Kieran Healy
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
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Their wordsThe 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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Their wordsNow, 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, these journals no longer publish the discipline's most-cited work. Impact has become decoupled from venue.
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Professionalization and organizational homogenization cause outputs in a field to converge in form.
Their wordsProfessionalization 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 evaluated by somewhat vague but widely shared criteria, organizations and their outputs will tend to converge in form.
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Their wordsBut with fifteen variables and two cases ... well, this is not the kind of thing you can make a single effective and non-confusing graph out of.
- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsThe distinction articulated in questions fifty and fifty-one, for example, eludes quite a number of people who should know better.
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Their wordsIt perfectly expressed the principle, the claim, the myth-as you please-that America is an idea. That it does not matter where you are from. That, in fact, America will in this moment explicitly and proudly acknowledge the sheer variety of places you are all from. That built in to the heart of the United States is the republican ideal not just that anyone can become an American, but that this possibility is what makes the country what it is.
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- 4 years earlier
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Their wordsFrom the moment he knew he'd lost the presidential election, Trump absolutely wanted to get the result overturned.
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Their wordsthe White House most likely did not consider that they'd ever get inside the building.
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- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsTo put it bluntly, if the paper is bad, then it doesn't really matter how polished the talk is, or how good the slides look.
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Their wordsThe most common way a talk fails is that the presenter uses their Keynote or PowerPoint slide deck as an outliner for themselves.
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- 6 years earlier
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Their wordsCharismatic leaders are internally driven, but they also need to be externally recognized as exceptional and, crucially, they must succeed to some degree in order to find the followers they seek
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Their wordsBut whatever about its edges, the core members of the organization quickly face the problem of how to codify and institutionalize the personal vision of the original leader. This is the problem of the routinization of charisma.
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Their wordsThis is a well-recognized problem with technological utopias: goods that are simple and elegant to use are often difficult and dangerous to make.
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- 4 years earlier
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The academic culture of posturing regarding time management is a distinctively American phenomenon.
Their wordsIt seems to me that very nearly all of this sort of guff is pure posturing, net of a very small kernel of obvious truth about not whiling away the weeks playing gin rummy or watching movies to the exclusion of all else. It's a distinctively American sort of posturing, too-you can probably trace it back to Ben Franklin or someone.
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Their wordsAs a thing for academics to do, writing a blog can be an endless black hole of self-absorbed wittering-or, it can cultivate a capacity to stay interested in things and to write about them fluently in the course of everyday life.
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