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 Room 294
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.
Recent Publications (for a full list and PDFs, see https://www.dustinstoltz.com)
- Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, and Omar Lizardo. “Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis.” The Journal for Theory of Social Behaviour.
- Dustin S. Stoltz. “The Duality of Class and Love." Poetics.
- Marshall A. Taylor and Dustin S. Stoltz. 2024. "A Workflow for Analyzing Cultural Schemas in Texts." The Journal of Mathematical Sociology.
- Dustin S. Stoltz. 2024. "Imaginative Labor and Embodied Cognition: Economic Sociology as a Cognitive Science." Current Sociology.
Teaching
- SOC 118: Sociology of Culture
- SOC 226: Computational Text Analysis
- SOC 166: Money, Power, Prestige
- SOC 211: Research Methods and Data Analysis
- SOC 223: It's Who You Know: Understanding Social Networks
- SOC/HMS 090: How Did Opioids Become an Epidemic?