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Abstracts kunnen worden ingediend via dit formulier. 

Deadline voor indiening: maandag 22 maart 2026. Je zal midden april op de hoogte worden gebracht of jouw abstract is aanvaard en in welke sessie je bent ingedeeld. 

Richtlijnen 

Abstracts dienen in het Engels of Nederlands te worden ingediend en moeten de volgende elementen bevatten: 

• Titel 
• Naam/namen van auteur(s), inclusief affiliatie en e-mailadres 
• Abstract (maximaal 300 woorden) 
• Keywords (maximaal 4) 

Auteurs kunnen maximaal 1 paper zelf presenteren, maar kunnen wel op meerdere papers op het programma coauteur zijn.   

Sessiekeuze

1. Open sessie

2. Algemene sessies

• ​Armoede
  
• Bevolking
• Cultuur
• Discriminatie
• Economische sociologie
• Familiesociologie
• Gender & Seksualiteit
• Geweld & (on)veiligheid
• Methodes
• Migratie & Etniciteit
• Milieu & Klimaat
• Onderwijs
• Religie
• Sociaal beleid
• Sociaal werk
• Sociale netwerken
• Stad & Wonen
• Stratificatie & Klasse
• Theorie
• Werk & Arbeid
• Zorg & Gezondheid
  

3. Thematische sessies

• Homelessness and other forms of precarity (English ONLY)
  Stef Adriaenssens, Koen Hermans
  The real lives of people confronted with homelessness are a complicated phenomenon, often at odds with the public perception and even the social policies or social work practices. That is problematic not only because it can foster misunderstandings or lead to enmity toward those most socially excluded, but also because it can complicate effective policy responses. In this session, we examine the relationship between the survival strategies of people at risk of homelessness and the approaches and perceptions of broader society and policy. The thread weaving the contributions together is that homelessness requires a myriad of survival activities, and that, most probably, those at the bottom in terms of resources and income-generating abilities are more prone to fall into situations of precarious housing or other forms of homelessness. We are particularly interested in contributions that connect survival strategies to homelessness, build on the agency of the homeless, or examine the interconnections between housing and income deprivation.
• Politieke sociologie​
  Willem de Koster, Niels Spierings, Marcel Lubbers
  This panel is open for quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods sociological research on socio-political attitudes and political participation, both inside institutional politics (e.g. voting behaviour) and outside formal institutions (e.g. protesting). Presentations on political polarization, support for certain political attitudes, non-voting or specific voting preferences can, for instance, be part of this panel. Selected submissions may focus on differences in these outcomes between social classes, educational categories, genders, ethnic groups or other differences in relation to the social and political context. It offers a platform at the Dag van de Sociologie to bring together sociologists interested in the study of politics.
• Singlehood as emerging field in social demography
  Elke Claessens, Dries Van Gasse, Dimitri Mortelmans
  Over the past decades, singlehood has shifted from a residual or transitional status to a durable and increasingly common life course position in modern societies. Along with rising ages at first union, union instability, and the diversification of relationship trajectories, the growing proportion of un- or never-partnered adults is profoundly reshaping demographic patterns. Yet, despite its salience, singlehood remains theoretically underdeveloped and empirically fragmented within social sciences in general and social demography in particular. This session proposes to position singlehood as a distinct and emerging field of inquiry at the intersection of family demography, life course research, and social stratification. We invite contributions that conceptualize singlehood beyond absence of partnership, examining its heterogeneity, meanings, and consequences across social groups and institutional contexts. Submissions may address, among others, the dynamics of entering, exiting, and sustaining singlehood; socioeconomic, gendered, and cultural inequalities among singles; and the links between singlehood and well-being, health, housing, or social integration. We particularly welcome research that challenges normative couple-centered frameworks and highlights how social and family policies, welfare regimes, housing markets, and workplace practices shape single lives. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches are encouraged, as are theoretical reflections on how singlehood can be better integrated into demographic models of family change. By bringing together diverse perspectives, this session aims to consolidate singlehood as a legitimate and necessary object of demographic analysis, fostering dialogue on its implications for social inequality, family norms, and population change in contemporary societies.
• Relational Dynamics and Legal Norms in Post-Divorce Families
  Kimberly Jacobs, Bieke Maes
  Post-divorce family life is shaped by both legal frameworks and relational processes. Shared physical custody is widely promoted as an egalitarian arrangement, yet lived experiences reveal persistent inequalities and vulnerabilities. This session explores how relational dynamics and legal norms intersect in shaping family roles and identities. Maternal gatekeeping emerges as a key mechanism influencing paternal involvement, demonstrating that legal equality does not guarantee experiential equality. Fathers report that informal control over routines and communication can restrict autonomy and affect well-being. Beyond custody, stepfamilies face a lack of legal recognition in Belgium, raising questions about rights and responsibilities. Attitudes toward a legal framework for stepparents vary widely, reflecting diverse family experiences and values. At the same time, children experience divorce as a process that disrupts relationships and routines, challenging their sense of belonging. These findings underscore that family transitions cannot be understood solely through legal arrangements; they are embedded in ongoing negotiations of care, authority, and identity. By integrating perspectives on fatherhood, stepfamily dynamics, and children’s lived realities, this session advances sociological understanding of how law and relational practices jointly shape post-divorce family life.
• Parenting and Family Life after Divorce
  Kimberly Jacobs
  Shared physical custody has become the legal standard in Belgium, aiming to ensure parental equality and maintain strong parent-child relationships. This session examines how family life is reorganized after divorce and how parents and children experience these transitions. Equal custody arrangements require parents to combine full parental responsibility with alternating care schedules, which introduces organizational, emotional, and financial challenges. Parents must redefine their roles within shorter contact periods while sustaining cooperation with an ex-partner. These dynamics affect work-life balance, particularly for single parents, who report time pressure and stress when managing professional and family obligations. Strategies such as flexible work arrangements and reliance on informal networks emerge as coping mechanisms, yet structural vulnerabilities persist. At the same time, children experience divorce as a profound transformation of their daily lives rather than a legal event. Their perspectives reveal how custody arrangements and family transitions shape feelings of continuity, belonging, and security. Together, these insights highlight the complexity of shared custody: it promotes parental engagement but amplifies relational and socio-economic strains. This session contributes to sociological debates by integrating parental agency, work-life balance, and child experiences, offering a nuanced understanding of post-divorce family life.
  
