SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH WITHIN NIJMEGEN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIO-CULTURAL SCIENCES NISCO 2006

1. SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH WITHIN NIJMEGEN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIO-CULTURAL SCIENCES NISCO 2006

2. THERE IS A DUTCH SOCIOLOGY TEXTBOOK FROM 1992 CALLED SOCIOLOGY – QUESTIONS, PROPOSITIONS, FINDINGS

3. SOCIOLOGY’S QUESTIONS ARE ABOUT SOCIETIES AND IT RAISES THREE BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT THEM: INEQUALITY COHESION RATIONALIZATION

4. THESE HAVE BECOME NISCO-QUESTIONS, SO SOCIOLOGY’S QUESTIONS NOW ARE INEQUALITY COHESION RATIONALIZATION

5. THESE HAVE BECOME NISCO-QUESTIONS, SO SOCIOLOGY’S QUESTIONS NOW ARE INEQUALITY COHESION RATIONALIZATION SECULARIZATION

6. THESE HAVE BECOME NISCO-QUESTIONS, SO SOCIOLOGY’S QUESTIONS NOW ARE INEQUALITY COHESION FRAGMENTATION RATIONALIZATION SECULARIZATION

7. THESE HAVE BECOME NISCO-QUESTIONS, SO SOCIOLOGY’S QUESTIONS NOW ARE INEQUALITY STRATIFICATION COHESION FRAGMENTATION RATIONALIZATION SECULARIZATION

8. SO QUESTIONS BECOME SMALLER AND WE HAVE DONE EVEN SMALLER ONES AND WE WILL BE DOING EVEN SMALLER ONES STRATEGIC PROBLEM SHIFTS

9. SECULARIZATION QUESTIONS FROM BEING A CHURCH MEMBER TO LEAVING CHURCH FROM IDEAS ABOUT GOD AND THE BIBLE TO IDEAS ABOUT ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY FROM BELIEFS OF CATHOLICS AND MAINSTREAM PROTESTANTS TO ORTHODOX PROTESTANTS, EDUCATION AND VACCINATION

10. FRAGMENTATION QUESTIONS I FROM MANUAL/NON-MANUAL CLASS AND LEFT/RIGHT VOTING TO NEW CLASS AND NEW LEFT AND TO UNEMPLOYMENT, IMMIGRATION AND NEW RIGHT

11. FRAGMENTATION QUESTIONS II FROM POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS TO SPORT CLUBS AND OTHER VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS AND FROM VICTIM OR OFFENDER TO WHO COMMITS A CRIME AGAINST WHOM

12. FROM FRAGMENTATION QUESTIONS TO STRATIFICATION QUESTIONS ARE CHILDREN OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES MORE LIKELY TO COMMIT CRIMES? FROM BOWLING ALONE TO BOWLING APART

13. STRATIFICATION QUESTIONS I FROM ECONOMIC TO CULTURAL TO SOCIAL RESOURCES FROM JOB RIGHT NOW TO EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL CAREERS FIRST ENTRY AND FINAL EXIT

14. STRATIFICATION QUESTIONS II FROM WORK TO LEISURE FROM READING TO TELEVISION FROM TV TO ‘OTHER MEDIA’ THE BRIDGE TO COMMUNICATION STUDIES

15. GENERAL MACRO THEORIES I MODERNIZATION THEORY: A SHIFT FROM ASCRIPTION TO ACHIEVEMENT AND FROM RELIGIOSITY TO SECULARITY

16. GENERAL MACRO THEORIES I MODERNIZATION THEORY: A SHIFT FROM ASCRIPTION TO ACHIEVEMENT AND FROM RELIGIOSITY TO SECULARITY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY

17. GENERAL MACRO THEORIES II TECHNOLOGICAL-IDEOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONISM MODERNIZATION AMOUNTS TO MORE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND MORE ACTIVIST IDEOLOGIES

18. GENERAL MICROTHEORIES I INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES INFLUENCE CHANCES IN LIFE THE MORE STRONGLY A PERSON IS INTEGRATED IN RELIGIOUS GROUPS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUPS, THE MORE LIKELY IS THAT PERSON TO LIVE UP TO THE NORMS OF THAT GROUP

19. GENERAL MICROTHEORIES II PARENTAL CULTURAL RESOURCES COMPENSATE FOR THE SMALLER EFFECT OF PARENTAL ECONOMIC RESOURCES CAUSED BY STATE STIPENDS THE ENDURING EFFECTS OF EDUCATION

