Biography
Sociologist Jeroen van der Waal (PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2010) is Full Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Fellow at Erasmus University College, and a member of the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities, and alumnus of Young Erasmus. His research is predominantly located in the fields of political sociology and sociology of health.
Explaining why social stratification is linked to value orientations, voting behaviour, and health outcomes in Western societies is the bedrock of his research program. Informed by the Weberian distinction between class and status, Jeroen analyses how both economic and cultural stratification independently affect value orientations, voting behaviour and health, by means of very different mechanisms, and each in various ways.
In order to do so, he goes beyond providing 'explanations' by means of re-establishing well-established empirical generalisations. Instead, the mechanism-based approach applied in Jeroen van der Waal's research programme considers such empirical generalisations mere starting points for research, that is, as patterns that need to be explained by uncovering the mechanisms that underlie these.
You can view Jeroen van der Waal's Google Scholar profile here.
For more information you can also visit his personal website.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- vanderwaal@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Anne Hoekstra, Kjell Noordzij, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2024) - Kennis en ervaren status verklaren opleidingskloof in klimaatscepsis - [link]
- Kjell Noordzij, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2024) - Elitaire leefstijl politici vergroot steun voor harde anti-overheidsactie - [link]
- Kjell Noordzij, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2024) - Politicians' high-status signals make less-educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video-vignette survey experiment - British Journal of Sociology - doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13099
- Anne Hoekstra, Kjell Noordzij, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2024) - The educational divide in climate change attitudes: Understanding the role of scientific knowledge and subjective social status - Global Environmental Change, 86 - doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102851 - [link]
- Thijs Lindner, Stijn Daenekindt, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2024) - De betekenissen die Nederlanders aan verzorgingsstaatchauvinisme geven - [link]
- Tim van Meurs, Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal & Joost Oude Groeniger (2024) - Sugar tax and product reformulation proposals reduce the perceived legitimacy of health-promotion institutions: a randomized population-based survey experiment - European Journal of Public Health, 34 (3), 454-459 - doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckae013 - [link]
- Thijs Lindner, Jonathan Mijs, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2024) - Bevordert meer informatie over ongelijkheid steun voor basisinkomen? - [link]
- Kjell Noordzij, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2024) - Explaining the educational gradient in trust in politicians: A video-vignette survey experiment - West European Politics, 784-812 - doi: 10.1080/01402382.2023.2250163 - [link]
- Thijs Lindner, Stijn Daenekindt, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2024) - What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean?: Evidence from a correlational class analysis - British Journal of Sociology, 75 (3), 271-289 - doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13078 - [link]
- Thijs Lindner, Jonathan Mijs, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2023) - Does informing citizens about the non-meritocratic nature of inequality bolster support for a universal basic income? Evidence from a population-based survey experiment - European Societies, 26 (3), 575-601 - doi: 10.1080/14616696.2023.2272263 - [link]
- Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (21 October 2023) - British Journal of Sociology Prize Awarded to Kjell Noordzij, Willem De Koster, and Jeroen Van Der Waal
- Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (19 October 2023) - British Journal of Sociology Prize awarded to Kjell Noordzij, Willem de Koster, and Jeroen van der Waal
- Michael Berghman, Julian Schaap, Koen Eijck, Willem Koster & Jeroen Waal (2020) - Learning from Latency in Sociological Research: Using the Implicit Association Test to make sense of Timed-Surveys
- Roy Kemmers, SD Aupers & Jeroen Waal (2015) - Becoming Politically Discontented: Anti-establishment Careers of Dutch Nonvoters and Populist Party Voters
- Kjell Noordzij, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2023) - BJS Prize 2022
1.2 Sociologische vraagstukken 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ESSB-S1051
4.2 Political Attitudes & Behaviour
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- FSWS-720
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA-2
- Year Level
- MA-2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CS5050