• Jeugdonderzoek
  Bram Spruyt, Lieve Bradt
  In deze sessie verwelkomen we empirische studies in het brede domein van de jeugdsociologie. Bijdragen kunnen zicht richten op alle facetten van de leefwereld van jongeren en kunnen zowel bestaan uit kwantitatieve als kwalitatieve onderzoek. We staan open voor zowel fundamenteel als toegepast en/of beleidsgericht onderzoek. De leeftijdsgrens van jongeren wordt afgebakend tussen 12 en 25 jaar.
• Mantelzorg
  Marjolein Broese van Groenou, Ellen Verbakel
  Dankzij de vergrijzing en hervorming van de langdurige zorg neemt al enkele jaren de vraag om mantelzorg toe. Een groeiend aantal burgers wordt geconfronteerd met de zorgbehoefte van een naaste en een verminderde beschikbaarheid van professionele zorg. Dit roept de vraag op hoe mantelzorgers hun taken volbrengen en overbelasting weten te voorkomen, welke rol de zorgbehoevende en het zorgnetwerk hierin spelen, en welke ondersteuning ze daarvoor nodig hebben van werkgevers, zorgprofessionals en overheid. In dit panel willen we uitnodigen om papers aan te leveren die meer inzicht bieden in hoe mantelzorg een duurzaam onderdeel van de langdurige zorg kan blijven. Denk aan onderwerpen als werk en mantelzorg, samenwerking formele en informele zorg, organisatie van zorg binnen families, de rol van niet-familie in een zorgnetwerk, de relatie tussen zorg en welbevinden, ongelijkheidsvraagstukken, en dergelijke.
• Class bias and socio-economic inequalities in schools (English ONLY)
  Fenella Fleischmann, Sara Geven
  Across four papers, this session aims to deepen our understanding of how socio-economic educational inequality is (re-)created in the Dutch educational system. The build-up of the session follows the educational career from early primary school to the completion of tertiary education. The first study explores, through in-depth interviews, the perspective of teachers in grade 2-5 regarding their understanding and practices of within-school ability tracking. Subsequently, the socio-economic biases of children in grade 4-6 will be examined, based on a longitudinal survey across multiple schools, complemented with a mixed-methods study. The third contribution exploits a combination of register data with longitudinal measures of non-cognitive skills and encompasses late primary school and the third grade of secondary education to examine whether and how returns to non-cognitive skills vary by students’ socio-economic background and school characteristics. Finally, the fourth study applies sequence and cluster analysis to student enrolment data to create an overview of the full educational career and describe which common pathways of mobility between educational tracks exist and which type of students are most likely to follow a particular route. Together, the studies shed light on how socio-economic background (or the perception thereof) shape students’ outcomes throughout their educational career in the Dutch tracked educational system. While all data sources are from (various parts of) the Netherlands, the mechanisms that the studies jointly uncover are likely to hold insights that also apply to other educational contexts that vary in their extent of formal and informal tracking.
• Muziek sociologie
  Pauwke Berkers, Julian Schaap
  Sociological interest in music dates back to the birth of the sociological discipline, evidenced in the works of Max Weber, W.E.B. DuBois, and Georg Simmel. Contemporary cultural sociologists (Pierre Bourdieu, Howard Becker, Richard Peterson and others) have extensively studied music to address classic sociological issues as social inequality and cohesion. Indeed, Bourdieu famously argued that “nothing more clearly affirms one’s ‘class,’ nothing more infallibly classifies, than tastes in music” (1984:18). In their article in the Annual Review of Sociology, William G. Roy and Timothy J. Dowd (2010) demonstrate this wider sociological salience of the study of music, and show how it intersects with central sociological questions on social and social inequality and distinctions. This panel consists of four papers which each contribute – theoretically, methodologically and empirically – to a better understanding of these key issues in the sociology of music.
• Sustainable employability in the creative sector: Passion, precarity, vulnerability and agency. (English ONLY)
  Janna Besamusca, Wike Been
  The cultural and creative sector (CCS) is a prime example for work that is often performed under insecure and precarious working conditions by passionate, autonomy-seeking professionals. Most creative sector workers need to constantly balance their ambition to ‘do what they love’ and the precarity this entails. Building a career in this sector is a major challenge, as evidenced by the commonality of combining different jobs and the high share of workers that leave the sector. The fact that a major share of the workers in the CCS are solo self-employed also means that they are vulnerable for economic and societal shocks that effect work availability, such as rapid advances in AI. This special session brings together research that provides new insights in how workers in the CCS navigate and make sense of challenges when trying to remain sustainably employed. The first paper by Marčeta introduces the topic of precarious creative work. It shows how workers navigate precarity and passion through boundary setting narratives. The second paper by Van den Brand and colleagues presents results from a realist synthesis on the effectiveness of interventions for sustainable employability of self-employed workers in the sector, proposing a set of mechanisms that help explain interventions’ effectiveness. The third paper by Kang and Loots focuses on how workers’ reasons for multiple jobholding affect job satisfaction and overall wellbeing. The fourth paper by Been focuses on rapid advances in AI as a specific threat to sustainable employability, examining how voice actors respond to these advances.
  
