Jaap Dronkers
Biographic Data
| ID | 100450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaap Dronkers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaap |
| FAMILY NAME | Dronkers |
| SIGNATURE | DRONKERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4252-5270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 812 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Family Forerunners? Parental Separation and Partnership Formation in 16 Countries
Objective To analyze the relationships between parental separation and partnership formation patterns across 16 countries and over time, and how the relationships are shaped by contextual factors. Background Several studies have found that parental separation predicts higher rates of cohabitation and lower rates of marriage. Few studies have analyzed these relationships over time or across countries, and none have systematically analyzed whether …
Not a zero-sum game: Migration and child well-being in contemporary China
The complex impact of migration on children's development has received extensive attention in both developed and developing countries. In China, more than 100 million children are directly affected by the massive internal migration
Mechanisms Behind the Negative Influence of Single Parenthood on School Performance: Lower Teaching and Learning Conditions
We take a first step toward unravelling the mechanisms behind the negative influence of single parenthood and the proportion of single-parent families on school performance, using 2012 international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) data. We find that individual truancy of pupils fully explains the relationship between living in a single-mother family and math performance (after controlling for confounding factors, such as paren…
Perceived in-group discrimination by first and second generation immigrants from different countries of origin in 27 EU member-states
This article analyses perceived in-group discrimination of 29,189 first and second generation immigrant respondents from 201 different countries of origin currently living in one of 27 EU countries. In addition to testing effects of individual factors, the article estimates the effects of macro-characteristics of both origin and destination countries and community variables. The migration history of these groups is relevant for perceived discrimi…
Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality: An International Comparison
Ethnic Composition and School Performance in the Secondary Education of Turkish Migrant Students in Seven Countries and 19 European Educational Systems
This article examines the effect of the ethnic composition on school performances in secondary education for Turkish students, using both cross-national and Swiss national PISA 2009 data. At the school level our results show no effect of the proportion of natives or the proportion of coethnics and a negative association between ethnic diversity (we employ a residualized score of diversity on the proportion of migrants) and math performances. Cons…
Migrant Children in Shanghai: A Research Note on the Pisa-Shanghai Controversy
The strong performance of Shanghai students in the last two rounds of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has caused widespread controversy about the credibility and representativeness of the data. In this paper, we examine the openness and equity of Shanghai’s education system by investigating migrant students’ family socioeconomic status (SES) composition and its impact on educational outcomes, based on the PISA-Shanghai dat…
In wiens voordeel werkt selectie aan het begin van het voortgezet onderwijs
Who profits of selection into secondary education tracks? A new approach to an old question [1]Recently Dunne (2010) and Dronkers, van der Velden & Dunne (2011) introduced a three-level model: countries, schools, and students to analyze effects of educational systems. They showed that school characteristics like socioeconomic composition seem to mediate some of the effects of educational system characteristics. However their results contradict th…
Curricular Tracking and Central Examinations: Counterbalancing the Impact of Social Background on Student Achievement in 36 Countries
Tracked educational systems are associated with greater social inequality in children’s educational achievement. Until now, research has assumed that the impact of tracking on the inequality of educational opportunity is independent of other educational institutional features. Using data from the 2009 PISA survey, we study how central examinations affect the association between tracking and inequality. We find that parental socioeconomic status h…
Can gender differences in educational performance of 15-year-old migrant pupils be explained by societal gender equality in origin and destination countries
In this paper, we attempt to explain the differences between reading and math scores of migrants’ children (8430 daughters and 8526 sons) in 17 OECD destination countries, coming from 45 origin countries or regions, using PISA 2009 data. In addition to the societal gender equality levels of the origin and destination countries (the gender empowerment measure), we use macro indicators of the origin countries’ educational systems, economic developm…
