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Willem de Koster
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Cultural sociologist | Erasmus Institute on Culture and Stratification | www.willemdekoster.nl
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thijslin.bsky.social
📣 We staan in de Volkskrant! 🎉

Op basis van ons recente onderzoek schreven we ook een bijdrage over hoe burgers reageren op politieke communicatie rond moeilijke beleidsbesluiten - een thema dat, met de lopende formatie en de komende coalitiefase, actueler is dan ooit.
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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elgarpublishing.bsky.social
Newly released: Understanding Cultural Sociology by Dick Houtman (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Read a free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

#culturalsociology #sociology
September 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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katyaoivanova.bsky.social
Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract).

www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546...

@sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs
Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid
Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is op zoek naar een Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociale Ongelijkheid, Departement Sociologie, locatie Tilburg.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
willemdekoster.bsky.social
🎓 Vacature: Postdoc Sociologie (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

Bijna 4 jaar aan de slag met onderzoek én onderwijs binnen een fijne onderzoeksgroep? Dan is dit iets voor jou.👇
July 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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jonathanmijs.com
Can providing facts about ethnic discrimination change people's beliefs and raise support for affirmative action?

We put it to the test in new @ispp-pops.bsky.social study with @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen v/d Waal and Masja van Meteren. A thread!

Open access link: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
July 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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casperalbers.nl
Deze zin vat de kern van onze kritiek op de publieke uitingen van de NWO-baas extreem goed samen. www.folia.nl/nl/opinie/16...
July 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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iasliu.bsky.social
🚨🎓 We’re looking for new PhD students!
The area of specialization is open, but successful applicants should demonstrate a clear interest in themes that align with ongoing research at @iasliu.bsky.social
📅 Deadline: 31.08.2025
💼 Fully funded positions
How to apply 👉 liu.se/en/work-at-l...
PhD student in Analytical Sociology
liu.se
June 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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tkupp.bsky.social
Only 10 days left to apply for this phd position on education-based identities, status, and political attitudes! Open to those interested in sociology, social psychology, political science, communication science or indeed a combination of all.

jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
PhD Researcher - Scientific project on Education-based social identities
PhD Researcher - Scientific project on Education-based social identities
jobs.vub.be
June 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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rdassonneville.bsky.social
I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!

Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!
2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior
2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices
www.kuleuven.be
June 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
willemdekoster.bsky.social
🎓 #vacature Postdoc sociologie (bijna 4 jaar)

Onderzoek (0,7 fte): bij voorkeur gebruik cultuursociologische / politiek-sociologische inzichten om gezondheidssociologische vraagstukken te onderzoeken.

Onderwijs (0,3 fte): scripties & Bachelorvak Cohesie & conflict

Solliciteer uiterlijk 16 juni!
Postdoc Sociologie voor bijna 4 jaar
Voor een substantiële periode (bij goed functioneren in totaal 3 jaar en 10 maanden) zoeken we een postdoc Sociologie om onderzoek te doen (0,7 fte) en onderwijs te verzorgen (0,3 fte). Het onderzoek ...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
willemdekoster.bsky.social
📢 We're hiring a 4-year postdoc (0.8 FTE) at Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam for project on climate change meanings

Focus: Italian case (focus groups, survey, experiments)

PhD in Sociology (or related), fluent in Italian

🗓️ Deadline: June 11

#postdoc #sociology #academicjobs #Italy #climatechange
Postdoctoral researcher Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes
What does climate change mean to people—and why? And how do these meanings shape public responses to policy and information campaigns?
www.academictransfer.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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mjbsp.bsky.social
Interested in climate change and sociology? Speak Italian? Want a postdoc?

Then @willemdekoster.bsky.social has you covered

www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3522...
Postdoctoral researcher Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes
What does climate change mean to people—and why? And how do these meanings shape public responses to policy and information campaigns?
www.academictransfer.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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roderikrekker.bsky.social
Job alert! We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers at the intersection of political psychology, science communication, and survey methodology:
-One for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization.
-One for my starting grant on the politicization of science.

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Postdoc Position in Political Psychology: Polarisation, Misperceptions, and the Politicisation of Science (two) | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position in Political Psychology: Polarisation, Misperceptions, and the Politicisation of Science (two) at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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kjellnoordzij.bsky.social
How do people view environmental sustainability—and what does this mean for public support for interventions?

