Kevin Kiley
@kkiley.bsky.social
Sociologist. Assistant Professor at NC State. PhD from Duke. Researching culture, cognition, beliefs, time, and methods. Not a congressional representative from CA.
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Kevin Kiley
@kkiley.bsky.social
· May 5
What Are You Talking about? Discussion Frequency of Issues Captured in Common Survey Questions
Article: What Are You Talking about? Discussion Frequency of Issues Captured in Common Survey Questions | Sociological Science | Posted May 2, 2025
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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...
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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...
Assistant professor (crime, law, and/or social control): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Distinguished professor (race, health, or wellbeing): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Assistant Professor of Sociology
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is accepting applications for a tenure-trackassistant professor of Sociology with a focus on criminology to begin Fall 2026.The successful candidate should...
jobs.ncsu.edu
October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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...
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...
Assistant professor (crime, law, and/or social control): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Distinguished professor (race, health, or wellbeing): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Assistant Professor of Sociology
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is accepting applications for a tenure-trackassistant professor of Sociology with a focus on criminology to begin Fall 2026.The successful candidate should...
jobs.ncsu.edu
October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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...
Assistant professor (crime, law, and/or social control): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Distinguished professor (race, health, or wellbeing): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...
Reposted by Kevin Kiley
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:
One, True Occupational Ladder? – Work in Progress
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August 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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.
NEW Andrés Castro Araújo, Nicolás Restrepo Ochoa, "How to Make a Functionalist Argument." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
August 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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.
July 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Intentionally mis-formatting em dashes as "--" to let people know I'm a human.
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a new article in Political Psychology: osf.io/rhf4q
we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.
with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.
with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
June 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
a new article in Political Psychology: osf.io/rhf4q
we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.
with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
we argue that studies of belief change have an identifiability problem much like the APC problem: the composition of change (who changed or how much they changed) is observationally confounded.
with @pablobellode.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
Reposted by Kevin Kiley
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/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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/...
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.
June 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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.
Reposted by Kevin Kiley
a "heterodox" critique of sociology is just a critique in search of its orthodoxy. in this short post, I argue that criticism of sociology should be substantive, with *actual* implications for practice.
Criticism of Sociological Orthodoxy Needs to be Substantive
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/orthodoxy
Criticism of Sociological Orthodoxy Needs to be Substantive
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/orthodoxy
June 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
a "heterodox" critique of sociology is just a critique in search of its orthodoxy. in this short post, I argue that criticism of sociology should be substantive, with *actual* implications for practice.
Criticism of Sociological Orthodoxy Needs to be Substantive
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/orthodoxy
Criticism of Sociological Orthodoxy Needs to be Substantive
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/orthodoxy
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I just happened to read @stephenvaisey.com on this www.jstor.org/stable/48642...
June 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I just happened to read @stephenvaisey.com on this www.jstor.org/stable/48642...
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...
What Are You Talking about? Discussion Frequency of Issues Captured in Common Survey Questions
Article: What Are You Talking about? Discussion Frequency of Issues Captured in Common Survey Questions | Sociological Science | Posted May 2, 2025
sociologicalscience.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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.
NEW: Turgut Keskintürk, Kevin Kiley, Stephen Vaisey, "What Are You Talking about? Discussion Frequency of Issues Captured in Common Survey Questions" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
sociologicalscience.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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.
Reposted by Kevin Kiley
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! 😊
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! 😊
April 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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! 😊
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! 😊
Reposted by Kevin Kiley
New study coming in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social. We asked Americans which topics from the GSS they spend time talking about. Generally, people say they talk about these issues "never" (~40%) or "once or twice in the past year." Religious topics much more common than most political, "social" issues.
a new article forthcoming in Sociological Science! we use an original survey of 2,117 Americans to examine how often people report discussing social and political issues tapped by 88 questions in the GSS. the preprint is up at SocArXiv: osf.io/vqp2g_v1
with @kkiley.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
with @kkiley.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
March 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New study coming in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social. We asked Americans which topics from the GSS they spend time talking about. Generally, people say they talk about these issues "never" (~40%) or "once or twice in the past year." Religious topics much more common than most political, "social" issues.
