Projects
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
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.
How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025) Ghent University
INEQKILL focuses on a crucial dimension of inequality in society, the disparity in death, coined ‘ultimate inequality’. The COVID-19 pandemic has incited renewed interest into infectious diseases as potential drivers of social and spatial mortality inequalities, alongside life-style disease (cardiovascular diseases and cancer)and external causes of death. The project aims at generating new knowledge and insights into the origin and ...
How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
inequality’. The COVID-19 pandemic has incited renewed interest into infectious diseases as potential drivers
of social and spatial mortality inequalities, alongside life-style disease (cardiovascular diseases and cancer)
and external causes of death. The project aims at generating new knowledge and insights into the ...
Civil Society, Organised Labour & Social Inequality in Advanced Democracies. University of Antwerp
Social inequality and mobility during the long sixteenth century: Bois-le-Duc and its "Meierij" University of Antwerp
Scientific research network U+201CGlobalisation, Regionalisation and Economic and Social Inequality Ghent University
Encouraging research co-operation between the participating research centers on the following issues:
- the quantitative analysis of globalization and regionalization processes;
- globalization, labour markets and income inequality;
- (African) migration in Europe;
- inequality at the global governance leven
How is social inequality reproduced by grade retention? Examining implicit bias among teachers with regard to the decision whether to retain a student or not. Ghent University
Grade retention has been criticized because it reproduces existing social inequalities. Students with an ethnic minority status and/or an underprivileged socioeconomic background have a higher chance of being retained in comparison to their counterparts with similar school achievements. Grade retention can be problematic for the future academic career, as retainees have three to seven times less chance to obtain a degree in secondary ...
“The 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).” Ghent University
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).