Introduction

Hi, my name is Richard Zijdeman and I work at the Dept. of Sociology at Utrecht University and am also appointed as an honorary research fellow at the department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling.

I study social stratification structures and how and why people are moving across these structures (mobility / status attainment). I am especially interested in how technological changes (e.g. industrialization, internet, means of transportation) facilitate opportunities or raise barriers for such movement. Currently my focus is on female labour force participation in the 19th and 20th centuries.

For my research I use quantitative sources with occupational data, mainly digitalized personal records such as marriage records, as well digitalized register data, such as censuses. In order to understand the influence of technological change I am also interested in detailed regional data on technological innovations.

For further information on my research projects or for consultancy, please send me an email: r.l.zijdeman AT uu.nl

Links

Projects

Towards Open Societies

HIS-CAM

Papers

In progress:

Zijdeman, R.L., Lambert, P.S. en I. Gregory. 2011. Female labour force participation in England and Wales (1851, 1881). Paper gepresenteerd op de RC28 Spring Meeting: Essex, Engeland, 13-16 april.

Zijdeman, R.L. en Lambert, P.S. 2011. Female labour force participation in England and Wales (1851, 1881). Paper voor de workshop: Gary Becker revisited. Florence, Italië, 25 maart.

Zijdeman, R.L. 2010. Intergenerational Status Attainment in Context, the Netherlands 1887-1941. Paper voor de workshop ESF / EU Workshop Human Capital: Tübingen, Duitsland, 28 - 29 augustus.

Zijdeman, R.L., M.H.D. van Leeuwen, J-P. Pelissier en D. Rebaudo. 2010. Social inequality and mobility of women in France, 1800-1986. Paper gepresenteerd op de 8^th European Social Science and History Conference. Gent, België. 13-16 april.

Corten, R. en R.L. Zijdeman. 2010. Changing patterns of witness selection. Paper gepresenteerd op de 8^th European Social Science and History Conference. Gent, België. 13-16 april.

• Lambert, P.S. en R.L. Zijdeman. 2010. Trends in registration of women’s occupations on marriage records. Paper gepresenteerd op de 8^th European Social Science and History Conference. Gent, België. 13-16 april.

Key publications

Maas, I. en R.L. Zijdeman. 2010. Beyond the local marriage market: The influence of modernization on geographical heterogamy. Demographic Research, 23(33), 933-962.

Zijdeman, R.L. en I. Maas. 2010. Assortative mating by occupational status during early industrialization. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 28(4), 395-415.

Zijdeman, R.L. en P.S. Lambert. 2010. Measuring social structure in the past. A comparison of historical class schemes and occupational stratification scales on Dutch nineteenth- and early-twentieth century data. Revue Belge d’Histoire Contemporaine 1-2: 111-141.

Zijdeman, R.L. en Mandemakers, K. 2009. Rol' srednego obrazovaniia v mezhpokolennom perekhode professional'nogo statusa v Niderlandakh 1865-1940 gg. In: Istoricheskoe professiovedenie: sozdanie HISCO i issledovaniia professional'noi i sotsial'noi mobil'nosti, V.M. Vladimirov en M.H.D. van Leeuwen (eds.). Barnaul, Izd-vo Altaiskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta.

Zijdeman, R.L. 2009. Like my father before me: intergenerational occupational status transfer during industrialization (Zeeland, 1811-1915). Continuity & Change, 24(3), 455-86. DOI:10.1017/S0268416009990166.

Zijdeman, R.L. en Mandemakers K. 2008. De rol van het gymnasiaal en middelbaar onderwijs bij de intergenerationele overdracht van status, Nederland 1865-1940. Pp. 149-72 in Honderdvijftig jaar levenslopen. De Historische Steekproef Nederlandse bevolking, I. Maas, M.H.D. van Leeuwen en K. Mandemakers (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Zijdeman, R.L. 2008. Intergenerational status attainment in nineteenth century Zeeland, The Netherlands. A test of the influence of industrialisation, mass communication and urbanisation in 117 municipalities. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 28(5/6), 204-16). DOI: 10.1108/01443330810881259.

Zijdeman, R.L. 2007. Nieuwe data, ‘nieuwe’ methode? Een sociologisch historische toepassing van multiniveau-analyse in O.W.A. Boonstra, P.K. Doorn, M.P.M. van Horik, J.G.S.J. van Maarseveen en J. Oudhof (eds.), Twee eeuwen leven, wonen en werken in Nederland (19e en 20e eeuw), Den Haag, DANS en CBS, 441-455. [English title: Two centuries counting the Dutch. Research with the Digital Population, Labour and Housing Censuses of the Netherlands 1795-2001]

C. Snijders en R.L. Zijdeman. 2004. Reputation and Internet Auctions: eBay and beyond. In B. Lahno & U. Matzat (eds.), Trust and Community on the Internet, Opportunities and Restrictions for Online Cooperation. Special Issue Analyse und Kritik (26), Heft 1. Pp. 158-184.

Introduction

Teaching experience

- Models for the Analysis of Social Interaction (Sociology and Economics) (2010-2011)

- Social Stratification in the family: writing your first research paper (2008-2011)

- Master thesis Social Policy and Social Interventions (2008-2011)

- Bachelor thesis Economics (2010-2011)

- Bachelor thesis Sociology (2005-2009)

- Statistics with the computer (2009). [Based on F.J. Gravetter & L.B. Wallnau, Statistics for the Behavior Sciences, Thomson: 2007]

- Working with historical data (2007, 2008), Invited lecture in the five-day course "Longitudinal Data Analysis for Social Science Researchers", Stirling University, Stirling, August 27th-31th.

- Introduction into Sociology (2004-2008) 
("Problemen en theorieën van de sociologie").

Outside activities

Consulting

- external occupations advisor for research project on social and economic capital (TU/e)

- external occupations advisor for research project on the standardization of historical occupations (IISG)

Participation in academic groups
- HISCO Collaboratory (Founder and administrator)

- Migration and Stratification Seminar (Founder and member)

- Focus & Massa: Institutions (Member)

- ASA (Member)

- IUSSP (Member)

- NSV (Member)

- Women's Work in Early Modern Europe (Member)

Contact Information

Attendance

Tuesday - Friday