New study coming in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social. We asked Americans which topics from the GSS they spend time talking about. Generally, people say they talk about these issues "never" (~40%) or "once or twice in the past year." Religious topics much more common than most political, "social" issues.
a new article forthcoming in Sociological Science! we use an original survey of 2,117 Americans to examine how often people report discussing social and political issues tapped by 88 questions in the GSS. the preprint is up at SocArXiv: osf.io/vqp2g_v1
with @kkiley.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
with @kkiley.bsky.social & @stephenvaisey.com:
March 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New study coming in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social. We asked Americans which topics from the GSS they spend time talking about. Generally, people say they talk about these issues "never" (~40%) or "once or twice in the past year." Religious topics much more common than most political, "social" issues.
Reposted by Kevin Kiley
Excited about a new article with Reilly Kincaid in ASR @asanews.bsky.social on role-accumulation & mental health across the life course. We identify a disagreement across prominent theories for how role-accumulation should affect mental health, especially in older adulthood. doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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February 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Excited about a new article with Reilly Kincaid in ASR @asanews.bsky.social on role-accumulation & mental health across the life course. We identify a disagreement across prominent theories for how role-accumulation should affect mental health, especially in older adulthood. doi.org/10.1177/0003...
New pub forthcoming with Yongren Shi and Freda Lynn in Poetics (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). In it, we conceptualize "Cultural Blau Space," the location of people in a multidimensional space simultaneously defined by many measures of personal culture.
Beyond statistical variables: Examining the duality of persons and groups in structuring cultural space
Socially constructed categories are central to sociological investigation, but their use in empirical research on culture is often limited to a role a…
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January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New pub forthcoming with Yongren Shi and Freda Lynn in Poetics (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). In it, we conceptualize "Cultural Blau Space," the location of people in a multidimensional space simultaneously defined by many measures of personal culture.
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NEW: Turgut Keskintürk, "Life-Course Transitions and Political Orientations."
sociologicalscience.com
September 27, 2024 at 4:10 PM
NEW: Turgut Keskintürk, "Life-Course Transitions and Political Orientations."
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Excited to share that @ewarren.bsky.social
and I have a paper just out in American Journal of Sociology! doi.org/10.1086/733194
and I have a paper just out in American Journal of Sociology! doi.org/10.1086/733194
September 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Excited to share that @ewarren.bsky.social
and I have a paper just out in American Journal of Sociology! doi.org/10.1086/733194
and I have a paper just out in American Journal of Sociology! doi.org/10.1086/733194
New paper! Apparent consensus around the occupational status hierarchy is driven by agreement among a small group of highly educated people. A lack of consensus among other groups on how to evaluate occupations leaves this “core” view unchallenged: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Intersectional Group Agreement on the Occupational Order - Freda B. Lynn, Yongren Shi, Kevin Kiley, 2024
When a group shares a viewpoint on a status order, their consensus imparts legitimacy to their shared understanding of that order. Conversely, a group espousing...
journals.sagepub.com
June 19, 2024 at 1:16 PM
New paper! Apparent consensus around the occupational status hierarchy is driven by agreement among a small group of highly educated people. A lack of consensus among other groups on how to evaluate occupations leaves this “core” view unchallenged: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Preprint! Since @vaiseys.bsky.social & I said adults rarely change, there's been pushback saying ppl change all the time. So we (plus @edelmann.bsky.social, @tkeskinturk.bsky.social & @isabellabouklas.bsky.social) tried to quantify how much cultural difference change explains: osf.io/preprints/so...
October 17, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Preprint! Since @vaiseys.bsky.social & I said adults rarely change, there's been pushback saying ppl change all the time. So we (plus @edelmann.bsky.social, @tkeskinturk.bsky.social & @isabellabouklas.bsky.social) tried to quantify how much cultural difference change explains: osf.io/preprints/so...