Popular accounts of “lifestyle politics” and “culture wars” suggest that political and
ideological divisions extend also to leisure activities, consumption, aesthetic taste, and …

This article accounts for two puzzling paradoxes. The first paradox is the simultaneous
absence and presence of attitude polarization—the fact that global attitude polarization is …

Polarization is a topic of intense interest among social scientists, but there is significant
disagreement regarding the character of the phenomenon and little understanding of …

Building on Granovetter's theory of the “strength of weak ties,” research on “small-world”
networks suggests that bridges between clusters in a social network (long-range ties) …

Both classical social psychological theories and recent formal models of opinion
differentiation and bi-polarization assign a prominent role to negative social influence …

Agent-based models are versatile tools for studying how societal opinion change, including
political polarization and cultural diffusion, emerges from individual behavior. This study …

A social media phenomenon that has received limited research attention is the advent and
propagation of viral online challenges. Several of these challenges entail self-harming …

This article reconciles two seemingly incompatible expectations about interpersonal
interaction and social influence. One theoretical perspective predicts that an increase in …

Since the 1970s sociologists have explored the best means for measuring social networks,
although few name generator analyses have used sociocentric data or data from developing …

Micromobilization research constitutes a vital stream within social movement studies.
Despite a wealth of empirical research and recent advances in micromobilization theory …