L Valentino
Biographic Data
| ID | 43451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Valentino |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Valentino |
| SIGNATURE | VALENTINO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0252-054X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Zero-sum or Coalition? A Dyadic Approach for Testing Discrimination’s Impact on Perceptions of Ethnoracial Outgroups
Intergroup relations research suggests that individuals perceive racial politics through a zero-sum framework, whereas scholarship on mobilization and social movements has shown the importance of cross-racial solidarity in effecting political change through coalition-building. We apply these two theoretical perspectives to the question of discrimination, asking whether perceptions or experiences with discrimination against one’s own racial group …
Seeing Discrimination: How Different Definitions of Discrimination Relate to Health in U.S. Adults
Research demonstrates that perceived discrimination negatively impacts health. Yet there is conflicting evidence about how an individual’s definition of discrimination—separate from their experience of discrimination—shapes health disparities. Using a nationally representative survey experiment in which participants (N = 2,000) are asked to evaluate nine different scenarios of potential discrimination, we find that how a person labels these discr…
Inaction, Silence, Focus, and Power: Identifying and Assessing Folk Theories of the Racism of Omission
Recent scholarship has advanced a concept of racism operating through omission. Omission captures both inaction and action, highlighting how systems of oppression rely on inertia in addition to discriminatory action to perpetuate inequality. Yet little is known about how laypersons understand the role of omission in propagating racism in the United States. Building on this premise, we employ a mixed-methods approach to document and test folk theo…
What to Do with “Other, Describe
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ended text boxes can address this issue, but researchers rarely use these data because they lack guidance on how to code open-text information and manage small samples for analyses. The authors offer a roadmap to key decisions regarding the use of “other, describe” answer options and data duri…
Status Lenses: Mapping Hierarchy and Consensus in Status Beliefs
Research on status beliefs demonstrates that judgments of status are not always universally shared and are shaped by social structural factors. Building on this literature, I introduce the concept of status lenses, reflecting a hierarchical-nonhierarchical dimension and a consensus-dissensus dimension of how social groups view the status order. Using data from the 2012 General Social Survey module on occupational prestige, the most common measure…
Intersectional Wealth Gaps: Contemporary and Historical Trends in Wealth Stratification among Single Households by Race and Gender
Wealth disparities represent one of the starkest measures of contemporary inequality in the US. While many studies have examined stratification in wealth between ethnoracial groups, and to a lesser extent between genders, scholars have paid little attention to the combination of race- and gender-based wealth gaps. We take a first step toward examining wealth gaps through an intersectional lens by examining data from single households in eleven wa…
Constructing the Racial Hierarchy of Labor: The Role of Race in Occupational Prestige Judgments
Sociologists of culture are interested in processes of valuation, such as the way we value the division of labor. Typically measured through occupational prestige, prior research on this topic has largely neglected the potential role of race in the construction of the status hierarchy. This study asks whether and how race shapes judgments of occupational prestige, drawing on key insights from the sociology of race and ethnicity (Whiteness as a cr…
The Heterarchy of Occupational Status: Evidence for Diverse Logics of Prestige in the United States
How do people perceive the status hierarchy? Stratification and inequality scholars have tended to assume that everyone perceives the status hierarchy the same way, using a single materialist logic—as a homoarchy. However, an emerging perspective from the study of culture posits that our view of the status hierarchy is shaped by our position within that hierarchy, suggesting that people using multiple, diverse logics—a heterarchy. This study prov…
The Segregation Premium: How Gender Shapes the Symbolic Valuation Process of Occupational Prestige Judgments
Symbolic valuation is an important but overlooked aspect of gendered processes of inequality in the occupation structure. Prior work has largely focused on the material valuation of gendered work, such as how much predominantly-female versus predominantly-male occupations pay. Less research has examined the symbolic valuation of work, such as how prestigious predominantly-female versus predominantly-male occupations are. What research has examine…
Being and Becoming Poor: How Cultural Schemas Shape Beliefs About Poverty
Prior research on stratification beliefs has investigated individuals’ understandings regarding the causes of poverty in America. These past studies have uncovered demographic characteristics associated with individualist and structuralist explanations for poverty. In the current study, we will argue that Americans, like social scientists, envision poverty as a heterogeneous and complex phenomenon. We utilize a cultural cognition theoretical appr…
Perceptions of Future Career Family Flexibility as a Deterrent from Majoring in STEM
