Diversity as a Dominant Social Value
Abstract
Over the past half-century, sociologists working across subfields and analytic levels have documented the downstream implementations of diversity as a dominant social value. We synthesize this research, paying special attention to scholarship examining five key analytic contexts: class, taste, interactions, organizations, and cultural objects. The literature suggests that, despite persistent hierarchies of valuation and worth, a “conspicuous openness to diversity” has become particularly institutionalized among organizations and elites, operating as a foundational schema. We conclude with three directions for future research: exploring both historical and contemporary backlashes to diversity on the local and global scale, the impacts of diversity as a dominant social value for both non-elites and those who are cast as visible evidence of diversity, and the underlying mechanisms behind conspicuous openness to diversity, given well-documented gaps between discourse and action.
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| When | Event | Field | Old | New |
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| 2026-06-18 19:37:53.011249+00:00 | identifier_assigned | DSEID | DSEID-001-6423073 |