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Anastasia Menshikova

@anmen.bsky.social

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postdoc-ing at Uppsala University // mechanisms of cultural change with computational social science methods // PhD from @IAS, Linköping University

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a new paper forthcoming in Social Forces! focusing on the killing of George Floyd & the BLM, I study the formation of generations, proposing that formative events can create within-cohort differentiation as much as between-cohort differentiation. read here: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf

Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts
Contemporary narratives of generational politics propose that formative experiences produce shared political opinions across an age cohort. In this article, I advance a theory of cohortization to challenge that view, arguing that large-scale political events produce differentiation within cohorts as much as differentiation between them. I investigate the implications of this framework through the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, analyzing attitudes toward law enforcement among non-Hispanic White Americans from 2016 to 2024. Using survey data from Cooperative Congressional Election Study, American National Election Study, and the Nationscape, I show that younger and older cohorts diverged after the event, but this differentiation was driven exclusively by young Democrats and Independents. The end result was not a unified generation, but one internally divided along party lines. This finding qualifies theories of generational politics, emphasizing that formative experiences may intensify existing political divisions within cohorts.

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My, my, my, my generation
— The Who, “My Generation” (1965)

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Anastasia Menshikova @anmen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Our new @poeticsjournal.bsky.social paper disentangles the role of within-individual and compositional changes in shifting political meaning-making on social media following focus events like terrorist attacks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Together with @mhbodell.bsky.social

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

✨ We’re excited to announce the Fall 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Seminars take place every Thursday and are open to all! #AcademicSky #CSS #socsky #sociology

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Anastasia Menshikova @anmen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

How does the latte-drinking-liberals idea play out in the Swedish multi-party context? Find out in our article recently published in Journal of CSS: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Created together with brilliant @felixlennert.bsky.social, Elida Izani Ibrahim & @mhbodell.bsky.social!

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Partisan tastes or ideological divides? Everyday interests and political identities in a multi-party system - Journal of Computational Social Science

Everyday interests expressed in leisure, media consumption, or cultural practices, increasingly intersect with political orientations, making them strong signals of individuals’ political identities. ...

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Anastasia Menshikova @anmen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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