Motivation and Justification: A Dual‐Process Model of Culture in Action1

By Stephen Vaisey. American Journal of Sociology, 2009

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Meaningful work as realization and justification (2017, background): “Before this happens, however, researchers should first explore research in cultural sociology that has looked at the relationship between individuals and culture more generally (see Swidler, 1986 and Vaisey, 2009, for different explanations of this relationship).”
Scents and Sensibility: Olfaction, Sense-Making, and Meaning Attribution (2018, neutral): “Vaisey (2009:1703) finds that nondeclarative culture dominates the moral decision-making process: “Most interviewees claim to know the difference between right and wrong in an intuitive way, yet are largely incapable of articulating their moral decision-making processes in substantive,…”
Fitting In or Standing Out? The Tradeoffs of Structural and Cultural Embeddedness (2015, background): “The benefits of brokerage also depend on an actor’s context (for a review, see Pachucki and Breiger 2010): the returns to brokerage decrease as the number of peers engaged in the same work as the focal individual increases (Burt 1997).”
Emerging Adult Civic and Political Disengagement: A Longitudinal Analysis of Lack of Involvement With Politics (2010, background): “This is perhaps due to the difficulties in knowing whether beliefs and convictions can be accepted as accurate information, having any connection to what the actual behavior is seen by the person stating a certain belief (e.g., Vaisey, 2009).”
Skills, toolkits, contexts and institutions: Clarifying the relationship between different approaches to cognition in cultural sociology (2010, positive): “…state, of which any discursive justification or explanation would be a very poor (predictive) source of information (Wilson and Nisbett, 1978; Vaisey, 2009; Vaisey and Lizardo, forthcoming) Both theories agree however, in proposing that the extent to which we may observe coherent lines of…”
Sociology in the Era of Big Data: The Ascent of Forensic Social Science (2015, neutral): “For certain applications, surveys may offer the best available measurement of some theoretical construct we are interested in (cf. Vaisey 2009); for others, they offer an immensely impoverished representation of social reality.”
Marks of Distinction (2015, background): “But this perspective has been criticized for not bridging, at least empirically, conceptions of culture as resource and as constraint (Vaisey, 2009).”
SSSR Presidential Address Rain Dances in the Dry Season: Overcoming the Religious Congruence Fallacy (2010, background): “This is well-established knowledge in anthropology, sociology, political science, and psychology (Converse 1964, Evans-Pritchard 1965, Swidler 1986, D’Andrade 1995, DiMaggio 1997, Maio et al. 2003, Vaisey 2009).”
Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood (2013, methodology): “In fact, using interview data from the NSYR, one of Smith’s former students has shown how interview data is a poor predictor of activity (Vaisey 2009).”