R. Aberg D. Alwin R. Andorka H.-J. Andrefl M. Banton J. Bastian L. Bellmann W. Bernasco R. Breen ... more R. Aberg D. Alwin R. Andorka H.-J. Andrefl M. Banton J. Bastian L. Bellmann W. Bernasco R. Breen E. Bruckner J. Briidcrl G. Bruinsma J. Bynner D. Courgeau N. De Graaf P. de Graaf J. DeJong-Gierveld S. Dcx A. Diekmann B. Ebbinghaus AL Ellinsaeter G. Esping-Andersen D. Fuchs U. Gerhardt K. Hakim M. Hannan R. Hauser A. Heath F. Hdllinger O. Hubler J. Huinink H.-J. Hummell J. Jacobs W. Jagodzinski G. Jones A. Kalleberg T. Kamphorst D. King A. Kleijn T. Klein H. Kriesi R. Lepsius O. Lundberg ... Umea Michigan Budapest Bielefeld Llanvair Discoed Oxford ...
Using the European and World Value Surveys from 1981, 1990, and 2000, this paper examines trends ... more Using the European and World Value Surveys from 1981, 1990, and 2000, this paper examines trends in Christian beliefs, church attendance, and the relationship between believing and belonging. It further looks at the influence of religious pluralism on this relationship in ...
The authors test several hypotheses about the impact of intergener-ational class mobility on poli... more The authors test several hypotheses about the impact of intergener-ational class mobility on political party preferences. Tests using cross-national data sets representing Britain, the Netherlands, Ger-many, and the United States over the period 1964-90 suggest a process of acculturation to the class of destination. The authors hypothesized that a class with a high degree of demographic identity influences newcomers more than a class with low demographic identity does and that, the more left-wing inflow there is into a class, the more likely the immobile members are to have left-wing political preferences. The data did not confirm these hypotheses. A macro analysis does, however, show that the level of class voting is weakened by a compositional mobility effect.
How are one&a... more How are one's own education, father's education, and especially the combination of the two, related to self-assessed health across European societies? In this study, we test hypotheses about differences in self-assessed health between 16 post-socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe and 17 Western European countries. We find substantial cross-national variation in the (relative) importance of own and father's education for self-assessed health. Over 65 per cent of this cross-national variation is accounted for by the East-West divide. This simple dichotomy explains cross-national differences better than gross domestic product or income inequality. An individual's father's education is more important, both in absolute and relative terms, for self-assessed heath in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe. Intergenerational mobility moderates the relative effects of one's own and one's father's education. In Eastern Europe the relative importance of one's father's education is greater than it is in Western Europe--particularly for those who are downwardly mobile and have a father with tertiary education. The results are sometimes contradictory to initial expectations; the theoretical implications are discussed.
The rise of 'new' social classes within the service class in the Netherlands: Political... more The rise of 'new' social classes within the service class in the Netherlands: Political orientation of the 'new' social classes between 1970 and 2000 The employment structure of the Netherlands and other advanced countries is evolving from an industrial structure to a post-industrial ...
Er is veel voor te zeggen dat iemands huidige voorkeuren en gedragingen niet alleen anlangen van ... more Er is veel voor te zeggen dat iemands huidige voorkeuren en gedragingen niet alleen anlangen van de hulpbronnen waarover iemand beschikking heeft of van de restricties waarmee iemand op een gegeven tijdstip kampt. Er bestaan ten minste twee belangrijke sociologische theorieën die postuleren dat er een belangrijke invloed uitgaat van de omstandigheden in iemands jeugd op de manier waarop mensen hun leven inrichten. In de cultuur-en stratificatiesociologie betreft dit het werk van de Franse socioloog Bourdieu. ...
One rather stable finding in Dutch research on the intergenerational transmission of educational ... more One rather stable finding in Dutch research on the intergenerational transmission of educational opportunities is that parental cultural characteristics are stronger determinants of their children's educational attainment than parental economic characteristics. This finding has been established in two ways. First, it has been consistently found that parents' level of schooling has a much stronger impact on children's educational success than parents' occupation. Parents' level of education can be perceived as a basic measure of a family's ...
Research on occupational mobility usually concentrates on class and sectoral divisions of society... more Research on occupational mobility usually concentrates on class and sectoral divisions of society. In the Netherlands, however, the oldest mobility tables have been cast in a prestige format and historical comparative research has followed this example. This practice has largely withheld the Dutch data from international comparative work. In this article we aim to redress this situation. This is accomplished by presenting and analysing class mobility tables based on ten national surveys for the period 1970-1985. They refer to men, 21- ...