What can international comparisons teach us about school choice and non-governmental schools in Europe
All European states have a primary obligation to establish and maintain governmental schools everywhere, but as the result of political struggle and constitutional guarantees, they have also allowed and often financed non-state schools based on special pedagogical, religious or philosophical ideas. Depending on the level of state grants for non-state schools, states have more or less the right to supervise these non-governmental schools and seek …
Immigrant Naturalization in the Context of Institutional Diversity: Policy Matters, but to Whom
Why do some immigrants naturalize and others not? While much of the literature emphasizes the importance of country of origin features and individual characteristics, there is surprisingly little systematic research on the relation between citizenship policies in destination countries and citizenship take‐up among immigrants. Most research in this field draws on data from single country cases and has limited comparative scope. In this paper we an…
More Careful or Less Marriageable? Parental Divorce, Spouse Selection and Entry into Marriage
Despite the large literature on the long-term effects of parental divorce, few studies have analyzed the effects of parental divorce on spouse selection behavior. However, the characteristics of one's spouse can have important effects on economic well-being and on marital success. We use discrete-time, event-history data from Finnish population registers to study the effects of parental divorce on entry into marriage with spouses who have differe…
Explaining access to citizenship in Europe: How citizenship policies affect naturalization rates
In Europe, a variety of national policies regulate access to citizenship. This article analyses how citizenship policies affect naturalization rates among immigrants. Our analysis confirms that favourable citizenship policies positively affect naturalization rates, especially among first-generation immigrants with more than 5 but fewer than 20 years of residence. However, most variation is explained by other factors. Immigrants from poor, politic…
Ethnic, Religious and Economic Diversity in Dutch Neighbourhoods: Explaining Quality of Contact with Neighbours, Trust in the Neighbourhood and Inter-Ethnic Trust
Several studies conclude that ethnic diversity tends to reduce social capital. There may, however, be other forms of diversity that also affect social capital, and their inclusion might make the negative effect of ethnic diversity spurious. Besides ethnic diversity, we identify economic and religious diversity, as well as language proficiency in the neighbourhood. This study explores data from the Netherlands showing how these four dimensions of …
Unemployment among immigrants in European labour markets: An Analysis of Origin and Destination Effects
This article presents a multilevel analysis of 1363 male and female first- and second-generation immigrants’ unemployment rates. In addition to individual characteristics, the effects of macro-characteristics of 13 destination countries in the EU and of more than 100 origin countries of the immigrants are analysed. Immigrants are found to be more often unemployed in countries where natives have higher unemployment rates. Immigrants’ unemployment …
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Verschillen in groepsdiscriminatie, zoals waargenomen door immigranten uit verschillende herkomstlanden in veertien lidstaten van de Europese Unie
Perception of in-group discrimination among immigrants in 14 member states of the European Union .Drawing on the second and third wave of the European Social Survey, we analyse the perception of in-group discrimination of 7034 immigrants from 177 different countries of origin in 14 European Union countries. In addition to testing the effects of individual factors, such as education, religion, and migration history, we estimate the effects of macr…
Cross-Regional Divorce Risks in Belgium: Culture or Legislative System
Cross-national research is by definition carried out between different countries. Looking at country differences often results in common and diverse sets of divorce risks. This article uses a cross-national research perspective on divorce risks within a single country. Belgium is a special case in this respect. The division of the country in two regions with a different language and a quite different historical background often frightens research…
Effects of Divorce on Children's Educational Attainment in a Mediterranean and Catholic Society
Previous research has found parental divorce to have negative effects on children's educational attainment; in addition, it has been noted that the effects of divorce are not the same in all western societies. However, research on Catholic and southern European countries is missing. The aim of this paper is to add to the research on the relation between parental divorce and the educational attainment of children in catholic and southern European …
Immigrant Children's Educational Achievement in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance
This article explores the extent to which macro-level characteristics of destination countries, origin countries, and immigrant communities help explain differences in immigrant children's educational achievement. Using data from the 2003 PISA survey, we analyze the mathematical performance of 7,403 pupils from 35 different origin countries in 13 Western countries of destination. While compositional differences offer some explanatory power, they …
The intergenerational transmission of divorce in cross-national perspective: Results from the Fertility and Family Surveys
We used data on women's first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce across 18 countries and to seek explanations in macro-level characteristics for the cross-national variation. Our results show that women whose parents divorced have a significantly higher risk of divorce in 17 countries. There is some cross-national variation. When compared with the USA, the association is strong…
Educational performance of native and immigrant children from various countries of origin
Mostly due to the lack of suitable data, cross-national research on the integration of migrant pupils is still scarce. We aim to fill this gap by addressing the question of the extent to which native and first- and second-generation migrants from various regions of origin, living in thirteen different countries of destination, differ in their scholastic ability. Using the PISA 2003 data, we focus primarily on the impact of origin and destination …
Schools, Religious
Religion and education have a long common history, dating back to prehistoric times. Religion and religious practices require structures for the preparation, initiation, and training of new members and of priests and teachers. For that reason, religious groups in premodern societies sooner or later took the responsibility of organizing the socialization of their new members and of their religious specialists. This does not mean that all education…
Elites
History is a graveyard of aristocracies.” With this phrase the Italian Vilfredo Pareto, who introduced the word elite in social sciences, formulated his idea of the decline and fall of elites, especially the political elite. For both him and Gaetono Mosca, the second founding father, the key concept was the circulation of elites (Bottomore 1993: 35). Many of these early writings on elites have a moral trademark. This can be seen in Machiavelli's …
Stability and Change in the Educational Gradient of Divorce. A Comparison of Seventeen Countries
In a series of papers, William J. Goode argued that the relationship between modernization and the class composition of divorce is inverse. Starting from his hypothesis, we examine the relationship between female education and the risk of divorce over time in 17 countries. We expect that the relationship differs across countries and across time, so that women with higher education have a higher risk of divorce in countries and at times when the s…
Immigrant Children's Educational Achievement in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance
This article explores the extent to which macro-level characteristics of destination countries, origin countries, and immigrant communities help explain differences in immigrant children's educational achievement. Using data from the 2003 PISA survey, we analyze the mathematical performance of 7,403 pupils from 35 different origin countries in 13 Western countries of destination. While compositional differences offer some explanatory power, they …
Ethnic, Religious and Economic Diversity in Dutch Neighbourhoods: Explaining Quality of Contact with Neighbours, Trust in the Neighbourhood and Inter-Ethnic Trust
Several studies conclude that ethnic diversity tends to reduce social capital. There may, however, be other forms of diversity that also affect social capital, and their inclusion might make the negative effect of ethnic diversity spurious. Besides ethnic diversity, we identify economic and religious diversity, as well as language proficiency in the neighbourhood. This study explores data from the Netherlands showing how these four dimensions of …
Immigrant Naturalization in the Context of Institutional Diversity: Policy Matters, but to Whom
Why do some immigrants naturalize and others not? While much of the literature emphasizes the importance of country of origin features and individual characteristics, there is surprisingly little systematic research on the relation between citizenship policies in destination countries and citizenship take‐up among immigrants. Most research in this field draws on data from single country cases and has limited comparative scope. In this paper we an…
Explaining access to citizenship in Europe: How citizenship policies affect naturalization rates
In Europe, a variety of national policies regulate access to citizenship. This article analyses how citizenship policies affect naturalization rates among immigrants. Our analysis confirms that favourable citizenship policies positively affect naturalization rates, especially among first-generation immigrants with more than 5 but fewer than 20 years of residence. However, most variation is explained by other factors. Immigrants from poor, politic…
