Jef Verhoeven
Biographic Data
| ID | 4003632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jef Verhoeven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jef |
| FAMILY NAME | Verhoeven |
| SIGNATURE | VERHOEVEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6202-1339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Representativeness in Employment Relations and in Sociological Theories
In the democratic structure of the EU (European Union) the representation of employers and employees is seen as an important element for the development of the economy. It is not sufficient to have a representation of these groups, but the representation of these groups is also expected to be representative. Representativeness is often seen as an equal proportional distribution of the representatives of different groups that have to be represente…
How did Australian scholars perceive the Bologna Process
The Bologna Process (BP) was used as an instrument to construct a European Higher Education Area that would be competitive in the world and to attract foreign students and academics to Europe. For a country such as Australia, this higher education innovation process constituted a possible challenge, especially since Australian HE is a marketized system relying on the influx of overseas students. The BP was, therefore, topic of a discussion spurre…
Backstage
For many years, the concept “backstage” referred to the part of the theater behind the stage, and then gained a place in sociology and other social sciences. Erving Goffman uses the concept to describe a social environment where people, after leaving a situation involving visible and audible communication, can act free of the standards regulating that situation. What Goffman presents as a frame to describe some sections of societal life has been …
Equal Access of Ethnic Minority Students to Different Types of Higher Education Institutions
In this article we focus on answering the question “Is there equal access to different types of higher education institutions (HEIs) for ethnic minority (EM) students in Yunnan Province (China), and what explanation might be found for any differences?” In order to answer this question, we rely on the education attainment theory, and a sample of 600 EM students provides the data for the analysis. The analysis shows that these students have differi…
Access to higher education of 25 ethnic minorities in Yunnan Province, South Western China
Partnership and conflict between parents and schools
This paper explores the relationship between parents and schools. Over the last 30 years the importance attached to parents’ views on education has increased significantly throughout the Western world. Policy‐makers encourage parental participation and involvement through the creation of councils in which parents have a say. In Flanders in Belgium in 2004 a new participation law was passed. We study the impact of this law on the micropolitical re…
Change in Study Programmes
The Context Changes but the Divisions Remain
Universities and colleges in Flanders (Belgium) were established with different missions but this binary system is now under pressure. Tendencies like the ‘vocational drift’ of universities and the ‘academic drift’ of colleges seem to be bringing the two tiers closer together. The new governmental legislation does not entirely prevent such developments. Examples in other countries do not point at a general trend towards a unified structure of hig…
Charles de Visscher
Theories and Realities in International Law is Charles de Visscher's best known book. Its very title makes clear that he was concerned with both the effective conditions of international relations and the requirements of legal theory. De Visscher was in fact originally mostly a practitioner of the law, becoming a member of the PCIJ in the late 1930s. This part of his career came to an end in 1952 when he was not re-elected to the ICJ. He then ret…
Backstage With Erving Goffman
Publishing an interview with Erving Goffman gives one the feeling of taking a look backstage, because it is well-known that he did not like to be interviewed. The act of turning backstage into frontstage is not without consequences for our feelings, which was true for me as the interviewer: It was with a ce:rtain pudency that the decision was taken to open the file of a conversation that took place many years ago. Because it was such a difficult …
An Interview With Erving Goffman, 1980
could, sort of, be taken for granted as just part of basic sociology.So, I've never felt that a label was necessary.If I had to be labelled at all it would have been as a Hughesian urban ethnographer.And what happened about, I suppose it was, six or seven years ago, was a movement in sociology for persons to classify themselves.On the social psychological side it was probably stimulated as a response to ethnomethodologists, who labelled themselve…
Key issues in educational policy for secondary schools in federated Belgium 1
Belgian educational policy for secondary schools was a national matter until 1989, although the polarized structure had already given rise to some decentralization. When educational policy became the responsibility of the Communities in 1989, it became clear that each Community would deal with their problems differently, even when confronting the same problems. The Communities did not abolish the influence of the polarized structure. Analysis of …
Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning
The title of this book is Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning: Methods and Applications. Manpower planning, also called personnel plan ning, implies the analysis of possible discrepancies in the future between personnel demand and supply. Personnel demand will also be called person nel requirement; and personnel supply, personnel availability. The notion of corporate manpower planning refers to the planning of personnel on the level of an i…
An Interview With Erving Goffman, 1980
could, sort of, be taken for granted as just part of basic sociology.So, I've never felt that a label was necessary.If I had to be labelled at all it would have been as a Hughesian urban ethnographer.And what happened about, I suppose it was, six or seven years ago, was a movement in sociology for persons to classify themselves.On the social psychological side it was probably stimulated as a response to ethnomethodologists, who labelled themselve…
Partnership and conflict between parents and schools
This paper explores the relationship between parents and schools. Over the last 30 years the importance attached to parents’ views on education has increased significantly throughout the Western world. Policy‐makers encourage parental participation and involvement through the creation of councils in which parents have a say. In Flanders in Belgium in 2004 a new participation law was passed. We study the impact of this law on the micropolitical re…
Charles de Visscher
