Erasmus University Rotterdam

dr. (Michaël) M.J. Berghman

dr. (Michaël) M.J. Berghman
Assistant Professor Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication Department of Arts & Culture Studies
Location
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Room
M 7-20
Telephone
+31 10 4082088
Email
berghman@eshcc.eur.nl

More information

‹ Back to overview

Profile

Michaël Berghman (1984) is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Art and Culture at the Erasmus School for History, Culture and Communication.

Michaël studied Sociology at the University of Antwerp and the University of Leuven. Given his extracurricular activities in graphic design, music and theatre, it was no surprise that he was drawn to the arts and culture as study domains. However, he also discovered a profound interest in social inequality (in both its hard and subtler forms). A combination of these interests he found in Cultural Sociology. 

This inspired him to pursue a PhD project entitled 'Context with a Capital C. On the symbolic contextualization of artistic artefacts' at the Centre for…

Michaël Berghman (1984) is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Art and Culture at the Erasmus School for History, Culture and Communication.

Michaël studied Sociology at the University of Antwerp and the University of Leuven. Given his extracurricular activities in graphic design, music and theatre, it was no surprise that he was drawn to the arts and culture as study domains. However, he also discovered a profound interest in social inequality (in both its hard and subtler forms). A combination of these interests he found in Cultural Sociology. 

This inspired him to pursue a PhD project entitled 'Context with a Capital C. On the symbolic contextualization of artistic artefacts' at the Centre for Sociological Research (KU Leuven). In the project he used a multidisciplinary approach to study art perception. Applying a combination of experimental and survey methodology, he studied the impact of context on visual art appreciation.

He was also biefly involved in research on poverty and pension protection.

After finishing his PhD, he joined Project UMA at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (TU Delft). As a postdoctoral researcher, he was involved in the development of a unified model of aesthetics, integrating various psychological principles of aesthetic pleasure.

In 2016, Michaël joined the Department of Arts and Culture Studies, where he teaches on cultural sociology (at various levels) and introduces students to the methods of data collection. He is coordinator for the ACW programme.

His main research interests involve the perception and appreciation of cultural products (whether popular culture, fine art or design) and how they are patterned in social stratification. In particular, he is interested in the embodiment and malleability of taste.   

        • M.J. Berghman & P.P.M. Hekkert (2017). Towards a unified model of aesthetic pleasure in design. New Ideas in Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.03.004
        • M.J. Berghman, N. Donvil & H. Peeters (2016). Sociale bijstand als indicator van armoede bij ouderen. Opname van de IGO naar geslacht, gezinssituatie, herkomst en pensioenstelsel. Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Sociale Zekerheid, 2016 (2).
        • M.J. Berghman, N. Donvil & H. Peeters (2016). L’aide sociale comme indicateur de la pauvreté chez les personnes agées. Répartition de bénéficiaires d’une GRAPA par genre, situation familiale, origine et régime de pension. Revue Belge de Securite Sociale, 2016 (2).
        • M.J. Berghman (2013). Het effect van locatie op kunstwaardering. Veldexperiment naar symbolische contextualisering. Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, 34 (3-4), 414-438.
        • M.J. Berghman & C.J.M. van Eijck (2009). Patronen van waardering voor beeldende kunst: horizontale en verticale culturele grensoverschrijdingen. Sociologie, 5 (3).
        • M.J. Berghman & C.J.M. van Eijck (2009). Visual arts appreciation patterns: crossing horizontal and vertical boundaries within the cultural hierarchy. Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, 37 (4), 348-365. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2009.06.003

        • M.J. Berghman & C.J.M. van Eijck (2012). De naam maakt de kunst. EOS magazine: wetenschap en technologie voor de mens, 2012 (1), 36.

      • M.J. Berghman, W. De Tavernier & H. Peeters (2014). Armoede bij ouderen. Sociale bijstand naar geslacht, huishouden, pensioenstelsel en gewest. In H. Knapen, S. Braes, T. Ermans & W. Herremans (Eds.), Het Datawarehouse, een duizendpoot! Perspectieven van het Datawarehouse Arbeidsmarkt en Sociale Bescherming (pp. 111-132). Gent: Academia Press
      • M.J. Berghman & C.J.M. van Eijck (2012). Beeldende kunst in een symbolische context. In I. Glorieux, J. Siongers & W. Smits (Eds.), Mark Elchardus. Cultuursociologie buiten de lijnen (pp. 349-367). Tielt: Lannoo

      • M.J. Berghman & P.P.M. Hekkert (2016). The beauty of balance – an empirical integration of the unified model of aesthetics for product design. In Proceedings of DRS2016. Brighton
      • P.P.M. Hekkert, M. Sauerwein & M.J. Berghman (2016). An examination into cross-sensory aesthetic pleasure. In Proceedings of the 24th biennial congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. Vienna
      • M.J. Berghman & P.P.M. Hekkert (2016). Introduction - aesthetic pleasure in design. In Proceedings of DRS2016. Brighton
      • N. Cila, M. Rozendaal, M.J. Berghman & P.P.M. Hekkert (2015). Searching for balance in aesthetic pleasure in interaction. In DeSForM 2015. Milan
      • M.J. Berghman, N. Cila & P.P.M. Hekkert (2014). The combined effect of perceptual and conceptual dimensions on product design aesthetics. In Proceedings of the 23rd biennial congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. New York
      • M.J. Berghman, C.J.M. van Eijck & K. Beullens (2010). Symbolic investment as contextualization. An experiment on the effects of modalities of presentation on the appreciation of artistic artefacts. In Conference Trente ans après “la distinction” – thirty years after “distinction”. Paris: SciencesPo
      • M.J. Berghman & C.J.M. van Eijck (2008). Visual arts appreciation patterns: crossing horizontal and vertical boundaries within the cultural hierarchy. In Conference on Classification in the Arts and Media: The Impact of Globalization and Commercialization. Rotterdam

      • M.J. Berghman & J. Michael (2019). Organiser of Cultural Sociology Lowlands.
      • M.J. Berghman (2018). Let Me Think About That – Developing a latency-based tool for the sociological study of cultural Taste. 10 th midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Networks Sociology of the Arts & Sociology of Culture: Malta (2018, september 4 - 2018, september 7).

  • Introduction to Social Science Methods

    Title
    Introduction to Social Science Methods
    Year
    2018
    Year level
    (BA-1) (BA-1)

    Contemp. Appr. in Cult. Soc.

    Title
    Contemp. Appr. in Cult. Soc.
    Year
    2018
    Year level
    (BA-2) (BA-2)

    Cultuur in de Lage Landen

    Title
    Cultuur in de Lage Landen
    Year
    2018
    Year level
    (BA-2) (BA-2)

    Master Thesis Class ACS

    Title
    Master Thesis Class ACS
    Year
    2018
    Year level
    (MA)

    Master Thesis ACS

    Title
    Master Thesis ACS
    Year
    2018
    Year level
    (MA)

    Art, Culture and Society

    Title
    Art, Culture and Society
    Year
    2018
    Year level
    (Minor) (Other)

  • Assistant Professor

    University
    Erasmus University Rotterdam
    School
    Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
    Department
    Department of Arts & Culture Studies
    Country
    Nederland
    Telephone
    +31 10 4082088

Address

Visiting address

Burg. Oudlaan 50 3062 PA Rotterdam

Postal address

Postbus 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam