This AMCIS seminar will present new findings from the ERC-funded project SOCIALBOND that examines how the school context affects the structure of peer relations and identities in adolescence.

The hidden barriers, or ‘glass ceilings’, preventing women and minority ethnic groups from getting to the top are well documented. Yet questions of social class - and specifically class origin – have been largely ...

Inequalities in health and mortality are a matter of great concern. Since more than a century, researchers try to identify the causes of such differentials in order to reduce or, ideally, eliminate them. In most ...

This AMCIS seminar aims at uncovering whether the sharp increase in out-migration from Italy during the years of the Great Recession (2009-2014) had any impact on Italian fertility.

How are payoffs distributed in multiparty governments? In most parliamentary democracies, political parties have to form multiparty cabinets in order to gain access to office. Coalition parties thus have to come to ...

Comparative research using data from the International Survey programs has often focused on Western Europe and North America where it is rather easy to find similar measures of the concepts of interest.

In this AMCIS Seminar, Karlson will examine black-white differences in intergenerational educational mobility for cohorts born in the U.S. 1915-1984.

On April 4th, Jelle Visser, emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and former academic director of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies (AIAS), will give a seminar jointly ...

Jeroen Bron will present results from his doctoral thesis 'Student voice in curriculum development: Explorations of curriculum negotiations in secondary education classrooms.'

* Due to illness this seminar is being cancelled. We hope to schedule a new AMCIS seminar with Clemens Kroneberg later this year*

In 1880, not a single country had a nationally compulsory social policy program. A few decades later, every single one of today's rich democracies had adopted programs covering all or almost all of the main risks ...

On Tuesday the 19th of February, there will be a brand new AMCIS Citizenship & Education seminar on the bridge between knowledge and experience, in cooperation with Critical Mass. In this seminar, we’ll move from ...

Location: REC-E0.10. Lunch will be provided

On September 26, AMCIS and Amsterdam UMC (location AMC) on health inequality, will organize their first joint workshop.

In juni publiceerde het Centraal Planbureau (CPB) Kansrijk Onderwijsbeleid, een literatuurstudie die de kosten en baten van diverse onderwijsbeleidsmaatregelen in kaart bracht. De studie leidde tot veel discussie. ...

Welke stelselkenmerken van het Nederlandse onderwijs bevorderen het leren, verbeteren de voorbereiding op de arbeidsmarkt, en versterken de socialisatie tot zelfstandige burgers? Op 15 oktober 2015 presenteert een ...

Om te bevorderen dat al in een vroeg stadium tijdens de uitvoering uitwisseling van kennis plaatsvindt, en onderzoekers van gedachten kunnen wisselen over gemeenschappelijke theoretische en methodische vragen, ...