Unemployment among immigrants in European labour markets: An Analysis of Origin and Destination Effects
This article presents a multilevel analysis of 1363 male and female first- and second-generation immigrants’ unemployment rates. In addition to individual characteristics, the effects of macro-characteristics of 13 destination countries in the EU and of more than 100 origin countries of the immigrants are analysed. Immigrants are found to be more often unemployed in countries where natives have higher unemployment rates. Immigrants’ unemployment …
Educational performance of native and immigrant children from various countries of origin
Mostly due to the lack of suitable data, cross-national research on the integration of migrant pupils is still scarce. We aim to fill this gap by addressing the question of the extent to which native and first- and second-generation migrants from various regions of origin, living in thirteen different countries of destination, differ in their scholastic ability. Using the PISA 2003 data, we focus primarily on the impact of origin and destination …
Family Policies and Children's School Achievement in Single- Versus Two-Parent Families
We investigate the gap in math and science achievement of third- and fourth-graders who live with a single parent versus those who live with two parents in 11 countries. The United States and New Zealand rank last among the countries we compare in terms of the equality of achievement between children from single-parent families and those from two-parent homes. Following a multilevel analysis, we find single parenthood to be less detrimental when …
The intergenerational transmission of divorce in cross-national perspective: Results from the Fertility and Family Surveys
We used data on women's first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce across 18 countries and to seek explanations in macro-level characteristics for the cross-national variation. Our results show that women whose parents divorced have a significantly higher risk of divorce in 17 countries. There is some cross-national variation. When compared with the USA, the association is strong…
Perceived in-group discrimination by first and second generation immigrants from different countries of origin in 27 EU member-states
This article analyses perceived in-group discrimination of 29,189 first and second generation immigrant respondents from 201 different countries of origin currently living in one of 27 EU countries. In addition to testing effects of individual factors, the article estimates the effects of macro-characteristics of both origin and destination countries and community variables. The migration history of these groups is relevant for perceived discrimi…
Not a zero-sum game: Migration and child well-being in contemporary China
The complex impact of migration on children's development has received extensive attention in both developed and developing countries. In China, more than 100 million children are directly affected by the massive internal migration
Differences in Family Policies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce: A Comparison between the former East and West Germany
The intergenerational transmission of the risk of divorce is a well-known long-term effect of divorce that has been found in many Western societies. Less known is what effect different family policies and divorce laws have on the intergenerational tran
Effects of Divorce on Children's Educational Attainment in a Mediterranean and Catholic Society
Previous research has found parental divorce to have negative effects on children's educational attainment; in addition, it has been noted that the effects of divorce are not the same in all western societies. However, research on Catholic and southern European countries is missing. The aim of this paper is to add to the research on the relation between parental divorce and the educational attainment of children in catholic and southern European …
The Effects of Parental Conflicts and Divorce on the Well-Being of Pupils in Dutch Secondary Education
Journal Article The Effects of Parental Conflicts and Divorce on the Well-Being of Pupils in Dutch Secondary Education Get access Jaap Dronkers Jaap Dronkers SCO-Kohnstamm Institute, University of AmsterdamP. O. Box 94208, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 1999, Pages 195–212, https://doi…
Educational Reform in the Netherlands: Did It Change the Impact of Parental Occupation and Education
L'A. etudie l'influence de la reforme de l'enseignement aux Pays-Bas sur la participation des parents dans le systeme educatif. Les resultats d'une enquete comparative, effectuee sur deux groupes d'etudiants (les uns nes en 1953 et les autres en 1965), montre que les relations entre milieu familial et resultats scolaires s'affaiblissent suite a la reforme
The Changing Effects of Lone Parent Families on the Educational Attainment of their Children in a European Welfare State
