Mindy L Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 111589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mindy L Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mindy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1414-8001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Is Grounded Simulation
The capacity to mentally simulate objects and events is an important yet underexplored component in sociological theorising. Recent sociological research drawing on simulation research from the cognitive sciences suggests opportunities for new insights via a richer interdisciplinary engagement. To this end, we provide a thorough review of the literature on grounded simulation theory, building on the nascent work in sociology engaging with grounde…
Cultural power via contaminating dualities
The raw and the (over)cooked
Researchers have long recognized the role of metaphor in conceptualizing states. We contribute to research on the conceptualization of state concepts in two ways. First, we identify a not-yet-recognized metaphor system commonly used to conceptualize states: states are physical qualities . We contend that states are physical qualities is an elaboration of the image-schematic states are locations metaphor, with a higher degree of specificity, affor…
Making Obama iconic
Measuring Cultural Diversity in Text with Word Counts
A long-standing concern in the study of culture is understanding how culture is distributed, often discussed in terms of cultural “coherence.” Cultural diversity, defined as the degree to which people share beliefs or meanings, is one dimension of cultural coherence that has been associated with many social outcomes. This article contributes to this area of research by considering how to measure cultural diversity in text and introducing a simple…
Drawing Out Definitions
Making Space Behind the Veil
The work of W.E.B. Du Bois highlights the significance of Christian religion in Black American life. According to Du Bois, the Black Church serves as a site of self-formation and affirmation, and the White Church as a source of racist beliefs and justifications for inequality. In this paper, we expand Du Bois' inquiry about the influence of religion with a study of Black Americans who belong to a predominantly White religion. For those whose reli…
Predicting Homophily and Social Network Connectivity From Dyadic Behavioral Similarity Trajectory Clusters
The similarity between pairs of people is often measured on relatively static traits and at a given point in time. Moving beyond this approach, a burgeoning line of research is investigating temporal dyadic similarity on traits and behaviors, such as health activities. Our study contributes to this line of inquiry by using fine-grained longitudinal data obtained from sensors, mobile devices, and surveys to examine whether we can observe distinct …
Visualizing Change in Ordinal Measures
The figure plots self-reports of religious attendance using data from the General Social Survey (1972-2018), contributing to current debates about how religiosity is changing in the United States by clearly showing the relative increase or decrease of each level of religious attendance over time. The main new insight is that the observed decline in religious attendance in the United States has been driven primarily by a large increase in people r…
Visualizing Bring-backs
The figure plots the number of articles that have attempted to “bring” something “back in” in the social sciences by publication year and number of citations. Andrew Abbott, taking a (pessimistic) sociology of knowledge perspective, identified this tendency—beginning with Homans’s classic article “Bringing Men Back in”—as emblematic of the tendency to rediscover old ideas in sociology. The plot shows that “bring-backs” did not become a common yea…
Schemas and Frames
A perennial concern in frame analysis is explaining how frames structure perception and persuade audiences. In this article, we suggest that the distinction between personal culture and public culture offers a productive way forward. We propose an approach centered on an analytic contrast between schemas, which we define as a form of personal culture, and frames, which we define as a form of public culture. We develop an 'evocation model' of the …
What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology
In this paper we introduce the idea of the dual process framework (DPF), an interdisciplinary approach to the study of learning, memory, thinking, and action. Departing from the successful reception of Vaisey (2009), we suggest that intradisciplinary debates in sociology regarding the merits of 'dual process' formulations can benefit from a better understanding of the theoretical foundations of these models in cognitive and social psychology. We …
Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant 'subfossil' lemurs
What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology
In this paper we introduce the idea of the dual process framework (DPF), an interdisciplinary approach to the study of learning, memory, thinking, and action. Departing from the successful reception of Vaisey (2009), we suggest that intradisciplinary debates in sociology regarding the merits of 'dual process' formulations can benefit from a better understanding of the theoretical foundations of these models in cognitive and social psychology. We …
Schemas and Frames
A perennial concern in frame analysis is explaining how frames structure perception and persuade audiences. In this article, we suggest that the distinction between personal culture and public culture offers a productive way forward. We propose an approach centered on an analytic contrast between schemas, which we define as a form of personal culture, and frames, which we define as a form of public culture. We develop an 'evocation model' of the …
Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant 'subfossil' lemurs
Visualizing Change in Ordinal Measures
