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US Culture and Society Since 9/11 Andrew J. Perrin - SOCI 101 September 12, 2017 Andrew J. Perrin - SOCI 101 US Culture and Society Since 9/11 September 12, 2017 1 / 1 What are Americans Like? Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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US Culture and Society Since 9/11

Andrew J. Perrin - SOCI 101 September 12, 2017

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What are Americans Like?

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America American Exceptionalism Individualistic “A Nation of Joiners” Americans’ “habits of the heart” American culture appeared democratic and egalitarian

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Persistent Trends

Americans remain more likely than others to. . .

Go to church Volunteer in social services agencies Mistrust government Resent taxation Believe wealth is distributed fairly Have opinions

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Culture

“What are Americans Like” is an invitation to discuss American culture What do we mean by culture?

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Culture (cont.)

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Culture (cont.)

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Culture (cont.)

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Culture (cont.)

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The Sociology of Culture

Older conception: the Values of a population Example: Americans value freedom, success, wealth, opportunity Problems:

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Nobody was ever able to measure these values

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Very little variation

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The Sociology of Culture (cont.)

  • New conception: Repertoire of Interpretive

Strategies Repertoire: A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company

  • r a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform

Interpret: To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate

  • rally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to

decipher; to define; to apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape Strategy: an elaborate and systematic plan of action

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The Sociology of Culture (Cont.)

Ann Swidler (1986): “Culture in Action” Drawing on Tocqueville: Styles, Skills, Habits Culture as Toolbox

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The Sociology of Culture (cont.)

Cultures are cross-cutting and overlapping Cultural membership can be partial Cultures “produce” their members Cultures provide members with the ways they understand their lives and the tools they choose to apply to problems Culture is both constraining and enabling People know more culture than they use (Vaisey)

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Culture: A Sociological View

Repertoire of Interpretive Strategies Shared tools people use to understand new things Common experience ⇒ Common belief Common experience ⇒ Polarized beliefs

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What Happened on 9/11?

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The Unbuilt Environment

Perrin, Perrin, Caren, Skinner

Does physical environment affect obesity risk?

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Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone (2000)

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Bowling Alone

Social Capital Participation down Individualism up Civility down

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Social Capital

Putnam: moral obligations and norms, social values (especially trust) and social networks (especially voluntary associations) Sociological: Returns to Sociability, Value of Social Networks Note that social capital may be held by regions (Putnam) or by individuals within networks (Sociological).

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Social Capital: Operationalization

Song L. Social Networks 34:12 (2012)

I am going to ask some general questions about jobs some people you know may now have. These people include your relatives, friends, and acquaintances (acquaintances are people who know each other by face and name). If there are several people you know who have that kind of job, please tell me the one that occurs to you first.

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Social Capital: Ego Networks

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Social Capital: Effect of Child-Rearing

Song L. Social Networks 34:12 (2012)

Effect of children on social capital Men and Married Women: + Unmarried Women: −

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Social Capital: Why the Differences?

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Bowling Alone

Social capital “would be eased by a palpable national crisis, like war or depression or natural disaster, but for better and for worse, America at the dawn of the new century faces no such galvanizing crisis.”

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Experiencing 9/11

Twitter and Facebook didn’t exist Internet news was web-based At UNC, people gathered in the Union to watch CNN Nationally, nearly everyone had heard within a few hours Unsettled times ⇒ cultural growth

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Trust in Government

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Trust in Government, 1973–2013

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9/11 and Trust in Government

Perrin and Smolek, SSR 38:1 (2009)

NLSAH (AddHealth) Wave III, 2001

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Increased vs Decreased Trust

Perrin and Smolek, SSR 38:1 (2009)

Rally Anti-rally Ratio All 44.83 25.61 1.75 White male 51.14 21.04 2.43 Black male 33.77 25.31 1.33 White female 51.01 26.13 1.95 Black female 38.80 24.26 1.6

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Changes Since 9/11

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Public Discourse After 9/11

Perrin, Political Psychology 26:2 (2005)

Culture produces discourse Where do people talk about matters of concern? Letters to the editor (544 pre-9/11, 556 post-9/11, 17 newspapers) Authoritarian and Anti-Authoritarian Messages

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Public Discourse After 9/11

Watching the carnage in New York, I cant in my mind understand how a group of people can have such rage against the United States, let alone the people. It brings to mind another time in the 1940s when another land sneaked up on our back and caused great harm and damage. Then we were brought out of our isolation into the 20th century. This act of barbarism has no place in a civilized world. This act has stolen the innocents [sic] from this country, and its people will never again be what we were on Sept. 10. Now we will have to live in a much more brutal world with people that have no regard for life. We will also need to place a great deal of faith in God, for He will see us through. Chattanooga Times/Free Press, 9/23/01

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Public Discourse After 9/11

Authoritarian Pro-Auth Anti-Auth Salience F Scale .272* .645*** .370*** 1.006*** RWA .216*** .289*** .071* .359***

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Public Discourse After 9/11

Pro-Authoritarianism

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Public Discourse After 9/11

Anti-Authoritarianism

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Public Discourse After 9/11

Authoritarian Sum

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Public Discourse After 9/11

Authoritarian Valence

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Public Discourse After 9/11

Why this effect?

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