Enes Ataç
@ienesatac.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Data Analytics at Penn State | Prev. University of Mannheim & Bogazici University https://www.enesatac.org/
How well can we predict which children will end up poor adults or rich adults? Or how much education they'll earn? In a new working paper, @zparolin.bsky.social and I show the predictability of life outcomes depends on the country and outcome. www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications... Highlights below! 🧵👇
Excited to attend #ASA2026 and present two of my papers: one on religious nationalism and authoritarian leadership, and another on elections and anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey. Come and join us if you have time tomorrow morning and/or afternoon! @asapolisoc.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
Excited to attend #ASA2026 and present two of my papers: one on religious nationalism and authoritarian leadership, and another on elections and anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey. Come and join us if you have time tomorrow morning and/or afternoon! @asapolisoc.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
As I prepare to enter the academic job market this fall, I’m excited to share some good news: Our paper, “Cultural Solidarity, Economic Threat: How Discrimination Influences Anti-Immigrant Attitudes,” has been published in Current Sociology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cultural solidarity, economic threat: How discrimination influences anti-immigrant attitudes - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2026
Studies on the attitudes of minorities toward immigrants have produced mixed results, as while some suggest that minorities are more tolerant of immigrants, oth...
journals.sagepub.com
As I prepare to enter the academic job market this fall, I’m excited to share some good news: Our paper, “Cultural Solidarity, Economic Threat: How Discrimination Influences Anti-Immigrant Attitudes,” has been published in Current Sociology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cultural solidarity, economic threat: How discrimination influences anti-immigrant attitudes - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Charles Seguin, Brandon Gorman, 2026
Studies on the attitudes of minorities toward immigrants have produced mixed results, as while some suggest that minorities are more tolerant of immigrants, oth...
journals.sagepub.com
Thrilled to share our new paper, "What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans' Views on Government Spending," just out in Socius! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Government Spending - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Lena Kunjan, Forrest Lovette, Samuel L. Perry, 2026
Research on government spending focuses primarily on the roles of partisanship, ideology, and in-group self-interest. Beyond these, the authors propose that rel...
journals.sagepub.com
The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.
Sarah Brothers @sarahbrothers.bsky.social (Pennsylvania State University) is a recipient of the inaugural Early Career Award for Community-Engaged Scholarship,
Very happy to see this out on perceptions of welfare deservingness for different categories of migrants, together with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and Samir Negash @fggaleiden.bsky.social, open access in EPSR:
Thrilled to share our new paper, "What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans' Views on Government Spending," just out in Socius! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What Would Jesus Fund? Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Government Spending - Ibrahim Enes Atac, Lena Kunjan, Forrest Lovette, Samuel L. Perry, 2026
Research on government spending focuses primarily on the roles of partisanship, ideology, and in-group self-interest. Beyond these, the authors propose that rel...
journals.sagepub.com
1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out @nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output. nature.com/articles/s41...
State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
nature.com
New study @sfjournal.bsky.social: Initial work on my theory of "rulling class religion," which I'll developfurther at @russellsagefdn.bsky.social next year. Using 3 data sets, we link Christian nationalism with endorsing economic inequality BUT only among higher earners. 1/3 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
I am thrilled to share that our article "Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration" has just been published at Social Science Quarterly! In this paper, we examine the association between moral intuitions and support for immigration.
Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration
Introduction Attitudes toward immigration are often shaped by whether immigrants are perceived as a threat to one's racial, ethnic, or nativity group status. Yet recent research shows that such perc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
I am thrilled to share that our article "Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration" has just been published at Social Science Quarterly! In this paper, we examine the association between moral intuitions and support for immigration.
Moral Intuitions and Support for Immigration
Introduction Attitudes toward immigration are often shaped by whether immigrants are perceived as a threat to one's racial, ethnic, or nativity group status. Yet recent research shows that such perc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe rule of the AK Party in Turkey and the ayatollahs in Iran is rapidly persuading Turks and Iranians that a strictly sexual approach to government is best and that those who talk non-stop religion are usually both inept and corrupt. Iran and Turkey are both experiencing rapid secularization.
Our recent article tackles this question directly. TL;DR: Turkey is not secularizing like Europe, where each younger generation is less religious. Instead, religiosity is being reshaped by political polarization, with decline concentrated among non-AKP supporters. A 🧵
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe rule of the AK Party in Turkey and the ayatollahs in Iran is rapidly persuading Turks and Iranians that a strictly sexual approach to government is best and that those who talk non-stop religion are usually both inept and corrupt. Iran and Turkey are both experiencing rapid secularization.
NEW: How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” from Matthew Conrad & me https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13-5-89/
🚨 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....
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...
journals.sagepub.com
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ispp-pops.bsky.social
NEW - A Meta-Analysis of Attitudes Towards Migrants and Displaced Persons - https://cup.org/3K67rG6 - @swebera.bsky.social, Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt & Haoyu Zhai #OpenAccess
Congratulations to @ienesatac.bsky.social & Gary J. Adler Jr, winners of the SSSR’s 2025 Distinguished Article Award for ‘Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey,’ published in @sfjournal.bsky.social sssreligion.org/awards-grant...
🚨 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....
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...
journals.sagepub.com
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
Enes Ataç@ienesatac.bsky.social · 10mo agoThrilled 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!
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.
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!
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.
This is up there with the craziest survey design I’ve seen.
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.
