📣 We staan in de Volkskrant! 🎉 Op basis van ons recente onderzoek schreven we ook een bijdrage over hoe burgers reageren op politieke communicatie rond moeilijke beleidsbesluiten - een thema dat, met de lopende formatie en de komende coalitiefase, actueler is dan ooit.

Newly released: Understanding Cultural Sociology by Dick Houtman (KU Leuven, Belgium) Read a free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... #culturalsociology #sociology

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

🎓 Vacature: Postdoc Sociologie (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Bijna 4 jaar aan de slag met onderzoek én onderwijs binnen een fijne onderzoeksgroep? Dan is dit iets voor jou.👇

Can providing facts about ethnic discrimination change people's beliefs and raise support for affirmative action? We put it to the test in new @ispp-pops.bsky.social study with @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen v/d Waal and Masja van Meteren. A thread! Open access link: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Deze zin vat de kern van onze kritiek op de publieke uitingen van de NWO-baas extreem goed samen. www.folia.nl/nl/opinie/16...

🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students! The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025 💼 Fully funded positions How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all. jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

🎓 #vacature Postdoc sociologie (bijna 4 jaar) Onderzoek (0,7 fte): bij voorkeur gebruik cultuursociologische / politiek-sociologische inzichten om gezondheidssociologische vraagstukken te onderzoeken. Onderwijs (0,3 fte): scripties & Bachelorvak Cohesie & conflict Solliciteer uiterlijk 16 juni!

📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments) PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian 🗓️ Deadline: June 11 #postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange

Interested in climate change and sociology? Speak Italian? Want a postdoc? Then @willemdekoster.bsky.social has you covered www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3522...

Job alert! We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers at the intersection of political psychology, science communication, and survey methodology: -One for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization. -One for my starting grant on the politicization of science. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

How do people view environmental sustainability—and what does this mean for public support for interventions? Joost Oude Groeniger, @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen van der Waal, and I explore this in our new article in Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. 1/9

Over inclusie, LGBTQ+, islam, migratie, politiek, populisme, verandering, weerstand en de wetenschap. Mijn oratie - met allerlei statistieken, anecdotes en toffe mensen - is nu ook na te lezen #openacces in Mens en Maatschappij: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen? In @volkskrant.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en @bramspruyt.bsky.social

We are hiring a new PhD candidate on Democracy by Design: "How App Characteristics Shape Youth Political Worldviews" Please share with your most talented students! Deadline: April 10 Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Very happy to receive a Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council for a mixed-methods study on how people understand climate change, why these understandings differ, and what the consequences are. www.eur.nl/en/essb/news...

Very happy to receive a Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council for a mixed-methods study on how people understand climate change, why these understandings differ, and what the consequences are. www.eur.nl/en/essb/news...

🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :) Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Very happy that Vivian Visser has won the Best PhD Thesis Award from the Flemish and Dutch Association for Public Administration, with her original thesis "Who is invited? A mixed-method study on governments’ and citizens’ perspectives on invitational governance" www.bestuurskunde.nl/2025/02/07/v...

University of Oslo is hiring 2-4(!) Associate Professors in Political Science. The call is open to candidates from all subfields. Deadline is February 3rd. It comes with amazing colleagues, great work conditions, and lots of snow. Brown cheese, salmon, and cross-country skis can be supplementary.

Come learn Multiple Correspondence Analysis in Oslo! Deadline is approaching fast. www.uio.no/studier/emne...

PhD-course on Multiple Correspondence Analysis, in Oslo January 13-16 2025! Come learn the technique from renowned expert Johs. Hjellbrekke, shooting star @marentoft.bsky.social, and yours truly. www.uio.no/studier/emne...

Waarom/hoe een sociologie van inclusie? Wat is het? Wat mist in ons onderzoek? Intersectionaliteit, 'n groter verhaal, willen inleveren? Rond islam, populisme en lhbtiqa+ bespreek ik dit en meer in mijn oratie. 20/12 @RU Openbaar. Graag aanmelden. www.ru.nl/over-ons/age...

Collega Thijs Lindner verdedigt morgen zijn proefschrift. 👏🏽 Een belangrijk multi-methode onderzoek dat opvattingen over sociale zekerheid op een nieuwe manier in kaart brengt. En daarmee brengt hij een extra dimensie aan in opinie-onderzoek. Opiniepeilers opletten! 🧐 www.eur.nl/nieuws/hoe-d...

