👀Americans who experience downward mobility are more likely to attribute inequality to structural processes, while those who rise are more likely to reject structural explanations. NEW: @UM_PSC's Sofia Hiltner and @CechErin in @SF_Journal. Full abstract below ⬇️ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-… Abstract Popular explanations of inequality as the result of individual failings rather than structural processes are powerful cultural mechanisms that legitimize and reproduce inequality in the United States. How might individuals’ experiences of downward or upward mobility shape the explanations they give? We argue that perceived experiences of economic mobility may not only shape how Americans understand economic inequality but may also impact their beliefs about social inequalities more broadly. Using proportionally representative survey data of 1110 U.S. residents, we find that those who perceive that they currently occupy a lower economic class than when they were growing up (i.e., they experienced subjective downward mobility) were more likely than class-stable individuals to reject individualistic explanations of economic inequality and embrace structural ones. By contrast, the upwardly mobile were more likely to reject structural explanations. We find that mobility is similarly related to the likelihood of giving individualistic or structural explanations for race and gender inequality as well. Downward mobility is also associated with greater support of redistributive policies related to economic as well as gender and race inequality. These findings suggest that economic mobility may influence popular explanations of inequality and support for redistributive policy not only related to class inequality but for multiple axes of inequality. @UMSociology @umisr

New: Work Experience and Mental Health from Adolescence to Mid-Life 11 waves of data from a cohort of 9th graders followed to age 45–46 examines whether key psychological dimensions indicative of mental health change in response to employment. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-…

Throwback to a 2018 paper: The Persuasive Power of Protest. How Protest wins Public Support How do protest actions succeed in winning public support? In this paper, Wouters theorizes how features of protest can persuade citizens to support demonstrators. doi.org/10.1093/sf/soy110

Orit Avishai’s Queer Judaism entrenches readers in the world of strongly devoted Zionist Jews who inhabit illegal West Bank settlements—and who are LGBT. Read a review of “Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel” here: doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae059