K Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 12244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2113-801X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 356 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Tânisi ôma ê-takihtêk wîhêtâwâwasôwin
This chapter discusses how nêhiyaw or Cree processes of naming and being named come with conventions and ceremony and are culturally specific to the lands lived upon since the nêhiyaw Creation story. It also considers how a lifelong participation in naming ceremonies bring with them renewed gifts of naming which—when spoken in nêhiyawêwin—offer a deeper connection to land. The authors also address how early European and continental ideological im…
Kihci-Ministik: Protecting our sacred waters in an age of climate change through land-based learning in Saskatchewan, Canada
Protecting our sacred water has never been more important given the impacts of climate change. Although the importance of Indigenous Knowledge is increasingly recognized and valued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it is often dismissively fragmented and packaged into western science concepts of adaptation. This article recounts Indigenous Knowledge shared at a land-based camp using a decolonial Indigenous relational methodology i…
Digital networks: Elements of a theoretical framework
The proliferation of new, digital communications technologies and platforms over the past few decades has transformed the way humans relate to one another. In turn, there has been an explosion of scientific research using data on these interactions to better understand how social networks emerge and evolve. Curiously, this agenda has proceeded with little theoretical foundation—typically assuming digital and face-to-face ties operate the same way…
Psychometric Properties of the Bisexual Microaffirmation Scale: For Women in a Sample of Bisexual + Women and Nonbinary People of Color
Though the Bisexual Microaffirmation Scale: For Women (BMSFW) was originally created to help mental health clinicians and researchers understand bisexual women's experiences of stigma and affirmation, the scale has so far only been used with predominantly White samples. The present study used a sample 209 majority bisexual cisgender women from marginalized racial-ethnic backgrounds to test the psychometric properties of the BMFSW. This study's fi…
Hope as a Moderator of Intimate Partner Violence and Suicide Risk Behaviors Among Latinas
The current study investigated the role of hope in the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicide risk behaviors among a community sample of Latinas ( N = 180). Moderation analyses revealed significant interaction effects demonstrating that both aspects of hope-agency and pathways-were associated with suicide risk behaviors at high levels of IPV. Results suggest hope may be helpful when IPV is at low levels, but it may exace…
Beyond the “STEM Pipeline”: Expertise, Careers, and Lifelong Learning
Studies of education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) commonly use a pipeline metaphor to conceptualize forward movement and persistence. However, the “STEM pipeline” carries implicit assumptions regarding length (i.e. that it “starts” and “stops” at specific stages in one’s education or career), contents (i.e. that some occupational fields are “in” the pipeline while others are not), and perceived purpose (i.e. th…
Rules of the Game: Exponential Random Graph Models of a Gang Homicide Network
Gang members frequently refer to street life as a “game” (or “The Game”): a social milieu in which status is lost or won by the way individuals and groups manage their reputations. Like other games, successfully participating in the street game may demand adherence to certain rules, such as the willingness to violently redress threats, the avoidance of “weak” behaviors, and the protection of one’s allies. This paper draws on detailed police recor…
The Duality of Students and Faculty: Illustrating the Sociological Utility of Doctoral Committee Data
In the context of growing interest in social networks and the sociology of graduate education, the authors examine a relational feature of postbaccalaureate study that has received particularly little attention: the doctoral committee. Data on committee memberships speak to multiple theoretical issues and are presumably maintained by most doctorate-granting institutions, yet this information is seldom aggregated or analyzed. Here, the authors dra…
Supplemental Material for Trust in Everyday Life
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic, by Peter Berger and Anton Zijderveld
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic, by Peter Berger and Anton Zijderveld. Harper Collins, 2009. Pb. 208pp., $13.99, ISBN-13: 9780061778179
The Conversion of Cultural Tastes into Social Network Ties
In recent years, sociologists have focused less on cultural tastes as “effects” of social structure and more on their causal efficacy in the creation and maintenance of social ties. Progress on this agenda has been hindered, however, by limitations in theory, methods, and available data. This article attempts to advance all three fronts. First, it clarifies, integrates, and expands upon prior work to develop a more comprehensive theoretical frame…
Agent-Based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists
Agent-based modeling is a long-standing but underused method that allows researchers to simulate artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their interactions over time. ABMs are especially useful when investigating group behavior or evolutionary processes and …
Preferences in the Early Stages of Mate Choice
