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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 ...

Social inequality at the transition from primary to secondary education: the role played by the primary school Ghent University

Mieke Van Houtte
Department of Sociology

The aim of the project is to investigate whether characteristics of primary school contribute to the explanation of educational choices at the transition from primary to secondary education. Educational choices are usually explained by invoking ascribed and acquired characteristics of pupils. We want to contribute to the hiatus in research by adding charachteristics of the primarry school to the explanation.

Youth and social inequality Ghent University

Lieve Bradt
Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics

Increased cooperation and exchange of research expertise Firstly alliance research group aims to further expand the existing cooperation by bringing together researchers from both institutions on the one hand and by the – where possible and appropriate – entering into co -promotorschappen and / or seals of guidance committees (doctoral) research on the other. ; Increasing the (international) publication output, the databases available to ...

OBPWO research: social inequality in the transition from primary to secondary education: an investigation into the conduct of the practice orientation Ghent University

Mieke Van Houtte
Department of Sociology

questions: 1) What factors determine the choice of study in the transition from primary to secondary education? Metn name. (A) what is the relative importance of ascribed characteristics - such as gender, socio-economic and ethnic origin, level of education parents - versus acquired characteristics - such as school performance and delay, but also interests of the student? (B) What role kenmerkenn of the school, such as location (urban / ...

SRP-Onderzoekszwaartepunt: Inequality, Migration and Social Relations in Urban Brabant and Flanders, c. 1350-1914 Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Anne Winter
History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
This programme builds upon the expertise of the centre for Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes (HOST) to carry out an integrated research agenda on the ways in which growing economic inequality interacted with migration patterns and social relations in the late medieval, early modern and 19th-century city. Situated in one of the most urbanised, commercialised and industrialized regions of medieval, early modern and ...

Social factors and health: the mediating and moderating roles of communication inequality. KU Leuven

Steven Eggermont
Leuven School for Mass Communication Research
Although the role of social factors (socioeconomic status, socioecological contexts and social networks) in bringing about individual and group differences in health status has been well documented, our understanding of the communication-related mechanisms through which such factors exert influences is relatively incomplete. This research project aims to respond to this paucity of empirical evidence. The project builds on the researchers ...