Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 88, Issue 1, 2013

Onlangs stuitte ik op Mark Granovetters artikel The problem of embeddedness, dat in 1985 verscheen in The American Journal of Sociology. Voor sociaal wetenschappers is dat probleem er al lang niet meer. Het behoort tot de leerstellingen van de sociale wetenschappen dat al het handelen is ingebed in sociale relaties. Zie nou dit nummer van Mens & Maatschappij: twee artikelen gaan over de rol van familierelaties in belangrij Read More

Who benefits from government investment in childcare?. The case of Sweden and Belgium (Flanders) Childcare is promoted at the national and European level as a policy instrument par excellence to simultaneously reconcile work and family duties and increase female employment rates. As a consequence, European governments increasingly deploy resources to subsidise childcare services. The main goal of this paper is to u Read More

Gender differences in professional health service use in 25 European countries A study on the impact of medicalisation attitudes and gender stratification. In this paper we investigate the impact of gender stratification on the gender gap in both medicalisation attitudes and professional health care use. Furthermore, we examine to what extent medicalisation attitudes explain the gender gap in professional health care us Read More

Cultural consumption and the habitus: The role of knowledge and aesthetic dispositions. The habitus is a crucial concept in Bourdieus theory of taste. In this article, we assess the relations between cultural taste or participation and two measured elements of habitus: aesthetic dispositions and domain-specific knowledge. To his end, we have analyzed a sample of 2,500 Flemings in 2003-2004. Active culture lovers attach mo Read More

The influence of mothers’ labor force participation and mother-child time on the problem behavior of school-aged children. This study examined whether mothers’ labor force participation was associated with children’s problem behavior and, more particularly, whether this association was mediated by mother-child time. We derived hypotheses from theories from sociology and psychology, such as social capital theory and Read More