B Volker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 7037 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B Volker |
| NOMBRES | B |
| APELLIDO | Volker |
| FIRMA | VOLKER B |
| AFILIACIONES | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9823-474X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 568 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Attitudes and barriers to open science practices
The open science movement strives to improve the transparency, accessibility, rigor, and reproducibility of scientific research. Arguing that open science increases the impact of research, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has been promoting an open science program in the Netherlands since 2009, aiming to make all funded publications open access and research data open and FAIR; that is, findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Our resear…
From hidden populations to social structure
Who’s in your extended network? Analysing the size and homogeneity of acquaintanceship networks in the Netherlands
This study advances the understanding of the size and homogeneity of personal networks, focusing on extended networks that encompass both core discussion ties and the broader array of acquaintances. While previous research has primarily examined these dimensions within small, strong-tie networks, knowledge about extended networks remains limited. Using data from the Dutch Network Size Survey (2021), a representative survey of the Dutch adult popu…
Urban densification in the Netherlands and its impact on mental health
Urban densification is a key strategy to accommodate rapid urban population growth, but emerging evidence suggests serious risks of urban densification for individuals' mental health. To better understand the complex pathways from urban densification to mental health, we integrated interdisciplinary expert knowledge in a causal loop diagram via group model building techniques. Six subsystems were identified: five subsystems describing mechanisms …
Differences in access to social capital across societies
This paper explores country-level macro-structural conditions that are associated with social capital, measured as individuals' access to social resources. To explain differences in social capital across societies, we formulate hypotheses based on welfare state generosity, cultural orientations (collectivism vs. individualism), and income inequality. We test our hypotheses using data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 2017, whi…
Networks in lockdown
Explaining risk perception of microplastics
The lives of others
In this paper, we examine whether social class and class divides in social networks contribute to individuals' attachment to society. We argue that network segregation restricts individuals' social worlds, thereby diminishing societal attachment. Our research site is Chile, a country with relatively low social cohesion and one of the world's highest levels of economic inequality. We use large-scale representative survey data collected in 2016 for…
Open But Segregated? Class Divisions And the Network Structure of Social Capital in Chile
This paper studies how social capital is divided across classes in Chile, one of the most unequal countries in the world. We analyse the extent to which upper-, middle-, and lower class individuals congregate in social networks with similar others, while following Bourdieu and expecting that in particular the networks of the higher social strata are segregated in terms of social capital. We test our argument with large-scale, representative surve…
Whom do we lose? The case of dissimilarity in personal networks
Previous research finds that individuals tend to form ties with similar others much more often than with dissimilar others. However, we know relatively little about tie loss and to what extent this is driven by (dis)similarity. In this paper, we argue that ties to persons who are dissimilar with regard to gender, age, ethnicity, and education are lost faster than ties to similar persons – and we test three explanations for this faster decay of ti…
Disaster recovery via social capital
Space and social capital
In this study, we examine whether the spatial structure produces differences in access to social capital and the status homogeneity of networks in Santiago, the capital of Chile—a highly segregated city. We hypothesize that residents of different areas, especially those living in spatial contexts of poverty and wealth, differ considerably in terms of the social resources to which they have access. We combine survey data with georeferenced data fr…
Network Thinking in Human Geography
This paper on the application of network theory and analysis in Human Geography argues that networks should get a much more prominent role than they currently have and that they have matured to a lingua franca in (social) science. While reflecting upon explanations for the scarce use of network knowledge, I describe three surprising observations that I have made since I have been working in the discipline. The musings close with arguments in favo…
The Gender Gap in Workplace Authority
The finding that men are disproportionately represented in positions of workplace authority to an extent that cannot be explained by human capital attributes and location within the structure of the economy is well documented. Arguing that different authority positions are differentially gendered, this article tests a more refined hypothesis: that the gender gap in authority is larger in positions that are relatively seen as more suitable for men…
Keeping Up or Giving Up? Income Inequality and Materialism in Europe and the United States
We examine the extent to which income inequality is associated with materialistic values and behavior in Europe and the United States (US). In the US, existing research on materialistic behavior is largely focused on the study of shopping behavior and shows that, when income inequality is higher, individuals search for and buy products that are more luxury. In Europe, the evidence for this phenomenon is mainly based on survey questions on people’…
The Missing Link
Previous research provides a detailed picture of class differences in political attitudes. Less is however known about the social structures that enforce this political divide across social classes. This article contributes towards filling this gap by considering how the class profile of personal social networks influences political attitudes. We propose a general framework for incorporating an individual's social network into class analysis of p…
Who Will Do It? Volunteering to Change Cooperation Rules in a Heterogeneous Population
We study whether and when a second-order collective action problem, like the change of existing formal rules governing cooperation, can be resolved to ultimately solve first-order collective good dilemmas. We do so by examining the conditions under which individuals change cooperation rules when both their material incentives to cooperate and their social preferences for outcome distributions differ. Our experimental findings show that proselfs w…
Does unemployment lead to isolation? The consequences of unemployment for social networks
Economic crisis and social capital in European societies
How did the economic crisis impact social capital in European societies? The empirical studies conducted so far provide contradictory conclusions about the strength and direction of its influence. We argue that to better understand the effects of the economic crisis on social capital (social trust, formal and informal networks) it is crucial to examine both its impact on people's economic situation and the way it reshaped the relationship between…
Social capital across the life course
This study examines changes in individual social capital during adult life within a 19-year period. Social capital theory and life course theory are combined, and it is argued that changes in social networks do not necessarily go together with changes in social capital: while personal networks are known to decline in size with age, social capital can be expected to accumulate, in particular for those who had a better starting position and therefo…
Imagined social structures
The same place but different
In this paper, we explore how the neighborhood composition and individual choice relate to the network composition of different social groups. We predict that groups that engage more with the neighborhood, and those who control more resources have networks that are more homogenous than expected given the neighborhood composition. We also explore how two types of biased association (i.e., attraction to similarity and rejection of dissimilarity) va…
Personality and Social Capital
While previous research has shown that personality shapes social networks, we know very little about the relationship between these important psychological characteristics and the creation of social capital. In this article, we argue that personality shapes individuals’ ability to create social capital, and we predict positive associations between each of the Big Five personality traits and social capital. We tested our hypotheses using the Socia…
Families' Division of Labor and Social Networks in the 21st Century
In 1957, Elizabeth Bott argued that the organization of family and social networks are intertwined and that the structure and composition of social networks are associated with the ways in which spouses divide household and paid labor. While this idea became a classic in the literature addressing the division of labor, societies have changed tremendously in the past 50 years, and it has become far more common for spouses to divide their labor mor…
Convivium (Who Is Friends with Whom?)
Friendship as a relationship is sociologically interesting because there is no institutional surrounding or embeddedness of friendships: While social institutions certify the start and the end of a marriage, friendships can be started, changed, or broken without notifying any other party. This entry reviews the most important theories and empirical findings on adult friendships and friendship networks
Neighborhood social capital and individual health
When Are Neighbourhoods Communities? Community in Dutch Neighbourhoods
This study investigates the degree to which community can be found in Dutch neighbourhoods and attempts to explain why there is more community in some neighbourhoods than in others. We apply a perspective on community which assumes that people create communities with the expectation to realize some important well-being goals. Conditions that account for the creation of a local community are specified, i.e. the opportunity, ease, and motivation to…
Getting Ahead in the GDR
This paper deals with the returns to social capital in occupational attainment in the GDR, once a communist showcase. It examines the extent to which getting ahead in an industrial communist society depends on social capital, which by existing research was shown to be the case in agrarian communist and capitalist industrial societies. Industrial technology and a Marxist ideology supposedly both impede particularism, suggesting that social capital…
Sixteen Million Neighbors
This article discusses the role of neighbors in the personal networks of people living in the Netherlands. It aims to establish the conditions for the inclusion of neighbors in such a network. Three complementary theoretical perspectives for developing hypotheses are employed: meeting opportunities, sharing groups, and social capital. Arguments are tested using nationally representative data ( N = 902) and multilevel regression models. The result…
Social Contexts and Core Discussion Networks
Social contexts in which confidants get to know each other affect the composition of their personal networks, inter alia the similarity among confidants. Results from analyses on a representative sample of the Dutch population between 18 and 65 years of age (SSND 2000), support the idea that differences in similarity among confidants can be explained by 1.) the social composition of a context, 2.) the extent to which interactions within a context…
