💡What to make of "neither agree nor disagree" responses to Qs about racial attitudes? Our original survey in US & Netherlands suggests the racism/non-racism binary overlooks a crucial category: "ambivalent racism" 📄 @isa-sociology.org paper w/ @jonathanmijs.com: doi.org/10.1177/0268... (1/6)

Ambivalent, biological, and cultural racism and the legitimation of inequality: Original cross-national survey evidence from the United States and The Netherlands - Leping Wang, Jonathan J.B. Mijs, 20...

This article scrutinizes the linkage between racism and legitimizing beliefs about inequality in internationally comparative perspective. Drawing on original na...

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How has public belief in the importance of merit🥇 and privilege💰 changed over time? 🆕Data viz shows a widening gap b/w the perceived importance of family wealth (privilege) and hard work (merit) in a majority of countries in the West Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2378... Code: github.com/cybe2001/mer...

Married people get around $1,000 more per month in Social Security income than never-married people! TY for your important research, Deborah Carr @carrds723.bsky.social Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social & Pamela J Smock www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...

How Social Security Helps Married People More Than Singles

Social Security is a vital system, but it also perpetuates inequality between married and never-married people and men and women.

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In this new paper, we found off-time marital transition, featured by premature widowhood in China, is associated with higher likelihood of loneliness, whereas on-time marital transition, featured by midlife divorce in the U.S., is associated with less loneliness. doi.org/10.1332/1757...

How do evaluations in junior faculty hiring reproduce inequality? In this study, I propose a "Merit-Fit-Diversity" framework to unpack the academic gatekeeping process across sociology and business departments, and across private and public universities: doi.org/10.1111/soin...

Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multifaceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping in Social Sciences at U.S. R1 Research Universities

This study draws on interviews with 50 sociology and business professors across two private and five public American universities, and proposes a novel “Merit-Fit-Diversit” framework to show how narr...

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See our new study to find out how social security disparities persist even after adjusting for life course characteristics including human capital, labor supply, health, and socio-demographics!

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Social Security benefits rules disadvantage divorced and prematurely widowed older women. Learn why in WLS analysis w/ @lepingwang.bsky.social & P. Smock) @buciss.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social @ccfamilies.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @geronmedia.bsky.social @uwsoc.bsky.social