C M Rawlings
Biographic Data
| ID | 20830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C M Rawlings |
| GIVEN NAMES | C M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawlings |
| SIGNATURE | RAWLINGS C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9395-4748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Cultural Polarization and Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning
Peer Networks and Ideological Consistency: How Student Communities Facilitate Belief Liberalization in Higher Education
Why do students in higher education tend to become more liberal? The authors outline a model of belief change wherein cognitive motivations for ideological consistency interact with social factors in peer networks to influence how students in higher education engage with social change, often resulting in a shift toward more liberal views. Hypotheses derived from this framework are tested using longitudinal data on two cohorts of divinity school s…
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)
Derogation of the victim refers to the tendency of an observer to negatively evaluate someone hurt by the action of another. Victim derogation has been a core feature of social psychology for decades, but evidence suggests this phenomenon is weakening. It may even be reversing into a valorization of victims. Is this empirical pattern due to methodological changes and shifts in theoretical framing of victim studies, or have there been large-scale …
The Polarization of Popular Culture: "Tracing the Size, Shape, and Depth of the "Oil Spill
Recent research suggests that political polarization has spilled over into otherwise mundane areas of social life. And yet, the size, shape, and depth of that spillage into popular culture are generally unknown. Relying on a sample of 135 widely known movies, TV shows, musicians, sports, and leisure activities, we investigate these issues. We find the "oil spill" of polarization into popular culture is large but loosely organized into multiple fa…
Becoming an Ideologue: Social Sorting and the Microfoundations of Polarization
This article elaborates and tests the hypothesis that the sociopolitical segregation of interpersonal networks (i.e., social sorting) is at the root of recent polarization trends in the United States. After reviewing recent trends, the article outlines the micro-level pathways through which social sorting along sociopolitical lines leads individuals to become more ideological in their identities and attitude structures. It then tests these pathwa…
Genres, Objects, and the Contemporary Expression of Higher-Status Tastes
Are contemporary higher-status tastes inclusive, exclusive, or both? Recent work suggests that the answer likely is both. And yet, little is known concerning how configurations of such tastes are learned, upheld, and expressed without contradiction. We resolve this puzzle by showing the affordances of different levels of culture (i.e., genres and objects) in the expression of tastes. We rely on original survey data to show that people of higher s…
The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob
Are higher status cultural tastes in the modern United States better described as being inclusive and broad or exclusive and narrow? We construct an original dataset in response to conflicting answers to this question. We fill a major gap in the literature on cultural tastes by simultaneously considering taste for both musical genres and artists within genres. By examining the compositional balance of respondents’ taste portfolios, we reconcile s…
Schemas, Interactions, and Objects in Meaning‐Making 1
Sociologists agree that there is something cultural that exists within individuals, in interactions, and in objects. And yet the process through which the culture inside individuals interacts with the culture outside of them is only partially understood and is generally untested. Relying on a novel quasi‐experimental design, we investigate how the culture within individuals, interactions, and objects operates in the making of shared meanings. Fir…
Measure Mohr culture
Cognitive Authority and the Constraint of Attitude Change in Groups
Are individuals' attitudes constrained such that it is difficult to change one attitude without also changing other attitudes? Given a lack of longitudinal studies in real-world settings, it remains unclear if individuals have coherent attitude systems at all-and, if they do, what produces attitude constraint. I argue and show that groups can endogenously produce attitude constraint via cognitive authorities. Within groups, cognitive authorities …
Emergent Meanings: Reconciling Dispositional and Situational Accounts of Meaning-Making from Cultural Objects
Across a wide variety of topics and methodological approaches, researchers find that meaning is segregated along sociodemographic lines. Using real-world data, this article evaluates and helps reconcile the often-theorized but rarely tested mechanisms that segregate meaning. Shared meaning is defined as both greater agreement on a cultural object’s interpretive dimensions and a similar schema organizing how these interpretive dimensions interrela…
Culture in Networks
Publishers, authors, and texts: The process of cultural consecration in prize evaluation
Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn
This article considers four of the ways in which measurement practices have been applied to create formal models of culture in the social sciences. It first examines the nature of formal measurement models in the social sciences and compares this mode of scholarship to more hermeneutic styles of research, paying attention to debates over method in the social sciences before and after the cultural turn. It then discusses four different types of fo…
The Structural Balance Theory of Sentiment Networks: Elaboration and Test
Structural balance theory attends to a group’s network of sentiments and posits that this network alters over time toward particular structural forms. Current work on the theory is focused on understanding the mechanisms that alter sentiments as a function of the configuration of sentiments in which they are embedded. Although the theory assumes tension reduction mechanisms, there has been no effort to directly measure and model the temporal chan…
Formal Methods of Cultural Analysis
Streams of Thought: Knowledge Flows and Intellectual Cohesion in a Multidisciplinary Era
Journal Article Streams of Thought: Knowledge Flows and Intellectual Cohesion in a Multidisciplinary Era Get access Craig M. Rawlings, Craig M. Rawlings University of California–Santa Barbara Please direct correspondence to Craig M. Rawlings, Sociology Department SSMS 3407, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Daniel A. McFarland, Daniel A. McFa…
Making the Connection: Social Bonding in Courtship Situations
Sociologists have long argued that the force of a social bond resides in a sense of interpersonal connection. This is especially true for initial courtship encounters when pairs report a sense of interpersonal chemistry. The authors explore the process of romantic bonding by applying interaction ritual theory, extended and integrated with methods from computational linguistics, to the study of courtship encounters and, specifically, heterosexual …
Influence flows in the academy: Using affiliation networks to assess peer effects among researchers
The complexity of institutional niches: Credentials and organizational differentiation in a field of U.S. higher education
The complexity of institutional niches
Making names: The cutting edge renewal of African art in New York City, 1985-1996
Emergent Meanings: Reconciling Dispositional and Situational Accounts of Meaning-Making from Cultural Objects
Across a wide variety of topics and methodological approaches, researchers find that meaning is segregated along sociodemographic lines. Using real-world data, this article evaluates and helps reconcile the often-theorized but rarely tested mechanisms that segregate meaning. Shared meaning is defined as both greater agreement on a cultural object’s interpretive dimensions and a similar schema organizing how these interpretive dimensions interrela…
Genres, Objects, and the Contemporary Expression of Higher-Status Tastes
Are contemporary higher-status tastes inclusive, exclusive, or both? Recent work suggests that the answer likely is both. And yet, little is known concerning how configurations of such tastes are learned, upheld, and expressed without contradiction. We resolve this puzzle by showing the affordances of different levels of culture (i.e., genres and objects) in the expression of tastes. We rely on original survey data to show that people of higher s…
The Structural Balance Theory of Sentiment Networks: Elaboration and Test
Structural balance theory attends to a group’s network of sentiments and posits that this network alters over time toward particular structural forms. Current work on the theory is focused on understanding the mechanisms that alter sentiments as a function of the configuration of sentiments in which they are embedded. Although the theory assumes tension reduction mechanisms, there has been no effort to directly measure and model the temporal chan…
Publishers, authors, and texts: The process of cultural consecration in prize evaluation
Making the Connection: Social Bonding in Courtship Situations
Sociologists have long argued that the force of a social bond resides in a sense of interpersonal connection. This is especially true for initial courtship encounters when pairs report a sense of interpersonal chemistry. The authors explore the process of romantic bonding by applying interaction ritual theory, extended and integrated with methods from computational linguistics, to the study of courtship encounters and, specifically, heterosexual …
The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob
Are higher status cultural tastes in the modern United States better described as being inclusive and broad or exclusive and narrow? We construct an original dataset in response to conflicting answers to this question. We fill a major gap in the literature on cultural tastes by simultaneously considering taste for both musical genres and artists within genres. By examining the compositional balance of respondents’ taste portfolios, we reconcile s…
Cognitive Authority and the Constraint of Attitude Change in Groups
