Wout Ultee
Biographic Data
| ID | 196628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wout Ultee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wout |
| FAMILY NAME | Ultee |
| SIGNATURE | ULTEE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 609 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Terug naar Bonger
Bonger revisited. On a false start and a sudden full speed ahead in Dutch sociology Our tentative hypothesis is that institutionalization of an academic discipline, for example by way of university chairs and disciplinary training schools, contributes to scientific progress. Yet, although Bonger contributed to all of sociology’s three main problems (cohesion, inequality and rationalization), his appointment as the first professor for sociology in…
De invloed van kleine contexten op homonegatieve houdingen onder Nederlandse middelbare scholieren
Effects of small-scale settings on homonegativity among Dutch secondary school students We model three forms of homonegativity among Dutch secondary school students: overall deprecation of same-sex love, dislike of kissing in public between two persons of the same sex, and keeping homosexuals at a distance. Guided by the hypothesis that stronger integration into any of society’s groups makes for more adherence to any of their norms, we estimate e…
Problem Selection in the Social Sciences
The Impact of Macro- and Micro-Economic Uncertainty on Family Formation in The Netherlands
A Macro-Sociological Study into the Changes in the Popularity of Domestic, European, and American Pop Music in Western Countries
Relying on the top 100 pop songs from year-end charts, we coded more than 30,000 chart positions based on the country of origin of the artist and the language of performance, in nine Western countries. We estimated cross-national differences and trends since 1973, testing expectations on globalization as has been reviewed in the literature, where Americanization/Westernization, diversification, nationalization, and glocalization have been disting…
Driegeneraties- en tweeoudersvragen over het opleidingsniveau van mannen en vrouwen in Nederland
This article estimates for the Netherlands linear regression models for an individual’s level of education by bringing in parental as well as grandparental level of education. The prime question is that of the association between education in the first and third generation after holding constant education in the second generation. For the empirical analysis, we used the five available waves of the Family Survey Dutch Population as conducted in 19…
Examining Trends in Muslim Self-Identification and Mosque Attendance Among People of Turkish and Moroccan Descent in the Netherlands, 1997-2009
This study examines the extent to which Muslim self-identification and mosque attendance have changed in the period 1997-2009 among people of Turkish and Moroccan descent in the Netherlands. Mainly trendless fluctuations are found. Overall, Muslim self-identification seems to very slightly increase and mosque attendance seems to very slightly decrease. We examined the extent to which factors that are important according to theories and previous r…
De Tweede Wereldoorlog en statusverwerving
World War II and occupational status attainment.In this study we include personal war experiences in Duncan’s path model of status attainment to answer the following research question: To what extent can personal war experiences explain the occupational status of Dutch people who experienced World War II? We expect that personal war experiences have a detrimental effect on the human capital formation, which in turn leads to a lower educational le…
Educational Attainment, Occupational Achievements, Career Peaks
This paper answers questions on the educational attainment and occupational career of men in The Netherlands whose working life began in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, in so far as their job history is available until at least the age of 45 years. The analysis draws on five Dutch retrospective life-history surveys conducted between 1992 and 2003. The results show that a man's education depends upon his father's job, and that this effect has not cha…
Reactie - Een Babylonische spraakverwarring
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Analogical Reasoning and the Content of Creation Stories
A long-standing question in sociology concerns preindustrial societies and the relationship between their subsistence technology and ideas about god. This article proposes a shift from questions regarding gods who now and then create to questions about creations that sometimes involve a god. For preindustrial societies, it addresses the relation between their subsistence technology and the content of their creation stories. This article's answer …
Primary and Secondary Socialization Impacts on Support for Same-Sex Marriage After Legalization in the Netherlands
Two years after the legalization of same-sex marriages in the Netherlands, 65% of the Dutch population largely or completely disagrees with the statement 'gay marriage should be abolished.' This article shows, by way of multinomial logistic regression analysis of survey data, which socializing agents influence one's attitude toward same-sex marriage after its legalization (FNB2003; N = 2,124). Parents' attitudes toward homosexuality during one's …
Cultural participation and time restrictions
Mobility, Horizontal and Vertical
The notion that in contemporary highly industrialized societies persons may climb up or slide down the social ladder presupposed some scale with an upper end and a lower end and the possibility of ranking people on it. Individual income can be taken as such a scale, and if this is used it is possible to speak of upward and downward mobility and to quantify the extent to which a person is upwardly or downwardly mobile. Occupational status, as indi…