• Observed versus perceived ethno-racial discrimination (NOT OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS)
  Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Lore Verfaillie
  During the last decades, two rich research traditions have been emerged to examine ethno-racial discrimination. On the one hand, the tradition on discriminatory behaviour uses field-experimental methods to observe and analyse discriminatory behaviour is different settings, such as housing, labour, education or during everyday interactions. On the other hand, the research tradition on perceived experiences of discrimination has used surveys and semi-structured interviews among racialized groups to study the lived experiences of discrimination from a first-person perspective.Both research traditions are, however, seldomly integrated. These two sessions aim to advance a more comprehensive understanding of ethno-racial discrimination by including studies from both research traditions. The included papers examine different aspects of the field, such as cross-national patterns of discrimination across different groups, the so-called integration paradox, and the role of institutional and structural racism. Together they offer a more integrated perspective on racial discrimination, moving beyond the separate research traditions
  
• Anti-Institutionalism, Sovereign Citizens and State Response (NOT OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS)
  Stefan Manser-Egli, Emma van der Tak, Sem Oosse
  In recent years, and especially since the Covid pandemic, the phenomenon of “sovereign citizens” has raised increased attention in the media and public discourse as a result of growing support in Western democracies, beyond its historic origins in the US and Germany. While the phenomenon is as heterogenous as the terms used to describe it – Reichsbürger, Selbstverwalter, Staatsverweigerer, autonomen, soevereinen, sovereign citizens, freemen, and so on – it can be broadly defined as follows: groups and individuals who for various motives and on various grounds – e.g. by referring to national history, conspiracy theories or the law of nature – reject the existence of the state and its legal system, deny the legitimacy of its democratically elected representatives or claim that the legal order does not apply to them. In short, sovereign citizens challenge and reject the legitimacy of the liberal democratic state. Interestingly, there is a lack of research on the phenomenon from sociological and ethnographic perspectives. While much of the existing literature addresses the phenomenon as a security threat through the lens of terrorism, criminology or psychology, this panel approaches the phenomenon from explicitly sociological, socio-legal and ethnographic perspectives. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork among sovereign citizen movements and state authorities in the Netherlands and in Switzerland, the contributions address a highly topical phenomenon for academia, politics and society.
  
