Showing papers by "Wout Ultee published in 2006"
TL;DR: The authors examined individual-level data on suicide in the Netherlands during the Second World War, assuming that Jews expected to be excluded by the occupying German forces, whereas political delinquents expected punishment after the war.
Abstract: Contrary to Durkheim’s idea about suicide during wartime, the Netherlands had high suicide rates in 1940 and 1945. To explain these findings, we propose the social integration theory, according to which, people who expect to be excluded from society are more likely to commit suicide. We examine this idea using individual-level data on suicide in the Netherlands during the Second World War, assuming that Jews expected to be excluded by the occupying German forces, whereas political delinquents expected punishment after the war. In support of our theory, we found high suicide rates among Jews at the beginning of the war and high suicide rates among political delinquents when the Netherlands was liberated. These findings support the proposed theory and call for refinement of Durkheim’s ideas.
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TL;DR: The authors argued that these questions are questions about solidarity, another problem in general sociology, and argued in favour of a third problem shift, in which questions about the solidarity disfavoured people receive are complemented with questions about how much solidarity advantaged people give.
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01 Jan 2006
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: The authors showed that the perception of mother's attitude towards homosexuality during one's youth strongly affects rejecting gay marriage and that the strongest determinant comes from socialization by ways of religious institutions, attending religious services is more important than the distinction between various denominations.
Abstract: Gay marriage after its introduction: supporters and objectors Sixty-five percent of the Dutch population disagrees largely or completely with the statement that gay marriage should be abolished, whereas sixteen percent agrees to it. In this article, we show which characteristics increase the likelihood to reject gay marriage. With information on family of origin, we show that the perception of mother’s attitude towards homosexuality during one’s youth strongly affects rejecting gay marriage. But the strongest determinant comes from socialization by ways of religious institutions. Here, attending religious services is more important than the distinction between various denominations. A lower education enhances particularly the chance to be neutral regarding abolishing gay marriage, whereas field of education has no effect. Moreover, we show that men and non-western immigrants have a larger likelihood to reject gay marriage.
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