Bram Spruyt
@bramspruyt.bsky.social
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Sociologist working at VUB. Main research interests EPYC (Education, Politics, Youth and Culture).
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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
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lkavadia.bsky.social
New paper 🏫!

We present the Schooled Society Index: a multidimensional indicator that maps cross-national differences in the centrality of schooling on a global scale. Written with
@bramspruyt.bsky.social and @tkupp.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Data is publicly available: osf.io/49xy5/
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sociusjournal.bsky.social
🏫 How central is schooling in your country?

In their new #Socius study, Drs. Kavadias, @bramspruyt.bsky.social & @tkupp.bsky.social introduce the Schooled Society Index—a global measure of how #education acts as a force of #institutionalization and #stratification.

Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
bramspruyt.bsky.social
Congratulations! Well deserved!
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emilievh.bsky.social
Very happy that our project on Democratic governance: challenges and innovations, developed with Silvia Erzeel, has been selected for the next BrIAS programme.
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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.
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peterla.bsky.social
And here's the share without higher education!
bramspruyt.bsky.social
Toch zullen er elke dag weer kansen voorbij komen...
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dpmoriarity.bsky.social
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
bramspruyt.bsky.social
Op zondag aan een rapport werken over work life balance. Ik kan dat.
bramspruyt.bsky.social
De evolutie van het lerarenberoep:
- sneller ontslag bij vaste benoeming
- een continu stroom van regelg. die te laat klaar is of gebrekkig in elkaar zit
- Vl. toetsen als motie van wantrouwen.
- de hakbijl in het pensioen.

Ze kunnen nu wel een fiets leasen om mee door de regen te rijden.
bramspruyt.bsky.social
"a crude yet endlessly empirically corroborated proxy"

Pure gold! @peter8rberg.bsky.social

(quote from 'why there is less supportive evidence for contact theory than they say there is)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
bramspruyt.bsky.social
Weeral een heel mooi nummer geworden van Sociologie Magazine!
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bramspruyt.bsky.social
Dit forum schreeuwt om een starters' package "Loyaal Tegendraads", Bart!
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De machine is niet te verslaan. Mijn vrouw moet voor een benoeming in 2 lesuren (sec ond) een aangetekend schrijven richten aan haar eigen directeur 😀. Moet met de post opgestuurd worden. Acht jaar na 'operatie tarra'.