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@bramspruyt.bsky.social

Sociologist working at VUB. Main research interests EPYC (Education, Politics, Youth and Culture).

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Soepeler nachtwerk, overuren die beter lonen en kortere opzegtermijn bij ontslag: dit zegt het zomerakkoord over de arbeidsmarkt | VRT NWS: nieuws De federale regering heeft in het zomerakkoord een reeks maatregelen uitgewerkt om de arbeidsmarkt te hervormen. Ze hoopt zo meer mensen aan de slag te krijgen, wat uiteindelijk ook zal opbrengen voor...

Werkbaar werk was precies niet echt top of mind bij de onderhandelingen over het zomerakkoord... deze hervormingen zijn een recept voor meer precair werk en ongelijkheid voor wie met een zwakke onderhandelingspositie op de arbeidsmarkt komt...
vrtnws.be/p.VLayP9NQE

21.07.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Input gezocht: welke interventies versterken de democratie in Nederland? - StukRoodVlees De zorgen over onze democratie nemen toe. Veel Nederlanders ervaren een groeiende polarisatie en ergeren zich aan de toon van het politieke debat. Tegelijkertijd zien we elke dag hoe kwetsbaar de demo...

De democratie wankelt. In de VS, maar ook dichter bij huis. Wat helpt tegen polarisatie? Wat versterkt steun voor de democratie? β€ͺ@bnbakker.bsky.social, @gijsschumacher.bsky.social‬ en ik testen allerlei interventies. Heb jij een goed idee? Laat het ons weten!
stukroodvlees.nl/input-gezoch...

10.06.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 1

Well done!

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Postdoctoral researcher Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes What does climate change mean to peopleβ€”and why? And how do these meanings shape public responses to policy and information campaigns?

πŸ“’ 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

πŸ—“οΈ Deadline: June 11

#postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange

20.05.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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New paper 🏫!

We present the Schooled Society Index: a multidimensional indicator that maps cross-national differences in the centrality of schooling on a global scale. Written with
@bramspruyt.bsky.social and @tkupp.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Data is publicly available: osf.io/49xy5/

16.05.2025 08:04 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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🏫 How central is schooling in your country?

In their new #Socius study, Drs. Kavadias, @bramspruyt.bsky.social & @tkupp.bsky.social introduce the Schooled Society Indexβ€”a global measure of how #education acts as a force of #institutionalization and #stratification.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

15.05.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
IJDS - Both a Blessing and a Curse: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences and Challenges of Autonomy During the Doctoral Trajectory in Belgium An international association advancing the multidisciplinary study of informing systems. Founded in 1998, the Informing Science Institute (ISI) is a global community of academics shaping the future of...

πŸŽ“ New Publication!πŸš€

What does autonomy really mean in a PhD journey? Is it the freedom to explore or the burden of navigating uncertainty?
Our latest study dives into the complexities of autonomy in doctoral education, πŸ“– Read our paper here: www.informingscience.org/Publications...
#PhDLife

29.03.2025 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Opinie: Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen? In een column voor de Volkskrant beweerde Sander Schimmelpenninck dat het niet te bewijzen is dat hoogopgeleiden neerkijken op lager opgeleiden. Die stelling negeert helaas vijftien jaar onderzoek naa...

Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen?

In @volkskrant.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en @bramspruyt.bsky.social

11.03.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Congratulations! Well deserved!

04.03.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very happy that our project on Democratic governance: challenges and innovations, developed with Silvia Erzeel, has been selected for the next BrIAS programme.

20.02.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Title page of "Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective
Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether
People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change
Economic Conflict"
Abstract: "Belief in meritocracy and social status are central to understanding how people think and behave in relation to economic conflict. In this paper, we investigate how belief in meritocracy is moderated by (subjective) social status for three different aspects of citizens' attitudes towards economic inequality and conflict, namely (1) perceived conflict, (2) anger about economic inequality and (3) intentions to change economic conflict (egalitarianism). Data from the International Social Survey Programme on 29 countries reveal that the effect of meritocracy depends on social status and differs meaningfully across the three attitudes. For people high in social status, belief in meritocracy relates to lower perceptions of conflict, anger, and egalitarianism. For people with a low subjective social status there is no or a weak relation of belief in meritocracy with the outcomes. In addition, when belief in meritocracy was low, those with a high subjective social status appeared to be concerned about inequality as they perceived more economic conflict and felt more anger than those with a low subjective social status. However, this was not the case for intentions to reduce inequality. Hence, these effects of meritocracy and social status should be understood in light of self-interest concerns of social groups, rather than solely ideological domination."

