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@nedasoc.bsky.social
Ned-a Mag-boo-leh. Born/raised in the U.S., now Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Identity, and Migration & Assoc Prof of Sociology at UBC in Vancouver, BC.
Grateful to adapt our new paper on refugee family separation @ersjournal.com into a post for the Council on Contemporary Families. I hope it’s readable & useful for teaching courses on family, inequality, immigration, & policy. thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/06/...
June 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Grateful to adapt our new paper on refugee family separation @ersjournal.com into a post for the Council on Contemporary Families. I hope it’s readable & useful for teaching courses on family, inequality, immigration, & policy. thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/06/...
Our full pre-print is on SocArXiv - thanks for reading these posts!
📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025)
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
#CulturalSociology #Polarization #BookBans
📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025)
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
#CulturalSociology #Polarization #BookBans
June 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our full pre-print is on SocArXiv - thanks for reading these posts!
📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025)
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
#CulturalSociology #Polarization #BookBans
📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025)
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
#CulturalSociology #Polarization #BookBans
Why it matters: research on cultural polarization often assumes that affective animus spills into everyday life. But our findings suggest that even at the height of a politicized issue like book banning, culture is a *resource* for partisan expression-- not its root cause. (8/9)
June 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Why it matters: research on cultural polarization often assumes that affective animus spills into everyday life. But our findings suggest that even at the height of a politicized issue like book banning, culture is a *resource* for partisan expression-- not its root cause. (8/9)
What we found: evidence for consolidation. Judgments were shaped primarily by respondents' underlying traits; polarization was rare and limited; after controlling for social networks & traits, most partisan effects disappeared. (7/9)
June 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
What we found: evidence for consolidation. Judgments were shaped primarily by respondents' underlying traits; polarization was rare and limited; after controlling for social networks & traits, most partisan effects disappeared. (7/9)
What a consolidation model predicts: more politicization, not outright polarization, book ban attitudes shaped by values and identity linked traits, asymmetric judgments, divisions explained by sociodemographic, sociometric, and psychometric factors (6/9)
June 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What a consolidation model predicts: more politicization, not outright polarization, book ban attitudes shaped by values and identity linked traits, asymmetric judgments, divisions explained by sociodemographic, sociometric, and psychometric factors (6/9)
What a spillover model predicts: strong polarization across identities, high support for book bans, symmetrical divisions among liberals and conservatives, persist effects even after accounting for social sorting (5/9)
June 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What a spillover model predicts: strong polarization across identities, high support for book bans, symmetrical divisions among liberals and conservatives, persist effects even after accounting for social sorting (5/9)
We showed ~2000 Americans summaries of real novels. Each version randomly altered the protagonist's social identity. Then we asked: is this book appropriate for a library? For a school? (4/9)
June 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We showed ~2000 Americans summaries of real novels. Each version randomly altered the protagonist's social identity. Then we asked: is this book appropriate for a library? For a school? (4/9)
We used the recent surge in book bans as a take-off issue to test polarization. (3/9)
June 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We used the recent surge in book bans as a take-off issue to test polarization. (3/9)
2 implicit frameworks dominate research on cultural polarization: the spillover model & the consolidation model (2/9)
June 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
2 implicit frameworks dominate research on cultural polarization: the spillover model & the consolidation model (2/9)
Spillover or consolidation?
We tested 2 models of cultural polarization w/ ~2,000 Americans.
The data support consolidation: once we accounted for networks and dispositions, partisanship lost its explanatory power.
📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025)
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zpe8y_v
We tested 2 models of cultural polarization w/ ~2,000 Americans.
The data support consolidation: once we accounted for networks and dispositions, partisanship lost its explanatory power.
📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025)
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zpe8y_v
June 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Spillover or consolidation?
We tested 2 models of cultural polarization w/ ~2,000 Americans.
The data support consolidation: once we accounted for networks and dispositions, partisanship lost its explanatory power.
📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025)
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zpe8y_v
We tested 2 models of cultural polarization w/ ~2,000 Americans.
The data support consolidation: once we accounted for networks and dispositions, partisanship lost its explanatory power.
📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025)
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zpe8y_v
Finally saw SINNERS (at the 19+ theatre, in a reclining seat, w/ a huge fishbowl drink called “Beach, Please”) 😂
Please share any fav reviews/essays/takes!! ⬇️
Please share any fav reviews/essays/takes!! ⬇️
June 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Finally saw SINNERS (at the 19+ theatre, in a reclining seat, w/ a huge fishbowl drink called “Beach, Please”) 😂
Please share any fav reviews/essays/takes!! ⬇️
Please share any fav reviews/essays/takes!! ⬇️
Getting a comms-related endorsement from @lauraknelson.bsky.social is everything. I hope I’m getting better at making slide threads. Here’s one for our latest pre-print on book banning:
May 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Getting a comms-related endorsement from @lauraknelson.bsky.social is everything. I hope I’m getting better at making slide threads. Here’s one for our latest pre-print on book banning:
I want to go back to the good ol days
May 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I want to go back to the good ol days
Like the horrifying TV commercial out there for $19 home cleaning!! We are in peak gig-washing and app-ification hell.
May 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Like the horrifying TV commercial out there for $19 home cleaning!! We are in peak gig-washing and app-ification hell.
Book bans are rising, but everyday Americans dont want them.
We tested ~2000 people, and found broad acceptance, not polarization.
The public doesn't echo elite battles.
📄Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning (Childress, Rawlings, Maghbouleh)
🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1
We tested ~2000 people, and found broad acceptance, not polarization.
The public doesn't echo elite battles.
📄Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning (Childress, Rawlings, Maghbouleh)
🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1
May 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Book bans are rising, but everyday Americans dont want them.
We tested ~2000 people, and found broad acceptance, not polarization.
The public doesn't echo elite battles.
📄Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning (Childress, Rawlings, Maghbouleh)
🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1
We tested ~2000 people, and found broad acceptance, not polarization.
The public doesn't echo elite battles.
📄Cultural Polarization & Social Groups: The Case of Book Banning (Childress, Rawlings, Maghbouleh)
🔗 osf.io/zpe8y_v1
Made a Venn diagram of Pocket users (devastated by yesterday’s shutdown news) and people who still miss Google Reader. It’s just one big circle. We know who we are.
May 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Made a Venn diagram of Pocket users (devastated by yesterday’s shutdown news) and people who still miss Google Reader. It’s just one big circle. We know who we are.
I recently read RELIGION IS NOT DONE WITH YOU by @mpgphd.bsky.social & @profirmf.bsky.social. It’s so, so good. The airport chapter was particularly brilliant as a sociological case study, but honestly, the whole book is 🫶🏼 Highly recommend for teaching or just for fun.
May 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I recently read RELIGION IS NOT DONE WITH YOU by @mpgphd.bsky.social & @profirmf.bsky.social. It’s so, so good. The airport chapter was particularly brilliant as a sociological case study, but honestly, the whole book is 🫶🏼 Highly recommend for teaching or just for fun.