Are individuals' attitudes constrained such that it is difficult to change one attitude without also changing other attitudes? Given a lack of longitudinal studies in real-world settings, it remains unclear if individuals have coherent attitude systems at all-and, if they do, what produces attitude constraint. I argue and show that groups can endogenously produce attitude constraint via cognitive authorities. Within groups, cognitive authorities …
Influence flows in the academy: Using affiliation networks to assess peer effects among researchers
Making names: The cutting edge renewal of African art in New York City, 1985-1996
Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn
This article considers four of the ways in which measurement practices have been applied to create formal models of culture in the social sciences. It first examines the nature of formal measurement models in the social sciences and compares this mode of scholarship to more hermeneutic styles of research, paying attention to debates over method in the social sciences before and after the cultural turn. It then discusses four different types of fo…
The Polarization of Popular Culture: "Tracing the Size, Shape, and Depth of the "Oil Spill
Recent research suggests that political polarization has spilled over into otherwise mundane areas of social life. And yet, the size, shape, and depth of that spillage into popular culture are generally unknown. Relying on a sample of 135 widely known movies, TV shows, musicians, sports, and leisure activities, we investigate these issues. We find the "oil spill" of polarization into popular culture is large but loosely organized into multiple fa…
Becoming an Ideologue: Social Sorting and the Microfoundations of Polarization
This article elaborates and tests the hypothesis that the sociopolitical segregation of interpersonal networks (i.e., social sorting) is at the root of recent polarization trends in the United States. After reviewing recent trends, the article outlines the micro-level pathways through which social sorting along sociopolitical lines leads individuals to become more ideological in their identities and attitude structures. It then tests these pathwa…
Schemas, Interactions, and Objects in Meaning‐Making 1
Sociologists agree that there is something cultural that exists within individuals, in interactions, and in objects. And yet the process through which the culture inside individuals interacts with the culture outside of them is only partially understood and is generally untested. Relying on a novel quasi‐experimental design, we investigate how the culture within individuals, interactions, and objects operates in the making of shared meanings. Fir…
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)
Derogation of the victim refers to the tendency of an observer to negatively evaluate someone hurt by the action of another. Victim derogation has been a core feature of social psychology for decades, but evidence suggests this phenomenon is weakening. It may even be reversing into a valorization of victims. Is this empirical pattern due to methodological changes and shifts in theoretical framing of victim studies, or have there been large-scale …
Measure Mohr culture
The complexity of institutional niches: Credentials and organizational differentiation in a field of U.S. higher education
The complexity of institutional niches
Making names: The cutting edge renewal of African art in New York City, 1985-1996
The complexity of institutional niches: Credentials and organizational differentiation in a field of U.S. higher education
The complexity of institutional niches
Influence flows in the academy: Using affiliation networks to assess peer effects among researchers
Making the Connection: Social Bonding in Courtship Situations
Sociologists have long argued that the force of a social bond resides in a sense of interpersonal connection. This is especially true for initial courtship encounters when pairs report a sense of interpersonal chemistry. The authors explore the process of romantic bonding by applying interaction ritual theory, extended and integrated with methods from computational linguistics, to the study of courtship encounters and, specifically, heterosexual …
Formal Methods of Cultural Analysis
Streams of Thought: Knowledge Flows and Intellectual Cohesion in a Multidisciplinary Era
Journal Article Streams of Thought: Knowledge Flows and Intellectual Cohesion in a Multidisciplinary Era Get access Craig M. Rawlings, Craig M. Rawlings University of California–Santa Barbara Please direct correspondence to Craig M. Rawlings, Sociology Department SSMS 3407, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Daniel A. McFarland, Daniel A. McFa…
Publishers, authors, and texts: The process of cultural consecration in prize evaluation
Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn
This article considers four of the ways in which measurement practices have been applied to create formal models of culture in the social sciences. It first examines the nature of formal measurement models in the social sciences and compares this mode of scholarship to more hermeneutic styles of research, paying attention to debates over method in the social sciences before and after the cultural turn. It then discusses four different types of fo…
The Structural Balance Theory of Sentiment Networks: Elaboration and Test
