This paper examines the changing nature of ethnic and religious identification in Malaysia, drawing upon a survey of attitudes conducted in three locations in Malaysia. The paper argues that the widely perceived political shift from a prevailing ethnic Malay/non-Malay dichotomy towards a more religious Muslim/non-Muslim dichotomy is more complex that previous analyses have suggested. Moreover, ...

The article examines the features of religious consciousness in Russia, uses evolutionary-energy and systemic approaches. author identifies two lines transformation — internal external. All major confessions are represented which determines processes globalization consciousness. Currently, a common field is being formed from interaction religions, consensus on geopolitical situation as well pro...

This study set out to examine to what extent ethnic ingroup friendship in secondary school classes are a by-product of cultural and socioeconomic ingroup friendship. Based on homophily theory, we expected dolescent ultilevel p2 model urope similar opinions, leisure activities, religion, risk behaviour and socioeconomic factors to (partly) explain ethnic ingroup preferences. Multilevel p2 models...

Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration, and ethnic selfidentification, the method classifies that individual into one of four states: assimilation, integration, separation or marginalization. A la...

Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001 This paper uses microdata from the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses to examine differences in the employment experiences of ethnic minorities living in England and Wales. It focuses on two main issues, firstly the extent to which the employment position of the main ethnic minority groups changed between the t...

The resurgence of voting pattern along ethnic identities during the 2015 presidential election never took an average Nigerian by surprise. The nature of Nigerian politics has always been premised on primordial factors that keep defining who gets what, how and when. The paper examines the ethnic colouration in the voting pattern of Nigerians during the election. The paper employs primordial theo...

Although religious freedom significantly affects certain people, the guarantees for its observance also have implications quality of social life and security state. Polarization conflict between groups is not only a new believers, but contributes to weakening internal It seems that one elements such destabilization states promotion lack reaction phenomenon ridiculing religion followers in cyber...