Romantic partnership is often considered an optimal barometer of intergroup relations. To date, however, it has been challenging to distinguish the characteristics people prefer in a partner from the types of partners that are locally available. Online dating presents a new opportunity to address this puzzle. In this paper, I use behavioral data from a popular online dating site to answer three questions regarding preferences in the early stages …
Alliances and Treaties between Frankish and Muslim Rulers in the Middle East: Cross-Cultural Diplomacy in the Period of the Crusades, by Michael A. Köhler, tr. Peter M. Holt (revised and edited by Kon…
This is an English translation of Michael Köhler’s 1987 doctoral thesis, originally published in German in 1991. Unlike many ‘Occidentalist’ Crusade historians, Köhler demonstrates a strong grasp on the Arabic sources, arguing that they should not be treated as mere supplements to European narratives. Köhler is also an exception among many of his Arabist colleagues, in that he does not neglect invaluable Latin evidence. Köhler has thus produced a…
Sociology in the Era of Big Data: The Ascent of Forensic Social Science
How Networks Form: Homophily, Opportunity, and Balance
Owing to rapid advances in available data and methods, social network analysis has recently been propelled into a new era: Instead of documenting patterns in static network structures, we are increasingly able to pinpoint the principles governing the evolution of these structures as well as how they emerged in the first place. In this essay, I trace the contours of this new trend. First, I describe foundational research on three mechanisms of net…
Studying Online Behavior: Comment on Anderson et al. 2014
As social scientists increasingly employ data from online sources, it is important that we acknowledge both the advantages an limitations of this research. The latter have received comparatively little public attention. In this comment, I argue that a recent article by Anderson and colleagues: 1) inadequately describes the study sample; 2) inadequately describes how the website operates; and 3) inadequately develops the paper’s central measures —…
Three fallacies of digital footprints
Digital footprints" is an attractive, useful, and increasingly popular metaphor for thinking about Big Data. In this essay, I elaborate on this metaphor to highlight three relatively basic fallacies in the way we tend to think about Big Data: first, that they contain information on complete populations, or " N = all"; second, that they contain recordings of naturalistic behavior; and third, that they can be understood devoid of context
Networks at Harvard University Sociology
The Structure of Online Activism
Despite the tremendous amount of attention that has been paid to the internet as a tool for civic engagement, we still have little idea how "active" is the average online activist or how social networks matter in facilitating electronic protest. In this paper, we use complete records on the donation and recruitment activity of 1.2 million members of the Save Darfur "Cause" on Facebook to provide a detailed first look at a massive online social mo…
A methodological framework for rapidly assessing the impacts of climate risk on national-level food security through a vulnerability index
Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th–13th Centuries, tr. Malcolm Barber and Keith BateThe Chanson d’Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade, tr. Susan B. Ed…
Ashgate’s flourishing Crusade Texts in Translation series grows with two very different volumes. The first, Letters from the East, comprises eighty-two documents addressed to Western Europe from the Levant, supplemented by a brief introduction, two maps, a chronology (1095–1312), a contents list and an index. This is the second such collaboration for the historian Malcolm Barber and the classicist Keith Bate, following The Templars: Selected Sour…
The Emergence of “Us and Them” in 80 Lines of Code: Modeling Group Genesis in Homogeneous Populations
Psychological explanations of group genesis often require population heterogeneity in identity or other characteristics, whether deep (e.g., religion) or superficial (e.g., eye color). We used agent-based models to explore group genesis in homogeneous populations and found robust group formation with just two basic principles: reciprocity and transitivity. These emergent groups demonstrated in-group cooperation and out-group defection, even thoug…
America's Heirloom Comfort Song: "Amazing Grace"
An historical, sociological, theological, cultural inquiry into the popularity of Newton’s hymn across the racial (and class) lines that divide North Americans. This “heirloom,” this “cultural icon,” functions widely and continually, primarily as a “comfort song” (like “comfort” food). The religious and non-religious alike return again and again to (the first three stanzas of) “America’s most beloved song”: a staple of funerals, preserved in over…
Social selection and peer influence in an online social network
Disentangling the effects of selection and influence is one of social science's greatest unsolved puzzles: Do people befriend others who are similar to them, or do they become more similar to their friends over time? Recent advances in stochastic actor-based modeling, combined with self-reported data on a popular online social network site, allow us to address this question with a greater degree of precision than has heretofore been possible. Usi…
Beyond and Below Racial Homophily: ERG Models of a Friendship Network Documented on Facebook
A notable feature of U.S. social networks is their high degree of racial homogeneity, which is often attributed to racial homophily--the preference for associating with individuals of the same racial background. The authors unpack racial homogeneity using a theoretical framework that distinguishes between various tie formation mechanisms and their effects on the racial composition of networks, exponential random graph modeling that can disentangl…
