Grote projecten en onderzoeksinstituten

Deze site bevat een korte overzicht van en links naar een aantal grote projecten en instituten waarbinnen het onderzoek van sociologie is ondergebracht. Een groot project wordt altijd door meerdere onderzoekers fulltime uitgevoerd, meestal extern gefinanceerd en in samenwerking met andere onderzoeksinstellingen. Grote projecten dragen over het algemeen aan meerdere van de hoofdonderzoekslijnen bij.

Naast de grote projecten zijn binnen de verschillende onderzoekslijnen ook nog projecten die door individueele onderzoekers worden uitgevoerd. Een overzicht van deze projecten vindt u op de site over onderzoekslijnen
(nog niet geimplementeerd).

Hieronder kunt u informatie vinden over de projecttitel, de projectdeelnemers, de deelprojecten, de geldgevers, etc. Naast de concrete projecten zijn er ook links naar pagina's van onderzoeksinstituten waarbinnen stafleden van sociologie een belangrijke rol spelen.

Onderzoeksinstituten:

• ICS (The Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology)
• DECIDE (Decision Insights and Developments Europe)

The Future of Community (1997) (NWO/ESR)

SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVE AND RESEARCH PROBLEM:
Descriptive: Is it true that community is vanishing? Is it right to look for community in the familiar guise of small village life? Explanatory: What other forms can community take? What alternatives are there for community as a resource? What are the conditions under which various forms of community arise or decline?

Research team leader: Siegwart Lindenberg , ICS/RUG
Other team members:
Anne Bert Dijkstra, ICS/RUG
Hans Ormel , Department of Social Psychiatry/RUG
Beate Völker ICS/UU
Henk de Vos , ICS/RUG
Rudi Wielers, ICS/RUG

subprojects within "The future of community":

1 Anne Bert Dijkstra , Postdoc, ICS/RUG The Production of Cooperation in Communities. Communities around Schools ( Dijkstra, De Vos ) (finished in 2002)2 Corine Hoeben , Ph.D student, ICS/RUG LETS' Be a Community. Community in Local Exchange and Trade Systems ( Lindenberg , Nieboer, De Vos, Zeggelink)3 Annelies Kassenberg , Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
Community in Schools ( Dijkstra, Lindenberg, Peschar, De Vos ) (thesis defended in 2002)
4 Anna Petra Nieboer , Postdoc, ICS/RUG (finished in 2000) Measuring the Production of Social Approval: Developing and Applying New Measurement Instruments ( Lindenberg , Ormel)5 Carlijne Philips , Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
Vacation Communities ( Lindenberg , Wielers )
6 Ph.D student, ICS/UU 15 Million Neighbors: Neighborhood Relationships in Villages and Cities ( Lindenberg, Raub, Völker )

Creation of and Returns to Social Capital. Social Networks in Education and Labor market (1997) (NWO/ESR)
SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVE AND RESEARCH PROBLEM:
The research is to provide a theoretically coherent and empirically convincing study of the forms of relational resources, their creation and use, and their effects.
More Specifically: To what extent are the differences in social networks and their effects on educational attainment, getting a job, and job-performance in different institutional contexts the results of different returns on social capital, i.e., a result of different returns on goal-specific and general social capital and how is this social capital created?

Research team leaders/members:
Henk Flap , ICS/UU
Jules Peschar , ICS/RUG
Tom Snijders , ICS/RUG
Frans van Winden, Department of Strategic Management and Market Theory/UvA

1 Anne Bert Dijkstra, Postdoc, ICS/RUG
Preparing for a Job. Social Capital as a Resource in Education (T. Snijders) (finished in 2002)
2 Martin van der Gaag, Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
Measurement of Social Capital (Flap, T. Snijders, Van Winden)
3 Beate Völker, Postdoc, ICS/UU (finished in 2001)
Social Networks and Job-Performance. Returns on General and Work Specific Social Capital in Doing One's Job (Flap, T. Snijders)

4 Frans Van Winden (UvA). Formation and Use of Social Capital in Experimental Labor Markets

' BREEDTESTRATEGIE' ICS (RUG): SOLIDARITY AND PROSOCIAL DISPOSITIONS(1998) (RUG / ICS / KLI)

At ICS Groningen, the 'Breedtestrategie'-program ‘Solidarity and Prosocial Dispositions’ is conducted in collaboration with researchers in personality, social and organizational psychology
from the Kurt Lewin Institute (KLI) in Groningen. The major focus of this research program is the development of an integrated, well-founded theory of solidarity and prosocial dispositions,
including the conditions in the individual and the social environment under which individuals no longe behave in a solidary way and community failure occurs. Originally, the project included
three Postdoc positions in the ICS and three in the KLI; one of the ICS Postdoc projects matched with a KNAW fellowship so that a Ph.D position could be added to the program.
Currently, there are four projects of sociology in the 'Breedtestrategie'-program.

