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Lauren Valentino
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. I study culture & cognition + inequality & stratification using a mix of methods. www.laurenvalentino.org
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Congrats to CPC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology Lauren Valentino, who was selected for a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year!
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Carolina Sociology is hiring!

• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.

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Assistant Professor
This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I'm giving a talk today to social psychologists! +1 for interdisciplinarity
UNC Psychology and Neuroscience SOCIAL ORG TALK September 29, 2025 12 pm Howell 205. "How Americans Define Racism, Sexism, and Classism." Lauren Valentino, PhD. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UNC - Chapel Hill.
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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More of our recent research, this time featured on The Society Pages!
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How do Americans define discrimination?

Research by ‪‪@evangelinewarren.com‬ & @sociologylauren.bsky.social‬ in the American Journal of Sociology shows that views on racism, sexism, & classism are complicated and filled with nuance.

Read @Jordyyyn117031's latest on TSP here:
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September 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Sociology quick-take! "Defining Discrimination Changes Policy Preferences" covers new @amjsoc.bsky.social research by @sociologylauren.bsky.social & @evangelinewarren.com on Americans' racism, sexism, & classism evaluation criteria & how they change opinions on redress contexts.org/articles/def...
A screenshot of the social science website contexts.org shows a photo of a person highlighting the word "racism" in pink in a dictionary and includes the title of the article, "Defining Discrimination Changes Policy Preferences." The byline reads, "By Parker Muzzerall."
August 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Tenure Track AP position at UNC's SILS.

"We seek a scholar whose research examines the complex interconnections between AI technologies and social, organizational, and/or ethical systems."
Assistant Professor
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invite applications for a tenure...
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August 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Due to the rescission of federal funding, North Carolina Public Radio is facing a major budget shortfall (roughly $800k). @wunc.org is the largest nonprofit newsroom in the state but also home to national programming. If you care about quality journalism, please give what you can www.wunc.org/donate
WUNC Recurring Gift - North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC
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July 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Nice to see our recent AJS article featured in Contexts! @evangelinewarren.com
"Defining Discrimination Changes Policy Preferences" by Parker Muzzerrall. There’s widespread consensus that racism, sexism, and classism are pervasive social problems requiring consensus and coordination to address. However, a recent study in the American Journal of Sociology suggests that Americans understand these problems in very different terms. Using a mixed-methods approach combining interviews with a nationally representative survey, sociologists Lauren Valentino and Evangeline Warren discover that Americans define instances of race-, sex-, and class-based discrimination using three interpretive criteria: the intentionality of the act, whether the act led to equal or unequal outcomes, and the balance of power between the perpetrator and victim. Importantly, though, Americans do not weigh these criteria equally. Conservatives and men tend to emphasize intentionality and individual acts while liberals, women, and racial minorities are more likely to define discrimination based on unequal outcomes and systemic power imbalances. Most striking, this variation in definitional criteria strongly predicts policy attitudes, much more so than socio-demographic attributes alone. Those who emphasize outcomes and power structures in their definitions are much more likely to support policies of redress, like affirmative action and anti-discrimination laws. By shedding light on the deep cultural and cognitive divides in how Americans interpret social problems, this research offers a crucial insight: meaningful progress in addressing racism, sexism, and classism may require bridging not just political divides, but also fundamental differences in how we perceive and define discrimination.
July 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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GEM 2025 was a huge success! My two faculty colleagues in Engineering and Mathematics and I started a Duke-UNC collaboration seven years ago to promote diversity in STEM. This has been one of my favorite ways of putting my scholarly research into practice for the benefit of the local community.
A group of middle schoolers watch a demonstration of electromagnetism. A large and diverse group of middle schoolers, college students, and faculty are seated on the steps of a university campus in the summertime. A group of middle schoolers look on as a cardiologist explains how physicians can image the heart using technology inspired by animals like bats and dolphins. A group of middle schoolers jump for joy in front of the Duke University chapel.
July 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🚨New Pub Alert🚨

@sociologylauren.bsky.social and I have a new paper out in SRE today!

In "Zero-sum or Coalition? A Dyadic Approach for Testing Discrimination’s Impact on Perceptions of Ethnoracial Outgroups" we use perceptions of discrimination to examine racial group relations. Here's a 🧵!
Zero-sum or Coalition? A Dyadic Approach for Testing Discrimination’s Impact on Perceptions of Ethnoracial Outgroups - Evangeline Warren, Lauren Valentino, 2025
Intergroup relations research suggests that individuals perceive racial politics through a zero-sum framework, whereas scholarship on mobilization and social mo...
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June 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Celebrating my first post-grad day with a paper with collaborator extraordinaire @sociologylauren.bsky.social accepted for publication in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity!
May 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available.

Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social

(also, lots of great articles are in this volume).

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Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods | Annual Reviews
This review provides 10 actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conce...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Excited to share that my new book is now available for pre-order! This book has been a labor of love for the past decade & I am grateful to a whole community of people who supported this project.

Get 30% off your purchase using code UCPNEW at UChicago Press! Link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Politics of Skin Tone
A nuanced examination of the salience of skin tone within African American politics. Research shows that skin tone is associated with significant differences in life experiences. On average, African A...
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April 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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What a spectacular panel at #SSS2025 🔥🔥🔥 "Perceptions and Experiences of Discrimination and Microaggression" with @malissa-a.bsky.social @amiebostic.bsky.social @jessistreib.bsky.social @tianhao.bsky.social
Five photos of the four panelists from the session giving their presentations and answering questions during the Q&A
April 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Along with @mlamont.bsky.social @pjoosse.bsky.social, I am on the Distinguished Career Award committee for the ASA Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity section. Please send nominations our way! Due March 5. More information here: www.asanet.org/communities-...
Distinguished Career Award Deadline: March 5, 2025 Contact: Michèle Lamont, Chair The Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section of the ASA is seeking nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Career Award. This award is given annually to a researcher who has made a number of significant contributions to the study of altruism, morality, and/or social solidarity over an extended period of time. It is intended to recognize a senior scholar’s cumulative achievements. Nominations should include a brief description of the career contributions that make the candidate deserving of the award. Self-nominations are welcome. Please also see previous winners of the award for reference here. Please send nominations, with the subject line AMSS 2025 Distinguished Career Award Nomination, by March 5, 2025 to the Committee Members: Michèle Lamont: mlamont@wjh.harvard.edu Lauren Valentino: lauren.valentino@unc.edu Paul Joosse: pjoosse@hku.hk
February 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Excited to share my new paper, just out in Sociological Methodology! "What to Do with 'Other, Describe" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What to Do with “Other, Describe” - Jaclyn S. Wong, Lauren Valentino, Christina Pao, Katie Donnelly Moran, D’Lane Compton, Gayle Kaufman, 2024
Measuring social categories and phenomena in survey questionnaires is complicated in a dynamic and diverse society. The use of “other, describe”–style open-ende...
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January 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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My engineering colleague, Sophia Santillan, and I were recently given the opportunity to share our work on causes and interventions addressing the gender gap in STEM to an incredible group of women from around the world who are part of the US State Dept's International Visitor Leadership Program.
November 7, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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If you're in the Chicago area, can you please help spread awareness about my cousin Adam who's missing? Thank you <3
October 2, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Excited to share that @ewarren.bsky.social
and I have a paper just out in American Journal of Sociology! doi.org/10.1086/733194
Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results from a Mixed-Methods Study Lauren Valentino University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evangeline Warren Ohio State University This sequential mixed-methods study examines how Americans ascribe meanings to the concepts racism, sexism, and classism. We first conduct interviews (N = 40) using a symbolic boundaries elicitation approach, gathering examples of scenarios that do and do not “count” as racism, sexism, and classism. We then use these examples as vignettes in a nationally representative survey-experiment (N = 2,000). Results reveal striking evidence for cultural heterogeneity in how Americans understand and define racism, sexism, and classism. We find that a person’s definition of these concepts depends on their emphasis on intentionality, unequal treatment/outcomes, and power (a)symmetry. We also find that political partisanship, gender, age, and income shape the importance of these.
September 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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We've got two jobs!

Carolina Sociology is hiring at the Assistant or Associate levels with a focus on gender, sexualities and migration. Some HR hiccups slowed down the job posting but not the deadline, so we start review in ten days.

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Open Rank
This Assistant/Associate Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology while continuing their own research, participate in departmental s...
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September 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added.
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September 15, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Cultural sociology friends: if you were going to put together a cultural sociology graduate course using ONLY stuff published in 2014 and later (no cheating), what would you put on it? Please don't hesitate to recommend your own work!
September 15, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Duke Sociology is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. Area of specialization (actually) open.
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August 19, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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I made a Sociology themed Connections+ game! 🤓 connectionsplus.io/game/qolksU
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April 9, 2024 at 3:44 PM