This article 1 analyses the effects of different forms of lone parenthood (lone mother, mother and step-father, lone father, or father and step-mother) compared to natural parents families on the educational attainment of their children, using a national data-set on educational attainment in the Netherlands in the late 80s. Children living in lone parent families attain lower educational levels at the start of secondary education compared to chil…
Sibling Resemblance in Educational Attainment, Occupational Prestige, and Wealth in Hungary during the Communist Regime
In order to test the suggested decline of the family we compare sibling resemblance in the life-chances of five Hungarian cohorts born during the twentieth century. Similar studies in Germany and the Netherlands show less sibling resemblance in younger cohorts. However, one might argue that this trend towards the decline of sibling resemblance cannot be found in societies with a communist regime. A consequence of the communist regime is an increa…
Migrant Children in Shanghai: A Research Note on the Pisa-Shanghai Controversy
The strong performance of Shanghai students in the last two rounds of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has caused widespread controversy about the credibility and representativeness of the data. In this paper, we examine the openness and equity of Shanghai’s education system by investigating migrant students’ family socioeconomic status (SES) composition and its impact on educational outcomes, based on the PISA-Shanghai dat…
Ethnic Composition and School Performance in the Secondary Education of Turkish Migrant Students in Seven Countries and 19 European Educational Systems
This article examines the effect of the ethnic composition on school performances in secondary education for Turkish students, using both cross-national and Swiss national PISA 2009 data. At the school level our results show no effect of the proportion of natives or the proportion of coethnics and a negative association between ethnic diversity (we employ a residualized score of diversity on the proportion of migrants) and math performances. Cons…
What can international comparisons teach us about school choice and non-governmental schools in Europe
All European states have a primary obligation to establish and maintain governmental schools everywhere, but as the result of political struggle and constitutional guarantees, they have also allowed and often financed non-state schools based on special pedagogical, religious or philosophical ideas. Depending on the level of state grants for non-state schools, states have more or less the right to supervise these non-governmental schools and seek …
Has educational sector any impact on school effectiveness in Hungary: A comparison of the public and the newly established religious grammar schools
The aim of the paper is to test whether the pupils of religious gymnasiums in Hungary have higher grades and a better opportunity to enter vocational college or university than comparable pupils of public gymnasiums have. For the first time the effectiveness of public and religious schools is compared in one of the former communist societies. Data are from a self-administered survey among 4th grade secondary school students in spring of 1998. Our…
Causes and Consequences of Divorce: Cross-national and Cohort Differences, an Introduction to this Special Issue
Divorce and separation seem to be highly private decisions, based on considerations made by individuals and couples. The outcome of the research, presented in this special issue, shows that this is an incomplete view. Not only are the individual decisions on divorce and separation clearly influenced by the social characteristics of the involved individuals, but they are also influenced by the characteristics of their societies and their affiliati…
Has the Dutch Nobility Retained its Social Relevance during the 20th Century
In earlier studies we found that the Dutch nobility continues to have a strong advantage in achieving elite positions within Dutch society today, despite its very weak legal status since the late 19th century. The aim of this article is to explore some of the possible reasons why this ascriptive characteristic has remained important in a modern and bourgeois society such as the Netherlands. From the official lists of members of the Dutch nobility…
Board Membership of Traditional Male Fraternities and Access to Dutch Elites: A Disappearing Avenue to Elite Positions
Journal Article Board Membership of Traditional Male Fraternities and Access to Dutch Elites: A Disappearing Avenue to Elite Positions? Get access Jaap Dronkers, Jaap Dronkers SCO-Kohnstamm Institute, University of AmsterdamWibautstraat 4, 1091-GM Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel. +31-20-525-1327; fax +31-20-525-1300; email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Serapbine M. M. Hillege Serap…
The effects of different forms of two- and single-parent families on the well-being of their children in Dutch secondary education
Jencks and Fagerlind in a Dutch way: A report on research on the relationship between social background, intelligence, education, occupation and income in the Netherlands
Social Stratification and Mobility in the Netherlands: A Collection of Recent Contributions to the Study of Social Inequality
Changing Educational Attainment Processes: Some Evidence from the Netherlands