Joost Oude Groeniger, @willemdekoster.bsky.social, Jeroen van der Waal, and I explore this in our new article in Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. 1/9
May 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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nielsspierings.bsky.social
Over inclusie, LGBTQ+, islam, migratie, politiek, populisme, verandering, weerstand en de wetenschap. Mijn oratie - met allerlei statistieken, anecdotes en toffe mensen - is nu ook na te lezen #openacces in Mens en Maatschappij:

www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
April 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.

In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
March 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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jochemvannoord.eu
Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen?

In @volkskrant.nl met @tkupp.bsky.social en @bramspruyt.bsky.social
Opinie: Hoezo is er geen bewijs voor onderwijsgebonden vooroordelen?
In een column voor de Volkskrant beweerde Sander Schimmelpenninck dat het niet te bewijzen is dat hoogopgeleiden neerkijken op lager opgeleiden. Die stelling negeert helaas vijftien jaar onderzoek naa...
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March 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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lindabos.bsky.social
We are hiring a new PhD candidate on Democracy by Design: "How App Characteristics Shape Youth Political Worldviews"

Please share with your most talented students!

Deadline: April 10

Link: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD Position: Democracy by Design: "How App Characteristics Shape Youth Political Worldviews"
Ever wondered how smartphone usage influences the political worldviews of young adults? Are you interested in doing meaningful research? Then we have the perfect PhD position for you!
werkenbij.uva.nl
March 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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willemdekoster.bsky.social
Very happy to receive a Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council for a mixed-methods study on how people understand climate change, why these understandings differ, and what the consequences are.

www.eur.nl/en/essb/news...
Aims of the research project
February 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
willemdekoster.bsky.social
Very happy to receive a Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council for a mixed-methods study on how people understand climate change, why these understandings differ, and what the consequences are.

www.eur.nl/en/essb/news...
Aims of the research project
February 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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jochemvannoord.eu
🏁New paper! Social status moderates the effect of belief in meritocracy on economic conflict attitudes. Meritocracy doesn't always legitimize inequality and sometimes it does more :)

Published with @bramspruyt.bsky.social Filip Van Droogenbroeck and @tkupp.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Title page of "Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change Economic Conflict" Abstract: "Belief in meritocracy and social status are central to understanding how people think and behave in relation to economic conflict. In this paper, we investigate how belief in meritocracy is moderated by (subjective) social status for three different aspects of citizens' attitudes towards economic inequality and conflict, namely (1) perceived conflict, (2) anger about economic inequality and (3) intentions to change economic conflict (egalitarianism). Data from the International Social Survey Programme on 29 countries reveal that the effect of meritocracy depends on social status and differs meaningfully across the three attitudes. For people high in social status, belief in meritocracy relates to lower perceptions of conflict, anger, and egalitarianism. For people with a low subjective social status there is no or a weak relation of belief in meritocracy with the outcomes. In addition, when belief in meritocracy was low, those with a high subjective social status appeared to be concerned about inequality as they perceived more economic conflict and felt more anger than those with a low subjective social status. However, this was not the case for intentions to reduce inequality. Hence, these effects of meritocracy and social status should be understood in light of self-interest concerns of social groups, rather than solely ideological domination." Figure 1: Predicted values of conflict perception across belief in meritocracy and subjective social status. Figure 3: Predicted values of egalitarianism across belief meritocracy and subjective social status.
February 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
willemdekoster.bsky.social
Very happy that Vivian Visser has won the Best PhD Thesis Award from the Flemish and Dutch Association for Public Administration, with her original thesis "Who is invited? A mixed-method study on governments’ and citizens’ perspectives on invitational governance"
www.bestuurskunde.nl/2025/02/07/v...
Vivian Visser wint de VB Van Poeljeprijs 2023 - Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde
Donderdag 6 februari 2025 heeft de Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde (VB) tijdens de jaarlijkse conferentie van het Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG) in Gent, de winnaar bekend gemaakt van de 47e ...
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February 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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jacobnyrup.bsky.social
University of Oslo is hiring 2-4(!) Associate Professors in Political Science. The call is open to candidates from all subfields. Deadline is February 3rd.

It comes with amazing colleagues, great work conditions, and lots of snow. Brown cheese, salmon, and cross-country skis can be supplementary.
2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo
Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
December 7, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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magneflemmen.bsky.social
Come learn Multiple Correspondence Analysis in Oslo! Deadline is approaching fast. www.uio.no/studier/emne...
December 2, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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magneflemmen.bsky.social
PhD-course on Multiple Correspondence Analysis, in Oslo January 13-16 2025! Come learn the technique from renowned expert Johs. Hjellbrekke, shooting star @marentoft.bsky.social, and yours truly. www.uio.no/studier/emne...
November 19, 2024 at 10:43 AM