Kyle
C. Longest
PhD
Candidate
Department
of Sociology
National
Study of Youth and Religion
Data
Manager – Research Associate
EMAIL:
klongest (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu
Address:
155
Publications:
Articles
& Chapters
Longest, Kyle C. and Stephen
Vaisey.
(In Press). “Control or Conviction: Religion and Adolescent
Initiation of Marijuana Use.” Journal of
Drug Issues.
Longest, Kyle C. (In Press). “Sports
and Athletics.” In The Encyclopedia of the Life Course:
Children and Adolescents, edited by Deborah Carr. Gale.
Davis, Amy E., Kyle C. Longest, Phillip H.
Kim, Howard E. Aldrich.
(Forthcoming). “Owner
Contributions and Equity,” in Handbook of
Entrepreneurial Dynamics: The Process of Business
Creation, edited by Paul D. Reynolds. Sage.
Shanahan, Michael J. and Kyle C. Longest. (Forthcoming).
“The `Transition to Adulthood’: The End of an Anachronism?” in Transition to Work, edited by Ingrid Schoon.
Longest, Kyle C. and Stephen
Vaisey.
2008. “Fuzzy: A Program for Performing Qualitative Comparative Analyses (QCA) in Stata.” Stata Journal 8: 79 - 104.
Longest, Kyle C. and Michael J. Shanahan. 2007. “Adolescent Work Intensity and Substance Use: The Mediational and Moderational Role of Parents.” Journal of Marriage and Family 69: 703 – 720.
Editorships,
Review, and Other Publications
Longest, Kyle C. 2008. “Identity in Action.” Perspectives 30 (2): 2 – 4.
Longest, Kyle C. (Editor). 2008. The Sociology of Sport :
Syllabi and Teaching Resources.
Longest,
Kyle C. (Forthcoming) Review of Living
Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream, by
Reuben A. Buford May, in Social Forces.
Papers
Under Review:
Longest,
Kyle C. and Peggy Thoits. “The Stress Process and
Physical Health: A Configurational Approach.” Revised
and Resubmitted to Journal of Health and
Social Behavior
Paper
(Presented at 2007 ASA,
Longest, Kyle C., Steven
Hitlin, and Stephen
Vaisey.
“Position and Disposition: An Empirical Review of the Social Predictors of
Human Values.” Revise and Resubmit to Social
Forces.
Kim,
Phillip H., Kyle C. Longest, and Howard Aldrich. “Can You Lend Me a Hand?:
Task-Role Alignment of Social Support and Entrepreneurial Persistence”
Submitted to American Sociological
Review.
Paper (Presented at 2008 ASA,
Longest, Kyle C. “Integrating Identity Theory
and the Life Course Perspective: The Case of Adolescent Religious Behavior.” Submitted to Social Forces.
Paper (Presented at 2008 ASA,
Works
In Progress:
Longest,
Kyle C. “Identity Toolkits: Cultural Scripts and Religious Identity Development
in the Transition to Young Adulthood.”
Paper (To be presented at 2008
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion meeting,
Longest, Kyle C. and Michael J. Shanahan. “Adolescent Work Intensity and Substance Use: A Fuzzy
Test of Pseudomaturity Theory.”
Paper (Presented at 2005 ASA,
Longest, Kyle C., and Stephen
Vaisey.
“Peers, Parents, and Substance Use: A Configuration Test of Two Theories.”
Teaching:
Sociology
10: Sociological Perspectives (Summer
2006)
Sociology
95: Special Topics in Sociology (Sociology of Sport) (Spring 2006)
Stata:
Programs
fuzzy - is a suite of tools to perform extensive Qualitative Comparative Analyses (QCA). Generates a singular “best-fit” variable describing the distribution of the sample in the potential configurations, performs a series of statistical tests of the configurations, and reduces identified configurations using the Quine-Mcluskey algorithm. type: .net search fuzzy within Stata to install.
revrs - is a module to reverse the order of a variable's values and maintain specified value labels. –revrs- is especially helpful for quickly recoding multiple categorical or ordinal response variables to follow a similar direction.
Get it Here or type: .findit revrs within Stata.
Programming Short Course Handouts
Session 1 - The Purpose and Building Blocks of Programming
Session 2 – Writing Programs
*Site Updated July 2008
**CV Updated July 2008