The figure plots self-reports of religious attendance using data from the General Social Survey (1972-2018), contributing to current debates about how religiosity is changing in the United States by clearly showing the relative increase or decrease of each level of religious attendance over time. The main new insight is that the observed decline in religious attendance in the United States has been driven primarily by a large increase in people r…
Measuring Cultural Diversity in Text with Word Counts
A long-standing concern in the study of culture is understanding how culture is distributed, often discussed in terms of cultural “coherence.” Cultural diversity, defined as the degree to which people share beliefs or meanings, is one dimension of cultural coherence that has been associated with many social outcomes. This article contributes to this area of research by considering how to measure cultural diversity in text and introducing a simple…
Predicting Homophily and Social Network Connectivity From Dyadic Behavioral Similarity Trajectory Clusters
The similarity between pairs of people is often measured on relatively static traits and at a given point in time. Moving beyond this approach, a burgeoning line of research is investigating temporal dyadic similarity on traits and behaviors, such as health activities. Our study contributes to this line of inquiry by using fine-grained longitudinal data obtained from sensors, mobile devices, and surveys to examine whether we can observe distinct …
Cultural power via contaminating dualities
Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant 'subfossil' lemurs
What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology
In this paper we introduce the idea of the dual process framework (DPF), an interdisciplinary approach to the study of learning, memory, thinking, and action. Departing from the successful reception of Vaisey (2009), we suggest that intradisciplinary debates in sociology regarding the merits of 'dual process' formulations can benefit from a better understanding of the theoretical foundations of these models in cognitive and social psychology. We …
Visualizing Bring-backs
The figure plots the number of articles that have attempted to “bring” something “back in” in the social sciences by publication year and number of citations. Andrew Abbott, taking a (pessimistic) sociology of knowledge perspective, identified this tendency—beginning with Homans’s classic article “Bringing Men Back in”—as emblematic of the tendency to rediscover old ideas in sociology. The plot shows that “bring-backs” did not become a common yea…
Schemas and Frames
A perennial concern in frame analysis is explaining how frames structure perception and persuade audiences. In this article, we suggest that the distinction between personal culture and public culture offers a productive way forward. We propose an approach centered on an analytic contrast between schemas, which we define as a form of personal culture, and frames, which we define as a form of public culture. We develop an 'evocation model' of the …
Predicting Homophily and Social Network Connectivity From Dyadic Behavioral Similarity Trajectory Clusters
The similarity between pairs of people is often measured on relatively static traits and at a given point in time. Moving beyond this approach, a burgeoning line of research is investigating temporal dyadic similarity on traits and behaviors, such as health activities. Our study contributes to this line of inquiry by using fine-grained longitudinal data obtained from sensors, mobile devices, and surveys to examine whether we can observe distinct …
Visualizing Change in Ordinal Measures
The figure plots self-reports of religious attendance using data from the General Social Survey (1972-2018), contributing to current debates about how religiosity is changing in the United States by clearly showing the relative increase or decrease of each level of religious attendance over time. The main new insight is that the observed decline in religious attendance in the United States has been driven primarily by a large increase in people r…
Making Space Behind the Veil
The work of W.E.B. Du Bois highlights the significance of Christian religion in Black American life. According to Du Bois, the Black Church serves as a site of self-formation and affirmation, and the White Church as a source of racist beliefs and justifications for inequality. In this paper, we expand Du Bois' inquiry about the influence of religion with a study of Black Americans who belong to a predominantly White religion. For those whose reli…
The raw and the (over)cooked
Researchers have long recognized the role of metaphor in conceptualizing states. We contribute to research on the conceptualization of state concepts in two ways. First, we identify a not-yet-recognized metaphor system commonly used to conceptualize states: states are physical qualities . We contend that states are physical qualities is an elaboration of the image-schematic states are locations metaphor, with a higher degree of specificity, affor…
Making Obama iconic
Measuring Cultural Diversity in Text with Word Counts
A long-standing concern in the study of culture is understanding how culture is distributed, often discussed in terms of cultural “coherence.” Cultural diversity, defined as the degree to which people share beliefs or meanings, is one dimension of cultural coherence that has been associated with many social outcomes. This article contributes to this area of research by considering how to measure cultural diversity in text and introducing a simple…
Drawing Out Definitions
What Is Grounded Simulation
The capacity to mentally simulate objects and events is an important yet underexplored component in sociological theorising. Recent sociological research drawing on simulation research from the cognitive sciences suggests opportunities for new insights via a richer interdisciplinary engagement. To this end, we provide a thorough review of the literature on grounded simulation theory, building on the nascent work in sociology engaging with grounde…
Cultural power via contaminating dualities
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works)