Kevin Kiley
@kkiley.bsky.social
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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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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
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wipsociology.bsky.social
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
www.wipsociology.org
kkiley.bsky.social
Great work by some great thinkers. Excited to see it in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social of all places.
sociologicalsci.bsky.social
NEW Andrés Castro Araújo, Nicolás Restrepo Ochoa, "How to Make a Functionalist Argument." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
kkiley.bsky.social
Intentionally mis-formatting em dashes as "--" to let people know I'm a human.
kkiley.bsky.social
I'm a sociology professor from North Carolina, not a congressional representative from California. Representative Kiley is not on BlueSky.
kkiley.bsky.social
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.
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tkeskinturk.bsky.social
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:
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josephroso.bsky.social
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/...
kkiley.bsky.social
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.
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tkeskinturk.bsky.social
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
a snippet from the post, saying:

"Critiques like this, mostly coming from the Heterodox Academy quarters of academia, share a familiar structure. They contend that sociology is “politically captured,” yet when it is time to say what scholars should actually do differently, the prescriptions are procedural (new review boards, special grants, and viewpoint-diversity pledges), rather than intellectual."
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kkiley.bsky.social
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.
kkiley.bsky.social
Stop micro-blogging and start meso-blogging.
kkiley.bsky.social
Be the change you want to see in the world! Get a few good buddies and start a blog!
kkiley.bsky.social
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).
kkiley.bsky.social
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
kkiley.bsky.social
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.
sociologicalsci.bsky.social
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...
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kkiley.bsky.social
While you wait to the PDF link to get fixed, you can always read the preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...
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nicolasrestrepo.bsky.social
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! 😊
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kkiley.bsky.social
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.
tkeskinturk.bsky.social
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:
kkiley.bsky.social
Some notable difference across groups: Republicans say they talk more about religion. Democrats say they talk more about extramarital affairs (!). Older respondents say they talk more about social security. Younger respondents say they talk more about homosexuality and gay marriage.
kkiley.bsky.social
Average reported discussion frequency of each issue highly skewed by a few people who talk a lot about most things -- your friends who are always talking about politics. People who say they talk a lot about one thing likely to say they talk more about everything else, too.
kkiley.bsky.social
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.
tkeskinturk.bsky.social
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: