Publications related to popular beliefs about inequality

• Cech, Erin A., Jessi L. Smith and Anneke Metz. (2019). “Cultural Processes of Ethnoracial Disadvantage for Native American College Students.” Social Forces. Vol 91(1):355-380.

• Cech, Erin A., Mary Blair-Loy, and Laura E. Rogers. (2018). “Recognizing Chilliness: How Schemas of Inequality Shape Views of Culture and Climate in Work Environments.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Vol. 6(1): 125-160.

• Seron, Carroll, Susan Silbey, Erin Cech and Brian Rubineau. (2018) “ ‘I’m not a Feminist, but...:’ Hegemony of a Meritocratic Ideology and the Limits of Critique Among Women in Engineering. Work and Occupations. Vol. 45(2):131-167.

• Cech, Erin A. (2017). “Rugged Meritocratists: The Role of Overt Bias and the Meritocratic Ideology in Trump Supporters’ Opposition to Social Justice Efforts.” Socius. Vol. 3:1-20.

• Cech, Erin A. (2017). “What Fosters Concern for Inequality among American Adolescents?” Social Science Research. Vol. 61(1): 160-180.

• Cech, Erin A. (2016). “Mechanism or Myth? Family Plans and the Reproduction of Occupational Gender Segregation.” Gender & Society. Vol. 30(2): 265-88.

• Seron, Carroll, Susan Silbey, Erin A. Cech, and Brian Rubineau. (2016). “Persistence is Cultural: Professional Socialization and the Reproduction of Sex Segregation.” Work and Occupations. Vol. 23(2): 178-214.

• Cech, Erin A. (2014). “Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education?” Science, Technology & Human Values. Vol. 39 (1): 34-63.

      -Invited Nature comment on culture of disengagement research

• Cech, Erin A. and Mary Blair-Loy. (2010). “Perceiving Glass Ceilings? Meritocratic versus Structural Explanations of Gender Inequality among Women in Science and Technology.” Social Problems, Vol. 57(3): 371-397.