Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences

dr. (Jeroen) J. van der Waal

dr. (Jeroen) J. van der Waal
Associate Professor Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences Department of Public Administration and Sociology/ Sociology
Location
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Room
T 15-45
Telephone
+31 10 4082390
Email
vanderwaal@essb.eur.nl

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Sociologist Jeroen van der Waal (PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2010) is Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Fellow at Erasmus…

Sociologist Jeroen van der Waal (PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2010) is Associate 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 Young Erasmus. His research is predominantly located in the fields of political sociology, sociology of stratification, and sociology of health.

Explaining why social stratification is linked to value orientations, voting behaviour, and health disparities 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.

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Visiting address

Burg. Oudlaan 50 3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam