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Leping Wang

@lepingwang.bsky.social
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Post-doc @Vanderbilt U | PhD @Boston U | MA @NYUSociology |Medical Sociology, Aging and the Life Course, Family Demography, Social Networks, Inequality lepingwang928.github.io

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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We gratefully acknowledge Celeste Currington, Gary Koeske, Nazli Kibria, Christopher Maggio, and our dear mentor, the late John Stone 💻 Replication code: github.com/lepingwang92... @bostonu.bsky.social @vanderbilt.edu @vandyopa.bsky.social @buciss.bsky.social (6/6)
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GitHub - lepingwang928/Ambivalent-Biological-and-Cultural-Racism-and-the-Legitimation-of-Inequality: Replication code
Replication code. Contribute to lepingwang928/Ambivalent-Biological-and-Cultural-Racism-and-the-Legitimation-of-Inequality development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🔎Takeaway: Racism takes a different shape across countries, is rooted in distinct racial histories, cultural contexts, and welfare systems. Ambivalent racism represents a meaningful category that helps reveal racial bias people may not admit outright (5/6)
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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🔊What is the political relevance? People expressing ambivalent or blatant racism are less likely to acknowledge racial inequality Ambivalent racism strongly predicts opposition to redistribution and anti-racism policies, espec. in US (4/6)
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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
📊Who holds these views? The profile of ambivalent racism shares some demographics associated with racism… …but also includes Muslims, Black people (US), and middle income groups in the political center (NL) (3/6)
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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We measured: 🧬Biological racism = "some races are born smarter/harder-working" 🌍Cultural racism = "some cultures are better" 1/2 respondents in US and 1/3 in NL express either 1/4 to 1/3 picked "neither agree nor disagree", which we took as reflecting conflicting attitudes (2/6)
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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
💡What to make of "neither agree nor disagree" responses to Qs about racial attitudes? Our original survey in US & Netherlands suggests the racism/non-racism binary overlooks a crucial category: "ambivalent racism" 📄 @isa-sociology.org paper w/ @jonathanmijs.com: doi.org/10.1177/0268... (1/6)
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Ambivalent, biological, and cultural racism and the legitimation of inequality: Original cross-national survey evidence from the United States and The Netherlands - Leping Wang, Jonathan J.B. Mijs, 20...
This article scrutinizes the linkage between racism and legitimizing beliefs about inequality in internationally comparative perspective. Drawing on original na...
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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · 27/02/2026
How has public belief in the importance of merit🥇 and privilege💰 changed over time? 🆕Data viz shows a widening gap b/w the perceived importance of family wealth (privilege) and hard work (merit) in a majority of countries in the West Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2378... Code: github.com/cybe2001/mer...
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Bella DePaulo @belladepaulo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Married people get around $1,000 more per month in Social Security income than never-married people! TY for your important research, Deborah Carr @carrds723.bsky.social Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social & Pamela J Smock www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...
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How Social Security Helps Married People More Than Singles
Social Security is a vital system, but it also perpetuates inequality between married and never-married people and men and women.
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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
In this new paper, we found off-time marital transition, featured by premature widowhood in China, is associated with higher likelihood of loneliness, whereas on-time marital transition, featured by midlife divorce in the U.S., is associated with less loneliness. doi.org/10.1332/1757...
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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Shoutout to Jonathan Mijs, Debby Carr, Neha Gondal, Michel Anteby, and Ashley Mears for their dedicated mentorship and constructive feedback!
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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
How do evaluations in junior faculty hiring reproduce inequality? In this study, I propose a "Merit-Fit-Diversity" framework to unpack the academic gatekeeping process across sociology and business departments, and across private and public universities: doi.org/10.1111/soin...
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Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multifaceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping in Social Sciences at U.S. R1 Research Universities
This study draws on interviews with 50 sociology and business professors across two private and five public American universities, and proposes a novel “Merit-Fit-Diversit” framework to show how narr...
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Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
See our new study to find out how social security disparities persist even after adjusting for life course characteristics including human capital, labor supply, health, and socio-demographics!
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