Analogien, Subsistenztechnologien Und (Nicht-)moralische Allmächtige Schöpfergötter In Vorindustriellen Gesellschaften
Class, Status, and Power
Class, Status, and Power is the title of an edited collection by Reinhard Bendix and Seymour Martin Lipset. The first edition was published in 1953, and after several reprints a thoroughly revised edition appeared in 1966. “Class, status, and power” is also an apt name for the research program that dominated the sociology of stratification in the first decades after World War II. This program denied the existence, in all times and in every societ…
Occupations, Scaling of
In their empirical research on societal stratification, sociologists in national sample surveys often ask people about their present occupation, first occupation, the occupation of their father and of their mother, and the occupation of their spouse and their siblings. The occupational titles obtained in this way nowadays are coded according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) issued by the International Labor Offic…
Mobility, Intergenerational and Intragenerational
In Social Mobility (1927) Sorokin attempted to ascertain for early twentieth‐century western societies like England, France, Germany, Italy, and the US the extent to which “the occupational status of a father determines that of his children,” as well as “the intensiveness of interoccupational shifting within the life of one generation.” Later, these two phenomena were called intergenerational mobility and intragenerational mobility. Behind this d…
Stratification, Distinction and
Behind a lot of research on societal stratification lurks the idea that, if persons are given a choice between a large and a small pay packet, they will opt for the larger one. Yet people in general not only want to have more than they already have, they also want to be more than others around them, particularly others who have about as much as they themselves have. This is the subject of distinction within the field of stratification. It became …
Income Inequality and Income Mobility
Research on income inequality within the social sciences took off as a byproduct of income taxation. Lists were published showing how many tax‐paying units during a tax year had an income of a certain size. The distribution did not look like a bell‐shaped curve, but was skewed at the upper end. The description of the distribution by one parameter started with Vilfredo Pareto, and his results led to the hypothesis that this statistic was more or l…
Life Chances and Resources
Around the mid‐1980s in the field of societal stratification, the research program of “Class, Status, and Power” had evolved into the more powerful program of “Life Chances and Resources.” At that time, theoretical and empirical efforts undertaken by sociologists in various countries of the world began to converge
Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
Engels and Marx are regarded as the founders of a theoretical tradition in sociology called historical materialism. This perspective takes economic power as the prime dimension of social stratification and holds that the history of all hitherto‐existing societies is the history of class struggles. The main classes in the societies Engels and Marx studied most intensively were the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. More particularly, classical histo…
Status and media use in the Netherlands
Problem shifts in the study of welfare states and societal inequalities
Political Integration, War and Suicide
Contrary to Durkheim's idea about suicide during wartime, the Netherlands had high suicide rates in 1940 and 1945. To explain these findings, we propose the social integration theory, according to which, people who expect to be excluded from society are more likely to commit suicide. We examine this idea using individual-level data on suicide in the Netherlands during the Second World War, assuming that Jews expected to be excluded by the occupyi…
Comparative Intergenerational Stratification Research
In this article we review 40 years of cross-national comparative research on the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic advantage, with particular attention to developments over the past 15 years-that is, since the transition between (what have become known as) the second and third generations of social stratification and mobility research. We identify the generations by a set of core studies and categorize them with respect to data coll…
Educational Homogamy in 65 Countries
n Contains fulltext :\n 140827.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
More or Less Educational Homogamy? A Test of Different Versions of Modernization Theory Using Cross-Temporal Evidence for 60 Countries
n Contains fulltext :\n 141279.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Class voting in western industrialized countries, 1945—1990
Analyzing data obtained from the literature and our own calculations, significant differences were found among countries in their levels of class voting. The Scandinavian countries had the highest and Canada and the USA the lowest levels of class voting. Since the 1950s, there was a decline in almost all countries in the level of class voting. In this article, several hypotheses were deduced from a limited number of individual assumptions, each p…
Denomination, Religious Context, and Suicide
In Suicide, Durkheim found that involvement in religious communities is inversely related to suicide risk. In this article, two explanations for this relationship are examined. One is that religious networks provide support. The other is that religious communities prohibit suicide. To examine these hypotheses, individual‐level data on suicide in the Netherlands from 1936 to 1973 are used. The results show that with an increase in the proportion o…
