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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a new paper forthcoming in Social Forces! focusing on the killing of George Floyd & the BLM, I study the formation of generations, proposing that formative events can create within-cohort differentiation as much as between-cohort differentiation. read here: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf

Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts
Contemporary narratives of generational politics propose that formative experiences produce shared political opinions across an age cohort. In this article, I advance a theory of cohortization to challenge that view, arguing that large-scale political events produce differentiation within cohorts as much as differentiation between them. I investigate the implications of this framework through the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, analyzing attitudes toward law enforcement among non-Hispanic White Americans from 2016 to 2024. Using survey data from Cooperative Congressional Election Study, American National Election Study, and the Nationscape, I show that younger and older cohorts diverged after the event, but this differentiation was driven exclusively by young Democrats and Independents. The end result was not a unified generation, but one internally divided along party lines. This finding qualifies theories of generational politics, emphasizing that formative experiences may intensify existing political divisions within cohorts.

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My, my, my, my generation
— The Who, “My Generation” (1965)

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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.

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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.

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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...

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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...

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Assistant Professor of Sociology

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Work In Progress @wipsociology.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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:

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One, True Occupational Ladder? – Work in Progress

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Great work by some great thinkers. Excited to see it in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social of all places.

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Intentionally mis-formatting em dashes as "--" to let people know I'm a human.

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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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/...

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I just happened to read @stephenvaisey.com on this www.jstor.org/stable/48642...

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?

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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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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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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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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Nico @nicolasrestrepo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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.

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Trenton Mize @trentonmize.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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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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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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

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

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Lauren Valentino @sociologylauren.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Excited to share that @ewarren.bsky.social and I have a paper just out in American Journal of Sociology! doi.org/10.1086/733194

Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results
from a Mixed-Methods Study
Lauren Valentino
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Evangeline Warren
Ohio State University
This sequential mixed-methods study examines how Americans ascribe meanings to the concepts racism, sexism, and classism. We first conduct interviews (N = 40) using a symbolic boundaries
elicitation approach, gathering examples of scenarios that do and do not “count” as racism, sexism, and classism. We then use these examples as vignettes in a nationally representative
survey-experiment (N = 2,000). Results reveal striking evidence for cultural heterogeneity in how Americans understand and define racism, sexism, and classism. We find that a person’s definition of these concepts depends on their emphasis on intentionality, unequal
treatment/outcomes, and power (a)symmetry. We also find that political partisanship, gender, age, and income shape the importance of these.

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

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/...

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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...

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

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...

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