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Strengthening social relations of persons with a disability in independent supported living KU Leuven

Beatrijs Maes
Parenting and Special Education, LUCAS - Centre for Care Research and Consultancy

The main goal of this PhD is to understand the complex dynamics of social relations of persons with a disability in independent supported living, and to support professionals to maintain, strengthen or broaden the social relations and thus the quality of life of these persons. This is operationalized in three objectives: (1) mapping the existing interventions on social relations (study 1 and 2), (2) mapping the complexity and dynamics of ...

Social relations through consumer practices. Well-to-do households in Antwerp, second half 17th - first half 19th century. University of Antwerp

Bruno Blondé
Centre for Urban History
Research on social relations behind and constructed by consumer activities through quantitative and qualitative investigation of the 'flow' of goods/services and trade-partners, using household journals, accounts and correspondence of 17th-18th century members of the Antwerp social elite. By inquiring what was being bought from whom, an attempt will be made to reconstruct the social network and the 'flow' patterns of consumption from within the ...

Social relations and consumer activity of the Antwerp elite (17th-18th century). University of Antwerp

Bruno Blondé
Centre for Urban History
Research on social relations behind and constructed by consumer activities through quantitative and qualitative investigation of the 'flow' of goods/services and trade-partners, using household journals, accounts and correspondence of 17th-18th century members of the Antwerp social elite. By inquiring what was being bought from whom, an attempt will be made to reconstruct the social network and the 'flow' patterns of consumption from within the ...

The tearing tissue. Family, friends and neighbours: the resilence of everyday social relations (Brussels - Antwerp 1715-'90). University of Antwerp

Bruno Blondé
Centre for Urban History
Our first objective is to look beyond various bold theories on (in)formal social relations, democratisation, poor relief, and civil society. Rather, we seek to resuscitate the simple everyday dimensions of community life. Earlier research may have settled for drawing a comprehensive still life of the who is who – and the who with whom – in myriad sorts of social networks and institutions; however, we wish to portray the praxis of everyday social ...

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 ...

Structural Equation Modeling and the Social Relations Model: challenges arising from a longitudinal study assessing dynamics in stepfamilies Ghent University

Ann Buysse
Department of Experimental clinical and health psychology

Stepfamily members affect each otherU+2019s thoughts and feelings and gradually establish as such stepfamily relationships. Using a design in which all members report on their relationships with all other members at three occasions, the Social Relations Model allows to study whether individual, relation-specific or family effects steer the development of stepfamily relationships and how these sources evolve over time.

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).

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.

How are social divides produced in contemporary labour markets?A macro-micro-macro study of the impact of European variants of labour market policies, industrial relations and welfare institutions on the working conditions, job quality and social rights o KU Leuven

Valeria Pulignano
Centre for Sociological Research
The study investigates the interaction of macro- and micro-forces producing social divides in contemporary European labour markets, defined as differences in working conditions, job quality and social rights of different groups of workers. It uses quantitative and qualitative approaches in a complementary way to address different aspects of the same research question i.e. how are social divides produced in contemporary European labour markets. ...