People :: Sociology Department

Stephen Vaisey, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Stephen Vaisey

Short Description of Research Approach:

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Office Info
Office:	327 Soc/Psych
Phone:	(919) 660-5635
Email Address:
Fax:	(919) 660-5623
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Areas of Interest:

Culture and Cognition,
Action Theory,
Quantitative Methods

The main goal of my current research is to understand the varieties, origins, and consequences of different moral worldviews. I want to know where people get their ideas about what a "good life" looks like and what it means to be a "good person" and how these (usually implicit) ideas help shape their strategies of action over time. In recent months, I have also been writing about the promise and pitfalls of panel data for causal inference.

Selected Publications/Recent Research:

Recent Publications (More Publications)

2023 Gender differential effect of college on political orientation over the last 40 years in the U.S.-A propensity score weighting approach. Edelmann, A; Vaisey, S. PloS one , Vol. 18, No. 1 , e0279273
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279273 [https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/stephen.vaisey/publications/369078]

2022 Corrigendum American Sociological Review , Vol. 87, No. 2 SAGE Publications , 373-381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00031224221078847

2022 Cohort Succession Explains Most Change in Literary Culture Underwood, T; Kiley, K; Shang, W; Vaisey, S. Sociological Science , Vol. 9 , 184-205
http://dx.doi.org/10.15195/V9.A8 [https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/stephen.vaisey/publications/363788]

2022 Culture and Durable Inequality Valentino, L; Vaisey, S. Annual Review of Sociology , Vol. 48, No. 1 ANNUAL REVIEWS , 109-129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-030320-102739 [https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/stephen.vaisey/publications/365702]

2021 Welcome to the Real World: Escaping the Sociology of Culture and Cognition Vaisey, S. Sociological Forum , Vol. 36, No. S1 , 1297-1315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/socf.12770 [https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/stephen.vaisey/publications/359100]

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Course Descriptions:

Duke University. Spring & Fall 2012

Organizations and Global Competitiveness(SOC 142) Syllabus
Globalization and Development(Soc 730S-03) Syllabus

Sociology
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