Want to know how we liberated embodied cultural capital from its deus ex machina status? Read our new publication "Advancing Stratification Research by Measuring Non-declarative Cultural Capital" #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Morgen om 13.00 is het zover: de verdediging van mijn proefschrift aan de EUR! In aanloop naar dit bijzondere moment ben ik geïnterviewd en kon ik mijn onderzoek naar opvattingen over sociale zekerheid in een notendop toelichten. Benieuwd hiernaar? Lees dan zeker het interview!

Vacancy for full professor of political sociology, at the University of Amsterdam. https://www.academictransfer.com/en/343927/full-professor-political-sociology/

Duke Sociology is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. Area of specialization (actually) open. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28065

Want to know how we liberated embodied cultural capital from its deus ex machina status? Read our new publication "Advancing Stratification Research by Measuring Non-declarative Cultural Capital" #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Is de Nederlandse 'suikertaks' wel zo'n goed idee? Tim van Meurs en co bespreken het op Stuk Rood Vlees stukroodvlees.nl/is-de-nederl...

*Publication alert!* Immigrants’ entitlement to welfare is a matter of fierce debate. But what do people's stances actually mean? Find out in our #openaccess paper in British journal of Sociology, w/ Stijn Daenekindt, @willemdekoster.bsky.social & Jeroen van der Waal doi.org/10.1111/1468... (1/8)

*** WERK *** Promotie-onderzoek @ESSB_Erasmus naar inclusieve stadsvergroening in Rotterdam-Zuid op het snijvlak van sociologie en bestuurskunde, onder begeleiding van een enthousiast multidisciplinair team (zelf zal ik betrokken zijn als promotor).   www.academictransfer.com/en/334538/pr...

Come work with us on political trust and skepticism. Deadline: December 1st.

*** WERK *** Promotie-onderzoek @ESSB_Erasmus naar inclusieve stadsvergroening in Rotterdam-Zuid op het snijvlak van sociologie en bestuurskunde, onder begeleiding van een enthousiast multidisciplinair team (zelf zal ik betrokken zijn als promotor).   www.academictransfer.com/en/334538/pr...

VACATURE Samen met een paar fijne collega's zoek ik een enthousiaste promovendus voor dit sociologisch- bestuurskundige project in Rotterdam. Profiel: talentvolle (research-)master in soc, bsk, pol-sci, urban studies, etc. Deadline 1 Dec. www.academictransfer.com/en/334538/pr...

NEW ARTICLE: @elskevdhoogen.bsky.social and @willemdekoster.bsky.social examine the link between sovereignty loss and Euroscepticism in a survey experiment OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1080/1461...

✨!! Publication alert !! ✨- Does the prospect for further sovereignty loss fuel Euroscepticism amongst Dutch citizens? This is what @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen van der Waal and I studied in our new paper in @europeansocieties.bsky.social. 1/7👉

NEW ARTICLE: @thijslin.bsky.social @mijs.bsky.social @willemdekoster.bsky.social conducted a survey experiment on meritocracy beliefs and support for a universal basic income OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1080/1461...

Publication alert! While more and more people are pulled into precarity, support for a universal basic income remains limited. Does belief in meritocracy have anything to do with it? Find out in our OA paper in @europeansocieties.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2023.2272263 [1/10]

WORK! My great colleague Samira van Bohemen is looking for a new colleague: A 3-year postdoc position @ Erasmus Uni in her exciting new research project "Unravelling Pornographic Stereotypes" www.academictransfer.com/nl/334120/3-...

Dr. Samira van Bohemen is looking for a postdoc, with a strong background in quantitative methods and a curious mindset, to join her Vidi project “Unravelling Pornographic Stereotypes” (3 years). www.academictransfer.com/nl/334120/3-...

CREST is hiring! Assistant or associate professor, any area of sociology, hmu if you want all the details. crest.science/wp-content/u...

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on political trust and skepticism in my ERC-funded research project CRITICALTRUST. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post... Please contact me if you have any questions!

One more week to apply and become a PhD candidate in our group! We look forward to receiving your applications!

Hello ... are we ... SociSky? SocSky? Anyway, I'm on the ASA Public Understanding of Sociology award committee again this year, and last year most applications were self-nominations. Nominate yourself, a friend, a stranger you respect - due Jan 1 (why Jan 1 tho?). www.asanet.org/about/awards...

I am very grateful for being awarded the BJS Prize by the British Journal of Sociology for the article I wrote together with @willemdekoster.bsky.social and Jeroen van der Waal, “A revolt of the deplored?”. 1/4

Good morning sociology & etc, I just want to let you all know that the Eastern Sociological Society conference submission deadline has been moved back to October 30th. It's a great conference, friendly, in DC this year, theme = “The Social Side of the Climate Crisis” www.essnet.org/annual-confe...