Inequality in Access to Social Capital in the Netherlands
Whereas much research has been done on the benefits of social capital, less is known about the causes of the unequal distribution of social capital in people's networks. This study examines inequalities in access to social capital in terms of the socio-economic resources that are embedded in personal networks. Using data from NELLS, a nationally representative survey of the Dutch population aged 15-45 years, results show that within this age grou…
Weak Ties as a Liability
Every institutional system ïnduces specific problems that have no standardized solutions for the people living in it. In this paper it is argued that people invest in relationships with certain others partly in order to solve these problems. Hence, the personal networks that result provide solutions to system-induced problems and they reflect the institutional environment. Personal networks of people living in the former German Democratic Republi…
Civic Organizations as Political Actors
Despite the scholarly consensus on the importance of civic organizations for the livability of neighborhoods, there are relatively few empirical studies examining to what extent these organizations engage in various forms of political participation to contribute to the quality of the neighborhood. The authors argue that to get a better overview of neighborhood-oriented forms of participation, it is necessary to look beyond those organizations wit…
Shared contexts and triadic closure in core discussion networks
Does income inequality have lasting effects on health and trust
A Bad Neighbour Is as Great a Plague as a Good One Is a Great Blessing”
With research on social relations hitherto, it is not clear how and why negative relationships between neighbours emerge. In this study, arguments are developed on the conditions within neighbourhoods and on individual characteristics that facilitate negative relations amongst neighbours. The arguments are divided according to three perspectives: diversity, uncertainty and social influence. In the Dutch context, most support is found for the soci…
The Influence of Social Capital on Individual Health
The Missing Link
Previous research provides a detailed picture of class differences in political attitudes. Less is however known about the social structures that enforce this political divide across social classes. This article contributes towards filling this gap by considering how the class profile of personal social networks influences political attitudes. We propose a general framework for incorporating an individual's social network into class analysis of p…
Social capital across the life course
This study examines changes in individual social capital during adult life within a 19-year period. Social capital theory and life course theory are combined, and it is argued that changes in social networks do not necessarily go together with changes in social capital: while personal networks are known to decline in size with age, social capital can be expected to accumulate, in particular for those who had a better starting position and therefo…
The Comrades' Belief
Marxist societies were experiments not only in destratification but also in openness and cohesion. Of all relationships a political regime might use to create 'friendship between classes', those among neighbours may be most prone to manipulation. We examine how relationships among neighbours in the former GDR were affected by the regime's housing policy of mixing people of different classes. Our retrospective data were collected in May 1992 (n= 1…
Space and social capital
In this study, we examine whether the spatial structure produces differences in access to social capital and the status homogeneity of networks in Santiago, the capital of Chile—a highly segregated city. We hypothesize that residents of different areas, especially those living in spatial contexts of poverty and wealth, differ considerably in terms of the social resources to which they have access. We combine survey data with georeferenced data fr…
The Gender Gap in Workplace Authority
The finding that men are disproportionately represented in positions of workplace authority to an extent that cannot be explained by human capital attributes and location within the structure of the economy is well documented. Arguing that different authority positions are differentially gendered, this article tests a more refined hypothesis: that the gender gap in authority is larger in positions that are relatively seen as more suitable for men…
Civic Engagement in Urban Neighborhoods
This article aims to explain variations in the participation of civic organizations in neighborhood projects. In particular, we inquire into the impact of the social networks of more than 400 local civic organizations on their participation in neighborhood projects in two Dutch cities. Two strands of literature constitute the basis for our arguments. First, there is much research on the determinants of individual participation showing that tenure…
Personality and Social Capital
While previous research has shown that personality shapes social networks, we know very little about the relationship between these important psychological characteristics and the creation of social capital. In this article, we argue that personality shapes individuals’ ability to create social capital, and we predict positive associations between each of the Big Five personality traits and social capital. We tested our hypotheses using the Socia…
Local Social Networks and Social Resources in Two Dutch Neighbourhoods
Much research in neighbour relations is inspired by two research questions. First, it is necessary to know to which degree social contacts are local and in particular whether local social contacts in disadvantaged neighbourhoods bear an instrumental disadvantage. Second, it is necessary to know whether policies aiming at mixing people from different social and ethnic backgrounds result in more diverse networks and therefore in better opportunitie…
Amitié et inimitié sous communisme d'Etat
Henk Flap, Amitié et inimitié sous communisme d'Etat: Le cas de l'Allemagne de l'Est, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 36, No. 4, Analyses de réseaux et structures relationnelles (Oct. - Dec., 1995), pp. 629-654
The lives of others
In this paper, we examine whether social class and class divides in social networks contribute to individuals' attachment to society. We argue that network segregation restricts individuals' social worlds, thereby diminishing societal attachment. Our research site is Chile, a country with relatively low social cohesion and one of the world's highest levels of economic inequality. We use large-scale representative survey data collected in 2016 for…
Neighbourhood social and physical environment and general practitioner assessed morbidity
The aim of our study was to investigate the association between health enhancing and threatening, and social and physical aspects of the neighbourhood environment and general practitioner (GP) assessed morbidity of the people living there, in order to find out whether the effects of environmental characteristics add up or modify each other. We combined GP electronic health records with environmental data on neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. Cros…
Social capital in the classroom
Social capital is generally considered beneficial for students' school adjustment. This paper argues that social relationships among pupils generate social capital at both the individual and the class levels, and that each has its unique effect on pupils' performance and well-being. The sample in this study consists of 1036 children in 60 first-grade classes in 46 Dutch elementary schools. Multilevel regression results show that a substantial pro…
Neighbour Relations in the Netherlands – A Decade of Evidence
In the current sociological and geographical literature, contrasting views exist on the role of the neighbourhood and neighbourhood relationships in the life of its residents in current societies. Some scholars believe that in our globalising world, local communities and the neighbourhood in general lost their significance, while others argue that the role of community and neighbourhood contacts is still important. These divergent opinions are ma…
Cognitive abilities, psychological motives, and social interactions as components of long-term learning in basic electricity
Parce que les conceptions que de nombreux étudiants ont, avant enseignement, de ce qui se passe dans des circuits électriques, se mélangent ensuite, pendant l'enseignement, avec les conceptions correctes, des difficultés particulières pendant l'apprentissage apparaissent. En vue de chercher à mieux comprendre ces processus, nous nous sommes intéressés aux résultats et aux stratégies d'apprentissage, aux caractéristiques psychologiques (intérêt, d…
Amitié et inimitié sous communisme d'Etat
Henk Flap, Amitié et inimitié sous communisme d'Etat: Le cas de l'Allemagne de l'Est, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 36, No. 4, Analyses de réseaux et structures relationnelles (Oct. - Dec., 1995), pp. 629-654
The Comrades' Belief
Marxist societies were experiments not only in destratification but also in openness and cohesion. Of all relationships a political regime might use to create 'friendship between classes', those among neighbours may be most prone to manipulation. We examine how relationships among neighbours in the former GDR were affected by the regime's housing policy of mixing people of different classes. Our retrospective data were collected in May 1992 (n= 1…
Getting Ahead in the GDR
This paper deals with the returns to social capital in occupational attainment in the GDR, once a communist showcase. It examines the extent to which getting ahead in an industrial communist society depends on social capital, which by existing research was shown to be the case in agrarian communist and capitalist industrial societies. Industrial technology and a Marxist ideology supposedly both impede particularism, suggesting that social capital…
Goal specific social capital and job satisfaction
Weak Ties as a Liability
Every institutional system ïnduces specific problems that have no standardized solutions for the people living in it. In this paper it is argued that people invest in relationships with certain others partly in order to solve these problems. Hence, the personal networks that result provide solutions to system-induced problems and they reflect the institutional environment. Personal networks of people living in the former German Democratic Republi…
"Academy Colloquium on "Creation and Returns of Social Capital. the State of the Art
Colloque académique sur "la création et les retombées du capital social - état de la question": Les 30-31 octobre 2003, un colloque international sur la création et les retombées du capital social a été organisé par l'Académie royale néerlandaise des arts et des sciences au Trippenhuis (Kloveniersburgwal 29) à Amsterdam, Pays Bas. A peu près cinquante personnes ont participé à la conférence. Ci-dessous, on trouvera les résumés des présentations, …
When Are Neighbourhoods Communities? Community in Dutch Neighbourhoods
This study investigates the degree to which community can be found in Dutch neighbourhoods and attempts to explain why there is more community in some neighbourhoods than in others. We apply a perspective on community which assumes that people create communities with the expectation to realize some important well-being goals. Conditions that account for the creation of a local community are specified, i.e. the opportunity, ease, and motivation to…
Convivium (Who Is Friends with Whom?)
