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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 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'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 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 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 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. 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, 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 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.

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 ...

ABSTRACT Changes in Dutch attitudes towards the European Union For decades, the Dutch were seen as relatively positive towards the European Union. However, in 2005 a majority of the Dutch population voted against the proposed European Constitution. Therefore, in this article we examine to what extent the Dutch ‘no’ marks a sudden change in attitudes, or is merely a manifestation of a gradual trend that started at an earlier stage of the European integration process. We raise the question to what extent attitudes towards the European Union have changed in the Netherlands, and further ask to what extent these changes can be attributed to characteristics of the context and the life course. We derive hypotheses from theories on the influence of birth cohort, societal context and life course on attitude changes. In order to test these hypotheses, we employ Eurobarometersurveys of 1973 to 2004, as well as additional data at the contextual level. Our findings suggest that in the Netherlands attitudes towards the European Union have become more negative since the early nineties, after becoming more positive in the preceding years. While characteristics of the birth cohort and the life course do not account for these changes, the development towards more political integration seems to provide an interesting explanation. However, even after adding respondents’ characteristics at the individual level to our models, variance in attitudes towards the European Union is hardly explained. Even though differences between social groups exist, attitudes towards the European Union seem to be largely unexplained.

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 ...

Abstract Economic theory predicts a negative association between spouses' levels of occupational attainment due to gains from specialization between housework and paid work. Sociology typically stresses facilitating effects of network resources on occupational attainment. Spouses are network members who may be able and willing to provide such resources. According to this argument, a positive association between spouses' levels of attainment is expected.

Department of Sociology, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands (matthijskalmijn@ gmail. com). Key Words: demographic events, divorce, intergenerational relationships, life course, marriage, well-being.