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The wages of ethnic power: Socioeconomic status, group threat, and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2025 Group threat theories explain anti-immigrant attitudes as emerging from threats to the perceived or actual power of one’s ethnic group. Studies also show that i...

🚨 New publication: “The Wages of Ethnic Power: Socioeconomic Status, Group Threat, and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Western Europe” 🚨

Just published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology with Charles Seguin and Brandon Gorman.

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The wages of ethnic power: Socioeconomic status, group threat, and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2025 Group threat theories explain anti-immigrant attitudes as emerging from threats to the perceived or actual power of one’s ethnic group. Studies also show that i...

The paper is open-access and you can read it here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Our main contribution is that we show the effect of SES on anti-immigrant attitudes is stronger among majority group members, where lower-SES individuals hold the most exclusionary views. And yet, at the highest SES levels, differences between majority and minority group members almost disappear.

We examine how the interaction between ethnic group power and SES shapes anti-immigrant attitudes. First, using ESS and EPR data, we show that majority groups are more likely than minority groups to hold anti-immigrant attitudes, and that SES is negatively associated with such attitudes overall.

The wages of ethnic power: Socioeconomic status, group threat, and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2025 Group threat theories explain anti-immigrant attitudes as emerging from threats to the perceived or actual power of one’s ethnic group. Studies also show that i...

🚨 New publication: “The Wages of Ethnic Power: Socioeconomic Status, Group Threat, and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Western Europe” 🚨

Just published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology with Charles Seguin and Brandon Gorman.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to share that our paper (w/ @garyadler.bsky.social) in Social Forces, “Religious Rebound, Political Backlash, and the Youngest Cohort: Understanding Religious Change in Turkey,” received the Distinguished Article Award from @sssreligion.bsky.social!

Research + teaching + student = great partnership. Also why I love my job @pennstateuniv.bsky.social

Keep an eye on @ienesatac.bsky.social!

It was a fun weekend at @sssreligion.bsky.social

Thrilled and honored that my book Religion for Realists was given the 2025 Distinguished Book Award by @sssreligion.bsky.social last night.

It’s vital that we understand religion and religious people. The social sciences are remiss to ignore either.

Hire more religion specialists.

Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey Abstract. We distinguish two streams of theory that dominate explanations of religious change: cohort-based cumulative decline theory, which emphasizes sma

It’s such an honor to receive this award in the presence of scholars who have inspired my work from day one. You can read our paper here (let me know if you can’t access it): academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...

Thrilled to share that our paper (w/ @garyadler.bsky.social) in Social Forces, “Religious Rebound, Political Backlash, and the Youngest Cohort: Understanding Religious Change in Turkey,” received the Distinguished Article Award from @sssreligion.bsky.social!

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Wow, thanks for these extensive comments, Andy!

Interesting! I think my class is also suitable to have an assignment like this. Thanks for sharing!

I’m teaching a Social Problems class this summer and wondering how others address AI use in their syllabi. I don’t want to ban it because it feels inevitable and not realistic. But I want students to focus on their ideas and use AI only for minor things. Maybe this is too naive I don’t know.

Scale from 0 - Not Likely to 10 - Very Likely organized as rectangles for 0 and 10 that span the width of three squares, with numbers 1 - 9 organized in three rows.

This is up there with the craziest survey design I’ve seen.

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Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey Abstract. We distinguish two streams of theory that dominate explanations of religious change: cohort-based cumulative decline theory, which emphasizes sma

Here is my article recognized by this award:
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I am thrilled to share that I received the Lombra Outstanding Graduate Research Award from @psuliberalarts.bsky.social for the best article published by a graduate student in the social sciences. I’m incredibly grateful to Charles Seguin and @garyadler.bsky.social for their support and nomination.

Excited to share my new article in the American Journal of Political Science (@ajpseditor.bsky.social)! "Endogenous Opposition: Identity and Ideology in Kuwaiti Electoral Politics" explores how authoritarian elections generate opposition to incumbent autocrats. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ukrer...

Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Fascinating paper: partisan segregation is not due to sorting/migration. Counties trending Democratic tend to so because of generational change; Counties trending Republican tend to do so because of party switching.

www.nber.org/papers/w33422

Quote from email: "SSSR has always been about both advancing cutting-edge research and building a diverse and supportive community, and I am looking forward to more opportunities for this in Minneapolis. The 2025 Annual Meeting will feature paper sessions, discussion and book panels (formerly known as "author-meets-critics" sessions). We are also open to other creative ideas for how to share and germinate research, foster community, and stimulate innovation. If you would like to propose something new along these lines, please contact our Program Chair Evan Stewart at program@sssreligion.org."

There's a new invite from @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social to submit to @sssreligion.bsky.social's 2025 Annual Meeting in your email inboxes. I'm the program chair this year! Wanted to highlight one key quote for #socsky people here interested in religion - we want your cool ideas!

Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey Abstract. We distinguish two streams of theory that dominate explanations of religious change: cohort-based cumulative decline theory, which emphasizes sma

I’m thrilled to share that my first academic publication is out @sfjournal.bsky.social In this paper, with @garyadler.bsky.social, we analyze religious identity and behavior over time to analyze the secularization question in Turkey. 1/n

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Thanks for creating this! Would appreciate being added.

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Thank you so much, I really appreciate these!