伯特之结构洞1.pdf

Paper submitted for the 2005 annual meetings of the American Sociological Association Voting Your Values and Moral Visions1 January 2005 Wayne E. Baker Professor of Sociology Professor of Management Organizations Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research University of Michigan 701 Tappan Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234 USA (734) 764-2306 wayneb@umich.edu 1 The data for this study come from the 2003 Detroit Area Study, funded in part by the University of Michigan and the Russell Sage Foundation. I thank Masahiko Aida for technical research assistance, and Kyle Bernard for helping with the literature review. I am indebted to Jim Lepkowski for assistance with the construction of sampling weights. I thank Michael Traugott for comments. Voting Your Values and Moral Visions Abstract Controversial exit polls from the 2004 elections reported that “values voters” swung the election in favor of George W. Bush. The controversy about “values voters” is an indication of questions about the changing social bases of political behavior. American politics appears to be becoming less social structural (membership in groups based on class, religion, gender, race, etc.) and more cultural (shared values that cut across groups). This study contributes to research on the cultural or “values” approach. Using data from the 2003 Detroit Area Study, I find that