Research on the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) “pipeline” has charted the loss of potential STEM talent throughout students’ secondary and postsecondary trajectories. One source of STEM talent loss that has been commonly suggested throughout the literature is the lack of family friendly flexibility in STEM careers. This explanation has been offered as a reason why women are underrepresented in the STEM fields. We test th…
Moving Latino/a Students Into STEM Majors in College: The Role of Teachers and Professional Communities in Secondary Schools
We argue that Latino/a students are more likely to major in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in college if they were educated in high schools where they studied with satisfied teachers who worked in collaborative professional communities. Quantitative results demonstrate that collaborative professional communities in high school are important for Latino/a students’ choice of major in college. Results from qualitative interviews c…
The Heterarchy of Occupational Status: Evidence for Diverse Logics of Prestige in the United States
How do people perceive the status hierarchy? Stratification and inequality scholars have tended to assume that everyone perceives the status hierarchy the same way, using a single materialist logic—as a homoarchy. However, an emerging perspective from the study of culture posits that our view of the status hierarchy is shaped by our position within that hierarchy, suggesting that people using multiple, diverse logics—a heterarchy. This study prov…
Inaction, Silence, Focus, and Power: Identifying and Assessing Folk Theories of the Racism of Omission
Recent scholarship has advanced a concept of racism operating through omission. Omission captures both inaction and action, highlighting how systems of oppression rely on inertia in addition to discriminatory action to perpetuate inequality. Yet little is known about how laypersons understand the role of omission in propagating racism in the United States. Building on this premise, we employ a mixed-methods approach to document and test folk theo…
Moving Latino/a Students Into STEM Majors in College: The Role of Teachers and Professional Communities in Secondary Schools
We argue that Latino/a students are more likely to major in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in college if they were educated in high schools where they studied with satisfied teachers who worked in collaborative professional communities. Quantitative results demonstrate that collaborative professional communities in high school are important for Latino/a students’ choice of major in college. Results from qualitative interviews c…
Constructing the Racial Hierarchy of Labor: The Role of Race in Occupational Prestige Judgments
Sociologists of culture are interested in processes of valuation, such as the way we value the division of labor. Typically measured through occupational prestige, prior research on this topic has largely neglected the potential role of race in the construction of the status hierarchy. This study asks whether and how race shapes judgments of occupational prestige, drawing on key insights from the sociology of race and ethnicity (Whiteness as a cr…
What to Do with “Other, Describe
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ended text boxes can address this issue, but researchers rarely use these data because they lack guidance on how to code open-text information and manage small samples for analyses. The authors offer a roadmap to key decisions regarding the use of “other, describe” answer options and data duri…
Status Lenses: Mapping Hierarchy and Consensus in Status Beliefs
Research on status beliefs demonstrates that judgments of status are not always universally shared and are shaped by social structural factors. Building on this literature, I introduce the concept of status lenses, reflecting a hierarchical-nonhierarchical dimension and a consensus-dissensus dimension of how social groups view the status order. Using data from the 2012 General Social Survey module on occupational prestige, the most common measure…
Intersectional Wealth Gaps: Contemporary and Historical Trends in Wealth Stratification among Single Households by Race and Gender
Wealth disparities represent one of the starkest measures of contemporary inequality in the US. While many studies have examined stratification in wealth between ethnoracial groups, and to a lesser extent between genders, scholars have paid little attention to the combination of race- and gender-based wealth gaps. We take a first step toward examining wealth gaps through an intersectional lens by examining data from single households in eleven wa…
Perceptions of Future Career Family Flexibility as a Deterrent from Majoring in STEM
Research on the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) “pipeline” has charted the loss of potential STEM talent throughout students’ secondary and postsecondary trajectories. One source of STEM talent loss that has been commonly suggested throughout the literature is the lack of family friendly flexibility in STEM careers. This explanation has been offered as a reason why women are underrepresented in the STEM fields. We test th…
Moving Latino/a Students Into STEM Majors in College: The Role of Teachers and Professional Communities in Secondary Schools
We argue that Latino/a students are more likely to major in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in college if they were educated in high schools where they studied with satisfied teachers who worked in collaborative professional communities. Quantitative results demonstrate that collaborative professional communities in high school are important for Latino/a students’ choice of major in college. Results from qualitative interviews c…
Perceptions of Future Career Family Flexibility as a Deterrent from Majoring in STEM
