Archive events

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

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 ...

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

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 ...

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

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.

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

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 ...

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

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.

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

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

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

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 ...

15:00 - 16:30 | Lecture

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

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

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

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

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 ...

15:00 - 16:30 | Lecture

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 ...

12:30 - 14:00 | Lecture

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

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

AMCIS seminar titled Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration, by Catherine de Vries.

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

In this seminar, Fabrizio Bernardi tests McLanahan’s thesis of “Diverging Destinies” and analyses how important changes in family structures over time have been for inequality of opportunity in the United States.

09:30 - 12:30 | Workshop

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

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

Due to weather conditions around Durham (UK), unfortunately Stephen Gorard wasn't able to come to Amsterdam. We hope to welcome him in the spring for a new AMCIS seminar.

09:00 - 17:00 | Conference

With this academic conference, AMCIS aims to bring together researchers working on educational inequalities by socioeconomic background, ethnic background and/or gender, from various disciplines, including sociology, ...

15:30 - 16:45 | Lecture

The quantity of prescribed opioids has quadrupled in the past two decades. De Vaan shows that the diffusion of opioid use within household units has contributed to the proliferation of consumption.

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

Sometimes individuals’ social positions directly affect their outcomes. In other cases, social positions create durable personal characteristics affecting outcomes.

12:00 - 15:00 | Conference

Education is considered to be an important institution in supporting stable democracies, and free and open societies. Teachers, school leaders and school boards, with students and others working in education, ...