex and uncertain issues, wh…
Path Dependency and the Politics of Socialized Health Care
Rich democracies exhibit vast cross-national and historical variation in the socialization of health care. Yet, cross-national analyses remain relatively rare in the health policy literature, and health care remains relatively neglected in the welfare state literature. We analyze pooled time series models of the public share of total health spending for eighteen rich democracies from 1960 to 2010. Building on path dependency theory, we present a …
American Public Opinion, Advocacy, and Policy in Congress
Feminist Identity, Feminist Politics
Feminist scholars and activists have endorsed a broad and intersectional political agenda that addresses multiple dimensions of inequality, such as gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class. We examine whether or not this perspective is also held by self-identified feminists in the general public. Drawing on public opinion polls from 2007 to 2009, we assess self-identified feminists' attitudes toward a range of social policies. We find that af…
The Political Context of Science in the United States
In recent years, professional science organizations in the United States, including the National Research Council, National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation, have expressed concern about waning policy influence, declining government funding, and the growing politicization of science. Given this background, a number of theoretical questions motivate this study. First, what is the political context of scientific authority in th…
From Coalition to Constraint
We advocate a relational approach to understanding contemporary conservatism in the United States. Our approach suggests that conservatism provides a cultural repertoire for adherents to use in adapting to new or changed political situations. We provide evidence based on public opinion data that conservatism is neither a single, monolithic ideology nor a mere coalition of convenience among disparate interest groups. Instead, conservatism should b…
Use of Medical Homes by Patients With Comorbid Physical and Severe Mental Illness
BACKGROUND: Patients with comorbid severe mental illness (SMI) may use primary care medical homes differently than other patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). OBJECTIVE: To compare medical home use among patients with comorbid SMI to use among those with only chronic physical comorbidities. RESEARCH DESIGN: We examined data on children and adults with MCC for fiscal years 2008-2010, using generalized estimating equations to assess asso…
Occupational Gender Segregation, Globalization, and Gender Earnings Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Previous research on gender-based economic inequality has emphasized occupational segregation as the leading explanatory factor for the gender wage gap. Yet the globalization of the U.S. economy has affected gender inequality in fundamental ways and potentially diminished the influence of occupational gender segregation. We examine whether occupational gender segregation continues to be the main determinant of gender earnings inequality and to wh…
Globalization and earnings inequality in metropolitan areas
This study examines how the dynamics of the global economy, particularly new patterns of capital ownership, affect earnings inequality in the 276 US metropolitan areas and how these patterns vary across the USA between the south and non-south. We examine the impact of five measures of globalization (global capital, foreign direct investment, exports, foreign-born non-citizens and foreign-born citizens) and four measures of labour market transform…
Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere
This study explores time trends in public trust in science in the United States from 1974 to 2010. More precisely, I test Mooney's (2005) claim that conservatives in the United States have become increasingly distrustful of science. Using data from the 1974 to 2010 General Social Survey, I examine group differences in trust in science and group-specific change in these attitudes over time. Results show that group differences in trust in science a…
The cultural authority of science
Using the National Science Foundation’s 2006 Science Indicators Survey, this study explores three distinct explanations of public attitudes. First, the knowledge–attitudes model refers to a well tested relationship between public knowledge of science and more favorable attitudes toward science. Second, the alienation model hypothesizes that public disassociation with science is a symptom of a general disenchantment with late modernity, mainly, th…
The Military Metropolis
This article examines the “military metropolis,” an urban community that depends highly on military expenditures in order to sustain economic vitality. We build on past theories of military Keynesianism and employ insights from urban political economy theory to examine the effects of defense contracts and defense personnel spending on five measures of labor market quality (median household income, income inequality, poverty 125 percent, unemploym…
Sociological Stratification
Go Forth and Multiply
Many studies on the fertility differential by religion have considered both Catholics and Protestants to be equally homogenous groups. Contrary to these studies, we contend that Protestant fertility must be studied in the context of heterogeneous groups. Specifically, conservative Protestantism, with its beliefs about artificial birth control mirroring Catholic teaching, should be examined separately from other Protestant traditions. Using data f…
Globalization, labor market transformation, and metropolitan earnings inequality
Chapter Eleven. Teletechnology And Internal Dialogue
This chapter shows that Mead presents the mind in a paradoxical manner, manifesting in the form of constraint and openness, or what is termed, self-regulation and self-control. It proposes an expansion of Mead's ideas that incorporates Mills' notion of the cultural apparatus and Foucault's notion of surveillance. The chapter introduces and develops two new concepts that reflect these additions: the panoptic idol and the cosmetic panopticism. It i…
A Test of Three Theories of Anti-Science Attitudes
Science has become a key social institution in the contemporary United States. Recent high profile debates regarding the scientific validity of intelligent design in Pennsylvania and Kansas signal the need for social scientific understanding of people's attitudes toward science in the contemporary United States. Using the 1993 General Social Survey (GSS), this study compares three different explanations of anti-science (i.e., negative attitudes t…
Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere
This study explores time trends in public trust in science in the United States from 1974 to 2010. More precisely, I test Mooney's (2005) claim that conservatives in the United States have become increasingly distrustful of science. Using data from the 1974 to 2010 General Social Survey, I examine group differences in trust in science and group-specific change in these attitudes over time. Results show that group differences in trust in science a…
A Test of Three Theories of Anti-Science Attitudes
Science has become a key social institution in the contemporary United States. Recent high profile debates regarding the scientific validity of intelligent design in Pennsylvania and Kansas signal the need for social scientific understanding of people's attitudes toward science in the contemporary United States. Using the 1993 General Social Survey (GSS), this study compares three different explanations of anti-science (i.e., negative attitudes t…
The Cultural-Cognitive Mapping of Scientific Professions
Even with widespread interest, public perceptions of science remain understudied and poorly theorized by social scientists. A central issue has been the persistent assumption that publics require a base of scientific knowledge for science to have broad cultural meaning. Yet, recent advances in cultural and cognitive sociology point to alternative research programs seeking to identify how publics come to understand complex and uncertain issues, wh…
From Coalition to Constraint
We advocate a relational approach to understanding contemporary conservatism in the United States. Our approach suggests that conservatism provides a cultural repertoire for adherents to use in adapting to new or changed political situations. We provide evidence based on public opinion data that conservatism is neither a single, monolithic ideology nor a mere coalition of convenience among disparate interest groups. Instead, conservatism should b…
Sociological Stratification
The Legitimacy of Science
The ongoing pandemic and quickening climate crisis make it difficult to overstate the significance of science and science policy to our world. These global catastrophes have laid bare the fragility of science's legitimacy and its dependence on broader cultural understandings and institutional norms. Challenges to science's legitimacy are numerous and daunting in the early twenty-first century but also nothing new. This review interrogates science…
Globalization, labor market transformation, and metropolitan earnings inequality
Globalization and earnings inequality in metropolitan areas
This study examines how the dynamics of the global economy, particularly new patterns of capital ownership, affect earnings inequality in the 276 US metropolitan areas and how these patterns vary across the USA between the south and non-south. We examine the impact of five measures of globalization (global capital, foreign direct investment, exports, foreign-born non-citizens and foreign-born citizens) and four measures of labour market transform…
Feminist Identity, Feminist Politics
Feminist scholars and activists have endorsed a broad and intersectional political agenda that addresses multiple dimensions of inequality, such as gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class. We examine whether or not this perspective is also held by self-identified feminists in the general public. Drawing on public opinion polls from 2007 to 2009, we assess self-identified feminists' attitudes toward a range of social policies. We find that af…
Go Forth and Multiply
Many studies on the fertility differential by religion have considered both Catholics and Protestants to be equally homogenous groups. Contrary to these studies, we contend that Protestant fertility must be studied in the context of heterogeneous groups. Specifically, conservative Protestantism, with its beliefs about artificial birth control mirroring Catholic teaching, should be examined separately from other Protestant traditions. Using data f…
American Public Opinion, Advocacy, and Policy in Congress
Religion vs. Science
The Military Metropolis
This article examines the “military metropolis,” an urban community that depends highly on military expenditures in order to sustain economic vitality. We build on past theories of military Keynesianism and employ insights from urban political economy theory to examine the effects of defense contracts and defense personnel spending on five measures of labor market quality (median household income, income inequality, poverty 125 percent, unemploym…
A Test of Three Theories of Anti-Science Attitudes
Science has become a key social institution in the contemporary United States. Recent high profile debates regarding the scientific validity of intelligent design in Pennsylvania and Kansas signal the need for social scientific understanding of people's attitudes toward science in the contemporary United States. Using the 1993 General Social Survey (GSS), this study compares three different explanations of anti-science (i.e., negative attitudes t…
Chapter Eleven. Teletechnology And Internal Dialogue
This chapter shows that Mead presents the mind in a paradoxical manner, manifesting in the form of constraint and openness, or what is termed, self-regulation and self-control. It proposes an expansion of Mead's ideas that incorporates Mills' notion of the cultural apparatus and Foucault's notion of surveillance. The chapter introduces and develops two new concepts that reflect these additions: the panoptic idol and the cosmetic panopticism. It i…
The cultural authority of science
Using the National Science Foundation’s 2006 Science Indicators Survey, this study explores three distinct explanations of public attitudes. First, the knowledge–attitudes model refers to a well tested relationship between public knowledge of science and more favorable attitudes toward science. Second, the alienation model hypothesizes that public disassociation with science is a symptom of a general disenchantment with late modernity, mainly, th…
The Military Metropolis
This article examines the “military metropolis,” an urban community that depends highly on military expenditures in order to sustain economic vitality. We build on past theories of military Keynesianism and employ insights from urban political economy theory to examine the effects of defense contracts and defense personnel spending on five measures of labor market quality (median household income, income inequality, poverty 125 percent, unemploym…
Sociological Stratification
Go Forth and Multiply