Sociology in the Era of Big Data: The Ascent of Forensic Social Science
The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network
The rapid growth of contemporary social network sites (SNSs) has coincided with an increasing concern over personal privacy. College students and adolescents routinely provide personal information on profiles that can be viewed by large numbers of unknown people and potentially used in harmful ways. SNSs like Facebook and MySpace allow users to control the privacy level of their profile, thus limiting access to this information. In this paper, we…
The Conversion of Cultural Tastes into Social Network Ties
In recent years, sociologists have focused less on cultural tastes as “effects” of social structure and more on their causal efficacy in the creation and maintenance of social ties. Progress on this agenda has been hindered, however, by limitations in theory, methods, and available data. This article attempts to advance all three fronts. First, it clarifies, integrates, and expands upon prior work to develop a more comprehensive theoretical frame…
The Structure of Online Activism
Despite the tremendous amount of attention that has been paid to the internet as a tool for civic engagement, we still have little idea how "active" is the average online activist or how social networks matter in facilitating electronic protest. In this paper, we use complete records on the donation and recruitment activity of 1.2 million members of the Save Darfur "Cause" on Facebook to provide a detailed first look at a massive online social mo…
Three fallacies of digital footprints
Digital footprints" is an attractive, useful, and increasingly popular metaphor for thinking about Big Data. In this essay, I elaborate on this metaphor to highlight three relatively basic fallacies in the way we tend to think about Big Data: first, that they contain information on complete populations, or " N = all"; second, that they contain recordings of naturalistic behavior; and third, that they can be understood devoid of context
Beyond the “STEM Pipeline”: Expertise, Careers, and Lifelong Learning
Studies of education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) commonly use a pipeline metaphor to conceptualize forward movement and persistence. However, the “STEM pipeline” carries implicit assumptions regarding length (i.e. that it “starts” and “stops” at specific stages in one’s education or career), contents (i.e. that some occupational fields are “in” the pipeline while others are not), and perceived purpose (i.e. th…
Studying Online Behavior: Comment on Anderson et al. 2014
As social scientists increasingly employ data from online sources, it is important that we acknowledge both the advantages an limitations of this research. The latter have received comparatively little public attention. In this comment, I argue that a recent article by Anderson and colleagues: 1) inadequately describes the study sample; 2) inadequately describes how the website operates; and 3) inadequately develops the paper’s central measures —…
The Emergence of “Us and Them” in 80 Lines of Code: Modeling Group Genesis in Homogeneous Populations
Psychological explanations of group genesis often require population heterogeneity in identity or other characteristics, whether deep (e.g., religion) or superficial (e.g., eye color). We used agent-based models to explore group genesis in homogeneous populations and found robust group formation with just two basic principles: reciprocity and transitivity. These emergent groups demonstrated in-group cooperation and out-group defection, even thoug…
A methodological framework for rapidly assessing the impacts of climate risk on national-level food security through a vulnerability index
The Kremlin and SDI
Philosophy
Journal Article PHILOSOPHY Get access Words and Silence: On the Poetry of Thomas Merton. By Thérèse Lentfoehr, Sr. New York: New Directions, 1979 x + 166 pages, notes, appendix, bibliography, Index $12.50. ISBN 0-8112-0712-9 Kevin Lewis Kevin Lewis University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4, December 1980, Pages 637–638, …
The Lonely Marathon
“It was months later that I began to recover and to relive the mixture of emotions I felt as I ran that marathon. There had been exuberance, of course, but through it had flowed a widening current of disturbing melancholy. I was unprepared for the sense of loneliness I felt more deeply the farther I ran.... At one of the great moments of my life, for which I had worked patiently and hard, I realized I was awfully alone. Something was missing.”
Book Notices
Journal Article BOOK NOTICES Get access Art, Creativity, and the Sacred. Edited by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. Crossroads Press, 1984. 340 pages. $15.95. Kevin Lewis Kevin Lewis University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 163-a–163, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.1.163-a Published: 01 March 1986
The Use of Blake and the Recovery of Fideism
Journal Article THE USE OF BLAKE AND THE RECOVERY OF FIDEISM Get access KEVIN LEWIS KEVIN LEWIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 4, Winter 1986, Pages 741–760, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.4.741 Published: 01 December 1986
Current Interests, Work in Progress
Current Interests, Work in Progress
The Kremlin and SDI
The Changing Shape of Protestantism in the South
Integrating Justice and Social Exchange: The Differing Effects of Fair Procedures and Treatment on Work Relationships.
This research investigated whether procedural and interactional justice affect work-related outcomes through different social exchange relationships. The findings extend previous research by demons...
