Last saturday, leader of the Dutch right-wing liberals (VVD) Mark Rutte, presented a concept version of his new declaration of principles. His members, however, disagreed on some of the principles but focused mainly how some sentences were formulated. Is that all, you might think: linguistics only?
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Neighborhoods are hot in the Netherlands. Especially the problems that have arisen in some neighborhood have attracted a lot of governmental attention the last couple of years. Reason for me dive into some of the literature on residential segregation, troubled neighborhoods, and obviously the people living in these neighborhoods.
I have argued elsewhere that to understand the state that neighborhoods are in on account of whatever characteristic, it is crucial to focus on the individual residential mobility histories of the inhabitants of the neighborhood. The paper discussed today does exactly that by attempting to answer two research questions: (1) “what are the main differences between the migration histories and dwelling careers of different socio-economic groups?” and (2) “what is the relation between dwelling careers and urban structure?”
My recent talk to students gave me a new idea for my website ‘Curving Normality’. During that talk, I used a recent newspaper to show how the three main three questions of sociology are easily found in the news.
I write a lot for this website, often about peer-reviewed research, methodology, and other aspects of science. The sociology, my core discipline, perhaps does not receive enough attention. Thus, I’ll start a new topic for this site today: Sociology Today. In it, I will regularly select a specific and single news-source, such as a newspaper and a and will try to find articles related to the three main questions of sociology: rationalization, inequality, and cohesion. I will very shortly comment all articles and obviously link to them wherever publicly available.
See it as a little game (does he manage realistically), see it as an interesting source of information, but mostly enjoy it. All of you are invited to request a specific newspaper for me to read and `sociologize’. As long as I can get my hands on it (on paper or digitally) I’m up for the challenge. Sociology indeed is everywhere around you!