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Contactgegevens:
Department of Sociology/ICS,
Heidelberglaan 2,
3584 CS Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Van Unnik Building,
room 14.26
Phone office:
+31 30 253 3467
Phone secretary:
+31 30 253 2101
Fax:
+31 30 253 4405
e-mail: b.volker@uu.nl
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Biografie: |
Education and academic degrees
1995 Ph.D. Sociology, Utrecht University/ICS. Title: ‘Should auld acquaintance be forgot?’ The Institutions of Communism, the Transition to Capitalism and Personal Networks. The Case of East Germany.
1990MSc Social Psychology, Heidelberg University
Academic positions and research projects (selection)
Since 2007Professor of Sociology, in particular the functioning of relationships and prosocial behavior (by special appointment)
2006 - presentPrincipal investigator in the UU-Hipo program “Life Chances of Firms and Neighborhoods” together with Veronique Schutjens (Geo-sciences)
2005 -2010Member of the Young Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW- DJA)
2002 - presentAssociate professor, Department of Sociology / ICS, Utrecht University.
2001- 2006Principal investigator of NWO Vidi project “Where Friends are made. Contexts, Contacts, and Consequences.”
2000Research fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW-onderzoeker)
1997- 2000Post doc, Department of Sociology / ICS, Utrecht University; project: Creation and Returns of Social Capital (together with Henk Flap)
1996 – 1997Interim full professorship ‘empirical sociology’, RWTH University of Aachen, Germany, Dept. of Sociology.
1995 - 1996Post-doc, Department of Sociology / ICS, University of Groningen
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Onderwijs Taken: |
Teaching
BA
Questions and Theories of Sociology (together with Henk Flap)
Social networks – Theories and empirical Research
Coordination of exchange with Mannheim, Cologne and Düsseldorf (Germany)
Coordination of approved optional minor social sciences for students of economics
MA
Application of Social Theory: Social networks and Social Capital (together with Henk Flap and Rene Torenvlied)
Research Practicum 2: Integration of Social Network Theory and Statistical Methods (together with Vincent Buskens)
Coordination of Traineeship
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Research: |
Research interests
Social networks and social capital
Social settings and resulting relationships
Community in neighborhoods and at the workplace
Conditions of social and physical order
Dark sides of networks: enmity and crime
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Overzicht publicaties: |
Selected key publications
Dissertation:
Völker, B (1995)"'Should auld Acquaintance be forgot...?’ Institutions of Communism, the Transition to Capitalism and Personal Networks: the Case of East Germany” Amsterdam: Thela Thesis.
Völker, B. and H. Flap (2007) Sixteen Million Neighbors. A Multilevel Study on the Role of Neighbors in the Personal Networks of the Dutch. Forthcoming in Urban Affairs Review
Völker, B.; H. Flap & S. Lindenberg (2007) When are neighborhoods communities? European Sociological Review, 23, 1, 99-114.
Völker, B. and H. Flap (2007) Feinde am Arbeitsplatz. Zur Entstehung negativer Arbeitsbezihungen. Verhandlungsband der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute (forthcoming)
Völker, B., H. Flap & G. Mollenhorst (2007) Where friends are found. Friendship patterns in different social settings. In: R.M. Hsung, N.Lin & R. Breiger (eds) Contexts of Social Capital. Social Capital in Community, Markets and Organizations. London: Routledge (forthcoming)
Flap, H. & B. Völker (2007) Social, cultural and economic resources and job attainment: the position generator as a measure of cultural and economic resources. Forthcoming in N. Lin & B. Erickson (eds) Social Capital: Advances in Research. Aldine and De Gruyter, New York. (forthcoming).
Völker, B (2006) Convivium: Who is friend with whom? Entry in Blackwell’s Encycloedia of Sociology (edited by G. Ritzer; see Sociology Encyclopedia
Völker, B. (ed.) 2005 Burgers in de buurt. Samenleven in wijk, buurt en verenigingen. Boekuitgave Mens en Maatschappij, Amsterdam: University Press.
Flap, H. & B. Völker (eds) (2004) Creation and Returns of Social Capital. Theory, Research and Measurement. Routledge. London, UK.
Völker, B. & H. Flap (2003) The Strength of Weak Ties Revisited. The Case of East Germany. Pp28-45 in E.M. Uslaner & G. Badescu (eds): Social Capital and the Transition to Democracy. London: Routledge.
Völker, B. & H. Flap (2001) The Liability of Weak Ties in Communist societies. The Case of the Former GDR Rationality and Society 13 (4) 401-428.
Flap, H. & B. Völker (2001) Goal Specific Social Capital and Job Satisfaction. Effects of different types of networks on instrumental and social aspects of work. Social Networks 23 (4) 297-320.
Völker, B. & H. Flap (1999) Getting ahead in the former GDR. Human and social capital in the status attainment process under communism. Acta Sociologica, 1:17-34.
Völker, B & H. Flap (1997) The Comrade's Belief: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Communism for Neighbourhood Relations in the former GDR European Sociological Review 13:241-265.
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Interessante links: |
Links
Department of Sociology, UU (Dutch)
Undergraduate sociology program (BA), UU (Dutch)
Research Master's Program SaSR, UU, with information on admission's procedure etc.
Master's Program on Policy Studies, UU
Research school Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), with information on vacancies (fully funded) for PhD students and vacancies for postdocs
Research Center ICS Utrecht |
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