@misc{MTMT:34762967,
	title = {Radical Relational pedagogical innovation and epistemology},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34762967},
	author = {Devries, Melody and Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád and Woodrow, Jenna},
	unique-id = {34762967},
	keywords = {phenomenology; pragmatism; critical sociology},
	year = {2024}
}

@misc{MTMT:34762960,
	title = {Reflexivity, Objectivity, and Fake News},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34762960},
	author = {Devries, Melody and Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád and Naimi, Kevin},
	unique-id = {34762960},
	keywords = {Reflexivity; disinformation; Fake News; Relational sociology},
	year = {2023}
}

@misc{MTMT:34762955,
	title = {Verified review of "Relationalities, Temporalities and Social Change: Challenging Momentary and Linear Constructions of Policymaking" for The British Journal of Sociology},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34762955},
	author = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád},
	unique-id = {34762955},
	keywords = {Australia; policy reform; Relational sociology; Family and domestic violence},
	year = {2023}
}

@CONFERENCE{MTMT:33728166,
	title = {The Cultural Essentialist Template of EU Policy to Curtail "Foreign Interference"},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33728166},
	author = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád},
	booktitle = {Reckonings and Re-imaginings},
	unique-id = {33728166},
	abstract = {This study looks at how the essentialist conception of culture as "software of the mind" (Hofstede) percolates from a tradition in value research into policymaking and vice versa in the case of the European Union's policy to counter "foreign information manipulation and interference" (FIMI). At the core of this is a resolution adopted by the European Parliament in the early stage of Russia's aggression against Ukraine that gives consent to the EU-wide ban of Kremlin-affiliated media and calls for, among other steps, increased surveillance of citizens' online activity and funding a "fact-checking" bureaucracy. While conflicting with the civil liberties enshrined in the EU's foundational treaties, such restrictions are a matter of course in governance as biopolitics (Foucault) where cultural values "guide" citizens' behavior and constitute vulnerabilities that hostile operators may exploit. Branded as public sanitation measures, censorship and policing the public sphere thus spare the effort to grasp the complexity of the challenges (Brexit, the electoral success of fringe political actors, xenophobia, disinformation campaigns, anti-vaccine activism, etc.) that are evoked as justifications. Integral to this process is the European Commission's science and knowledge service where inputs from the social sciences are screened via preconceptions compatible with commodified politics. This is matched by the EU's R&D grant scheme (Horizon Europe) whose work program in the field of governance frames the research calls, including with regard to FIMI, in a substantialist worldview. Applicants not adhering to this template would need to deconstruct it in their funding proposals ― an unlikely scenario given that the deliverables are supposed to be in line with the Commission's policy objectives.},
	keywords = {European Union; neoliberalism; Rule of law; foreign policy; biopolitics; freedom of speech; Substantialism},
	year = {2023}
}

@CONFERENCE{MTMT:33728144,
	title = {The Dead-End of Construct Variance and How to Work Around It with Geometric Data Analysis},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33728144},
	author = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád},
	booktitle = {XX ISA World Congress of Sociology},
	unique-id = {33728144},
	abstract = {Testing for construct invariance has become standard practice in cross-cultural research. However, the criteria involved (configural, metric and scalar invariance) are so stringent that a lot of comparative studies stop at identifying structural effects because the latter preclude the bulk of the inquiry that the researcher would like to conduct (e.g., studying country positions on a latent scale). This paper proposes a workaround this impasse by sidestepping the congruence criteria stemming from the general linear model (GLM). The illustration is from a study of partly racialized press coverage, produced more than a century apart of two outgroups: Jews and Muslims. Multiple factor analysis (MFA), an extension of geometric data analysis (GDA) reveals that none of the latent constructs (discourse frames) structuring the data in one group has an at least configurally invariant counterpart in the other. This is especially an issue for measuring overall racism since one of the questions the study addresses concerns the difference in the degree to which these two groups are racialized in the press. By locating units of observation (the articles) on the one hand and topics clustered into discourse frames on the other in a joint space, MFA offers avenues for comparison that are not available in a GLM framework. In MFA, the fact that racialized discourse involves different ideas depending on the group covered (Jews v. Muslims) becomes a facility for, rather than an impediment to comparison. This is because while there does not exist an overall racialized frame that would be invariant for both groups, the groups' respective distances from their own (i.e., group-specific) frames are calculated in the joint space. The discussion also includes an argument for a less conventional approach to measuring distance between sets based on the Hausdorff metric.},
	keywords = {racism; Hausdorff distance; configural variance; geometric data analysis},
	year = {2023},
	pages = {419-419},
	orcid-numbers = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád/0000-0002-9942-6065}
}

