Paul DiMaggio's (1997) Annual Review of Sociology article urged integration of the
cognitive and the cultural, triggering a cognitive turn in cultural sociology. Since then, a …

Socialization is a key mechanism of social reproduction. Yet, like the functionalists who
introduced the concept, socialization has fallen out of favor, critiqued for ignoring power and …

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of
machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of …

We argue word embedding models are a useful tool for the study of culture using a historical
analysis of shared understandings of social class as an empirical case. Word embeddings …

Models of population-wide cultural change tend to invoke one of two broad models of
individual change. One approach theorizes people actively updating their beliefs and …

Despite widespread feeling that public opinion in the United States has become dramatically
polarized along political lines, empirical support for such a pattern is surprisingly elusive …

Directing attention to racial ignorance as a core dimension of racialized social systems, this
article advances a process-focused Theory of Racial Ignorance (TRI), grounded in Critical …

The metaphor of resonance often describes the fit between a message and an audience's
worldviews. Yet scholars have largely ignored the cognitive processes audiences use to …

A growing body of research in sociology uses the concept of cultural schemas to explain
how culture influences beliefs and actions. However, this work often relies on belief or …

Several studies have reported a relation between race-related stressors and the poor health
of Black Americans. Such findings raise questions regarding the mediating biological …