Theories and Realities in International Law is Charles de Visscher's best known book. Its very title makes clear that he was concerned with both the effective conditions of international relations and the requirements of legal theory. De Visscher was in fact originally mostly a practitioner of the law, becoming a member of the PCIJ in the late 1930s. This part of his career came to an end in 1952 when he was not re-elected to the ICJ. He then ret…
The Context Changes but the Divisions Remain
Universities and colleges in Flanders (Belgium) were established with different missions but this binary system is now under pressure. Tendencies like the ‘vocational drift’ of universities and the ‘academic drift’ of colleges seem to be bringing the two tiers closer together. The new governmental legislation does not entirely prevent such developments. Examples in other countries do not point at a general trend towards a unified structure of hig…
Backstage With Erving Goffman
Publishing an interview with Erving Goffman gives one the feeling of taking a look backstage, because it is well-known that he did not like to be interviewed. The act of turning backstage into frontstage is not without consequences for our feelings, which was true for me as the interviewer: It was with a ce:rtain pudency that the decision was taken to open the file of a conversation that took place many years ago. Because it was such a difficult …
Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning
The title of this book is Techniques in Corporate Manpower Planning: Methods and Applications. Manpower planning, also called personnel plan ning, implies the analysis of possible discrepancies in the future between personnel demand and supply. Personnel demand will also be called person nel requirement; and personnel supply, personnel availability. The notion of corporate manpower planning refers to the planning of personnel on the level of an i…
Key issues in educational policy for secondary schools in federated Belgium 1
Belgian educational policy for secondary schools was a national matter until 1989, although the polarized structure had already given rise to some decentralization. When educational policy became the responsibility of the Communities in 1989, it became clear that each Community would deal with their problems differently, even when confronting the same problems. The Communities did not abolish the influence of the polarized structure. Analysis of …
Backstage With Erving Goffman
Publishing an interview with Erving Goffman gives one the feeling of taking a look backstage, because it is well-known that he did not like to be interviewed. The act of turning backstage into frontstage is not without consequences for our feelings, which was true for me as the interviewer: It was with a ce:rtain pudency that the decision was taken to open the file of a conversation that took place many years ago. Because it was such a difficult …
An Interview With Erving Goffman, 1980
could, sort of, be taken for granted as just part of basic sociology.So, I've never felt that a label was necessary.If I had to be labelled at all it would have been as a Hughesian urban ethnographer.And what happened about, I suppose it was, six or seven years ago, was a movement in sociology for persons to classify themselves.On the social psychological side it was probably stimulated as a response to ethnomethodologists, who labelled themselve…
Charles de Visscher
Theories and Realities in International Law is Charles de Visscher's best known book. Its very title makes clear that he was concerned with both the effective conditions of international relations and the requirements of legal theory. De Visscher was in fact originally mostly a practitioner of the law, becoming a member of the PCIJ in the late 1930s. This part of his career came to an end in 1952 when he was not re-elected to the ICJ. He then ret…
The Context Changes but the Divisions Remain
Universities and colleges in Flanders (Belgium) were established with different missions but this binary system is now under pressure. Tendencies like the ‘vocational drift’ of universities and the ‘academic drift’ of colleges seem to be bringing the two tiers closer together. The new governmental legislation does not entirely prevent such developments. Examples in other countries do not point at a general trend towards a unified structure of hig…
Change in Study Programmes
Partnership and conflict between parents and schools
This paper explores the relationship between parents and schools. Over the last 30 years the importance attached to parents’ views on education has increased significantly throughout the Western world. Policy‐makers encourage parental participation and involvement through the creation of councils in which parents have a say. In Flanders in Belgium in 2004 a new participation law was passed. We study the impact of this law on the micropolitical re…
Access to higher education of 25 ethnic minorities in Yunnan Province, South Western China
Equal Access of Ethnic Minority Students to Different Types of Higher Education Institutions
In this article we focus on answering the question “Is there equal access to different types of higher education institutions (HEIs) for ethnic minority (EM) students in Yunnan Province (China), and what explanation might be found for any differences?” In order to answer this question, we rely on the education attainment theory, and a sample of 600 EM students provides the data for the analysis. The analysis shows that these students have differi…
Backstage
For many years, the concept “backstage” referred to the part of the theater behind the stage, and then gained a place in sociology and other social sciences. Erving Goffman uses the concept to describe a social environment where people, after leaving a situation involving visible and audible communication, can act free of the standards regulating that situation. What Goffman presents as a frame to describe some sections of societal life has been …
How did Australian scholars perceive the Bologna Process
The Bologna Process (BP) was used as an instrument to construct a European Higher Education Area that would be competitive in the world and to attract foreign students and academics to Europe. For a country such as Australia, this higher education innovation process constituted a possible challenge, especially since Australian HE is a marketized system relying on the influx of overseas students. The BP was, therefore, topic of a discussion spurre…
Representativeness in Employment Relations and in Sociological Theories
In the democratic structure of the EU (European Union) the representation of employers and employees is seen as an important element for the development of the economy. It is not sufficient to have a representation of these groups, but the representation of these groups is also expected to be representative. Representativeness is often seen as an equal proportional distribution of the representatives of different groups that have to be represente…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (4 works) · Higher education (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Frame analysis (3 works)