@CONFERENCE{MTMT:33611436,
	title = {Structural Inequality as a Challenge for Comparison in Discourse Analysis},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33611436},
	author = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád},
	booktitle = {Igniting Change Through Sociology / Susciter le changement par la sociologie},
	unique-id = {33611436},
	abstract = {Barriers to comparison of socially meaningful objects (groups, behaviors, attitudes, etc.) across different contexts are an ongoing concern, as attested by advances in research aimed at detecting and overcoming them. This paper presents problems stemming from structural variance (incongruity) of discourse contexts which, in addition to pertaining to different socio-cultural groups are also separated by a century plus gap: Press coverage of, respectively, late-19th Jewish and early-21st century Muslim migrants. Their study involving geometric data analysis displays the crux of the apples-to-oranges problem in that the investigation seeks to find (a) in a joint space of the two groups (b) discourse clusters (frames) capturing distinct logics of representation and (c) the latent dimensions in which those frames get articulated. A commonsensical yet mistaken route would be to isolate those clusters in a "pancultural" analysis ― that is, in a joint sample but ignoring the two subsets ―, as some of the discourse frames isolated without considering the groups represented (Jews versus Muslims) might not be found in their respective subsamples. As a result, the researcher might gloss over frames that only exist in discourse on one of the groups. On the other hand, when looking for group-specific frames within separate samples, another issue arises in terms of dimensionality since the latent forces structuring the discourses in the two subsamples are likely to be incomparable (if anything, at the metric level). Nonetheless, innovative methods from the geometric data analytical toolkit make it possible to both reveal group-specific discourse clusters and locate these along dimensions that are common to the groups being compared. The implications include mechanisms of racialization specific to Jews v. Muslims: Like attitudes in general, racialization is relational, hence impossible to apprehend with reference to a general template.},
	keywords = {structural equivalence},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {35}
}

@misc{MTMT:31913052,
	title = {Unpacking "Judeo-Christian Values". Benevolent Racist Framing of Muslims and the Mid-2010s European Migrant Crisis},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31913052},
	author = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád},
	publisher = {Société Canadienne de Sociologie},
	unique-id = {31913052},
	abstract = {Like all forms of discrimination, racist discourse is especially powerful when conveyed in sophisticated rituals that make it appear commonsensical. The latter are often produced by persons sincere in their rejection of racism and hence involve successful denial thereof. Couched in symbolism attributing positive qualities to racialized groups, these forms stem from benevolent racism (with parallels in benevolent sexism) ― as opposed to hostile racism, where open stigmatization of the outgroup is allowed or even encouraged. Using discourse analysis of migration-related reporting in the Hungarian press in the mid-2010s, the focus of this study is the racialization of Muslims in coverage that is openly critical of anti-Muslim rhetoric. Benchmarking benevolent racist framing against the hostile variant, I outline the various workarounds deployed, probably unwittingly, by promoters of the former to uphold building blocks of the latter ― most significantly the idea that Muslims constitute a threat to Western civilization. In the process, I take stock of the shifts in meaning that nominally invariant phraseology undergoes between (a) distant points in time (e.g., the adjective "Judeo-Christian", originating in anti-Semitic rhetoric but currently mostly used to signal commitment to antiracism) and (b) when deployed with regard to, respectively, Muslims, Christians, and Jews.},
	year = {2021}
}

@misc{MTMT:31375329,
	title = {The Cross-fertilization between Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Attitudes: Lessons for a Relational Understanding of Racisms},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31375329},
	author = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád},
	unique-id = {31375329},
	abstract = {Students of racism would do well to heed Elisabeth Noelle-Neumanns cautioning against the difficulties of inquiring into attitudes the voicing of which carries risks. Public perceptions of racism are more likely to be triggered by racist attitudes that are costly, not by mere displays of racism per se. Debates on an alleged resurgence of anti-Semitism against the backdrop of increased Muslim migration indicate that mismeasurement of racism often stems from disregarding these interconnections. The findings from this study of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attitudes among Hungarian adults involving experimental design unpack layers of racism that would remain hidden in a questionnaire survey ignoring contextual effects. Anti-Semitic responses are significantly more prevalent when the question on the political response to late-19th century Jewish migration is placed in the context of early-21st century Muslim migration. On the other hand, anti-Muslim responses are less frequent (albeit still modal) when respondents are treated with references to earlier Jewish migration. Multivariate analysis shows that wherever anti-Muslim responses coexist with non -racist attitudes toward Jews and non-whites, and acceptance of LGBT people, it is typically because Muslims―unlike the former groups―are perceived as similar in standing as the Roma, open bias against whom carries the least social cost.},
	keywords = {racism; Islamophobia; Relational sociology; antisemitism},
	year = {2020},
	orcid-numbers = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád/0000-0002-9942-6065}
}

@misc{MTMT:31359415,
	title = {Verified review of "Cultural Polarization in Western Europe: Religious and Secular Divides" for International Political Science Review},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31359415},
	author = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád},
	unique-id = {31359415},
	keywords = {religiosity; cross-cultural research; Cultural values},
	year = {2020}
}

@misc{MTMT:31359428,
	title = {Verified review of "Value Change in the Western World: The Rise of Materialism, Post-Materialism Or Both?" for Social Currents},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31359428},
	author = {Lakatos, Zoltán Árpád},
	unique-id = {31359428},
	keywords = {cross-cultural research; materialism; Cultural values},
	year = {2019}
}