Detailed Overview of the Sessions

Detailed overview of sessions

Day 1: Introduction, Thinking Like a Sociologist, and Social Networks

8.50 - 9.00 Opening

9.00 - 10.20 Session 1-1. Lecture: Introduction, Thinking Like a Sociologist: Problems, Theory & Research

·      Introduction and overview of the course

·      Biography

·      ICS graduate school, SASR research master

·      Sociology in Holland

·      Refresher lecture.

·      Basic features of problem-driven and systematic (deductive) theory construction, model building, and explanation in social science:  the sociological imagination, theoretical tools, empirical research.

·      Micro Models. Rational choice: advantages and disadvantages. Alternative models.

·      Micro-Macro problem in sociology.   

10.20 - 10.40 Break

10.40 – 12.00 Session 1-2 Lecture: Social Networks I

·      Social networks: Brief introduction to key concept and measures.

·      Social cohesion, social participation and informal connections. Putnam, Bowling Alone.

·      Missing: social boundaries, Bowling Apart.

·      Social boundaries, homogeneity in networks, in particular ethnic homogeneity of networks.

·      Theory: three causes of segregation & homogeneity

·      Empirical work: advantages and disadvantages of studying ethnic segregation of networks, in different research areas: endogamy, contacts, friendships in class.

·      Ethnic Endogamy (with Maas and Kalmijn)

·      Interethnic ties: panel analyses (with Maas and Martinovic)

·      Friendship networks in school (with Maas and Smith)

A. Required readings:

Kalmijn, Matthijs and Frank van Tubergen. 2010. “A Comparative Perspective on Intermarriage: Explaining Differences in Marriage Choices among National Origin Groups in the United States.” Demography, 47(2): 459-479.

Smith, Sanne, Ineke Maas and Frank van Tubergen. 2014. Ethnic ingroup friendships in schools: testing the by-product hypothesis in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Social Networks, 39, 33-45.

B. Other own work, covered in lecture:

B1. Ethnic endogamy:

Spörlein, Christoph, Elmar Schlüter and Frank van Tubergen. 2014 “Immigrant Intermarriage in Longitudinal Perspective: Testing Structural and Cultural Explanations in the United States from 1880 to 2011.” Social Science Research, 43:1-15.

Van Tubergen, Frank and Ineke Maas. 2007. “Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants in the Netherlands: An Analysis of Population Data.” Social Science Research, 36: 1065-1086.

Kalmijn, Matthijs and Frank van Tubergen. 2006. “Ethnic Intermarriage in the Netherlands: Confirmations and Refutations of Accepted Insights.” European Journal of Population, 22:371-97.

B2. Interethnic contacts:

Martinovic, Borja, Frank van Tubergen and Ineke Maas. 2015. “A Longitudinal Study of Interethnic Contacts in Germany: Estimates from a Multilevel Growth Curve Model.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(1), 83-100.

Martinovic, Borja, Frank van Tubergen and Ineke Maas. 2011. “Acquisition of Cross-Ethnic Friends by Recent Immigrants in Canada: A Longitudinal Approach.” International Migration Review, 45(2): 460-488.

Martinovic, Borja, Frank van Tubergen, and Ineke Maas. 2009. “Changes in Immigrants’ Social Integration during the Stay in the Host Country: The Case of Non-Western Immigrants in the Netherlands.” Social Science Research, 38:870-882.

Martinovic, Borja, Frank van Tubergen and Ineke Maas. 2009 “Dynamics of Interethnic Contact: A Panel Study of Immigrants in the Netherlands.” European Sociological Review, 25:303-318.

B3. Core discussion network and divorce:

Van Tubergen, Frank. 2015. Ethnic Boundaries in Core Discussion Networks: A Multilevel Social Network Study of Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(1), 101-116.

Smith, Sanne, Ineke Maas and Frank van Tubergen. 2012. “Irreconcilable differences? Ethnic Intermarriage and Divorce in the Netherlands, 1995-2008.” Social Science Research, 41(5):1126-1137.

B4. Complete networks of friendships in school:

Smith, Sanne, Ineke Maas and Frank van Tubergen. 2015. “Parental Influence on Friendships Between Native and Immigrant Adolescents in Germany and the Netherlands.” Journal for Research on Adolescents, in press.

12.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Session 1-3 Presentation and discussion of papers by workshop participants

Ming-Yi Chang, Postdoctorate at Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. "Causal Effects of Peer Influence on Adolescents’ Academic Performance"

Presenter and Discussant: Ta-Chien Chan, Assistant Research Fellow at the Humanity Center, Academia Sinica

Tso-Jung Yen, Assistant Research Fellow at Institute of Statistics, Academia Sinica. "Analysis of ClickDiary Data: Some Initial Results"

Presenter and Discussant: Ming-Yi Chang, Postdoctorate at Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica.