The degree to which people from different social strands have relations with each other indicates social cohesion. Therefore, the question of who is friends with whom is nontrivial. Compared to marriage, friendship is a non‐institutionalized relationship: there is no formal start of a friendship and one can break off or change a friendship without notifying any third parties
Sixteen Million Neighbors
This article discusses the role of neighbors in the personal networks of people living in the Netherlands. It aims to establish the conditions for the inclusion of neighbors in such a network. Three complementary theoretical perspectives for developing hypotheses are employed: meeting opportunities, sharing groups, and social capital. Arguments are tested using nationally representative data ( N = 902) and multilevel regression models. The result…
Social networks and getting a home
Social contexts and personal relationships
Social Contexts and Core Discussion Networks
Social contexts in which confidants get to know each other affect the composition of their personal networks, inter alia the similarity among confidants. Results from analyses on a representative sample of the Dutch population between 18 and 65 years of age (SSND 2000), support the idea that differences in similarity among confidants can be explained by 1.) the social composition of a context, 2.) the extent to which interactions within a context…
Local Social Networks and Social Resources in Two Dutch Neighbourhoods
Much research in neighbour relations is inspired by two research questions. First, it is necessary to know to which degree social contacts are local and in particular whether local social contacts in disadvantaged neighbourhoods bear an instrumental disadvantage. Second, it is necessary to know whether policies aiming at mixing people from different social and ethnic backgrounds result in more diverse networks and therefore in better opportunitie…
Neighbour Relations in the Netherlands – A Decade of Evidence
In the current sociological and geographical literature, contrasting views exist on the role of the neighbourhood and neighbourhood relationships in the life of its residents in current societies. Some scholars believe that in our globalising world, local communities and the neighbourhood in general lost their significance, while others argue that the role of community and neighbourhood contacts is still important. These divergent opinions are ma…
Civic Organizations as Political Actors
Despite the scholarly consensus on the importance of civic organizations for the livability of neighborhoods, there are relatively few empirical studies examining to what extent these organizations engage in various forms of political participation to contribute to the quality of the neighborhood. The authors argue that to get a better overview of neighborhood-oriented forms of participation, it is necessary to look beyond those organizations wit…
Civic Engagement in Urban Neighborhoods
This article aims to explain variations in the participation of civic organizations in neighborhood projects. In particular, we inquire into the impact of the social networks of more than 400 local civic organizations on their participation in neighborhood projects in two Dutch cities. Two strands of literature constitute the basis for our arguments. First, there is much research on the determinants of individual participation showing that tenure…
Shared contexts and triadic closure in core discussion networks
Neighborhood social capital and individual health
Het sociale netwerk van gedetineerden voorafgaand aan detentie - Een vergelijking met de Nederlandse bevolking
People with whom we discuss important personal matters – i.e. the core discussion network – are important for providing help and support as well as influencing behaviour. This is the first study that describes and compares the core discussion network of prisoners prior to incarceration with that of the Dutch population. Differences in their networks have been analysed in terms of network structure, relationship quality and embedded socioeconomic …
Health-related behavior as a mechanism behind the relationship between neighborhood social capital and individual health - a multilevel analysis
This study is one of the first to test a mechanism explaining much of the direct effect of small-area social capital on individual health. Neighborhood interventions might be most successful at improving health if they stimulate both social interaction and physical activity
The Role of the Neighbourhood for Firm Relocation
The residential neighbourhood has become more important as a business environment as a result of economic and societal developments. However, some neighbourhoods are characterised by relatively high out‐migration of firms; disadvantaged neighbourhoods in particular. This suggests that there may be factors at the neighbourhood level that steer relocation behaviour of local entrepreneurs. In this paper, we investigate how entrepreneurs valuate loca…
Context Overlap in Personal Networks
In sociology, it is suggested that grand changes in the structure of Western societies in the 19th and 20th centuries led to a decrease in the overlap among social contexts. This implies that people meet the members of their network in many different social contexts. This study inquires into this overlap between social contexts. In particular, we study overlaps between public and private contexts, because modernization-based arguments indicate th…
A Bad Neighbour Is as Great a Plague as a Good One Is a Great Blessing”
With research on social relations hitherto, it is not clear how and why negative relationships between neighbours emerge. In this study, arguments are developed on the conditions within neighbourhoods and on individual characteristics that facilitate negative relations amongst neighbours. The arguments are divided according to three perspectives: diversity, uncertainty and social influence. In the Dutch context, most support is found for the soci…
Personal networks of prisoners prior to incarceration
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