Coordinating Societal Change
Societal transformations like globalisation, individualisation and migration have a serious impact on the way people work and live. Urban areas are affected, life courses, social ties and family relations are influenced, and careers, occupational relations, and work practices are adapted. This might have beneficial effects, but it also threatens cohesiveness and may lead to societal fragmentation, spatial segregation and social insecurities.
In the focus area Coordinating Societal Change, we try to understand how societal transformations work, and how effects can be governed and coordinated in order to mitigate problematic outcomes. We also study which responses are generated in civil society, and what new forms of governance arise. We devise innovative forms of social coordination that guarantee the competitiveness of societies, while safeguarding their cohesion. We link different levels of analysis and connect various disciplines and areas of expertise to study certain key issues – urban context, life courses, and work and occupation – so that transformations can be governed and regulated in new and creative ways.
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Contact information
Prof. M. (Mirko) Noordegraaf
T 030 253 86 17
E m.noordegraaf@uu.nl
Prof. P. Hooimeijer
T 030 253 32 05
E P.Hooimeijer@uu.nl
dr. Susan Branje
T 030 253 40 39
E s.branje@uu.nl