Research on the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) “pipeline” has charted the loss of potential STEM talent throughout students’ secondary and postsecondary trajectories. One source of STEM talent loss that has been commonly suggested throughout the literature is the lack of family friendly flexibility in STEM careers. This explanation has been offered as a reason why women are underrepresented in the STEM fields. We test th…
Being and Becoming Poor: How Cultural Schemas Shape Beliefs About Poverty
Prior research on stratification beliefs has investigated individuals’ understandings regarding the causes of poverty in America. These past studies have uncovered demographic characteristics associated with individualist and structuralist explanations for poverty. In the current study, we will argue that Americans, like social scientists, envision poverty as a heterogeneous and complex phenomenon. We utilize a cultural cognition theoretical appr…
The Segregation Premium: How Gender Shapes the Symbolic Valuation Process of Occupational Prestige Judgments
Symbolic valuation is an important but overlooked aspect of gendered processes of inequality in the occupation structure. Prior work has largely focused on the material valuation of gendered work, such as how much predominantly-female versus predominantly-male occupations pay. Less research has examined the symbolic valuation of work, such as how prestigious predominantly-female versus predominantly-male occupations are. What research has examine…
The Heterarchy of Occupational Status: Evidence for Diverse Logics of Prestige in the United States
How do people perceive the status hierarchy? Stratification and inequality scholars have tended to assume that everyone perceives the status hierarchy the same way, using a single materialist logic—as a homoarchy. However, an emerging perspective from the study of culture posits that our view of the status hierarchy is shaped by our position within that hierarchy, suggesting that people using multiple, diverse logics—a heterarchy. This study prov…
Status Lenses: Mapping Hierarchy and Consensus in Status Beliefs
Research on status beliefs demonstrates that judgments of status are not always universally shared and are shaped by social structural factors. Building on this literature, I introduce the concept of status lenses, reflecting a hierarchical-nonhierarchical dimension and a consensus-dissensus dimension of how social groups view the status order. Using data from the 2012 General Social Survey module on occupational prestige, the most common measure…
Intersectional Wealth Gaps: Contemporary and Historical Trends in Wealth Stratification among Single Households by Race and Gender
Wealth disparities represent one of the starkest measures of contemporary inequality in the US. While many studies have examined stratification in wealth between ethnoracial groups, and to a lesser extent between genders, scholars have paid little attention to the combination of race- and gender-based wealth gaps. We take a first step toward examining wealth gaps through an intersectional lens by examining data from single households in eleven wa…
Constructing the Racial Hierarchy of Labor: The Role of Race in Occupational Prestige Judgments
Sociologists of culture are interested in processes of valuation, such as the way we value the division of labor. Typically measured through occupational prestige, prior research on this topic has largely neglected the potential role of race in the construction of the status hierarchy. This study asks whether and how race shapes judgments of occupational prestige, drawing on key insights from the sociology of race and ethnicity (Whiteness as a cr…
What to Do with “Other, Describe
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ended text boxes can address this issue, but researchers rarely use these data because they lack guidance on how to code open-text information and manage small samples for analyses. The authors offer a roadmap to key decisions regarding the use of “other, describe” answer options and data duri…
Seeing Discrimination: How Different Definitions of Discrimination Relate to Health in U.S. Adults
Research demonstrates that perceived discrimination negatively impacts health. Yet there is conflicting evidence about how an individual’s definition of discrimination—separate from their experience of discrimination—shapes health disparities. Using a nationally representative survey experiment in which participants (N = 2,000) are asked to evaluate nine different scenarios of potential discrimination, we find that how a person labels these discr…
Inaction, Silence, Focus, and Power: Identifying and Assessing Folk Theories of the Racism of Omission
Recent scholarship has advanced a concept of racism operating through omission. Omission captures both inaction and action, highlighting how systems of oppression rely on inertia in addition to discriminatory action to perpetuate inequality. Yet little is known about how laypersons understand the role of omission in propagating racism in the United States. Building on this premise, we employ a mixed-methods approach to document and test folk theo…
Zero-sum or Coalition? A Dyadic Approach for Testing Discrimination’s Impact on Perceptions of Ethnoracial Outgroups
Intergroup relations research suggests that individuals perceive racial politics through a zero-sum framework, whereas scholarship on mobilization and social movements has shown the importance of cross-racial solidarity in effecting political change through coalition-building. We apply these two theoretical perspectives to the question of discrimination, asking whether perceptions or experiences with discrimination against one’s own racial group …
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (4 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 works)