To fully comprehend changes in the process of educational attainment in a society, we must acknowledge changes in the social structure. This paper examines changes in the Dutch educational attainment process over a 25-year period. We compare the attainment levels of two generations of students, those born around 1940 and those born around 1965. The analysis is conducted in two stages. In the first stage, we use a variant of multiple correspondenc…
The Impact of Educational Reform: Empirical evidence from two Dutch generations
(1987). The Impact of Educational Reform: empirical evidence from two Dutch generations. Comparative Education: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 261-277
Similar or Different? Continuities in Dutch Research on Social Stratification and Social Mobility
Youth, Education and Work in Europe
1. Transition from School to Work Wladyslaw Adamski, Peter Grootings, and Fred Mahler 2. Social Structure and Transition Wladyslaw Adamski and Katarzyna Staszynska 3. Professional Aspirations and Society's Needs Yuri Emeljanov, Institute of International Labour Movement, Moscow and Vladimir Shubkin 4. Changing Values and the Transition from School to Work RoseMarie Greve, IILS, Ilan Knapp, sterreichisches Institut f r Berufsbildungsforschung, Fre…
Educational Reform in the Netherlands: Did It Change the Impact of Parental Occupation and Education
L'A. etudie l'influence de la reforme de l'enseignement aux Pays-Bas sur la participation des parents dans le systeme educatif. Les resultats d'une enquete comparative, effectuee sur deux groupes d'etudiants (les uns nes en 1953 et les autres en 1965), montre que les relations entre milieu familial et resultats scolaires s'affaiblissent suite a la reforme
The Changing Effects of Lone Parent Families on the Educational Attainment of their Children in a European Welfare State
This article 1 analyses the effects of different forms of lone parenthood (lone mother, mother and step-father, lone father, or father and step-mother) compared to natural parents families on the educational attainment of their children, using a national data-set on educational attainment in the Netherlands in the late 80s. Children living in lone parent families attain lower educational levels at the start of secondary education compared to chil…
The effects of different forms of two- and single-parent families on the well-being of their children in Dutch secondary education
Sibling Resemblance in Educational Attainment, Occupational Prestige, and Wealth in Hungary during the Communist Regime
In order to test the suggested decline of the family we compare sibling resemblance in the life-chances of five Hungarian cohorts born during the twentieth century. Similar studies in Germany and the Netherlands show less sibling resemblance in younger cohorts. However, one might argue that this trend towards the decline of sibling resemblance cannot be found in societies with a communist regime. A consequence of the communist regime is an increa…
Board Membership of Traditional Male Fraternities and Access to Dutch Elites: A Disappearing Avenue to Elite Positions
Journal Article Board Membership of Traditional Male Fraternities and Access to Dutch Elites: A Disappearing Avenue to Elite Positions? Get access Jaap Dronkers, Jaap Dronkers SCO-Kohnstamm Institute, University of AmsterdamWibautstraat 4, 1091-GM Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel. +31-20-525-1327; fax +31-20-525-1300; email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Serapbine M. M. Hillege Serap…
The Effects of Parental Conflicts and Divorce on the Well-Being of Pupils in Dutch Secondary Education
Journal Article The Effects of Parental Conflicts and Divorce on the Well-Being of Pupils in Dutch Secondary Education Get access Jaap Dronkers Jaap Dronkers SCO-Kohnstamm Institute, University of AmsterdamP. O. Box 94208, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 1999, Pages 195–212, https://doi…
Differences in Family Policies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce: A Comparison between the former East and West Germany
The intergenerational transmission of the risk of divorce is a well-known long-term effect of divorce that has been found in many Western societies. Less known is what effect different family policies and divorce laws have on the intergenerational tran
Family Policies and Children's School Achievement in Single- Versus Two-Parent Families
We investigate the gap in math and science achievement of third- and fourth-graders who live with a single parent versus those who live with two parents in 11 countries. The United States and New Zealand rank last among the countries we compare in terms of the equality of achievement between children from single-parent families and those from two-parent homes. Following a multilevel analysis, we find single parenthood to be less detrimental when …
Has the Dutch Nobility Retained its Social Relevance during the 20th Century
In earlier studies we found that the Dutch nobility continues to have a strong advantage in achieving elite positions within Dutch society today, despite its very weak legal status since the late 19th century. The aim of this article is to explore some of the possible reasons why this ascriptive characteristic has remained important in a modern and bourgeois society such as the Netherlands. From the official lists of members of the Dutch nobility…