• Sociology of work: Worker agency and voice: individual and collective strategies in a changing world (NOT OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS)
  Wike Been, Alex Lehr
  Ostensibly, workers have the power to shape the rights, responsibilities and rewards allocated to them. They can voice their interests individually at their workplace, for example by appealing to their supervisors, and but also collectively, for example via the representation of their interests by labor unions and works councils. In doing so, they can opt for consensus-oriented strategies or more conflict-oriented ones such as labor protests and strikes. However, in practice, whether, to what degree and how workers enact these options, and what they can achieve, depends on their motivations, opportunities and the constraints that they face. These are not constant but vary over time, across context, and between different categories of workers. For example, a number of long-term and more recent trends have the potential to fundamentally change worker agency and voice: labor migration, labor market segmentation and dualization, and technological change such as the rise of artificial intelligence.This session features research that addresses the impact of these changes theoretically, conceptually and empirically. We discuss research on digitalization and the quality of working life; on the autonomy and voice of labor migrants and how these are shaped by labor market segmentation and migrant labor regimes; the impact of artificial intelligence on workers fear of automation and displacement and how these influence their willingness to join labor protests and strikes; how labor market flexibilization and declining labor union membership are changing the balance between individual and collective worker strategies; and what it means classify collective labor conflicts such as strike as successful or beneficial in the 21st Century.
  
• Sociology of work: Collectieve arbeidsverhoudingen in transitie: continuïteit, erosie en vernieuwing (NOT OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS)
  Wike Been, Alex Lehr
  Het systeem van arbeidsverhoudingen, waarin vakbonden en werkgevers(organisaties) collectieve arbeidsovereenkomsten (cao’s) afsluiten, vormt in zowel Nederland als België een belangrijk mechanisme voor het vaststellen van arbeidsvoorwaarden. De twee landen verschillen echter in de robuustheid van het systeem. In Nederland staat het stelsel onder druk, wat zich onder meer uit in een laag vakbondslidmaatschap en een dalend aandeel werkenden dat onder een cao valt. In België is het systeem vooralsnog stabieler, met hogere organisatiegraad en cao-dekkingsgraad. Ook daar is de continuïteit echter geen vanzelfsprekendheid. Dynamiek op huidige arbeidsmarkt, waaronder individualisering, liberalisering en technologische ontwikkelingen zetten ook hier, net als in andere Europese landen, het collectieve karakter van het systeem onder druk.De ontwikkelingen en dynamiek op de arbeidsmarkt en in de maatschappij vergroten de noodzaak voor vakbonden om zich te vernieuwen. De afspraken die binnen Europa zijn gemaakt om de cao-dekkingsgraad op minimaal 80 procent te brengen vergroten daarnaast het appèl op overheden. Tegelijkertijd zorgen de ontwikkelingen ervoor dat verschillen tussen sectoren groter worden en dat het proces aan de cao-tafel dat zich tussen onderhandelaars van de verschillende partijen afspeelt bepalender wordt voor de uitkomsten.Deze sessie brengt onderzoekers uit Nederland en België samen om de dynamiek rondom arbeidsverhoudingen, de huidige stand van zaken en de toekomstbestendigheid van het systeem te bespreken. Het onderzoek dat zal worden gepresenteerd richt zich onder meer op de geleidelijke erosie van het Nederlandse arbeidsverhoudingenstelsel, de dynamiek van cao-onderhandelingen, en innovatieve vakbondsstrategieën die hierop inspelen.
  

Deelname voorwaarden  

• Alle presentators moeten zich inschrijven voor de conferentie als ze willen dat hun abstract deel uitmaakt van het programma.  
• NSV lidmaatschap is aangeraden. Het biedt verschillende voordelen, zoals een verminderde inschrijvingsfee.  

Naar jaarlijkse gewoonte is het programma van de Dag van de Sociologie opgebouwd uit een mix van thematische sessies. Graag bieden we de mogelijkheid om zelf thematische sessies voor te stellen voor meer gespecialiseerde discussies en/of onderwerpen. Een volledige presentatiesessie bestaat uit vier paperpresentaties, bij voorkeur van minimaal twee verschillende universiteiten of instituten. We zoeken naar een goede mix van sessies die volledig Nederlandstalig en volledig Engelstalig zijn. 

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