C Childre
Biographic Data
| ID | 67039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Childre |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Childre |
| SIGNATURE | CHILDRE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3213-6992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Diversity as a Dominant Social Value
Over the past half-century, sociologists working across subfields and analytic levels have documented the downstream implementations of diversity as a dominant social value. We synthesize this research, paying special attention to scholarship examining five key analytic contexts: class, taste, interactions, organizations, and cultural objects. The literature suggests that, despite persistent hierarchies of valuation and worth, a “conspicuous open…
Cultural Polarization and Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning
Who remembers fake historical figures? Differentiating between passing knowledge and dispositional openness in cultural research
Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field
Research on tokenism has mostly focused on negative experiences and career outcomes for individuals who are tokenized. Yet tokenism as a structural system that excludes larger populations, and the meso-level cultural foundations under which tokenism occurs, are comparatively understudied. We focus on these additional dimensions of tokenism using original data on the creation and long-term retention of postcolonial literature. In an institutional …
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…
Bringing Computation into Cultural Theory: Four Good Reasons (and One Bad One)
We used to talk. By "we" I mean cultural sociologists and scholars in the humanities, and by "used to talk" I mean acknowledge each other's existence, at times perhaps even generously so. There are different versions as to what happened, one of which is a bit more intellectual than the other, although neither of which are entirely right. The more intellectual version is that for a brief spell in the late 1980s and early 1990s it looked like our i…
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
The Politics of the Book: A Study on the Materiality of Ideas
Beyond Triangulation: Reconstructing Mandela's Writing Life through Propulsive Facilitation at the Archive
A Battle of the Ages
Encultured Biases: The Role of Products in Pathways to Inequality
Recent sociological work shows that culture is an important causal variable in labor market outcomes. Does the same hold for product markets? To answer this question, we study a product market in which selection decisions occur absent face-to-face interaction between intermediaries and short-term contract workers. We find evidence of "product-based" cultural matching operating as a pathway to inequality. Relying on quantitative and qualitative ob…
Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel
Publishers, authors, and texts: The process of cultural consecration in prize evaluation
Encultured Biases: The Role of Products in Pathways to Inequality
Recent sociological work shows that culture is an important causal variable in labor market outcomes. Does the same hold for product markets? To answer this question, we study a product market in which selection decisions occur absent face-to-face interaction between intermediaries and short-term contract workers. We find evidence of "product-based" cultural matching operating as a pathway to inequality. Relying on quantitative and qualitative ob…
Publishers, authors, and texts: The process of cultural consecration in prize evaluation
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…
Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel
Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field
Research on tokenism has mostly focused on negative experiences and career outcomes for individuals who are tokenized. Yet tokenism as a structural system that excludes larger populations, and the meso-level cultural foundations under which tokenism occurs, are comparatively understudied. We focus on these additional dimensions of tokenism using original data on the creation and long-term retention of postcolonial literature. In an institutional …
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…
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…
Beyond Triangulation: Reconstructing Mandela's Writing Life through Propulsive Facilitation at the Archive
Measure Mohr culture
The Politics of the Book: A Study on the Materiality of Ideas
Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel
Publishers, authors, and texts: The process of cultural consecration in prize evaluation
Encultured Biases: The Role of Products in Pathways to Inequality
Recent sociological work shows that culture is an important causal variable in labor market outcomes. Does the same hold for product markets? To answer this question, we study a product market in which selection decisions occur absent face-to-face interaction between intermediaries and short-term contract workers. We find evidence of "product-based" cultural matching operating as a pathway to inequality. Relying on quantitative and qualitative ob…
The Politics of the Book: A Study on the Materiality of Ideas
Beyond Triangulation: Reconstructing Mandela's Writing Life through Propulsive Facilitation at the Archive
A Battle of the Ages
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
Bringing Computation into Cultural Theory: Four Good Reasons (and One Bad One)
We used to talk. By "we" I mean cultural sociologists and scholars in the humanities, and by "used to talk" I mean acknowledge each other's existence, at times perhaps even generously so. There are different versions as to what happened, one of which is a bit more intellectual than the other, although neither of which are entirely right. The more intellectual version is that for a brief spell in the late 1980s and early 1990s it looked like our i…
Tokenism and Its Long-Term Consequences: Evidence from the Literary Field
Research on tokenism has mostly focused on negative experiences and career outcomes for individuals who are tokenized. Yet tokenism as a structural system that excludes larger populations, and the meso-level cultural foundations under which tokenism occurs, are comparatively understudied. We focus on these additional dimensions of tokenism using original data on the creation and long-term retention of postcolonial literature. In an institutional …
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
Who remembers fake historical figures? Differentiating between passing knowledge and dispositional openness in cultural research
Diversity as a Dominant Social Value
Over the past half-century, sociologists working across subfields and analytic levels have documented the downstream implementations of diversity as a dominant social value. We synthesize this research, paying special attention to scholarship examining five key analytic contexts: class, taste, interactions, organizations, and cultural objects. The literature suggests that, despite persistent hierarchies of valuation and worth, a “conspicuous open…
Sociology (11 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)