Trends in the Occupational Returns to Educational Credentials in the Dutch Labor Market
In this article, we determine changes in the relationship between education and the labor market in The Netherlands since 1960, for which both developments in the distribution of the labor force according to educational attainment and level of occupation (structural changes) and shifts in the mechanism to allocate educated individuals to occupational positions (which modify the net association between education and occupation) are used. To observ…
Educational heterogamy and father-to-son occupational mobility in 23 industrial nations
This article presents 41 educational heterogamy tables for 23 industrial nations after World War II. Countries differ in gross heterogamy rates and relative chances of heterogamy. Evidence is found in favour of a trend towards higher gross rates of heterogamy and towards more equal jelative chances of heterogamy. Hypotheses on effects of economic and political factors are tested. The contribution these factors make to the explanation of relative …
Individual preferences, social mobility and electoral outcomes
Primary and Secondary Socialization Impacts on Support for Same-Sex Marriage After Legalization in the Netherlands
Two years after the legalization of same-sex marriages in the Netherlands, 65% of the Dutch population largely or completely disagrees with the statement 'gay marriage should be abolished.' This article shows, by way of multinomial logistic regression analysis of survey data, which socializing agents influence one's attitude toward same-sex marriage after its legalization (FNB2003; N = 2,124). Parents' attitudes toward homosexuality during one's …
Cultural participation and time restrictions
Why does unemployment come in couples? An analysis of (un)employment and (non)employment homogamy tables for Canada, the Netherlands and the United States in the 1980s
In this paper we first raise the factual question of whether wives of unemployed husbands have a higher chance of unemployment than wives of employed husbands. Data for Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and the USA in the first half of the 1980s indicate that this indeed is the case. We then seek to explain this finding. According to one explanation, (un)employment homogamy is a by-product of educational homogamy combined with a relation at the …
Status and media use in the Netherlands
Occupational Homogamy in Eight Countries of the European Union, 1975-89
Using data from the Eurobarometers, the association between the occupations of spouses is studied for eight EU countries at several points in time. Most of the association is due to a tendency towards occupational similarity between the spouses. The strength of this tendency differs somewhat between countries and decreases by about 16 per cent between 1975 and 1989, indicating that the social structure of the countries has become more open in thi…
Religious Assortative Marriage in the Netherlands, 1938-1983
n Contains fulltext :\n 141076.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The Impact of Macro- and Micro-Economic Uncertainty on Family Formation in The Netherlands
Educational Attainment, Occupational Achievements, Career Peaks
This paper answers questions on the educational attainment and occupational career of men in The Netherlands whose working life began in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, in so far as their job history is available until at least the age of 45 years. The analysis draws on five Dutch retrospective life-history surveys conducted between 1992 and 2003. The results show that a man's education depends upon his father's job, and that this effect has not cha…
Effects of Occupational Status Differences between Spouses on the Wife's Labor Force Participation and Occupational Achievement
Jeroen Smits, Wout Ultee, Jan Lammers, Effects of Occupational Status Differences between Spouses on the Wife's Labor Force Participation and Occupational Achievement: Findings from 12 European Countries, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 101-115
Examining Trends in Muslim Self-Identification and Mosque Attendance Among People of Turkish and Moroccan Descent in the Netherlands, 1997-2009
This study examines the extent to which Muslim self-identification and mosque attendance have changed in the period 1997-2009 among people of Turkish and Moroccan descent in the Netherlands. Mainly trendless fluctuations are found. Overall, Muslim self-identification seems to very slightly increase and mosque attendance seems to very slightly decrease. We examined the extent to which factors that are important according to theories and previous r…
Problem shifts in the study of welfare states and societal inequalities
A Macro-Sociological Study into the Changes in the Popularity of Domestic, European, and American Pop Music in Western Countries
Relying on the top 100 pop songs from year-end charts, we coded more than 30,000 chart positions based on the country of origin of the artist and the language of performance, in nine Western countries. We estimated cross-national differences and trends since 1973, testing expectations on globalization as has been reviewed in the literature, where Americanization/Westernization, diversification, nationalization, and glocalization have been disting…
Intergenerational standard-of-living mobility in nine EEC countries
In this paper it is argued that an analysis of intergenerational standard-of-living mobility tables is of equal interest to an analysis of intergenerational class mobility or status group mobility tables. Such tables are analysed for the nine countries of the European Economic Community in 1976. This is done in a log-linear analysis, modelling structural mobility (or competitive balance), circulation mobility (or social fluidity) and the interact…
