In explaining the sources of cooperation and prosocial behavior, psychologists, behavioral
economists, and biologists often focus on factors internal to the individual, such as altruistic …

I present a brief review of problems in the sociological study of culture, followed by an
integrated, interdisciplinary view of culture that eschews extreme contextualism and other …

Over the last three decades, fruitful new lines of research and theorizing have revealed the
inadequacy of secularization and rational choice explanations of religion. This article argues …

Look around you as you walk down the street; somewhere, usually hidden in plain sight,
there will be traces of religion. Perhaps it is the person who walks past with a Christian tattoo …

We've heard plenty from politicians and experts on affirmative action and higher education,
about how universities should intervene—if at all—to ensure a diverse but deserving student …

Corporations gather massive amounts of personal data to predict how individuals will
behave so that they can profitably price goods and allocate resources. This article …

Dual-process models of culture and action posit that fast, automatic cognitive processes
largely drive human action, with conscious processes playing a much smaller role than was …

Although values were once the central focus of institutional scholarship, they occupy a
marginal position in the contemporary literature. Viewing this situation as both a significant …

The theory of statistical discrimination is a dominant social scientific framework for
understanding discrimination in labor markets. To date, the literature has treated this theory …

CEOs' social and environmental activism attracts significant public and research interest.
Positioned as an expression of personal morality, such activism is potentially highly …