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Using data from 14 repeated cross-sectional surveys ( N = 19,961), this study investigated trends in the family role attitudes of full-time, part-time and non-working men and women since the 1980s. The results show that in the Netherlands inter-cohort effects are considerably smaller in magnitude than intra-cohort (period) effects in driving changes in attitudes. Large differences were found between women working in paid employment (both full-time and part-time) and non-working women, and these differences remained remarkably stable over the years. Further, part-time working men seem much more egalitarian in their views on family roles than full-time working men. Although these differences declined somewhat over the years, a substantial gap remains.

In this study, we examined origin, destination, and community effects on first- and second-generation immigrants' health in Europe. We used information from the European Social Surveys (2002–2008) on 19,210 immigrants from 123 countries of origin, living in 31 European countries. Cross-classified multilevel regression analyses reveal that political suppression in the origin country and living in countries with large numbers of immigrant peers have a detrimental influence on immigrants' health. Originating from predominantly Islamic countries and good average health among natives in the destination country appear to be beneficial. Additionally, the results point toward health selection mechanisms into migration.

A focus on the radical left. An exploration of social characteristics of left wing radicals in The Netherlands In this article, we map the features of left wing radicals in The Netherlands. Despite growing public interest, quantitative research on the social composition of the radical left is scarce. That is why this research focuses on the social characteristics and parental backgrounds of left wing radicals. For this purpose, specific data were collected among left wing adherents (LEK2004), which are compared with representative data of the Dutch population (FNB2000). Logistic regression analyses showed that left wing radicals are highly educated, received little economic education, often are students or unemployed, and are nonreligious. In the political field, left wing radicals are not very likely to vote, but they do have an above average interest in political issues. Parental backgrounds that enhance the chance of being radical left wing are a culturally-based parental education, parental secularity and parental voting for left wing parties.

This study examines to what extent, and via what pathways, cultural preferences are transferred from one generation to another. Following social learning theories we expect that, first, parents influence their children's cultural preference by set¬ ting a "good" cultural example, and, second, by actively guiding their children to a theater, museum or concert hall. Besides a direct influence, we expect an indirect effect through the educational attainment of the child. We test our hy¬potheses by applying structural equation models on data from the Family Survey of the Dutch Population 2009 (n = 2.445). Results show that parents influence their children's cultural participation mainly by providing them with active pa¬ rental instruction. Indirect effects through a child's educational attainment are mostly significant, but appear to be much less pronounced.

The intergenerational reproduction of cultural capital in its embodied, institutionalized, and objectified states .According to Bourdieu, cultural capital manifests itself in three states: the institutionalized state, the embodied state, and the objectified state. Empirical research
using the notion of cultural capital has never operationalized the concept fully, i.e., using indicators of all three states. We provide such a threefold measurement of cultural capital for both respondents and their parents, which allows us to take a very detailed look at the process of the
intergenerational transmission of cultural capital. We found that respondents' schooling levels (institutionalized state) are affected by parental education and, to a lesser extent, parental cultural behaviour, and both effects are smaller among younger generations. Cultural participation
(embodied state) does not become less dependent on cultural family background over time; it is affected by all three manifestations of parental cultural capital, although the embodied state is by far the most important. Cultural possessions (objectified state) are mostly affected by parental
cultural goods and this association continues to be of importance even though the effects of the other states of parental cultural capital on respondents' cultural possessions are declining. Our results thus reveal that the three states of cultural capital differ in the constellation
of their causes and consequences plus the changes therein, which demonstrates that less elaborate operationalizations of cultural capital do not provide proxies that represent the entire concept.

In contrast to comparative economic studies concentrating on gross national & per capita income, a new approach is presented stressing per capita consumption. Personal expenditures are classified as primary (food, clothing, & shelter), secondary (education, transportation), & luxury. Data from Brazil, El Salvador, the Ivory Coast, Italy, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Portugal, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Tanzania, & the US are used to derive an index of consumption inequality, the validity of which is established by a cross-sectional design. 3 Tables, 3 Figures, 2 Appendixes, 22 References. M. Meeks