Structural balance theory attends to a group’s network of sentiments and posits that this network alters over time toward particular structural forms. Current work on the theory is focused on understanding the mechanisms that alter sentiments as a function of the configuration of sentiments in which they are embedded. Although the theory assumes tension reduction mechanisms, there has been no effort to directly measure and model the temporal chan…
Culture in Networks
Emergent Meanings: Reconciling Dispositional and Situational Accounts of Meaning-Making from Cultural Objects
Across a wide variety of topics and methodological approaches, researchers find that meaning is segregated along sociodemographic lines. Using real-world data, this article evaluates and helps reconcile the often-theorized but rarely tested mechanisms that segregate meaning. Shared meaning is defined as both greater agreement on a cultural object’s interpretive dimensions and a similar schema organizing how these interpretive dimensions interrela…
Cognitive Authority and the Constraint of Attitude Change in Groups
Are individuals' attitudes constrained such that it is difficult to change one attitude without also changing other attitudes? Given a lack of longitudinal studies in real-world settings, it remains unclear if individuals have coherent attitude systems at all-and, if they do, what produces attitude constraint. I argue and show that groups can endogenously produce attitude constraint via cognitive authorities. Within groups, cognitive authorities …
Genres, Objects, and the Contemporary Expression of Higher-Status Tastes
Are contemporary higher-status tastes inclusive, exclusive, or both? Recent work suggests that the answer likely is both. And yet, little is known concerning how configurations of such tastes are learned, upheld, and expressed without contradiction. We resolve this puzzle by showing the affordances of different levels of culture (i.e., genres and objects) in the expression of tastes. We rely on original survey data to show that people of higher s…
The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob
Are higher status cultural tastes in the modern United States better described as being inclusive and broad or exclusive and narrow? We construct an original dataset in response to conflicting answers to this question. We fill a major gap in the literature on cultural tastes by simultaneously considering taste for both musical genres and artists within genres. By examining the compositional balance of respondents’ taste portfolios, we reconcile s…
Schemas, Interactions, and Objects in Meaning‐Making 1
Sociologists agree that there is something cultural that exists within individuals, in interactions, and in objects. And yet the process through which the culture inside individuals interacts with the culture outside of them is only partially understood and is generally untested. Relying on a novel quasi‐experimental design, we investigate how the culture within individuals, interactions, and objects operates in the making of shared meanings. Fir…
Measure Mohr culture
Becoming an Ideologue: Social Sorting and the Microfoundations of Polarization
This article elaborates and tests the hypothesis that the sociopolitical segregation of interpersonal networks (i.e., social sorting) is at the root of recent polarization trends in the United States. After reviewing recent trends, the article outlines the micro-level pathways through which social sorting along sociopolitical lines leads individuals to become more ideological in their identities and attitude structures. It then tests these pathwa…
Are Victims Virtuous or Vilified? The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Each Other)
Derogation of the victim refers to the tendency of an observer to negatively evaluate someone hurt by the action of another. Victim derogation has been a core feature of social psychology for decades, but evidence suggests this phenomenon is weakening. It may even be reversing into a valorization of victims. Is this empirical pattern due to methodological changes and shifts in theoretical framing of victim studies, or have there been large-scale …
The Polarization of Popular Culture: "Tracing the Size, Shape, and Depth of the "Oil Spill
Recent research suggests that political polarization has spilled over into otherwise mundane areas of social life. And yet, the size, shape, and depth of that spillage into popular culture are generally unknown. Relying on a sample of 135 widely known movies, TV shows, musicians, sports, and leisure activities, we investigate these issues. We find the "oil spill" of polarization into popular culture is large but loosely organized into multiple fa…
Cultural Polarization and Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning
Peer Networks and Ideological Consistency: How Student Communities Facilitate Belief Liberalization in Higher Education
Why do students in higher education tend to become more liberal? The authors outline a model of belief change wherein cognitive motivations for ideological consistency interact with social factors in peer networks to influence how students in higher education engage with social change, often resulting in a shift toward more liberal views. Hypotheses derived from this framework are tested using longitudinal data on two cohorts of divinity school s…
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