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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

⚠️JOB OPPORTUNITY! The LSU Department of Sociology 🐯 is seeking applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position, at any rank, specializing in Environment and Community. Please share widely! Link: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0110...

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Is there an "R Wrapped" for my most used functions/packages from 2025? ...maybe an appreciation video from the package author too?

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Not completely surprised but the fact that attendance didn't show up stronger in the results...

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Ungated preprint link: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Pre-print of our new longitudinal analysis of religious shifts and murder rates. Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Alternate link: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🚨 Download a copy “Institutional Anomie, Religious Ecologies, and Violence in American Communities” [doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/nr6q5_v1] for our motivation for the analysis and a discussion of the findings. 8/8

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We draw on Institutional Anomie Theory’s ideas of economic dominance of institutions and Durkheim’s insight about religious distinctions to understand these patterns. 7/

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

📊 The total effect (both direct and indirect) for changes in the evangelical adherent rate is the largest in the model. 6/

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

📊 Increases in the Catholic adherent rate and the evangelical adherent rate are indirectly associated with increases in homicide, while increases in the mainline Protestant adherent rate are indirectly associated with decreases in homicide. 5/

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

📊 We find that that increases in the evangelical adherent rate are directly associated with increases in homicide rates, while increases in the Catholic adherent rate are directly associated with decreases in homicide rates. 4/

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

… in “Institutional Anomie, Religious Ecologies, and Violence in American Communities” we use national longitudinal county-level data spanning four time points (1980 to 2010) and fixed effects spatial modeling which parcels effects into direct and indirect (spillover) effects. 3/

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The study asks whether effects differ for rates of Catholics, evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants, and Latter-Day Saints. To answer this … 2/

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

🚨 Excited to share our forthcoming Social Forces article. Looks at how religious adherent rates relate to murder rates over time. 🧵1/

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Have you migrated from Evernote to another app for organizing notes? I've used Evernote for years but have decided to switch. Any suggestions on an app to migrate to are welcomed.

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Sam Stroope @sam-stroope.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

What colleges in the US or Canada ... - are in a walkable place and - have easy access to nature by bike? ... my 16-year-old wants to know.

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