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Selecting Our Own Science How Communication Contexts and Individual Traits S…
We use an experiment with a nationally representative sample of the U.S. population to examine how political partisans consume and process media reports about nanotechnology—a scientific issue that is unfamiliar to most Americans. We manipulate the extent to which participants receive ideological cues contextualizing a news article, and follow their subsequent information seeking about nanotech…
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- Volume 658, March 2015, pages 172-191
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The Content and Effect of Politicized Health Controversies
Health issues are increasingly becoming politicized, but little is known about how politicization takes shape in the news and its effect on the public. We analyze the evolution of politicization in news coverage of two health controversies: the uproar over the 2009 mammography screening guidelines and the 2006–2007 debate over mandating the HPV vaccine as a requirement for middle school–aged gi…
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- Volume 658, March 2015, pages 155-171
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Expertise in an Age of Polarization: Evaluating Scientists’ Political Aware…
During the George W. Bush administration, intense debate focused on the administration’s interference with the work of government scientists. In this study, analyzing a May/June 2009 survey of members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), we evaluate the factors during this period that influenced scientists’ awareness of political interference and their media outrea…
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- Volume 658, March 2015, pages 121-135
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The Influence of Specific Risk Perceptions on Public Policy Support An Exami…
A great deal of research has been dedicated to understanding the relationship of public preferences to public policy. Much of this literature, though, does not account for risk perception, an important characteristic that affects individuals’ preferences. In terms of policy, those who perceive high risk in association with a particular issue should be more likely to oppose policies that would i…
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- Volume 658, March 2015, pages 86-101
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Red States, Blue States, and Brain States Issue Framing, Partisanship, and t…
Advances in neuroscience are beginning to shape law and public policy, giving rise to the field of “neurolaw.” The impact of neuroscientific evidence on how laws are written and interpreted in practice will depend in part on how neurolaw is understood by the public. Drawing on a nationally representative telephone survey experiment, this article presents the first evidence on public approval of…
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- Volume 658, March 2015, pages 86-101
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Questionnaire Design Effects in Climate Change Surveys Implications for the …
Despite strong agreement among scientists, public opinion surveys reveal wide partisan disagreement on climate issues in the United States. We suggest that this divide may be exaggerated by questionnaire design variables. Following a brief literature review, we report on a national survey experiment involving U.S. Democrats and Republicans (n = 2,041) (fielded August 25–September 5, 2012) that …
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- Volume 658, March 2015, pages 67-85
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The Partisan Brain How Dissonant Science Messages Lead Conservatives and Lib…
There has been deepening concern about political polarization in public attitudes toward the scientific community. The “intrinsic thesis” attributes this polarization to psychological deficiencies among conservatives as compared to liberals. The “contextual thesis” makes no such claims about inherent psychological differences between conservatives and liberals, but rather points to interacting …
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- Volume 658, March 2015, pages 36-66
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Who Is Listening? When Scholars Think They Are Talking to Congress
The editors asked for my view on whether, in the current political climate, the recommendations in this volume of The ANNALS are likely to be heeded. The question that precedes this one is whether the volume’s contributors understand why policy-makers make use of science at all. “No” is the obvious answer, though I see this not as a failure particular to their effort but rather as a broader fai…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 265-273
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The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Administrative Data Linkages to Eva…
Since Alan Krueger’s christening of the Great Gatsby curve, there has been increased attention given to the relationship between inequality and intergenerational social mobility in the United States. Studying intergenerational mobility (IGM) requires longitudinal data across large spans of time as well as the ability to follow parents and children over multiple generations. Few longitudinal dat…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 247-264
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Potential Data Sources for a New Study of Social Mobility in the United States
In this article I define the main criteria that ought to be considered in evaluating the costs and benefits of various data resources that might be used for a new study of social and economic mobility in the United States. These criteria include population definition and coverage, sample size, topical coverage, temporal issues, spatial issues, sustainability, financial expense, and privacy and …
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 208-246
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The Engagement Gap: Social Mobility and Extracurricular Participation among A…
Participation in extracurricular activities is associated with positive youth outcomes such as higher education attainment and greater future earnings. We present new analyses of four national longitudinal surveys of American high school students that reveal a sharp increase in the class gap in extracurricular involvement. Since the 1970s, upper-middle-class students have become increasingly ac…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 194-207
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Using Occupation to Measure Intergenerational Mobility
Scholarly investigations of intergenerational mobility typically focus on either the occupations of fathers and sons or their incomes. Using an identical sample of fathers and sons, we examine how estimates of intergenerational mobility in income and occupational prestige are affected by (1) measurement that uses long time averages and (2) varying the point in the life cycle when outcomes are m…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 174-193
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Political Mobility and Political Reproduction from Generation to Generation
The American creed stresses political equality and political involvement, but substantial political inequality still persists from one generation to the next. Despite the importance of political inequality, not enough is known about the mechanisms that reproduce it. Political socialization research has focused on the transmission of political attitudes and culture across generations, but it has…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 149-173
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Measuring Education and Skill
This article reviews recent developments in measuring education and skill that need to be taken into account in any new initiative to monitor social mobility. Over the past half-century, patterns of educational participation and attainment have become more heterogeneous, a trend that has been accompanied by increases in assessment and testing practices, and the availability of electronic data s…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 136-148
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Assessing the Socioeconomic Mobility and Integration of U.S. Immigrants and T…
Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the U.S. labor market have been (1) rising inequality and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants arrive with very low levels of schooling, English proficiency, and other skills that have become increasingly important determinants of success in the U.S. …
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 108-135
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Measuring Networks beyond the Origin Family
Studies of social mobility typically focus on the associations between the socioeconomic characteristics of individuals and families in one generation and those same characteristics for the next generation. Yet the life chances of individuals may be affected by a wider network of kin than just the nuclear family, including grandparents, aunts and uncles, siblings, and even more remote kin. In p…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 97-107
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Social Mobility in an Era of Family Instability and Complexity
Families play a central role in the study of social mobility—they are units of analysis for measuring social class as well as settings that shape the intergenerational transmission of resources. The American family has undergone important changes since the mid-twentieth century. Divorce, nonmarital childbearing, and cohabitation increased dramatically. The rise in divorce and cohabitation made …
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 83-96
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A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Social Mobility in the United States
The country’s capacity to monitor trends in social mobility has languished since the last major survey on U.S. social mobility was fielded in 1973. It is accordingly difficult to evaluate recent concerns that social mobility may be declining or to develop mobility policy that is adequately informed by evidence. This article presents a new initiative, dubbed the American Opportunity Study (AOS),…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 63-82
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Analyses of Intergenerational Mobility An Interdisciplinary Review
This article reviews the sociological and economic literature on intergenerational mobility. Findings on social class, occupational status, earnings, and income mobility are discussed and discrepancies among them are evaluated. The review also examines nonlinearities in the intergenerational association, variation in mobility across advanced industrial countries, and recent mobility trends in t…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pages 37-62
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The Measure of a Nation
We need more—and better—data on social mobility in the United States. Normative questions must be answered first. We have to know why we care about a particular pattern of mobility to know how to set about measuring it. The distinction between relative and absolute mobility is a case in point. Do we care most about whether people are better off than their parents, or about how much movement the…
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- Volume 657, Januari 2015, pages 22-26
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