subprojects within SOLIDARITY AND PROSOCIAL DISPOSITIONS :

1 Rita Smaniotto, Ph.D, ICS/RUG
Human Cooperation and the Role of Emotions. An Evolutionary Psychological View (De Vos, Flache, Stokman, Buunk)
2 Linda Karr, Postdoc, ICS/RUG
Volunteer Committment and Control in National Volunteer Organizations
3 René Veenstra, Postdoc ICS/RUG
Pro-Social and Anti-Social Development
4 Andreas Flache, Postdoc, ICS/RUG (KNAW Research Fellow)
Network Embeddedness and Solidarity at Work

Explaining Decision Making in the European Union (1999) (NWO/ESR)

In this research theme a number of formally specified explanations of policy making in the European Union will be tested. These explanations originate in four distinct research strategies associated with the rational choice approach to political science. The results of the limited application of these strategies to date indicate that a more concerted effort will provide valuable insights into the workings of the EU’s institutions. This research theme constitutes an innovation in an area of research that is more commonly approached within the framework of international relations theory. The aim of this research is to identifythe empirical applicability of the theoretical models generated by each of these research strategies. This involves the collection of a large multi-theoretical database on EU decisions on which statistical testing can be performed. In addition appropriate methods for comparing models on the basis of their relative explanatory power need to be constructed.

Research team leaders :
Ad van Deemen, KUN
Bernard Steunenberg , NOB
Frans N. Stokman , ICS/RUG

Other team members:
Christian Achen, University of Michigan (USA)
Madeleine Hosli, Instituut Clingendael
Thomas König, University of Mannheim (Germany)
Gerald Schneider, University of Constanz (Switzerland)

subprojects within "Explaining Decision Making in the European Union":

1 Robert Thomson, Postdoc, ICS/RUG
Power Models for Group Decision Making (Achen)
2 Javier Arregui, Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
Policy Process Models of Decision Making in the EU (Stokman, Thomson)
3 outside ICS
Explaining European Decision Making: The cooperative Approach (Van Deemen, Hosli, Look)
4 outside ICS
Explaining European Decision Making: Testing Procedural Models (Boorsma, Steunenberg)

Solidarity at Work (2000) (NWO/PBB)
SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVE AND RESEARCH PROBLEM:
The objective of the research program is to answer the following two questions: (1) To what extent and how does solidarity within work organizations depend on macro conditions, such as institutional rules for the labor market and macro-economic factors, on conditions at the the micro level of household interaction, and on conditions at the meso level of organizations, such as formal and informal governance structures within organizations? (2) Which governance structures do employers choose as strategic tool for improving solidarity in employment relations within their organizations?

Research team leader:
Karin Sanders , ICS/RUG

Other team members :
Hetty van Emmerik, UU
Henk Flap, ICS/UU
Piet Hermkens, ICS/UU
Werner Raub, ICS/UU
Jacques Siegers, ICS/UU
Frans N. Stokman,ICS/RUG
AlbertineVeldman, UU/ISEP
Evert van de Vliert, KLI/RUG
Rafael Wittek, ICS/RUG

Subprojects within "solidarity at work" :
1 Ferry Koster, Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
Solidarity Within Organizations (Sanders, Stokman, Raub)

2 Vacancy, Postdoc, ICS/RUG, ICS/UU
The Choice of Informal Governance Structures Within Organizations (Flap, Raub)
(This project is realized in coordination with Flache’s KNAW-project ‘Network Embeddedness and Solidarity at Work’)

3 Mattijs Lambooij, Ph.D student, ICS/UU (started in 2000)
Promoting Solidarity: Effects of Career Systems on Employee’s Solidarity (Siegers, Van Emmerik, Flap)

Competencies and Cohesion (2000) (NWO/ESR)
SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVE AND RESEARCH PROBLEM:
The objective of the program is to investigate how, and to what extent, attachment styles, social competencies, and qualifications of children and young adults have an impact on the development of the intention to exercise cohesive behavior. To this end, the following research problem has been formulated: under which conditions do attachment styles and social competencies develop during the (pre-)school phases of life? To what extent are attachment styles, social competencies, and qualifications acquired during this period relevant predictors of participation, connectedness, and involvement later in life? This program is part of the national research program ‘The Netherlands as a multi-cultural and plural society’ recently started by NWO about the production of social cohesion in a plural society.

Research team leaders:
Anne Bert Dijkstra , ICS/RUG
Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven, KLI/RUG
Jules Peschar , ICS/RUG

Other team members:

Paul van Geert, KLI/RUG

Marieke van der Wal, ICS/RUG

Subprojects within " Competencies and Cohesion ":

1 Marieke van der Wal, Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
Production of Cross-Curricular Competenties and EVLN-Intentions (Peschar)

2 Anne Bert Dijkstra, Postdoc, ICS/RUG
EVLN-Intentions as Predictors of Individual Participation, Conceitedness, and Involvement (PBB) (Peschar)
3 Outside ICS
Attachment Styles and EVLN-Intentions (Exit, Voice, Loyalty, Neglect)

Time Competition. Disturbed Balances and New Options in Work and Care (2000) (NWO/MaGW)
SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVE AND RESEARCH PROBLEM:
To what extent can the increased tension between competing claims from the spheres of work and private life be explained by the governance structures in modern firms? To what extent can governance structures within the household explain the varying success in dealing with competing time claims? What are the preconditions for new organizational forms within firms and households to facilitate better solutions of the household’s time-allocation problem?

Research team leaders:
Tanja van der Lippe, ICS/UU
Arie Glebbeek, ICS/RUG

Other team members:
Ronald Batenburg, UU
Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes , ICS/UU
Harry Ganzeboom, VU (formerly ICS/UU)
Siegwart Lindenberg , ICS/RUG
Jules Peschar , ICS/RUG
Werner Raub , ICS/UU
Jacques Siegers , Economic Institute/UU, ICS/UU
Joop Schippers , Economic Institute/UU, ICS/UU
Rudi Wielers , ICS/RUG
Rafael Wittek , ICS/RUG

Subprojects within "Time competition" :

Patricia van Echtelt, Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
Time-Greedy Employment Relationships (Glebbeek, Lindenberg, Wielers)

Pascale Peters, Postdoc, ICS/UU
Teleworking and Working at Home: Possibilities and Restrictions for Employers and Employees (Batenburg,
Ganzeboom, Van der Lippe

Esther de Ruyter, Ph.D student, ICS/UU
Outsourcing of Household and Caring Tasks (Van der Lippe, Raub)

Philip Wotschack, Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
Time Allocation in Dutch Households. The Role of Household Governance Structure and Work Governance Structure in Time Allocation of Dutch Employees (Bosman, Glebbeek, Wittek, Siegers)

Carlien Hillebrink, Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
New Options in Collective Agreements (Schippers,Van Doorne-Huiskes, Peters)

MOVE: management and organizational change (Management- en Organisatie VEranderingsstudies)
(2001) (NWO vernieuwingsimpuls).

Research team leader: Rafael Wittek , ICS / RUG

Subprojects within MOVE :

1 Rafael Wittek, Professor of Sociology, RUG / Jelle van Lenthe ( DECIDE ): Reorganisation processes.
2 Peter Mühlau, Postdoc ICS / RUG: Organizational change in the Netherlands.

The Dynamics of Networks and Behavior (2002) (NWO/ESR)
SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVE AND RESEARCH PROBLEM:
The purpose of this project is to elaborate statistical models for the evolution of social networks and individual outcomes, expressing simultaneously the influence from network structure on individual outcomes (such as behavior, attitudes, performance), and the influence from individual outcomes on network structure. These models have to be geared toward their appication in the social sciences, and provide the opportunity to express the main theoretical effects studied in the mepirical projects in the research program.

Research team leader: Tom Snijders , ICS/RUG

Other team members:
Jeroen Weesie , ICS/UU
Werner Raub , ICS/UU
Chris Baerveldt , ICS/UU
Roel Bosker , University of Twente
Anne Bert Dijkstra, ICS/RUG
H. de Vries, Maastricht University
Vincent Buskens, ICS/UU
Marijtje van Duijn, ICS/RUG

Subprojects within " The Dynamics of Networks and Behavior" :

1 Christian Steglich, Postdoc, ICS/RUG
Modeling the evolution of Networks and Actor Behavior (T. Snijders, Weesie)

2 Michael Schweinberger, Ph.D student, ICS/RUG
Statistical Methods for studying the Evolution of Networks and Behavior (T. Snijders, Weesie)

3 Vacancy, Ph.D student, ICS/UU
Selection of Business Partners in Embedded Settings (financed) (Weesie, Buskens, Raub, T. Snijders)

4 Andrea Knecht, Ph.D student, ICS/UU
The Development of Norms in High School Classes (Baerveldt, Bosker, Dijkstra)

5 Researcher, outside ICS
Social Influence or Selection (De Vries, Bauman, T. Snijders)

' BREEDTESTRATEGIE' ICS (RUG): SOLIDARITY AS MATCHING (2003) (RUG / ICS / KLI)
This is the follow up project of "Solidarity and prosocial dispositions". The new project consists of eight Ph.D. subprojects, four of which will be located at the sociology department. Solidarity as matching will start in the fall of 2003. More information follows soon.