The interface of religious identities, with state and politics is creating communal, ethnic and sectarian conflicts in South Asia. In spite of its geographical vastness and thousands of communities, the region remains conceived by sociologists in terms of religious identities. By continuing to discuss religious experiences, identities and conflicts in majority-minority terms, sociological disco...

This study examines whether the impact of offline identities on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) is stable across different social contexts or whether it depends on which identity aspect is salient. Field experiments with 206 teenagers tested the influence of gendered, ethnic, youth and personalized identities on teenagers’ chat behavior and cognitions. The findings show that offline ident...

Scholars of ethnic politics have posited that in some societies ascriptive identities are ranked relative to each other, but the origins of ranking are poorly understood. This paper develops a theory of ranked identities, and of why the elites of subaltern groups sometimes choose to invest in improving their status within the value systems of dominant groups, rather than in creating their own. ...

This is a response to Lenshie et al. (2021) paper in African Identities ‘Ethnic groups across Nigeria – Cameroon border territories: contested autochthony and contentious ethnic identities Mambilla Plateau, Nigeria’. We are concerned that their characterization of the previous literature inaccurate discussion own data does not respond complexities they themselves have documented.

The present study tested the independent and interactive effects of multiple group identities (i.e., American and ethnic) and racial discrimination on civic beliefs among immigrant adolescents. Seventy-seven participants completed a questionnaire during after-school programs. Ethnic identity was positively associated with civic beliefs whereas racial discrimination was negatively related to civ...

The Economic Determinants of Ethnic Assimilation Expanding on the concept of ethnic human capital, the paper distinguishes between cultural assimilation compatible with persistent ethnic groups and assimilation through intermarriage and other mechanisms that blur distinctions and lead to the disappearance of ethnic identities. Economic determinants of “successful” and “disadvantaged” group outc...

The hypothesis that possessing multiple subordinate-group identities renders a person “invisible” relative to those with a single subordinate-group identity is developed. We propose that androcentric, ethnocentric, and heterocentric ideologies will cause people who have multiple subordinategroup identities to be defined as non-prototypical members of their respective identity groups. Because pe...