SOCIAL COHESION – TOWARDS A NEW FABRIC OF SOCIETY

The Consortium

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A Multidisciplinary Interuniversity Team

SOCION is a collaboration between scientists from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Currently, the consortium has 25 members.

Disciplines represented in the consortium currently comprise Social Psychology, Sociology, Social and Economic History, Philosophy and Demography.

Participating Universities include the University of Groningen (commissioner), Utrecht University, VU University Amsterdam, and Radboud University Nijmegen. Also the Interdisciplinary Netherlands Institute of Demography (NIDI), an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), is represented.

Disciplines and Members

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Psychology

Belle Derks, Naomi Ellemers, Nina Hansen, Yasin Koc, Russell Spears, Jojanneke van der Toorn

Sociology

Basak Bilecen, Vincent Buskens, Liesbet Heyse, Eva Jaspers, Tanja van der Lippe, Ellen Verbakel, Rafael Wittek

Philosophy

Justin Bernstein, Leah Henderson, Lisa Herzog, Pauline Kleingeld, Philip Robichaud, Martin van Hees

Demography

Helga de Valk, Kène Henkens, Matthijs Kalmijn

History

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Maanik Nath, Selin Dilli

International Advisory Board

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  • Jay van Bavel (New York University) – Psychology and Neural Science, group identity, moral judgment, cooperation, decision-making, political beliefs, fake news, conspiracy theories
  • Francesco Billari (Bocconi University Milan) –Demography, lifecourse, family change, geography, digitalization
  • Nancy Cartwright (University of California San Diego) – Philosophy of (social) sciences, interdisciplinarity
  • Pearl Dijkstra (ODISSEI) – Social science data infrastructures, aging societies, intergenerational solidarity
  • Marko Hekkert (PBL) – Netherlands Environmental Assessment, Climate adaptation, social transitions
  • Jolanda Jetten (University of Queensland) –Psychology, social inequality, group processes and pressures, intergroup conflict, and social protest, stereotyping, prejudice, deviance, conformity
  • Monique Kremer (Dutch Migration Advisory Council) – Migration, active citizenship
  • Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) –Sociology, inclusion, social worth, stigma, (anti-) racism, class and racial boundaries, social change
  • Karen van Oudenhoven – van der Zee (SCP) – Dutch Social Planning, migration, labour market integration
  • Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics, London School of Economics) – Economics, comparative inequality
  • Yasemin Soysal (Berlin Social Science Center) –Global sociology, nation-state and citizenship, historical development, global cultural frameworks
  • Mario Small (Columbia University) – Social science, culture, organizations, urban poverty