"Obeying God Rather Than Man " (Acts 5): (29): Christian Faith in Confrontation With Political Correctness in Sweden
At present Swedens, like other industrialized countries, a highly secularized society. The Church of Sweden, divorced from the state in the year 2000, has lost most of its influence and has become more or less a service institution to lend solemnity to the rites-de-passage of life: baptism, weddings and funerals. Since the 1930s there has been a politically oriented change in the view of the family. The core family as the foundation of society ha…
‘Religion’ in the Middle East: Implicit and/or Invisible
A personal, reflective account of a probing for indications in the Muslim Middle East of anything resembling ‘implicit’ religion as noted in the West. Tentative result: initial dismissal of parallels to ‘civil’ religion, followed by argument that Thomas Luckmann’s ‘invisible’ rather than an ‘implicit’ religion theory invites more appropriate consideration when appraising general religious life as observed by a visiting Western religionist during …
Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com
The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network
The rapid growth of contemporary social network sites (SNSs) has coincided with an increasing concern over personal privacy. College students and adolescents routinely provide personal information on profiles that can be viewed by large numbers of unknown people and potentially used in harmful ways. SNSs like Facebook and MySpace allow users to control the privacy level of their profile, thus limiting access to this information. In this paper, we…
A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts
Beyond and Below Racial Homophily: ERG Models of a Friendship Network Documented on Facebook
A notable feature of U.S. social networks is their high degree of racial homogeneity, which is often attributed to racial homophily--the preference for associating with individuals of the same racial background. The authors unpack racial homogeneity using a theoretical framework that distinguishes between various tie formation mechanisms and their effects on the racial composition of networks, exponential random graph modeling that can disentangl…
Social selection and peer influence in an online social network
Disentangling the effects of selection and influence is one of social science's greatest unsolved puzzles: Do people befriend others who are similar to them, or do they become more similar to their friends over time? Recent advances in stochastic actor-based modeling, combined with self-reported data on a popular online social network site, allow us to address this question with a greater degree of precision than has heretofore been possible. Usi…
America's Heirloom Comfort Song: "Amazing Grace"
An historical, sociological, theological, cultural inquiry into the popularity of Newton’s hymn across the racial (and class) lines that divide North Americans. This “heirloom,” this “cultural icon,” functions widely and continually, primarily as a “comfort song” (like “comfort” food). The religious and non-religious alike return again and again to (the first three stanzas of) “America’s most beloved song”: a staple of funerals, preserved in over…
Networks at Harvard University Sociology
The Structure of Online Activism
Despite the tremendous amount of attention that has been paid to the internet as a tool for civic engagement, we still have little idea how "active" is the average online activist or how social networks matter in facilitating electronic protest. In this paper, we use complete records on the donation and recruitment activity of 1.2 million members of the Save Darfur "Cause" on Facebook to provide a detailed first look at a massive online social mo…
A methodological framework for rapidly assessing the impacts of climate risk on national-level food security through a vulnerability index
Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th–13th Centuries, tr. Malcolm Barber and Keith BateThe Chanson d’Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade, tr. Susan B. Ed…
Ashgate’s flourishing Crusade Texts in Translation series grows with two very different volumes. The first, Letters from the East, comprises eighty-two documents addressed to Western Europe from the Levant, supplemented by a brief introduction, two maps, a chronology (1095–1312), a contents list and an index. This is the second such collaboration for the historian Malcolm Barber and the classicist Keith Bate, following The Templars: Selected Sour…
The Emergence of “Us and Them” in 80 Lines of Code: Modeling Group Genesis in Homogeneous Populations
Psychological explanations of group genesis often require population heterogeneity in identity or other characteristics, whether deep (e.g., religion) or superficial (e.g., eye color). We used agent-based models to explore group genesis in homogeneous populations and found robust group formation with just two basic principles: reciprocity and transitivity. These emergent groups demonstrated in-group cooperation and out-group defection, even thoug…
How Networks Form: Homophily, Opportunity, and Balance
Owing to rapid advances in available data and methods, social network analysis has recently been propelled into a new era: Instead of documenting patterns in static network structures, we are increasingly able to pinpoint the principles governing the evolution of these structures as well as how they emerged in the first place. In this essay, I trace the contours of this new trend. First, I describe foundational research on three mechanisms of net…
Studying Online Behavior: Comment on Anderson et al. 2014
As social scientists increasingly employ data from online sources, it is important that we acknowledge both the advantages an limitations of this research. The latter have received comparatively little public attention. In this comment, I argue that a recent article by Anderson and colleagues: 1) inadequately describes the study sample; 2) inadequately describes how the website operates; and 3) inadequately develops the paper’s central measures —…
Three fallacies of digital footprints
Digital footprints" is an attractive, useful, and increasingly popular metaphor for thinking about Big Data. In this essay, I elaborate on this metaphor to highlight three relatively basic fallacies in the way we tend to think about Big Data: first, that they contain information on complete populations, or " N = all"; second, that they contain recordings of naturalistic behavior; and third, that they can be understood devoid of context
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