Ta-Chien Chan, Assistant Research Fellow at the Humanity Center, Academia Sinica. " Using online diary to study the relationship between health behaviors and mood "

Presenter and Discussant: Tso-Jung Yen, Assistant Research Fellow at Institute of Statistics, Academia Sinica.

15.30 - 15.50 Coffee Break

15.50 - 17.00 Session 1-4 Lecture: Social Networks II

·      Continuation of Lecture Social Networks I and/or discussion of papers presented by participants.

·      If time permits:

o   Complete networks of adolescents in schools

o   Negative ties: bullying in class

o   Ethnic diversity,  group size, heterophobia

Day 2 Social Capital, Discrimination, and Inequality

9.00 - 10.20 Session 2-1. Lecture: Access to social capital, and returns of social capital in the labour market

·      Concepts and theory on access to social capital: Different definitions, mechanisms,

·      Empirical work on inequality in access to social capital: measures, methodology, findings

·      Returns to social networks: social capital

·      Various definitions and mechanisms

·      Empirical work

A. Required readings:

Van Tubergen, Frank and Beate Völker. 2015. “Inequality in Access to Social Capital in the Netherlands”. Sociology, in press.

B. Other personal work covered in lecture:

Van Tubergen, Frank. 2014. “Size and Socio-Economic Resources of Core Discussion Networks in the Netherlands: Differences by National Origin Group and Immigrant Generation” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(6): 1020-1042.

Seibel, Verena and Frank van Tubergen. 2013. “Job Search Methods among Non-Western Immigrants in the Netherlands. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 11(3): 241-258.

Kanas, Agnieszka, Barry Chiswick, Tanja van der Lippe and Frank van Tubergen. 2012. “Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany.” International Migration Review, 46(3): 680-709.

Kanas, Agnieszka, Frank van Tubergen and Tanja van der Lippe. 2011. “The Role of Social Contacts in the Employment Status of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany.” International Sociology, 26(1): 95-122.

Van Tubergen, Frank. 2008. “The Impact of the Partner on the Economic Incorporation of Male and Female Immigrants: Household Specialization or Social Capital?” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozial Psychologie (special issue),307-324.

Van Tubergen, Frank. 2011. “Job Search Methods of Refugees in the Netherlands: Determinants and Consequences.” Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 9(2): 179-195.

C. Other relevant literature

Lin, N. 2000. "Inequality in Social Capital." Contemporary Sociology 29(6):785-795.

Lin, N. 1999. "Social Networks and Status Attainment." Annual Review of Sociology (25):467-487.

Li, Y., M. Savage and A. Warde. 2008. "Social Mobility and Social Capital in Contemporary Britain." The British Journal of Sociology 59(3):391-411.

Mouw, T. 2003. "Social Capital and Finding a Job: Do Contacts Matter?" American Sociological Review 68(6):868-898.

Erickson, B. H. (2004). The distribution of gendered social capital in Canada. In (pp. 27) Routledge.

Van Der Gaag, M. and T. A. B. Snijders. 2005. "The Resource Generator: Social Capital Quantification with Concrete Items." Social Networks 27(1):1-29.

Hsung and Breiger, pp. 83-98 in Lin et al. (eds) (2014) Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency: A Study of the United States, China and Taiwan. Routledge.

Granovetter, Mark. 1973. "The Strength of Weak Ties." American Journal of Sociology 78:1360-80.

Ruiter, S., & De Graaf, N. D. (2009). Socio-economic payoffs of voluntary association involvement: A Dutch life course study. European Sociological Review, 25(4), 425-442.

Son (2013). Social Capital and its Institutional Constraints: A Comparative Analysis of China, Taiwan, and the US. Routledge.

10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break

10.40 – 12.00 Session 2-2: Discrimination in the Labor Market

·      What is discrimination? How can we study it? Different definitions and methods.

·      Discrimination versus human capital.

·      Theories of discrimination, key hypotheses and mechanisms. Statistical discrimination. Taste-based discrimination.

·      Field experiments: a review of findings.

·      Implicit and explicit discrimination.

·      Discussion of recent empirical work.

A. Required readings:

Blommaert, Lieselotte, Marcel Coenders, and Frank van Tubergen. 2014. “Discrimination of Arabic-named applicants in the Netherlands: An internet-based field experiment examining different phases in online recruitment procedures.” Social Forces, 92(3):957-82.

B. Other personal work covered in lecture:

B1. Discrimination in the labour market

Blommaert, Lieselotte, Marcel Coenders and Frank van Tubergen. 2014. “Ethnic Discrimination in Recruitment and Decision Makers' Features: Evidence from Laboratory Experiment and Survey Data using a Student Sample.” Social Indicators Research, 116(3): 731-754.

Blommaert, Lieselotte, Frank van Tubergen, Marcel Coenders. 2012. “Implicit and Explicit Interethnic Attitudes and Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring.” Social Science Research, 41(1):61-73.

