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Liesbet Heyse has been promoted to associate professor of Organisational Sociology.
The upcoming Dutch government formation appears to be heading toward a coalition focused on pragmatic cooperation in the political centre.
On Wednesday afternoon, September 24, the Master's Committee of Sociëtas organized the annual internship fair for pre-master's and master's students of Sociology. This year was another very successful afternoon, with twelve different organizations representing all areas of the Master's program in Sociology, including research organizations, consulting firms, and municipalities.
Jaap Nieuwenhuis (Sociology, University of Groningen) and other researchers were interviewed about the growing gap between those with practical and theoretical education in the Netherlands, which is leading to declining trust, increasing polarization, and social tensions.
Together with municipal job mediators in the labor market region of Groningen and North Drenthe (Werk in Zicht), status holders and employers, Nina Hansen, Liesbet Heyse, Sanne Hiemstra and Marjolein Boendermaker developed an evidence-based training and toolbox.
Loneliness—defined as the gap between actual and desired social relationships—is a common yet underexplored experience among international students.
Marieke Haan has received an Open Competition XS grant from NWO. This grant is intended to enable innovative and socially relevant research projects.
Professor René Veenstra writes that it is high time the government adjusted its course, with the help of influential young people and concerned parents.
Sociologist Jaap Nieuwenhuis speaks with Jacobin about research he is doing with other sociologists on class and the different perspectives on this concept.
Jaap Nieuwenhuis on the so-called gap between the higher and lower educated.
Join us on May 21 (from 8 p.m. to 0 a.m.) for the Queer Science Festival at Usva!
Faculty submission for Best Practice in Teaching & Learning Award: Zoltán Lippényi and Giorgos Michelakis
Jaap Nieuwenhuis was interviewed by Omrop Fryslân about neighbourhood renewal plans and social mixing in the Vlietzone neighborhood in Leeuwarden.
In collaboration with Groninger Energiekoepel (GrEK), Dennis Nientimp and Jacob Dijkstra of the Sociology Department have secured a grant from the Programma Energieparticipatie (PEP) to set up learning communities with the aim of promoting participation in energy transition in the province of Groningen.
How do people come up with new ideas together? And how does an innovative idea spread through an organization? In our new course Project Social Networks, students learn how to conduct empirical research on the structure and functioning of social networks.
In the podcast “The Sociology Show,” Jacob Dijkstra talks about the minor Climate Sociology that can be taken at 7 universities and the importance of social connections to the success of sustainable initiatives.
If hard work doesn't pay off, why do it?
On work and inequality.
Dr. Mark Beuker, dr. Hans ter Haar, prof. Wilbert Kolkman, prof. Leon Verstappen and dr. Irene Visser (Faculty of Law) in collaboration with dr. Marieke Haan en dr. Elianne Zijlstra (Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences) have released a WODC report titled ‘Support for the Compulsory Portion’ (‘Draagvlak voor de Legitieme Portie’) under the auspices of the Notarial Institute Groningen.
Top earners are increasingly working exclusively with other highly paid colleagues, while contact with middle-income workers declines. This is according to a large-scale international study on workplace collaboration, conducted by a team of social scientists in twelve OECD countries.