20. GENERAL MICROTHEORIES III TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT RELIGION, IT IS USEFUL TO REPLACE THE ASSUMPTION THAT PEOPLE THINK LOGICALLY, BY THE ASSUMTPION THAT INDIVIDUALS THINK IN ANALOGIES THE BRIDGE TO ANTHROPOLOGY

21. HOW TO MAKE FINDINGS? NOT ONLY ADVANCED STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES BUT MAINLY QUESTION-DRIVEN AND THEORY-GUIDED DATA COLLECTION

22. REPEATED CROSS SECTIONS FOR SECULARIZATION QUESTIONS: SOCON 1979 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010?

23. FIRST OBJECTION AGAINST SURVEYS: INDIVIDUALS HAVE HISTORIES CORRECTION: COLLECT MULTI-MOMENT DATA

24. SECOND OBJECTION AGAINST SURVEYS: INDIVIDUALS ARE ATOMIZED CORRECTION: COLLECT DATA FOR RESPONDENT, PARENT, SPOUSE, CHILD

25. THIRD OBJECTION AGAINST SURVEYS: INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE SEEN IN THEIR CONTEXT CORRECTION: TURN NAME LOCALITY ETC INTO CONTEXTUAL CHARACTERISTICS

26. MULTI MOMENT MULTI ACTOR MULTI CONTEXT DATA: 3M SURVEYS

27. 3M SURVEYS FOR STRATIFICATION QUESTIONS 1993 1998 2000 2003 2008? FNB

29. DATA BOTTLENECKS I: MONEY, THAT’S WHAT WE WANT

30. DATA BOTTLENECKS II: RECODING NAMES OF LOCALITIES ETC RECODING NAMES OF NEWSPAPERS SUBSCRIBED TO INTO RESULTS OF CONTENT ANALYSIS NEWSPAPERS BRIDGE TO COMMUNICATION STUDIES

31. DATA BOTTLENECKS III: RECODING NAMES OF LOCALITIES ETC REMAINS DIFFICULT BECAUSE STATISTICS NETHERLANDS HAS LESS DATA ON MUNICIPALITIES THAN ON PROVINCES

32. DATA BOTTLENECKS IV: HOW TO MOVE ON FROM ANALYZING SHIFT FROM ONE JOB TO ANOTHER TO ANALYZING CAREER PATTERNS

33. DATA BOTTLENECKS V: ADDING DATA FOR ANALOGIES IN CREATION STORIES TO MURDOCK’S ETHNOGRAPHIC ATLAS OF BEFORE 1950 PRE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES ADDING INSTITUTIONAL COUNTRY CHARACTERISTICS TO WORLD BANK DATA FILES BRIDGE TO ANTROPOLOGY

34. Number of citations in the SSCI excluding and including self-citations 2000-2006 De Graaf PM 186 323 De Graaf ND * 142 288 Kraaykamp 88 135 Ultee * 79 170 Scheepers * 66 121 Coenders 32 38 Need 23 25 Eisinga * 19 50 Lubbers 18 29 Dekkers * 15 20 Klaassen 6 6 Jansen 3 5 TOTAL 685 1210 Only for program members part of the university from 2000 on The person with the highest scores does not have a chair some persons with a chair * are quite low

35. GENERAL DRIFT OF FINDINGS I THE NETHERLANDS, FROM A CLOSED SOCIETY TO AN OPEN SOCIETY AND FROM A CLASS SOCIETY TO A CREDENDIAL SOCIETY

36. GENERAL DRIFT OF FINDINGS II ALTHOUGH AT FIRST ONLY FOR THE NETHERLANDS AND SWEDEN A TREND TOWARDS SMALLER EDUCATIONAL INEQUALIT1ES WAS FOUND, NOW THE ‘DUTCH WAY’ OF ANALYZING BY STACKING FILES, SHOWS SIMILAR TRENDS IN OTHER INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES

37. GENERAL DRIFT OF FINDINGS III THE NETHERLANDS WAS IN 1986 ONE OF THE FIRST COUNTRIES FOR WHICH , INDEPENDENT OF PARENTAL ECONOMIC RESOURCES, EFFECTS OF PARENTAL CULTURAL RESOURCES WERE FOUND, NOW WITH COMPARABLE DATA FOR DOZENS OF INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES CULTURAL RESOURCES EFFECTS ARE FOUND FOR MOST OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES