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Putting the social investment state to the test. Assessing the impact of Dutch and Belgian policy adjustments on poverty and social inequality. University of Antwerp

Bea Cantillon
Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
Putting the social investment state to the test. Assessing the impact of Dutch and Belgian policyadjustments on poverty and social inequality.Facing permanent austerity, several European welfare states 'reinvented' themselves as 'social investment states' (Giddens, 1998): shifting in focus from providing 'passive' income protection towards increasing labour market participation and investing in people's skills. This proposal focuses on the ...

Stratification and social inequality in Italy and Lugdunum. A comparative qualitative epigraphic analysis of the class structure, power relations and social struggle between municipal status groups during the Principate. Ghent University

Koenraad Verboven
Department of History

Romans meticulously described their social position, but modern researchers often use general categories treating humiliores as an undifferentiated 'class'. We want to investigate 'status groups' from local Italian municipalities and the relationships between them and compare them with material from Lugdunum. How are power relations, competition and violence connected with 'class' and hierarchy? We will use concepts from P. Bourdieu.

Civil Society, Organised Labour & Social Inequality in Advanced Democracies. University of Antwerp

Ive Marx
Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
The cohesiveness of civil society has long been central to explanations of cross-national differences in poverty and income inequality. Workers' unions, in particular, have been at the core of theories relating to class-based political struggle. Similarly, civil engagement and community-based social partnerships have been cast as potential mechanisms for fostering solidarity. Decades of empirical evidence support these claims. In recent years, ...

Social inequality and mobility during the long sixteenth century: Bois-le-Duc and its "Meierij" University of Antwerp

Bruno Blondé
Centre for Urban History
Historical interest in the dynamics of social inequalities has been strangely underdeveloped. Especially as to the late medieval and early modern Low Countries, surprisingly little is known on patterns of social and economic mobility on the household level within its numerous cities. Armed with a number of exceptional sources, this project hopes to further our understanding of the inequalities and mobilities of a typical ancien régime town, as ...

U+201CThe end of peasantries? A Comparative Research into the Transformation of Peasantries and Its Impact on Social Relations and Inequality (Northwestern Europe, Middle Africa, Andes, East coast of China, 1500-2000).U+201D Ghent University

Eric Vanhaute
Department of Modern history

This project assesses the historical processes of peasant transformation in relation to world-systemic expansion within a comparative research design. The North Sea Basin, East Congo, the Central Andean Highlands, and the Yangzi River Delta reflect divergent historical roads of peasant incorporation in space (zoning within the world-economy) and over time (phases of incorporation).

Gender inequality and cultural consumption: a macro-sociological, longitudinal and cross-national comparative perspective Ghent University

Henk Roose
Department of Sociology

This project aims to extend our understanding of inequality in cultural participation by focusing on gender differences in highbrow and omnivorous cultural consumption using a macro-sociological, longitudinal and cross-national comparative perspective. The association between the (changing) structural position of women in society and the (changing) gender gap in cultural participation is studied.

A golden age for labour? Economic inequality and labour income after the Black Death: Flanders and Tuscany compared (1350-1500). University of Antwerp

Tim Soens
Centre for Urban History
Did the Black Death result in a golden age for labour? Killing almost one third of the population, the mortality crisis caused a radical change in the relative value of land, capital and labour. Indeed, no other time before Industrialisation would witness such a rapid increase in real wages. Consequently, generations of historians have characterised the period between 1350 and 1500 as a golden age for labour. However, recent literature on ...

A golden age for labour? Economic inequality and labour income after the Black Death: Flanders and Tuscany compared (1350-1500). University of Antwerp

Tim Soens
Centre for Urban History
Did the Black Death result in a golden age for labour? Killing almost one third of the population, the mortality crisis caused a radical change in the relative value of land, capital and labour. Indeed, no other time before Industrialisation would witness such a rapid increase in real wages. Consequently, generations of historians have characterised the period between 1350 and 1500 as a golden age for labour. However, recent literature on ...

The social psychology of gender inequality: the interaction between stigma and self-regulation. KU Leuven

Colette van Laar
Social and Cultural Psychology
Women are still strongly underrepresented in various fields and in higher positions in society, notwithstanding substantial changes in their position. The project concentrates on the social psychological factors that transfer low social status into lower outcomes, and the processes by which this occurs. It takes an innovative approach, integrating research on stigma and social identity with work on self-regulation to understand processes of ...