I am a cultural and economic sociologist. My research primarily focuses on cultural change and persistence and the relationship between stratification (wealth, education, occupations, affiliations, social networks, status) and thought (evaluations, ideas, wants, tastes, cognition, imagination).
Dustin Stoltz
Assistant Professor
610.758.5517
dss219@lehigh.edu
0031 - Williams Hall
Education:
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 2020
MSc in Sociology; Community & Economic Development, Illinois State University, 2014
BSc in Sociology, Montana State University, 2010
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Research Areas
Additional Interests
- Cultural Sociology
- Economic Sociology
- Cognitive Science
- Computational Social Science
- Sociology of Knowledge
Research Statement
Biography
I completed my PhD in Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. I also have a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Montana State University, and a master's in sociology and community and economic development from Illinois State's Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development.
In-Progress
- Dustin S. Stoltz and Marshall A. Taylor. "text2map: R Tools for Text Matrices." [Abstract]
- Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, and Omar Lizardo. "Functionaries." [Abstract] [SocArXiv]
- Dustin S. Stoltz and Marshall A. Taylor. "The Materiality of Social Fields and the Problem of Change." [Abstract]
2021
- Dustin S. Stoltz and Aaron Z. Pitluck. "Resources in Relational Packages: Social Capital as a Byproduct of Relational Work." Social Currents. [Abstract] [DOI] [PDF] [SocArXiv]
- Terence E. McDonnell. Dustin S. Stoltz, and Marshall A. Taylor. "Revision, Reclassification, and Refrigerators." Sociological Forum. [Abstract] [DOI] [PDF] [SocArXiv] [Reproduction Data & Code]
- Dustin S. Stoltz and Marshall A. Taylor. "Cultural Cartography with Word Embeddings." Poetics. [Abstract] [DOI] [PDF] [SocArXiv] [Reproduction Data & Code]
2020
- Marshall A. Taylor and Dustin S. Stoltz. "Concept Class Analysis: A Method for Identifying Cultural Schemas in Texts." Sociological Science. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [Reproduction Data & Code]
- Erin Metz McDonnell, Dustin S. Stoltz, and Marshall A. Taylor. "Multiple Market Moralities: How Consumers Evaluate the Fairness of Price Changes Differently." Socio-Economic Review. [DOI] [Abstract]
- Dustin S. Stoltz, Justin Van Ness, and Mette Evelyn Bjerre. "The Changing Valuation of Dogs." Sociological Forum. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [SocArXiv]
- Dustin S. Stoltz and Richard Williams. "Marginal Effects and Adjusted Predictions." SAGE Research Methods Foundations. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF]
- Marshall A. Taylor and Dustin S. Stoltz. "Integrating Semantic Directions with Concept Mover's Distance to Measure Binary Concept Engagement." Journal of Computational Social Science. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [SocArXiv] [Reproduction Data & Code]
2019
- Dustin S. Stoltz. "Becoming a Dominant Misinterpreted Source: The Case of Ferdinand de Saussure in Cultural Sociology." Journal of Classical Sociology. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [SocArXiv]
- Dustin S. Stoltz and Marshall A. Taylor. "Concept Mover’s Distance: Measuring Concept Engagement in Texts via Word Embeddings." Journal of Computational Social Science. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [SocArXiv] [Reproduction Data & Code]
- Omar Lizardo, Brandon Sepulvado, Dustin S. Stoltz, and Marshall A. Taylor. "What Can Cognitive Neuroscience do for Cultural Sociology?" American Journal of Cultural Sociology. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [SocArXiv]
- Marshall A. Taylor, Dustin S. Stoltz, and Terence E. McDonnell. "Binding Significance to Form: Cultural Objects, Neural Binding, and Cultural Change." Poetics. [DOI] [Abstract ] [PDF] [SocArXiv]
- Dustin S. Stoltz and Marshall A. Taylor. "Textual Spanning: Finding Discursive Holes in Text Networks." Socius. [DOI] [Abstract ] [PDF] [Reproduction Data & Code]
2018
- Omar Lizardo, Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, and Michael Lee Wood. "Visualizing Bring-Backs." Socius. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [Data & Code]
- Michael Lee Wood, Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, and Justin Van Ness "Schemas and Frames." Sociological Theory. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [SocArXiv]
- Dustin S. Stoltz and Omar Lizardo. "Deliberate Trust and Intuitive Faith: A Dual-Process Model of Reliance." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF]
- Dustin S. Stoltz. "Relations and Relationships: Clarifying the Terms of the ‘New’ Relational Economic Sociology." The American Sociologist. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [SocArXiv]
2017
- Dustin S. Stoltz and Marshall A. Taylor. "Paying with Change: The Purposeful Enunciation of Material Culture." Poetics. [DOI] [Abstract ] [PDF] [SocArXiv] [Reproduction Data & Code]
- Omar Lizardo and Dustin S. Stoltz. "Max Weber’s Ideal versus Material Interest Distinction Revisited." European Journal of Social Theory. [DOI] [Abstract ] [PDF]
2016
- Omar Lizardo, Rob Mowry, Brandon Sepulvado, Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, Justin Van Ness, and Michael Lee Wood. "What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology." Sociological Theory. [DOI] [Abstract] [PDF] [SocArXiv]
Teaching
Sociology of Culture
Computational Text Analysis
Money, Power, Prestige
Research Methods and Data Analysis
Understanding Social Networks