I'm a sociology professor from North Carolina, not a congressional representative from California. He's not on BlueSky, as far as I know.
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I'm a sociology professor from North Carolina, not a congressional representative from California. He's not on BlueSky, as far as I know.
I'm a sociology professor from North Carolina, not a congressional representative.
Strikes me that the real risk is that attitudes toward the role of attitudes in research could shape this single team's decisions about how to analyze the data. They should get another set of teams to analyze this data to see the range of estimates of the effect of ideology on researcher decisions.
In the Fragile Family challenge, researchers didn't have access to either geographic or genetic information. I'm curious which one -- geographic or genetic information -- social scientists think would improve predictions more.
In the Fragile Family challenge, researchers didn't have access to either geographic or genetic information. I'm curious which one -- geographic or genetic information -- social scientists think would improve predictions more.
I'm a sociology professor from North Carolina, not a congressional representative from California.
Tide's also turning on multiverse analysis: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Time to fire up the "um actually causal inference is bad" paper.
Hello. As it says in my bio, I'm a sociology professor in North Carolina, not a congressional representative from California.
NC State sociology is hiring at the assistant and senior levels. Come work with me and many other great people!
Assistant professor (crime, law, and/or social control): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Distinguished professor (race, health, or wellbeing): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
NC State sociology is hiring at the assistant and senior levels. Come work with me and many other great people!
Assistant professor (crime, law, and/or social control): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Distinguished professor (race, health, or wellbeing): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
How do Americans really view the occupational hierarchy? A new article by Freda B. Lynn, Yongren Shi, and Kevin Kiley (@kkiley.bsky.social) finds less agreement on the status of occupations than estimates suggest. Read more on the Work In Progress blog:
Great work by some great thinkers. Excited to see it in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social of all places.
Intentionally mis-formatting em dashes as "--" to let people know I'm a human.
I'm a sociology professor from North Carolina, not a congressional representative from California. Representative Kiley is not on BlueSky.
I am not a representative from California. I'm a professor from North Carolina. Rep. Kevin Kiley is not on BlueSky, as far as I know.
EVERY time?
Check out my new article on xenophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric among US evangelical leaders that just got published (open access) in @sociusjournal.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A great part of sociology is that you read a bunch of books about completely different topics (Marriage! Naval navigation! Churches!) that are secretly about the same thing, and then you read a bunch of books that are just called “Social Theory” that are completely unrelated to each other.
Misaligned Incentives. A final mechanism is institutional. Fields like sociology—and subfields like cultural sociology—are made up of organizations, sections, journals, prizes, networks, and so on. Although most scholars endorse interdisciplinarity in theory, the strong nature of fields makes doing actually interdisciplinary research an uphill climb. For graduate students and assistant professors, the main impediment is the risk that innovative interdisciplinary work simply won’t be understood or valued by journal reviewers or hiring departments. This is a real concern given how anxiety provoking the job market already is. For senior faculty, the dynamics are more subtle. By the time a cultural sociologist becomes a full professor, she has become embedded in a network of other sociologists. For some, this means citations, speaking invitations, prizes, and—perhaps most important—status deference. To put it bluntly, at the ASA meetings, people recognize me; at the Cultural Evolution Society or Cognitive Science Society conference, they don’t. If, as Randall Collins claims, we seek out successful interaction rituals, I can see why hanging out exclusively with sociologists is a hard habit to break. Why would I want to feel invisible?
I just happened to read @stephenvaisey.com on this www.jstor.org/stable/48642...
I am a professor from North Carolina, not a U.S. congressional representative from California. I don't believe that Kevin Kiley is on bluesky.
Stop micro-blogging and start meso-blogging.
Be the change you want to see in the world! Get a few good buddies and start a blog!
They say this stuff came up "never" or "about once or twice" in past year, but there was substantial difference across topics. Most common topics were related to religion, immigration, and general sentiment toward politicians (we fielded the survey in summer 2024).
Ever wonder how often the public talks about issues that come up in social science surveys? We asked people how many times in past year they talked about topics of 88 GSS questions, including issues in politics, religion, & morality (short answer: rarely): sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
Hot off the presses! I would say go talk about it with your friends, but everything we find leads us to expect that you won't.
While you wait to the PDF link to get fixed, you can always read the preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...
Hey friends, I’m job hunting!
Looking for roles in data science or research—if you hear of anything, I’d love it if you send it my way.
If you’re looking for someone who knows Python, R, Stan, has collected and worked with all kinds of data, and is always excited to learn more—let’s talk! 😊