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 …

Decisions about climate change are inherently moral. They require making moral
judgements about important values and the desired state of the present and future world …

Scholars have long argued that dehumanization causes violence. However, others have
recently argued that those who harm do so because they feel pressured or view violence as …

Sociologists increasingly draw on dual-process models of cognition to account for the ways
context, cognition, and action interrelate. Drawing from 40 interviews with improvisers and …

The Trump administration and its supporters were quick to decry the federal civil service as a
“deep state” thwarting the president's agenda. Yet most research describes the career corps …

Asylum is one of the most significant global issues of our time. Asylum status determinations
are thus a topic of great political and practical importance. This article analyzes asylum …

This essay contends that contemporary research should pay greater attention to three
fundamentally human characteristics of dehumanization. First, we argue that scholars need …

We present evidence from choice experiments on hypothetical triage decisions in a
pandemic. Respondents have to decide who out of two patients gets ventilation. Patients are …

What happens when a request for help from friends or family members invokes conflicting
values? In answering this question, we integrate and extend two literatures: support …

The sociology of culture provides tools to weigh in on key interdisciplinary debates that
hinge around categorization and its underlying processes. For example, at present, there is …