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People and Society (Mens & Maatschappij)

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ISSN (Print) 0025-9454 - ISSN (Online) 1876-2816
Published by Amsterdam University Press

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Boekbespreking: Keuzenkamp, S. (red.), N. Kooiman & J. van Lisdonk. Niet te ver uit de kast. Ervaringen van homo- en biseksuelen in Nederland. Den Haag: Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, maart 2012, 141 pp. ISBN 978 90 377 0603 1
- Authors: Tim Savenije
Boekbespreking: Raven, J. Popular Support for Welfare State Reforms. On Welfare State Preferences and Welfare State Reforms in the Netherlands. Dissertatie, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2012. ISBN 978 94 6191 185 8
- Authors: Femke Roosma
Boekbespreking: Thijssen, N.C. De jaren zestig herinnerd. Over gedeelde idealen uit de linkse periode. Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA, 2012, 198 pp. ISBN 978 90 5629 712 1
- Authors: Wim Jansen
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Boekbespreking: Gieling, M. Dealing with diversity. Adolescents’ support for civil liberties and immigrant rights. Dissertatie Universiteit Utrecht, 2012, 184 pp. ISBN 978 94 6191 173 5
- Authors: Michael Savelkoul
Integratie en depressie: De relatie tussen sociaal-culturele integratie en depressieklachten bij Turkse en Marokkaanse Nederlanders
- Authors: Roos van der Zwan
Interorganisationele samenwerking in de publieke sector: Een casestudie naar een netwerk van organisaties rond criminele jongeren
- Authors: Els van den Berg
  Abstract: Interorganizational collaboration in the public sector. A case study on a network of organizations around criminal youth Recently, the municipality of Amsterdam initiated the ‘Top600 approach’ in which more than 30 organizations should cooperate in order to get 600 young violent offenders back on the right track. This article describes the intended and the existing collaborative relationships and investigates which factors affect whether collaboration has come about. Hypotheses are derived from previous American studies on this topic. A social network analysis shows that there are three times as many collaborative relationships between the organizations as intended. And most of the factors that played a role in the American context, also influenced the degree of interorganizational collaboration in the Netherlands (Amsterdam). A history of collaboration and common organization goals – factors that exist regardless of the Top600 approach – are playing a major role. Among the specific policies of the Top600 approach especially the making of agreements on cooperation is effective. Finally, for the frequency of contact and for mutual respect, understanding and trust it is not clear whether they lead to collaboration or whether they are a consequence of collaboration. Most likely they mutually reinforce each other.
Intergenerationele overdracht van risicogedrag: Rookgedrag, alcoholgebruik en ongezonde eetgewoonten van ouders en hun volwassen kinderen
- Authors: Anne ten Cate
  Abstract: Intergenerational transmission of risk behaviour: the association between smoking, alcohol use, and unhealthy eating habits of parents and their adult children Employing information on more than 1200 individuals from the Family Survey Dutch Population 2000, we study to what extent risk behaviour (smoking, alcohol use, and unhealthy eating habits) is transmitted intergenerationally from parents to their adult children. Moreover, by building on theoretical notions on the socialization of risk behavior, we derive expectations on differential effects of parental risk behaviour for daughters and sons, and for low and high educated children. Our results show that risk behaviour of parents indeed has a stimulating effect on the smoking, drinking, and eating habits of their offspring. The transmission of abstinence and excessive alcohol use of mothers is stronger for daughters, whereas the transmission of excessive alcohol use of fathers is stronger for sons. Furthermore, higher educated children are less likely to be a smoker when they have a moderately smoking mother, and alcohol abstinence of the father leads to a lower risk of excessive alcohol use among higher educated children.
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- Authors: Tamar Fischer
Bij het overlijden van Ivan Gadourek (1923-2013)
- Authors: Jeroen Winkels
Financiële spanning en informeel sociaal isolement: De rol van macro-economische omstandigheden en sociale zekerheidsuitgaven in 32 Europese landen in het decennium na de eeuwwisseling
- Authors: Mark Visser
  Abstract: Financial strain and informal social isolation: The role of macro-economic circumstances and social protection expenditure in 32 European countries in the decade after the turn of the century This study examines to what extent financial strain, that is, difficulties to cope on one’s income, is related to informal social isolation, that is, lacking social contacts with friend, relatives and colleagues. We consider to what extent macro-economic conditions and social protection expenditure affect informal social isolation as well as the relationship between financial strain and informal social isolation. Moreover, we study to what extent the effect of social protection expenditure on informal social isolation is weaker or stronger under varying macro-economic conditions. We perform multilevel analyses, taking advantage of data derived from the European Social Survey (2002-2010). Our findings show that experiencing financial strain induces social isolation. In economically less developed countries, informal social isolation is higher; in nations with high levels of social security expenditure, it is lower. Finally, particularly financially strained people suffer in terms of informal social isolation when macro-economic conditions are disadvantageous and welfare state expenditure is low.