Kieran Healy
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Kieran Healy is a professor of sociology at Duke University.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Role: Professor of Sociology, Duke University (opens wiqqi.app)
- PhD: Sociology, Princeton University (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: Last Best Gifts (2006); Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (2018) (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Mastodon: @kjhealy@mastodon.social (opens mastodon.social)
“RIP Barbara Barrie. Do yourself a favor and watch “Breaking Away”.”
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GitHub: @kjhealy (opens github.com)
“kieranhealy.hugo — The source code to http://kieranhealy.org”
- Site: kieranhealy.org (opens kieranhealy.org)
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Mastodon: @kjhealy@mastodon.social (opens mastodon.social)
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15 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The most widely cited sociology papers tend to present either theories or tools rather than empirical findings. (opens korrents.com)
“The papers that become the most widely cited present either theories or tools. Specific findings, however important, tend not to reach this (admittedly rarefied) level of influence.”
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Impact in sociology has become decoupled from the prestige of the publication venue. (opens korrents.com)
“Now, ASR and AJS remain the most prestigious journals in the discipline, and publishing in them is still vitally important for establishing and consolidating a career. But, at least at the very top of the distribution,…”
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Professionalization and organizational homogenization cause outputs in a field to converge in form. (opens korrents.com)
“Professionalization is one of the main engines of organizational homogenization. In a field whose members are trained in similar programs, credentialed in similar ways, competing for a limited number of positions, and…”
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The most widely cited sociology papers tend to present either theories or tools rather than empirical findings. (opens korrents.com)
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16 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Dropbox (opens rcmnd.app)
“DropBox is terrific and I use it more and more.”
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SuperDuper (opens rcmnd.app)
“I clone disks with SuperDuper. (Their customer support is terrific, by the way.)”
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1Password (opens rcmnd.app)
“1Password is the add-on I would miss most if it went away.”
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Dropbox (opens rcmnd.app)