B2. Human capital and labour market outcomes

Kanas, Agnieszka and Frank van Tubergen. 2014. The Conditional Returns to Origin-Country Human Capital among Turkish and Moroccan Immigrants in Belgium. Social Science Research, 46:130-141.

Kanas, Agnieszka and Frank van Tubergen. 2009. “The Impact of Origin- and Host-Country Schooling on the Economic Performance of Immigrants.” Social Forces, 88(2):893-916.

Kanas, Agnieszka, Frank van Tubergen and Tanja van der Lippe. 2009. “Immigrant Self-Employment: Testing Hypotheses about the Role of Origin- and Host-Country Human Capital and Bonding and Bridging Social Capital.” Work and Occupations, 36:181-208.

12.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Session 1-3 Presentation and discussion of papers by workshop participants

Feng-bin Chang, Associate Professor at Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University. "Educational Resources, Mismatch, and Employment Outcomes among Adolescents"

Presenter and Discussant: Li-Hui Peng, Assistant Professor at Graduate Institute of Future Studies, Tamkang University, Taipei,Taiwan

Li-Hui Peng, Assistant Professor at Graduate Institute of Future Studies, Tamkang University, Taipei,Taiwan. "Educational Programs of Higher Education and Inequality

of Social Capital in Taiwan"

Presenter and Discussant: Tien-Tun Yang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University

Tien-Tun Yang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University. "Mechanisms of Trust Formation under Different Conditions of Political Identity"

Presenter and Discussant: Feng-bin Chang, Associate Professor at Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University.

15.30 - 15.50 Coffee Break

15.50 – 17.00         Session 2-3: Social Inequality

·      Continuation of Lecture on Discrimination and/or discussion of papers presented by participants. If time permits:

o   Cross-national comparative studies on ethnic inequality

o   Hidden factors of inequality: The relative age effect

o   Consequences of income inequality

B. Personal work covered in lecture:

Cross-national comparative studies on ethnic inequality

Spörlein, Christoph and Frank van Tubergen. 2014. "The Occupational Status of Immigrants in Western and non-Western Societies." International Journal of Comparative Sociology,55(2),119-143.

Van Tubergen, Frank. 2006. “Occupational Status of Immigrants in Cross-National Perspective: A Multilevel Analysis of 17 Western Societies.” Pp. 147-171 in: Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, edited by G. Parsons and T. Smeeding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Van Tubergen, Frank, Ineke Maas, and Henk Flap. 2004. “The Economic Incorporation of Immigrants in 18 Western Societies: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects.” American Sociological Review 69:701-24.

Day 3: Culture, Social Influence, and Religion

9.00 - 10.20    Session 3-1. Lecture: Culture and Social Influence

·      Culture: definitions, research problems.                           

·      Macro trends in culture.

·      Theories on social influence. Social control, learning.

·      Social influence I: from macro conditions to micro behavior.

·      Research on friendships among adolescents in school;

·      Peer influence and peer selection.

·      Methods: panel studies, SIENA

·      Social influence II: from micro interactions to macro outcomes.

·      Granovetter threshold models;

·      Watts and Dodds and Salganik. Cultural markets.

A. Required readings:

Geven, Sara, Jeroen Weesie, and Frank van Tubergen. 2013. “The influence of friends on adolescents’ behavior problems at school: the role of ego, alter and dyadic characteristics.” Social Networks 35: 583-592.

C. Other relevant literature

C1. SIENA: peer selection and peer influence.

Veenstra, R. and J-K. Dijkstra. (2011). Transformations in Peer Adolescent Networks. (see: http://www.ppsw.rug.nl/~veenstra/CV/veenstra_relationship_pathways.pdf)

Baerveldt, Chris, Volker,Beate, and Van Rossem,Ronan. (2008). Revisiting Selection and Influence: An Inquiry into the Friendship Networks of High School Students and their Association with Delinquency. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 50 (5):559-587.

Zalk, V., et al. (2010). It Takes Three: Selection, Influence, and De-Selection Processes of Depression in Adolescent Friendship Networks. Developmental Psychology 46 (4):927.

Dijkstra, J. K., Lindenberg, S., Veenstra, R., Steglich, C., Isaacs, J., Card, N. A., & Hodges, E. V. E. (2010). Influence and selection processes in weapon carrying during adolescence: The roles of status, aggression, and vulnerability. Criminology, 48(1), 187-220. (P2)

Burk, W. J., Steglich, C. E. G., & Snijders, T. A. B. (2007). Beyond dyadic interdependence: Actor-oriented models for co-evolving social networks and individual behaviors. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31(4), 397-404. 

Steglich, C., T. A. B. Snijders and M. Pearson. 2010. "Dynamic Networks and Behavior: Separating Selection from Influence." Sociological Methodology, 40: 329-393.

C2. Other work on social influence

Granovetter, M. 1978. "Threshold Models for Collective Behavior." American Journal of Sociology 83(6):1420-1443.

Cialdini, R. B. and N. J. Goldstein. 2004. "Social Influence: Compliance and Conformity." Annual Review of Psychology 55:591-621.

Centola, D. (2010). The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment. Science. 329: 1194-1197.

Bikhchandani, S., D. Hirshleifer and I. Welch. 1998. "Learning from the Behavior of Others: Conformity, Fads, and Informational Cascades." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 12(3):151-170. (P1)

Centola, D. & Macy, M. (2007). Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties. American Journal of Sociology.113: 702-734. (P2)

Watts, D. and P.S. Dodds. (2007). Influentials, Networks, and Public Opinion Formation. Journal of Consumer Research, 34: 441-458

Kuran, T. 1991. "Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989." World Politics: A Quarterly Journal of International Relations:7-48.

Schnettler, S. (2009). A structured overview of 50 years of small-world research. Social Networks, 31(3), 165-178.

Myers, D. J. 2000. "The Diffusion of Collective Violence: Infectiousness, Susceptibility, and Mass Media Networks." American Journal of Sociology 106(1):173-208.

Wejnert, B. 2002. "Integrating Models of Diffusion of Innovations: A Conceptual Framework." Annual Review of Sociology:297-326.

Bikhchandani, S., D. Hirshleifer and I. Welch. 1998. "Learning from the Behavior of Others: Conformity, Fads, and Informational Cascades." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 12(3):151-170.

Dodds, P. S. and D. J. Watts. 2009. ‘Threshold Models of Social Influence.’ Pp 475-497, In The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology, P. Hedström and P. Bearman. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break

10.40 – 12.00 Session 3-2: Religion

·      Different dimensions of religion. Beliefs, practices, experiences.

·      Classical sociologists: modernization/secularization theory

·      Critique. New alternative: religious market theory. Application rational choice.

·      Refinements of modernization theory: insecurity theory Inglehart-Norris.

·      Europe-US debate on key claims and findings.

·      Presentation of own recent theoretical and empirical work on religion with Ruiter, Immerzeel, Sindradottir, etc.

A. Required readings

Stijn Ruiter and Frank van Tubergen. 2009. “Religious Attendance in Cross-National Perspective: A Multilevel Analysis of 60 Countries.” American Journal of Sociology, 115 (3): 863-895.

B. Other personal work covered in lecture:

Van Tubergen, Frank. 2013. “Religious Change of New Immigrants in the Netherlands: The Event of Migration.” Social Science Research, 42(3):715-725.

Immerzeel, Tim and Frank van Tubergen. 2013. “Religion as Reassurance? Testing the Insecurity Theory in 26 European Countries.” European Sociological Review, 29(2): 359-372.

Van Tubergen, Frank and Jórunn Iris Sindradóttir. 2011. “The Religiosity of Immigrants in Europe: A Cross-National Study.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50(2): 272-288.

De Hoon, Sean and Frank van Tubergen. 2014. “The Religiosity of Children of Immigrants and Natives in England, Germany and the Netherlands: The Role of Parents and Peers in Class". European Sociological Review, 30, 194-206.

Van der Pol, Jasper and Frank van Tubergen. 2014. “Inheritance of religiosity among Muslim immigrants in a secular society.” Review of Religious Research, 56 (1), 87-106.

Smits, Fransje, Stijn Ruiter and Frank van Tubergen. 2010. “Religious Practices Among Islamic Immigrants: Moroccan and Turkish Men in Belgium” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 49(2):247-263.

Van Tubergen, Frank. 2007. “Religious Affiliation and Participation among Immigrants in a Secular Society: A Study of Immigrants in the Netherlands.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33 (5): 747-65.

Van Tubergen, Frank. 2006. “Religious Affiliation and Participation among Immigrants in Eight Western Countries: A Cross-National Study of Individual and Contextual Effects.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45:1-22.

12.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 Session 3-3 Presentation and discussion of papers by workshop participants

Yen-Sheng Chiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. " Good Samaritans in Networks:A companion of agent-based model and laboratory experiment on how networks influence egalitarian sharing and the evolution of inequality"

Presenter and Discussant: Thijs Velema, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University

Li-Hsuan Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University. "Examining the activation of social capital"

Presenter and Discussant: Yen-Sheng Chiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Thijs Velema, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University. "Picking the right fish for your pond: How the duality of individuals and organizations shapes transfer networks in European professional football"

Presenter and Discussant: Li-Hsuan Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University

15.30 - 15.50 Coffee Break

15.50 – 17.00         Session 3-3: Culture

·      Continuation of Lecture on Religion and/or discussion of papers presented by participants.

·      Review of workshop, discussion, open questions