This paper models data for the Netherlands in the 1970s on prestige of male’s occupation, occupat... more This paper models data for the Netherlands in the 1970s on prestige of male’s occupation, occupational prestige of the father and ‘left/right’ score of the political party he prefers. One set of hypotheses holds that individuals behave according to economic self-interest, another set postulates a status motive. The former specify additive effects, the latter interaction effects. It is argued that these hypotheses have to be tested with Diagonal Mobility Models. A result of their application is that an economic diagonal model fits best. This paper also discusses macroimplications of these models for individual data. To determine macroeffects of status models, it is necessary to ascertain the total percentage of mobile persons in a society. For the macro-application of economic models, the amount of mobility necessitated by a country’s opportunity structure is relevant. The latter is much smaller than the former. As an economic model was corroborated, macroeffects of social mobility o...
Tests of hypotheses explaining the variation in church attendance are dominated by the use of int... more Tests of hypotheses explaining the variation in church attendance are dominated by the use of international comparative survey data covering many countries with only a limited number of samples within these countries. As a result, the main research focus is on between country effects and hardly on within country effects. The latter, however, comprises a more convincing test, because fewer assumptions about unobserved country-specific variables are required. Elaborating on various analytical models, we show that results from a between country research design may lead to inaccurate conclusions. To illustrate this point, we selected the Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, which includes as many European countries on as many points in time as possible. Step by step we disentangle the well-known strong negative overall between country correlation of social security with church attendance. We show that this correlation most likely is owing to unspecified country characteristics, as within countries, social security is sometimes positively related to church attendance and sometimes negatively, whereas on average there is no effect at all. Rather than increases in social security spending, rising gross domestic product seems to reduce church attendance. Our cautionary tale about the use of between country research designs applies to other fields of research as well.
Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, 1997
Class and Nation in England and Scotland Anthony Heath, Nan Dirk de Graaf and Ariana Need It is w... more Class and Nation in England and Scotland Anthony Heath, Nan Dirk de Graaf and Ariana Need It is widely held that class is a major basis of political cleavage only in the absence of other competing cleavages such as religion or ethnicity. Thus Sartori wrote that'class is the major ...
R. Aberg D. Alwin R. Andorka H.-J. Andrefl M. Banton J. Bastian L. Bellmann W. Bernasco R. Breen ... more R. Aberg D. Alwin R. Andorka H.-J. Andrefl M. Banton J. Bastian L. Bellmann W. Bernasco R. Breen E. Bruckner J. Briidcrl G. Bruinsma J. Bynner D. Courgeau N. De Graaf P. de Graaf J. DeJong-Gierveld S. Dcx A. Diekmann B. Ebbinghaus AL Ellinsaeter G. Esping-Andersen D. Fuchs U. Gerhardt K. Hakim M. Hannan R. Hauser A. Heath F. Hdllinger O. Hubler J. Huinink H.-J. Hummell J. Jacobs W. Jagodzinski G. Jones A. Kalleberg T. Kamphorst D. King A. Kleijn T. Klein H. Kriesi R. Lepsius O. Lundberg ... Umea Michigan Budapest Bielefeld Llanvair Discoed Oxford ...
Using the European and World Value Surveys from 1981, 1990, and 2000, this paper examines trends ... more Using the European and World Value Surveys from 1981, 1990, and 2000, this paper examines trends in Christian beliefs, church attendance, and the relationship between believing and belonging. It further looks at the influence of religious pluralism on this relationship in ...
The authors test several hypotheses about the impact of intergener-ational class mobility on poli... more The authors test several hypotheses about the impact of intergener-ational class mobility on political party preferences. Tests using cross-national data sets representing Britain, the Netherlands, Ger-many, and the United States over the period 1964-90 suggest a process of acculturation to the class of destination. The authors hypothesized that a class with a high degree of demographic identity influences newcomers more than a class with low demographic identity does and that, the more left-wing inflow there is into a class, the more likely the immobile members are to have left-wing political preferences. The data did not confirm these hypotheses. A macro analysis does, however, show that the level of class voting is weakened by a compositional mobility effect.
How are one&a... more How are one's own education, father's education, and especially the combination of the two, related to self-assessed health across European societies? In this study, we test hypotheses about differences in self-assessed health between 16 post-socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe and 17 Western European countries. We find substantial cross-national variation in the (relative) importance of own and father's education for self-assessed health. Over 65 per cent of this cross-national variation is accounted for by the East-West divide. This simple dichotomy explains cross-national differences better than gross domestic product or income inequality. An individual's father's education is more important, both in absolute and relative terms, for self-assessed heath in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe. Intergenerational mobility moderates the relative effects of one's own and one's father's education. In Eastern Europe the relative importance of one's father's education is greater than it is in Western Europe--particularly for those who are downwardly mobile and have a father with tertiary education. The results are sometimes contradictory to initial expectations; the theoretical implications are discussed.
The rise of 'new' social classes within the service class in the Netherlands: Political... more The rise of 'new' social classes within the service class in the Netherlands: Political orientation of the 'new' social classes between 1970 and 2000 The employment structure of the Netherlands and other advanced countries is evolving from an industrial structure to a post-industrial ...
Er is veel voor te zeggen dat iemands huidige voorkeuren en gedragingen niet alleen anlangen van ... more Er is veel voor te zeggen dat iemands huidige voorkeuren en gedragingen niet alleen anlangen van de hulpbronnen waarover iemand beschikking heeft of van de restricties waarmee iemand op een gegeven tijdstip kampt. Er bestaan ten minste twee belangrijke sociologische theorieën die postuleren dat er een belangrijke invloed uitgaat van de omstandigheden in iemands jeugd op de manier waarop mensen hun leven inrichten. In de cultuur-en stratificatiesociologie betreft dit het werk van de Franse socioloog Bourdieu. ...
One rather stable finding in Dutch research on the intergenerational transmission of educational ... more One rather stable finding in Dutch research on the intergenerational transmission of educational opportunities is that parental cultural characteristics are stronger determinants of their children's educational attainment than parental economic characteristics. This finding has been established in two ways. First, it has been consistently found that parents' level of schooling has a much stronger impact on children's educational success than parents' occupation. Parents' level of education can be perceived as a basic measure of a family's ...
Research on occupational mobility usually concentrates on class and sectoral divisions of society... more Research on occupational mobility usually concentrates on class and sectoral divisions of society. In the Netherlands, however, the oldest mobility tables have been cast in a prestige format and historical comparative research has followed this example. This practice has largely withheld the Dutch data from international comparative work. In this article we aim to redress this situation. This is accomplished by presenting and analysing class mobility tables based on ten national surveys for the period 1970-1985. They refer to men, 21- ...
This paper models data for the Netherlands in the 1970s on prestige of male’s occupation, occupat... more This paper models data for the Netherlands in the 1970s on prestige of male’s occupation, occupational prestige of the father and ‘left/right’ score of the political party he prefers. One set of hypotheses holds that individuals behave according to economic self-interest, another set postulates a status motive. The former specify additive effects, the latter interaction effects. It is argued that these hypotheses have to be tested with Diagonal Mobility Models. A result of their application is that an economic diagonal model fits best. This paper also discusses macroimplications of these models for individual data. To determine macroeffects of status models, it is necessary to ascertain the total percentage of mobile persons in a society. For the macro-application of economic models, the amount of mobility necessitated by a country’s opportunity structure is relevant. The latter is much smaller than the former. As an economic model was corroborated, macroeffects of social mobility o...
Tests of hypotheses explaining the variation in church attendance are dominated by the use of int... more Tests of hypotheses explaining the variation in church attendance are dominated by the use of international comparative survey data covering many countries with only a limited number of samples within these countries. As a result, the main research focus is on between country effects and hardly on within country effects. The latter, however, comprises a more convincing test, because fewer assumptions about unobserved country-specific variables are required. Elaborating on various analytical models, we show that results from a between country research design may lead to inaccurate conclusions. To illustrate this point, we selected the Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, which includes as many European countries on as many points in time as possible. Step by step we disentangle the well-known strong negative overall between country correlation of social security with church attendance. We show that this correlation most likely is owing to unspecified country characteristics, as within countries, social security is sometimes positively related to church attendance and sometimes negatively, whereas on average there is no effect at all. Rather than increases in social security spending, rising gross domestic product seems to reduce church attendance. Our cautionary tale about the use of between country research designs applies to other fields of research as well.
Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, 1997
Class and Nation in England and Scotland Anthony Heath, Nan Dirk de Graaf and Ariana Need It is w... more Class and Nation in England and Scotland Anthony Heath, Nan Dirk de Graaf and Ariana Need It is widely held that class is a major basis of political cleavage only in the absence of other competing cleavages such as religion or ethnicity. Thus Sartori wrote that'class is the major ...
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