Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 98, Issue 1, 2023

Abstract Socialization process or position of power? A study into the relative importance of father’s and mother’s cultural capital for children’s educational attainment In this article we study the relative influence of mother’s and father’s cultural capital on the educational attainment of their children in two-parent families. Based on the cultural capital theory it can be expected that cultural capital of both parents positively aff Read More

Abstract “Well, did you enjoy molesting your home town?”: a quantitative analysis of the relational awareness in mayors’ public responses to the COVID-19 anti-curfew riots in the Netherlands When several local mayors fiercely denunciated the violent riots that erupted after a curfew was imposed as a COVID-19 mitigant in the Netherlands, journalistic and academics critics soon warned that such responses often unjustly a Read More

Abstract What is your mother doing? The influence of mother’s occupational status on her children’s educational outcomes and how it is related to father’s influence In this article, we investigated the influence of mother’s occupational status on her child’s educational outcomes and to what extent this depends on father’s occupational status. Based on the Breen and Goldthorpe (1997) model, we expected that mother’s occu Read More