Has educational sector any impact on school effectiveness in Hungary: A comparison of the public and the newly established religious grammar schools
The aim of the paper is to test whether the pupils of religious gymnasiums in Hungary have higher grades and a better opportunity to enter vocational college or university than comparable pupils of public gymnasiums have. For the first time the effectiveness of public and religious schools is compared in one of the former communist societies. Data are from a self-administered survey among 4th grade secondary school students in spring of 1998. Our…
Recruitment of members of Dutch noble and high-bourgeois families to elite positions in the 20th century
This article offers a counter-example of the modernization theory by looking at the elite positions of the nobility in the Netherlands in the 20th century. We compare the elite positions of the parents and the children, and between noble families and high bourgeoisie families. The likelihood of achieving an elite position has not decreased for different generations of the nobility or in comparison with the high bourgeoisie. An important factor is…
Ethnic Riots in French Banlieues
Migration in the XXI century is an international phenomenon, and not only confined to traditional immigration countries, as in the United States
Causes and Consequences of Divorce: Cross-national and Cohort Differences, an Introduction to this Special Issue
Divorce and separation seem to be highly private decisions, based on considerations made by individuals and couples. The outcome of the research, presented in this special issue, shows that this is an incomplete view. Not only are the individual decisions on divorce and separation clearly influenced by the social characteristics of the involved individuals, but they are also influenced by the characteristics of their societies and their affiliati…
Stability and Change in the Educational Gradient of Divorce. A Comparison of Seventeen Countries
In a series of papers, William J. Goode argued that the relationship between modernization and the class composition of divorce is inverse. Starting from his hypothesis, we examine the relationship between female education and the risk of divorce over time in 17 countries. We expect that the relationship differs across countries and across time, so that women with higher education have a higher risk of divorce in countries and at times when the s…
Schools, Religious
Religion and education have a long common history, dating back to prehistoric times. Religion and religious practices require structures for the preparation, initiation, and training of new members and of priests and teachers. For that reason, religious groups in premodern societies sooner or later took the responsibility of organizing the socialization of their new members and of their religious specialists. This does not mean that all education…
Elites
History is a graveyard of aristocracies.” With this phrase the Italian Vilfredo Pareto, who introduced the word elite in social sciences, formulated his idea of the decline and fall of elites, especially the political elite. For both him and Gaetono Mosca, the second founding father, the key concept was the circulation of elites (Bottomore 1993: 35). Many of these early writings on elites have a moral trademark. This can be seen in Machiavelli's …
Immigrant Children's Educational Achievement in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance
This article explores the extent to which macro-level characteristics of destination countries, origin countries, and immigrant communities help explain differences in immigrant children's educational achievement. Using data from the 2003 PISA survey, we analyze the mathematical performance of 7,403 pupils from 35 different origin countries in 13 Western countries of destination. While compositional differences offer some explanatory power, they …
The intergenerational transmission of divorce in cross-national perspective: Results from the Fertility and Family Surveys
We used data on women's first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce across 18 countries and to seek explanations in macro-level characteristics for the cross-national variation. Our results show that women whose parents divorced have a significantly higher risk of divorce in 17 countries. There is some cross-national variation. When compared with the USA, the association is strong…
Educational performance of native and immigrant children from various countries of origin
Mostly due to the lack of suitable data, cross-national research on the integration of migrant pupils is still scarce. We aim to fill this gap by addressing the question of the extent to which native and first- and second-generation migrants from various regions of origin, living in thirteen different countries of destination, differ in their scholastic ability. Using the PISA 2003 data, we focus primarily on the impact of origin and destination …
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