A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change.

By Betsy Rymes. 2003

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Hi, my name is Martha: Using names to measure and mitigate bias in generative dialogue models (2021, background): “, 2018) or age (Lieberson, 2000; Twenge et al., 2010)—it is difficult to imagine there being a necessary or causal relationship between your name and most other facts about you, such as your interests, employment, or favorite conversation topics.”
Black Names, Immigrant Names: Navigating Race and Ethnicity Through Personal Names (2019, result): “Similarly, in a practice not unique to American or contemporary societies, studies have shown that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean immigrants to the United States changed their names to American names at significant rates (Kang, 1971; Lieberson, 2000).”
Understanding aesthetic innovation in the context of technological evolution. (2013, background): “…Kotler & Rath, 1984; Rindova & Petkova, 2007; Solomon, 1983; Ulrich, 2007) as well as sociological perspectives that explain how goods have second-order meanings that allow users to express themselves in a social context (e.g., Bourdieu, 1984; Gottdiener, 1985; Krippendorff, 2006; Lieberson, 2000).”
Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies (2010, background): “…We are not aware of any studies in the sociology of culture or related fields employing formal neutral models; however, something similar to this is implicit in the arguments of Lieberson (2000),20 and some other strands of recent work on “endogenous explanations of culture” (Kaufman, 2004).”
The changing impact of social background on lifestyle: “culturalization” instead of individualization? (2004, background): “Traditions, regulations, or rigid cultural boundaries are no requirement for similarities in cultural behavior (see also Lieberson, 2000).”
How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies (2017, unknown): “Since at least the 1960s, a small percentage of black parents have chosen certain first names for their children at much higher frequencies than white parents, making these names racially distinctive (Fryer and Levitt 2004; Lieberson 2000; Lieberson and Mikelson 1995).”
What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption (2016, background): “For cultural novelty to have an impact—and aStanford University bStanford University and Durham University Business School cYale University Corresponding Authors: Amir Goldberg and Michael T. Hannan, 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305; Balázs Kovács, 165 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06520 E-mail:…”
Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying (2007, background): “Large-scale shifts in popular preferences (e.g., fashions) offer insight into general mechanisms of cultural change (Lieberson, 2000).”
How Do Cultural Producers Make Creative Decisions?: Lessons from the Catwalk (2009, background): “People often think they are exercising individual choice, when in fact their choices are socially responsive and bound up, even subtly, with other people’s decisions (Cialdini and Goldstein 2004; Lieberson 2000).”
Marks of Distinction (2015, background): “Research on fashion in given names (Lieberson, 2000) provides evidence for this mechanism of comparative evaluation: parents evaluate a name in relation to its available alternatives and to its popularity, choosing a highly or less popular name depending on their need to conform or distinguish…”
Problems in comparative research: The example of omnivorousness (2005, background): “The Netherlands Van Rees et al. (1999), Van Eijck (1999, 2000, 2001), Van Eijck and Bargeman (2004), Van Eijck and Knulst (2005).”
The Paradox of Publicity (2014, background): “This would be similar to the ‘‘overshooting’’ problem observed in the case of baby names, in which parents choose names that are unpopular prior to their child’s birth and are sometimes surprised and dismayed to learn that they have inadvertently given their child a name that has become popular beca”
Renouncing Personal Names: An Empirical Examination of Surname Change and Earnings (2009, background): “Furthermore, Lieberson (2000) lists a number of original and stage-names of white entertainers.”