Oh irony...
Posts by Bram Spruyt
Werkbaar werk was precies niet echt top of mind bij de onderhandelingen over het zomerakkoord... deze hervormingen zijn een recept voor meer precair werk en ongelijkheid voor wie met een zwakke onderhandelingspositie op de arbeidsmarkt komt...
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De democratie wankelt. In de VS, maar ook dichter bij huis. Wat helpt tegen polarisatie? Wat versterkt steun voor de democratie? @bnbakker.bsky.social, @gijsschumacher.bsky.social en ik testen allerlei interventies. Heb jij een goed idee? Laat het ons weten!
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Well done!
📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings
Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments)
PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian
🗓️ Deadline: June 11
#postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange
New paper 🏫!
We present the Schooled Society Index: a multidimensional indicator that maps cross-national differences in the centrality of schooling on a global scale. Written with
@bramspruyt.bsky.social and @tkupp.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Data is publicly available: osf.io/49xy5/
🏫 How central is schooling in your country?
In their new #Socius study, Drs. Kavadias, @bramspruyt.bsky.social & @tkupp.bsky.social introduce the Schooled Society Index—a global measure of how #education acts as a force of #institutionalization and #stratification.
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
🎓 New Publication!🚀
What does autonomy really mean in a PhD journey? Is it the freedom to explore or the burden of navigating uncertainty?
Our latest study dives into the complexities of autonomy in doctoral education, 📖 Read our paper here: www.informingscience.org/Publications...
#PhDLife
Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen?
In @volkskrant.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en @bramspruyt.bsky.social
Congratulations! Well deserved!
Very happy that our project on Democratic governance: challenges and innovations, developed with Silvia Erzeel, has been selected for the next BrIAS programme.
Title page of "Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change Economic Conflict" Abstract: "Belief in meritocracy and social status are central to understanding how people think and behave in relation to economic conflict. In this paper, we investigate how belief in meritocracy is moderated by (subjective) social status for three different aspects of citizens' attitudes towards economic inequality and conflict, namely (1) perceived conflict, (2) anger about economic inequality and (3) intentions to change economic conflict (egalitarianism). Data from the International Social Survey Programme on 29 countries reveal that the effect of meritocracy depends on social status and differs meaningfully across the three attitudes. For people high in social status, belief in meritocracy relates to lower perceptions of conflict, anger, and egalitarianism. For people with a low subjective social status there is no or a weak relation of belief in meritocracy with the outcomes. In addition, when belief in meritocracy was low, those with a high subjective social status appeared to be concerned about inequality as they perceived more economic conflict and felt more anger than those with a low subjective social status. However, this was not the case for intentions to reduce inequality. Hence, these effects of meritocracy and social status should be understood in light of self-interest concerns of social groups, rather than solely ideological domination."
Figure 1: Predicted values of conflict perception across belief in meritocracy and subjective social status.
Figure 3: Predicted values of egalitarianism across belief meritocracy and subjective social status.
🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :)
Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
And here's the share without higher education!
Toch zullen er elke dag weer kansen voorbij komen...
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PhD candidates: students or employees? 🤔 New study reveals role perceptions impact self-efficacy & supervisor expectations. Key findings: teaching assistants & final-phase students lean toward 'employee,' while 'students' feel more self-efficacious. See doi.org/10.1080/0013... #PhDLife #HigherEd
Op zondag aan een rapport werken over work life balance. Ik kan dat.
De evolutie van het lerarenberoep:
- sneller ontslag bij vaste benoeming
- een continu stroom van regelg. die te laat klaar is of gebrekkig in elkaar zit
- Vl. toetsen als motie van wantrouwen.
- de hakbijl in het pensioen.
Ze kunnen nu wel een fiets leasen om mee door de regen te rijden.
Florida is coming after sociology, as GOP across the country tries to control (higher) education within constraints of First Ammendment.
Some (non-)expert thoughts on this piece 🧵
"a crude yet endlessly empirically corroborated proxy"
Pure gold! @peter8rberg.bsky.social
(quote from 'why there is less supportive evidence for contact theory than they say there is)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Weeral een heel mooi nummer geworden van Sociologie Magazine!
Op vrijdagnamiddag 13 december 2024 presenteert @briobrussel.bsky.social de resultaten van de 3de Taalbarometer van de Vlaamse Rand.
Meer info: www.briobrussel.be/node/19193
Deelname is gratis, graag inschrijving vooraf via
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Hoe komt het toch dat beleidsmakers zo vaak grijpen naar maatregelen tegen spijbelen die niet werken en waarvan we ook weten waarom ze niet werken.
Het is niet dat er geen literatuur over is.
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Alles samen in het NL: torvub.be/torwebdat/pu...
Dit forum schreeuwt om een starters' package "Loyaal Tegendraads", Bart!
De machine is niet te verslaan. Mijn vrouw moet voor een benoeming in 2 lesuren (sec ond) een aangetekend schrijven richten aan haar eigen directeur 😀. Moet met de post opgestuurd worden. Acht jaar na 'operatie tarra'.
Dag Peter 😀
Sterkte Bart!
As part of a large collaboration of social psychologists and sociologists, we tried to understand belief system structure across Europe
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Title & abstract of paper in Acta Politica: Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism
🏁New paper! We find that affective bias towards 'the higher educated' is associated with more political trust, satisfaction w/ democracy and less populism
In @actapolitica.bsky.social with Toon Kuppens, @bramspruyt.bsky.social Leandros Kavadias, Celine Darnon & Medhi Marot
doi.org/10.1057/s412...