Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 91, Issue 1, 2016

Summary Immigrants right after migration and the change in attitude towards homosexuality In this study we investigate the changes in the attitude towards homosexuality among immigrants to the Netherlands in the first years after migration. We test possible explanations for an attitude change related to dynamics in integration in the Netherlands: the extent to which social contact, media use and church attenda Read More

Summary PVV and SP: ideological adversaries, but the same breeding ground? The effects of municipal factors on electoral support for a right-wing and a left-wing populist party across 403 Dutch municipalities in 2010 The right-wing PVV and the left-wing SP are seen as populist parties who are fierce ideological adversaries in the Dutch political spectrum. We study the similarities and differences in municipal contexts that explain Read More

Summary The uneven geographical distribution of university graduates in Belgium, 1970-2011 University education in Belgium expanded rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century. However, the geographical distribution of university trained human capital has remained unequal. In this paper, we focus on the historical evolution of the geographical segregation of university graduates during a period of four decades (197 Read More

Summary Living examples: the positive effect of instructional videos on physics tests in Dutch pre-university classes Aim of this study is to measure the effect of instructional videos on physics tests, taken in the highest classes of Dutch pre-university education (vwo 5 and 6) in 2014. The students (aged between 17 and 19) were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. In a first trial, the control group used a textboo Read More