Many studies on the fertility differential by religion have considered both Catholics and Protestants to be equally homogenous groups. Contrary to these studies, we contend that Protestant fertility must be studied in the context of heterogeneous groups. Specifically, conservative Protestantism, with its beliefs about artificial birth control mirroring Catholic teaching, should be examined separately from other Protestant traditions. Using data f…
Globalization, labor market transformation, and metropolitan earnings inequality
Occupational Gender Segregation, Globalization, and Gender Earnings Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Previous research on gender-based economic inequality has emphasized occupational segregation as the leading explanatory factor for the gender wage gap. Yet the globalization of the U.S. economy has affected gender inequality in fundamental ways and potentially diminished the influence of occupational gender segregation. We examine whether occupational gender segregation continues to be the main determinant of gender earnings inequality and to wh…
Globalization and earnings inequality in metropolitan areas
This study examines how the dynamics of the global economy, particularly new patterns of capital ownership, affect earnings inequality in the 276 US metropolitan areas and how these patterns vary across the USA between the south and non-south. We examine the impact of five measures of globalization (global capital, foreign direct investment, exports, foreign-born non-citizens and foreign-born citizens) and four measures of labour market transform…
Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere
This study explores time trends in public trust in science in the United States from 1974 to 2010. More precisely, I test Mooney's (2005) claim that conservatives in the United States have become increasingly distrustful of science. Using data from the 1974 to 2010 General Social Survey, I examine group differences in trust in science and group-specific change in these attitudes over time. Results show that group differences in trust in science a…
From Coalition to Constraint
We advocate a relational approach to understanding contemporary conservatism in the United States. Our approach suggests that conservatism provides a cultural repertoire for adherents to use in adapting to new or changed political situations. We provide evidence based on public opinion data that conservatism is neither a single, monolithic ideology nor a mere coalition of convenience among disparate interest groups. Instead, conservatism should b…
Use of Medical Homes by Patients With Comorbid Physical and Severe Mental Illness
BACKGROUND: Patients with comorbid severe mental illness (SMI) may use primary care medical homes differently than other patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). OBJECTIVE: To compare medical home use among patients with comorbid SMI to use among those with only chronic physical comorbidities. RESEARCH DESIGN: We examined data on children and adults with MCC for fiscal years 2008-2010, using generalized estimating equations to assess asso…
The Political Context of Science in the United States
In recent years, professional science organizations in the United States, including the National Research Council, National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation, have expressed concern about waning policy influence, declining government funding, and the growing politicization of science. Given this background, a number of theoretical questions motivate this study. First, what is the political context of scientific authority in th…
Path Dependency and the Politics of Socialized Health Care
Rich democracies exhibit vast cross-national and historical variation in the socialization of health care. Yet, cross-national analyses remain relatively rare in the health policy literature, and health care remains relatively neglected in the welfare state literature. We analyze pooled time series models of the public share of total health spending for eighteen rich democracies from 1960 to 2010. Building on path dependency theory, we present a …
American Public Opinion, Advocacy, and Policy in Congress
Feminist Identity, Feminist Politics
Feminist scholars and activists have endorsed a broad and intersectional political agenda that addresses multiple dimensions of inequality, such as gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class. We examine whether or not this perspective is also held by self-identified feminists in the general public. Drawing on public opinion polls from 2007 to 2009, we assess self-identified feminists' attitudes toward a range of social policies. We find that af…
The Cultural-Cognitive Mapping of Scientific Professions
Even with widespread interest, public perceptions of science remain understudied and poorly theorized by social scientists. A central issue has been the persistent assumption that publics require a base of scientific knowledge for science to have broad cultural meaning. Yet, recent advances in cultural and cognitive sociology point to alternative research programs seeking to identify how publics come to understand complex and uncertain issues, wh…
Religion vs. Science
The Legitimacy of Science
The ongoing pandemic and quickening climate crisis make it difficult to overstate the significance of science and science policy to our world. These global catastrophes have laid bare the fragility of science's legitimacy and its dependence on broader cultural understandings and institutional norms. Challenges to science's legitimacy are numerous and daunting in the early twenty-first century but also nothing new. This review interrogates science…
Partisan Polarization and Public Trust in Vaccine Science
Public trust in science and scientific authorities is pivotal to effective vaccine policy and public health. This article develops a cultural-cognitive model to explain how ideological identity structures trust in vaccine-related authorities. Drawing on a novel survey instrument, it examines how partisanship shapes perceptions of scientific authority and the legitimacy of science in public health. Findings reveal that conservatives consistently e…
Reimagining public understanding
Public understanding of science is often framed as either factual knowledge or generalized trust in experts. This article advances an alternative: an institutional model, grounded in cultural awareness of the norms, practices, and boundaries through which science produces credible knowledge. Existing approaches struggle to distinguish scientific controversy from broader social conflict, limiting their ability to explain why science’s legitimacy f…
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