Political Integration, War and Suicide
Contrary to Durkheim's idea about suicide during wartime, the Netherlands had high suicide rates in 1940 and 1945. To explain these findings, we propose the social integration theory, according to which, people who expect to be excluded from society are more likely to commit suicide. We examine this idea using individual-level data on suicide in the Netherlands during the Second World War, assuming that Jews expected to be excluded by the occupyi…
Analogical Reasoning and the Content of Creation Stories
A long-standing question in sociology concerns preindustrial societies and the relationship between their subsistence technology and ideas about god. This article proposes a shift from questions regarding gods who now and then create to questions about creations that sometimes involve a god. For preindustrial societies, it addresses the relation between their subsistence technology and the content of their creation stories. This article's answer …
Analogien, Subsistenztechnologien Und (Nicht-)moralische Allmächtige Schöpfergötter In Vorindustriellen Gesellschaften
The Practice of Sociology and the Abandonment of Content as a Regulative Idea / Die Forschungspraxis der Soziologie und das Fallenlassen von ‚Informationsgehalt‘ als regulative Idee
Der wichtigste Fortschritt der kritisch-rationalistischen Wissenschaftstheorie im Vergleich zur klassischen Begründungsmethodologie liegt in der Entdeckung der regulativen Idee ‚Informationsgehalt‘ sowie in dem Nachweis von Immunisierungsstrategien. Der Versuch wird unternommen, einige dieser Strategien und deren Anwendung bzw. ausdrückliches Vermeiden in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu identifizieren
The Practice of Sociology and the Abandonment of Content as a Regulative Idea / Die Forschungspraxis der Soziologie und das Fallenlassen von ‚Informationsgehalt‘ als regulative Idee
Der wichtigste Fortschritt der kritisch-rationalistischen Wissenschaftstheorie im Vergleich zur klassischen Begründungsmethodologie liegt in der Entdeckung der regulativen Idee ‚Informationsgehalt‘ sowie in dem Nachweis von Immunisierungsstrategien. Der Versuch wird unternommen, einige dieser Strategien und deren Anwendung bzw. ausdrückliches Vermeiden in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu identifizieren
Intergenerational standard-of-living mobility in nine EEC countries
In this paper it is argued that an analysis of intergenerational standard-of-living mobility tables is of equal interest to an analysis of intergenerational class mobility or status group mobility tables. Such tables are analysed for the nine countries of the European Economic Community in 1976. This is done in a log-linear analysis, modelling structural mobility (or competitive balance), circulation mobility (or social fluidity) and the interact…
Why does unemployment come in couples? An analysis of (un)employment and (non)employment homogamy tables for Canada, the Netherlands and the United States in the 1980s
In this paper we first raise the factual question of whether wives of unemployed husbands have a higher chance of unemployment than wives of employed husbands. Data for Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and the USA in the first half of the 1980s indicate that this indeed is the case. We then seek to explain this finding. According to one explanation, (un)employment homogamy is a by-product of educational homogamy combined with a relation at the …
Individual preferences, social mobility and electoral outcomes
Educational heterogamy and father-to-son occupational mobility in 23 industrial nations
This article presents 41 educational heterogamy tables for 23 industrial nations after World War II. Countries differ in gross heterogamy rates and relative chances of heterogamy. Evidence is found in favour of a trend towards higher gross rates of heterogamy and towards more equal jelative chances of heterogamy. Hypotheses on effects of economic and political factors are tested. The contribution these factors make to the explanation of relative …
Religious Assortative Marriage in the Netherlands, 1938-1983
n Contains fulltext :\n 141076.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Comparative Intergenerational Stratification Research
In this article we review 40 years of cross-national comparative research on the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic advantage, with particular attention to developments over the past 15 years-that is, since the transition between (what have become known as) the second and third generations of social stratification and mobility research. We identify the generations by a set of core studies and categorize them with respect to data coll…
Models for status inconsistency and mobility
Effects of Occupational Status Differences between Spouses on the Wife's Labor Force Participation and Occupational Achievement
Jeroen Smits, Wout Ultee, Jan Lammers, Effects of Occupational Status Differences between Spouses on the Wife's Labor Force Participation and Occupational Achievement: Findings from 12 European Countries, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 101-115
Qualifications and the Allocation Process of Young Men and Women in the Swedish Labour Market
Social stratification is a phenomenon that relates to the allocation of people to positions in the class structure. If the rewards connected with different social positions are perceived as trophies, then the allocation process is the competition. One must not necessarily adhere to the view of life as a rat-race to acknowledge the crucial role that agencies which shape the allocation regime play for individuals in a given society. Individuals adj…
Educational Homogamy in 65 Countries
n Contains fulltext :\n 140827.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Occupational Homogamy in Eight Countries of the European Union, 1975-89
