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Showing papers by "Wout Ultee published in 2000"


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TL;DR: This paper presented new empirical findings on trends in educational homogamy in 60 countries with different religious backgrounds and found that the effect of a country's religious background on educational homophamy is different from ours.
Abstract: We address two issues central to current stratification research: trends in educational homogamy in modernizing societies, and differences in educational homogamy between countries with different religious backgrounds. Regarding the trends in educational homogamy, there are different versions of modernization theory that lead to different predictions about the direction of the trends. With respect to the effect of a country's religious background on educational homogamy, Raymo and Xie (2000, henceforward R&X) present new empirical evidence that appears to contradict the results of our paper on this subject (Smits, Ultee, and Lammers 1998). In this reply, we discuss these issues in detail and try to place them in a new light by presenting new empirical findings on trends in educational homogamy in 60 countries.

90 citations


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TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of intergenerational mobility on cross-national and over-time variation in levels of class voting in 14 long-standing Western democracies over the period 1964-1990 (N=54 478).
Abstract: Classic studies in political sociology argued that differences in countries' patterns of mobility are responsible for variations in levels of class voting in these countries. In this paper the tenability of this classic claim is examined using survey data from 14 long-standing Western democracies over the period 1964–1990 (N=54 478). When testing this claim, we improved over earlier studies by employing detailed measures of class, by using multivariate statistical models that measure relative levels of class voting and by employing diagonal reference models that deal adequately with the effects of individual intergenerational class mobility. Our results show significant effects of individual intergenerational mobility. The longer mobile persons are members of a certain class the more they are apt to show the typical voting behaviour of their destination class. However, our results do not support the claim for the effects of intergenerational mobility at the macro level. Variation in levels of mobility can only to a very modest extent – if at all – be held responsible for cross-national and over-time variation in levels of class voting

66 citations



01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the social mechanisms that might explain these three empirical regularities and found that people leave the church either for cognitive, social or moral reasons and that these effects interact.
Abstract: Research shows that especially the young and better-educated are more likely to leave the church. The process of apostasy also differs substantially between denominations. Using a life history perspective we examine the social mechanisms that might explain these three empirical regularities. Using a general theory, incorporating modernization and integration theory, we predict that people leave the church either for cognitive, social or moral reasons and that these effects interact. We test these hypotheses with the 1998 Family Survey of the Dutch Population. The results show that social integration indicators explain a large part of the denominational differences. Denominational differences no longer exist, whereas in the past Catholics and liberal Protestants were more likely to leave their church compared to orthodox Protestants. The results show furthermore that being raised in a financially deprived environment, possession of technical toys, general reading and left-wing preferences of the parents increase the risk of leaving the church in later life. Social context effects suggest that an increasingly educated population and having many non-religious people in one's environment, rather than being surrounded by few people of the same denomination, make it more likely for individuals to leave their church. Interaction effects show that after people have left the parental home (1) church attendance of the parents no longer decreases the risk of leaving the church; (2) Catholics have a lower chance of leaving the church than orthodox and liberal Protestants; (3) the impact of education becomes stronger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; Copyright of Mens en Maatschappij is the property of Amsterdam University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

7 citations


01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the Dutch National-Socialist Movement expected punishment after World War II, and found 113 suicides for the period 1944-1947 by members of the Dutch NSS.
Abstract: Contrary to Durkheim's proposition about suicide during wartime, the Netherlands had high suicide rates in 1940 and 1945. Earlier research showed that the high rate for 1940 could be ascribed to suicide among Jews. That finding concurred with another Durkheimian hypothesis, saying that people who expect to be excluded from society are more likely to commit suicide. In this article we employ the same proposition to explain the high rate for 1945. Assuming that members of the Dutch National-Socialist Movement expected punishment after World War II, we re-analyzed the counting cards preserved at Statistics Netherlands, and found 113 suicides for the period 1944-1947 by members of the Dutch National-Socialist Movement. Our explanation received additional support by the finding that five political suicides occurred in September 1944, when the Southern part of the Netherlands was liberated, 17 for April 1945, and 19 for May 1945, when Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; Copyright of Mens en Maatschappij is the property of Amsterdam University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)