Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 88, Issue 3, 2013

Ruim tien jaar geleden stelden Arie Glebbeek en Henk de Vos (2000) de vraag of de Nederlandse sociologie nog wel een toekomst had. Zij zagen in onder meer de teruglopende studentenaantallen en de afslanking van het aantal universiteiten met een volwaardige sociologie-opleiding een bedreiging van de discipline. Zonder nieuwe aanwas van enige omvang kon de sociologie volgens de twee Groningse sociologen toch nie Read More

This study examines effects of employment as well as different types of income support on crime, using longitudinal information on a sample of vulnerable men and women (N = 540) who were institutionalized in a Dutch juvenile justice institution in the 1990s. Results show that, although the vast majority of the sample is employed at least once during the observation period, a large number of men and women receive income Read More

This article estimates for the Netherlands linear regression models for an individual’s level of education by bringing in parental as well as grandparental level of education. The prime question is that of the association between education in the first and third generation after holding constant education in the second generation. For the empirical analysis, we used the five available waves of the Family Survey Dutch Po Read More

With the industrialisation of the Netherlands connections between people changed and new organisations were founded. Among these newly established organisations was the General Dutch Diamond Workers’ Union (ANDB). The large majority of the workers in the diamond sector became a member. In this article we focus on the importance of different types of connectedness within this union and sector and the duration o Read More