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Anton Grau Larsen

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Political science 45%
Sociology 20%
conradhackett.bsky.social
A secular transition is happening in countries around the world. Detailed explanation🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Many Muslim-majority countries, Hindu-majority India in early stage. Countries with large Buddhist & Christian populations in later stages.
Blog: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Religion generally declines between generations in three steps:
People participate in worship services less often.
The importance of religion declines in their personal lives.
Belonging to religion becomes less common.
They call this the Participation-Importance-Belonging (P-I-B) sequence. In this sequence, generations first shed aspects of religion that require more time and resources. People are slower to shed religious identity, which is not necessarily as burdensome.

In the early stage of secular transition, generations differ primarily in their religious participation. In some countries that remain highly religious today, recent surveys show that each country’s share of adults under age 40 who frequently attend religious services has dropped below the share of older adults who do so.
Many African countries are currently in this early stage. For example, in Senegal, 78% of older adults attend worship services weekly, but younger adults are 14 percentage points less likely to do so. Yet almost all adults in Senegal – both young and old – still identify as Muslims and consider religion very important in their lives. In the medium stage of secular transition, generations differ in their religious participation, importance and belonging. In countries that are moderately religious, all three steps in the P-I-B sequence are visible in recent surveys. Adults under 40 attend services less frequently than their elders, are less likely to say religion is important in their lives and are less likely to identify with any religion. This is the case currently in the U.S., along with many other countries in the Americas and Asia. In the late stage of secular transition, generations differ primarily in religious belonging. The authors contend that this is because the first two steps have been completed. The shares of older adults who attend services and who consider religion important in their lives have already dropped to low levels, similar to those of younger adults. In the least religious countries today, the main difference between age groups is that younger adults are less likely to identify with any religion.

Many countries in Europe have reached this stage. For example, in Denmark, 79% of older adults remain religiously affiliated, but adults under 40 are 26 points less likely to say they belong to any religion. Attendance at religious services and self-assessments of the importance of religion are low among people of all ages.
thomasp85.com
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
antongrau.bsky.social
I love it! With low status differences people just become random and idiosyncratic live your life types :-)
antongrau.bsky.social
I agree it is difficult to distinguish at the individual level. But "sour grapes" could be more common in less dynamic status markets. So if inequality is high and chances of social mobility is low then people are more likely to adapt and resign than in more egalitarian or dynamic situations?
antongrau.bsky.social
Interesting! People could agree on a status hierarchy and not be status seeking because they think that they do not stand a chance to achieve that status. I understand that the King has higher status than me - and I know that it is unattainable. But that is likely compatible with your argument.

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lwestheuser.bsky.social
Antipolitical sentiment in the working class is not least a symptom of class demobilization. For our German case, we document a steep decline of working class organization, mobilization, political and discursive representation. Others have noted very similar trends across rich democracies.
lwestheuser.bsky.social
OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization.

We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition.

Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ufw.bsky.social
A tomato picker handing a full bucket to the dumper who empties it into a trailer which holds up to 6 tons. Workers earn .86 cents for each 25lb bucket. The only work around 5 hours a day, so they go at top speed without many breaks to earn enough to pay their bills. #WeFeedYou
chellersgaard.bsky.social
Det her er enormt problematisk. Jeudan (som også udlejede Lars Løkkes Nyhavn lejlighed til spotpris) er en kæmpe spiller på det københavnske boligmarked og tæt integreret i magteliten

politiken.dk/danmark/poli...
Jeudan giver Rosenkrantz-Theil stor, gratis valgplatform
Jeudan har stillet lokaler på 465 kvadratmeter gratis til rådighed for Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil før valg.
politiken.dk
solgamsu.bsky.social
Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out.

We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools.

doi.org/10.1002/berj...
A hierarchical cluster analysis on principal components showing five clusters of points, coloured by cluster, on a graph.
liorsheffer.bsky.social
Now in APSR: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and accompanying surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find that politicians have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
garlicksauce.bsky.social
Are lobbyists influential? The public sure thinks so, but applied political science since lobbying registration data emerged (late 90s) struggled to produce evidence that it does. In new review @wmjunk.bsky.social @heathbrown.bsky.social and I chart a wave of research showing that lobbying matters.
How Lobbying Matters | Annual Reviews
For decades, political scientists have struggled to provide empirical evidence that lobbying influences policymaking. A considerable gap arose between widespread public suspicions of lobbying and the ...
www.annualreviews.org
polstudies.bsky.social
Do think tanks coordinate with interest groups or protect their turf? J A H Whittlestone, C K Florczak & @mbklitgaard.bsky.social examine alliances and autonomy in corporatist systems. Read more: buff.ly/GwDWSXg

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

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silberbauer.dk
Landbruget har alt, alt for megen magt i Danmark. Som i: mafialignende magt.

Her er et gavelink til en helt gak historie om at lade landbruget eje offentlige kontroldata. Det svarer til at give alle data om lungekræft til tobaksfabrikanterne og lade dem bestemme, hvilke forskere, der får adgang.
Forskere skulle gøre deres projekt »spiseligt for erhvervet« for at få adgang til data om dyrevelfærd
Den tidligere landbrugsstyrelse har givet ejerskab over data indsamlet af offentligt ansatte på de danske slagterier til Landbrug & Fødevarer. Det kan være et brud på offentlighedsloven og brud på EU-...
www.information.dk

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tommills.bsky.social
Network of organisations connected to the BBC's commercial boards via shared directors.
magneflemmen.bsky.social
NEW BLOG: In my new paper, I map 26 questions on environmental attitudes in social space. I challenge three accounts of the classed nature of environmentalism: the prosperity thesis, ecological distinction, and eco-habitus.
Read a short summary on my blog: magneflemmen.com/2025/05/31/g...

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thierryrossier.bsky.social
After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mapping relational structures in culture
Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of r…
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birthelarsen.bsky.social
Please read our new paper: Neighbourhood CEOs”

We show that firms led by neighborhood CEOs-in terms of physical proximity to the company and personal values -exhibit a better working environment, as measured by both a regulatory authority and employees’ perceptions.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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phdskat.org
EU’s ‘bazooka’ er rettet mod de amerikanske tech-giganter: nye digitale skatter er klar. Normalt ville det kræve opbakning fra alle medlemsstater, men ikke her. Det vidner om et fundamentalt anderledes, et mere magtfuldt og handlekraftigt EU - skriver jeg i dagens kronik i Berlingske:
antongrau.bsky.social
Great study - that shows higher variation in parenting among working class parents. 🧪
astabreinholt.bsky.social
Us college educated folks are so diverse in our cultural practices, right? Not when it comes to the high-stakes cultural practice of social reproduction: #parenting! We parent much more alike than parents with fewer years of #education: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hidden patterns of inequality: The heterogeneity in parenting within educational groups
When sociology deals with differences within groups of similar socioeconomic status, research and theorizing tend to focus on the heterogeneity among …
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