Using data from the Eurobarometers, the association between the occupations of spouses is studied for eight EU countries at several points in time. Most of the association is due to a tendency towards occupational similarity between the spouses. The strength of this tendency differs somewhat between countries and decreases by about 16 per cent between 1975 and 1989, indicating that the social structure of the countries has become more open in thi…
Class voting in western industrialized countries, 1945—1990
Analyzing data obtained from the literature and our own calculations, significant differences were found among countries in their levels of class voting. The Scandinavian countries had the highest and Canada and the USA the lowest levels of class voting. Since the 1950s, there was a decline in almost all countries in the level of class voting. In this article, several hypotheses were deduced from a limited number of individual assumptions, each p…
Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others
How did Jews in the Netherlands view themselves and how were they viewed by others? This is the single theme around which the twenty-five essays in this volume, written by scholars from the Netherlands, Israel and other countries, revolve. The studies encompass a variety of topics and periods, from the beginning of the Jewish settlement in the Dutch Republic through the Shoah and its aftermath. They include examinations of the Sephardi Jews in th…
More or Less Educational Homogamy? A Test of Different Versions of Modernization Theory Using Cross-Temporal Evidence for 60 Countries
n Contains fulltext :\n 141279.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Trends in the Occupational Returns to Educational Credentials in the Dutch Labor Market
In this article, we determine changes in the relationship between education and the labor market in The Netherlands since 1960, for which both developments in the distribution of the labor force according to educational attainment and level of occupation (structural changes) and shifts in the mechanism to allocate educated individuals to occupational positions (which modify the net association between education and occupation) are used. To observ…
Denomination, Religious Context, and Suicide
In Suicide, Durkheim found that involvement in religious communities is inversely related to suicide risk. In this article, two explanations for this relationship are examined. One is that religious networks provide support. The other is that religious communities prohibit suicide. To examine these hypotheses, individual‐level data on suicide in the Netherlands from 1936 to 1973 are used. The results show that with an increase in the proportion o…
Problem shifts in the study of welfare states and societal inequalities
Political Integration, War and Suicide
Contrary to Durkheim's idea about suicide during wartime, the Netherlands had high suicide rates in 1940 and 1945. To explain these findings, we propose the social integration theory, according to which, people who expect to be excluded from society are more likely to commit suicide. We examine this idea using individual-level data on suicide in the Netherlands during the Second World War, assuming that Jews expected to be excluded by the occupyi…
Mobility, Horizontal and Vertical
The notion that in contemporary highly industrialized societies persons may climb up or slide down the social ladder presupposed some scale with an upper end and a lower end and the possibility of ranking people on it. Individual income can be taken as such a scale, and if this is used it is possible to speak of upward and downward mobility and to quantify the extent to which a person is upwardly or downwardly mobile. Occupational status, as indi…
Analogien, Subsistenztechnologien Und (Nicht-)moralische Allmächtige Schöpfergötter In Vorindustriellen Gesellschaften
Class, Status, and Power
Class, Status, and Power is the title of an edited collection by Reinhard Bendix and Seymour Martin Lipset. The first edition was published in 1953, and after several reprints a thoroughly revised edition appeared in 1966. “Class, status, and power” is also an apt name for the research program that dominated the sociology of stratification in the first decades after World War II. This program denied the existence, in all times and in every societ…
Occupations, Scaling of
In their empirical research on societal stratification, sociologists in national sample surveys often ask people about their present occupation, first occupation, the occupation of their father and of their mother, and the occupation of their spouse and their siblings. The occupational titles obtained in this way nowadays are coded according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) issued by the International Labor Offic…
Mobility, Intergenerational and Intragenerational
In Social Mobility (1927) Sorokin attempted to ascertain for early twentieth‐century western societies like England, France, Germany, Italy, and the US the extent to which “the occupational status of a father determines that of his children,” as well as “the intensiveness of interoccupational shifting within the life of one generation.” Later, these two phenomena were called intergenerational mobility and intragenerational mobility. Behind this d…
Stratification, Distinction and
Behind a lot of research on societal stratification lurks the idea that, if persons are given a choice between a large and a small pay packet, they will opt for the larger one. Yet people in general not only want to have more than they already have, they also want to be more than others around them, particularly others who have about as much as they themselves have. This is the subject of distinction within the field of stratification. It became …
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