Changing Minds: What Scholars Know about How to Shift Beliefs

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

The resilience of status beliefs, stereotypes, moralized commitments, cultural schemas, etc. are key the reproduction of inequitable status quos. Comparatively little scholarly attention has focused on how we change beliefs. What do sociologists know about when and how people change their minds about important topics? How can this work be leveraged for equity and promoting social change in institutions and organizations?

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Presider

• Lindsey Trimble O'Connor, California State University-Channel Islands

Panelists

• KerryAnn O'Meara, Columbia University

• Francesca Polletta, University of California-Irvine

• Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs, Boston University

• Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Session Organizer

• Lindsey Trimble O'Connor, California State University-Channel Islands