Title page of "Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change Economic Conflict" Abstract: "Belief in meritocracy and social status are central to understanding how people think and behave in relation to economic conflict. In this paper, we investigate how belief in meritocracy is moderated by (subjective) social status for three different aspects of citizens' attitudes towards economic inequality and conflict, namely (1) perceived conflict, (2) anger about economic inequality and (3) intentions to change economic conflict (egalitarianism). Data from the International Social Survey Programme on 29 countries reveal that the effect of meritocracy depends on social status and differs meaningfully across the three attitudes. For people high in social status, belief in meritocracy relates to lower perceptions of conflict, anger, and egalitarianism. For people with a low subjective social status there is no or a weak relation of belief in meritocracy with the outcomes. In addition, when belief in meritocracy was low, those with a high subjective social status appeared to be concerned about inequality as they perceived more economic conflict and felt more anger than those with a low subjective social status. However, this was not the case for intentions to reduce inequality. Hence, these effects of meritocracy and social status should be understood in light of self-interest concerns of social groups, rather than solely ideological domination."

Figure 1: Predicted values of conflict perception across belief in meritocracy and subjective social status.

Figure 1: Predicted values of conflict perception across belief in meritocracy and subjective social status.

Figure 3: Predicted values of egalitarianism across belief meritocracy and subjective social status.

Figure 3: Predicted values of egalitarianism across belief meritocracy and subjective social status.

🏁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...

07.02.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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And here's the share without higher education!

09.01.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Toch zullen er elke dag weer kansen voorbij komen...

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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Experienced student or rookie employee? A quantitative study on PhD candidates’ role perceptions and its influence on their expectations and self-efficacy This article studies PhD candidates’ role identity, that is, where candidates position themselves on the spectrum between being a student and an employee, and how this relates to certain background...

PhD candidates: students or employees? πŸ€” New study reveals role perceptions impact self-efficacy & supervisor expectations. Key findings: teaching assistants & final-phase students lean toward 'employee,' while 'students' feel more self-efficacious. See doi.org/10.1080/0013... #PhDLife #HigherEd

04.01.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Op zondag aan een rapport werken over work life balance. Ik kan dat.

15.12.2024 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

De evolutie van het lerarenberoep:
- sneller ontslag bij vaste benoeming
- een continu stroom van regelg. die te laat klaar is of gebrekkig in elkaar zit
- Vl. toetsen als motie van wantrouwen.
- de hakbijl in het pensioen.

Ze kunnen nu wel een fiets leasen om mee door de regen te rijden.

27.11.2024 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal β€œindoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.

Florida is coming after sociology, as GOP across the country tries to control (higher) education within constraints of First Ammendment.

Some (non-)expert thoughts on this piece 🧡

23.11.2024 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

"a crude yet endlessly empirically corroborated proxy"

Pure gold! @peter8rberg.bsky.social

(quote from 'why there is less supportive evidence for contact theory than they say there is)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

21.11.2024 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Weeral een heel mooi nummer geworden van Sociologie Magazine!

20.11.2024 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Voorstelling 3de Taalbarometer Vlaamse Rand De studiedag gaat door op vrijdagmiddag 13 december 2024, van 14u tot 18u, in gemeenschapscentrum De Moelie (Sint-Sebastiaanstraat 14, 1630 Linkebeek)


Op vrijdagnamiddag 13 december 2024 presenteert @briobrussel.bsky.social de resultaten van de 3de Taalbarometer van de Vlaamse Rand.

Meer info: www.briobrussel.be/node/19193

Deelname is gratis, graag inschrijving vooraf via

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20.11.2024 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The impact of interventions to prevent truancy: A review of the research literature It is well established that truancy has a negative impact on pupils’ educational careers. Much more discussion is needed concerning the strategies and…

Hoe komt het toch dat beleidsmakers zo vaak grijpen naar maatregelen tegen spijbelen die niet werken en waarvan we ook weten waarom ze niet werken.

Het is niet dat er geen literatuur over is.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Alles samen in het NL: torvub.be/torwebdat/pu...

18.11.2024 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dit forum schreeuwt om een starters' package "Loyaal Tegendraads", Bart!

16.11.2024 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

De machine is niet te verslaan. Mijn vrouw moet voor een benoeming in 2 lesuren (sec ond) een aangetekend schrijven richten aan haar eigen directeur πŸ˜€. Moet met de post opgestuurd worden. Acht jaar na 'operatie tarra'.

15.11.2024 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dag Peter πŸ˜€

13.11.2024 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sterkte Bart!

04.08.2024 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As part of a large collaboration of social psychologists and sociologists, we tried to understand belief system structure across Europe

osf.io/9r84f

15.02.2024 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Title & abstract of paper in Acta Politica: Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism

Title & abstract of paper in Acta Politica: Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism

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🏁New paper! We find that affective bias towards 'the higher educated' is associated with more political trust, satisfaction w/ democracy and less populism

In @actapolitica.bsky.social with Toon Kuppens, @bramspruyt.bsky.social Leandros Kavadias, Celine Darnon & Medhi Marot

doi.org/10.1057/s412...

22.01.2024 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

!! Nieuw nummer van Sociologie Magazine: Klimaat !!

sociologiemagazine.nl/magazine/soc...

27.11.2023 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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