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.

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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:

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.

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

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...

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.

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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.

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.

NEW: Turgut Keskintürk, "Life-Course Transitions and Political Orientations."

Excited to share that @ewarren.bsky.social 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/...

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...