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Denomination, Religious Context, and Suicide: Neo-Durkheimian Multilevel Explanations Tested with Individual and Contextual Data
Full text linkIn Suicide, Durkheim found that involvement in religious communities is inversely related to suicide risk. In this article, two explanations for this relationship are examined. One is that religious networks provide support. The other is that religious communities prohibit suicide. To examine these hypotheses, individual-level data on suicide in the Netherlands from 1936 to 1973 are used. The results
show that with an increase in the proportion of religious persons in a municipality, the chances of committing suicide decrease for every denomination in that municipality, as well as among nonchurch members. Furthermore, along with the secularization of Dutch society, the impact of religious composition on suicide wanes. These results contradict the network-support mechanism and confirm the
notion that religious communities have a general protective effect against suicide.
Van den Doels gewijzigde doelstellingen. Over verschillen in de eerste en tweede druk van J. van den Doel: ^Democratie en welvaartstheorie\u27
No full textReviewed is the second edition of Van den Doel\u27s Democratie en welvaartstheorie ([Democracy and Prosperity Theory], Alphen aan den Rijn, 1978). The author\u27s aim is threefold: scientific, political, & educational. In the second edition these goals are respectively: the strengthening of Dutch democracy, showing the relationships between prosperity theory & new political economy, & presenting a new field of application for prosperity theory. The problem examined is the growth of the public sector in twentieth century Dutch economy & how to optimize production of collective goods from a democratic public sector. The two original contributions of the second edition are: (1) the integration of several economic decision-making theories using the concept ^political process\u27 as a ^trade channel\u27 between the original producer & the consumer, & (2) the treatment of prosperity theory as a falsifiable theory rather than a normative explanation. It is shown that (1) & (2) contribute little to the problem\u27s solution. A. Orianne
Explaining Worldwide Religious Diversity: the Relationship between Subsistence Technologies and Ideas about the Unknown in Pre-Industrial and (Post)Industrial Societies
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Terechte vragen en houdbare verklaringen. Commentaar bij de oratie van Nico Wilterdink
No full textCommentaries on the Oration by Nico Wilterdink.
Three critiques are presented of Nico Wilterdink\u27s Ongelijkheid en interdepedentie ([Inequality and Interdependence] 1993). In Interdepedentie en beleidsvrijheid (Interdependence and Freedom of Policy), Jan Pen addresses the issue of economic consumption vs savings. Despite recent changes in economic policy, it is still within the individual\u27s power to avoid consumption and increase his/her savings rate. In Verdeling in een vechtmaatschappij (Distribution in a Competitive Society), J. W. de Beus asks whether the Netherlands will move away from a welfare state economy to a market economy. Limits to the growth of economic interdependence are explored. In Terechte vragen en houdbare verklaringen (Correct Questions and Tenable Explanations), Wout Ultee remarks that Wilterdink\u27s efforts to provide a comprehensive explanation of short- and long-term trends in income differences deserves praise. However, he does not achieve any new concrete results. Wilterdink provides rebuttals to these criticisms in Inkomensongelijkheid in een lange-termijnperspectief. Antwoord aan Pen, De Beus en Ultee (Income Inequalities in Long-Term Perspective. Reply to Pen, De Beus and Ultee). 34 References. M. Meek
Eindeloos praten in vele tongen over het Nederlandse experiment
No full textHans Righart\u27s De eindeloze jaren zestig: Geschiedenis van een generatie-conflict ([The Endless Sixties: History of a Generation Conflict] 1995) & James C. Kennedy\u27s Nieuw Babylon in aanbouw: Nederland in de jaren zestig ([Building New Babylon: The Netherlands in the Sixties] 1995) are reviewed, focusing on questions asked, explanations rejected, theories used, & compliance with sociological methodology. It is held that Kennedy\u27s account is exceedingly rhetorical & may have been more convincing if similar ideas from Max Weber\u27s interpretative sociology had been incorporated. Righart\u27s explanation would have gained explanatory power if a distinction had been made between the goods market & government-supplied goods & if the attitudes caused by the government\u27s inadequate supply of housing & pop music had been recognized. Subsequently, an attempt is made to reconcile Kennedy\u27s & Righart\u27s explanations in a technological-ideological evolutionary approach in which technological development is related to increasing activism; the Netherlands\u27 eventual yielding to an expensive activist worldview is attributed to the unexpected finding of a huge natural gas deposit. International aspects are discussed briefly. 14 References. Adapted from the source document
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Zelfdodingen onder politieke delinquenten in Nederland 1944-1947
No full textContrary to Durkheim\u27s proposition about suicide during wartime, the Netherlands had high suicide rates in 1940 and 1945. Earlier research showed that the high rate for 1940 could be ascribed to suicide among Jews. That finding concurred with another Durkheimian hypothesis, saying that people who expect to be excluded from society are more likely to commit suicide. In this article we employ the same proposition to explain the high rate for 1945. Assuming that members of the Dutch National-Socialist Movement expected punishment after World War II, we re-analyzed the counting cards preserved at Statistics Netherlands, and found 113 suicides for the period 1944-1947 by members of the Dutch National-Socialist Movement. Our explanation received additional support by the finding that five political suicides occurred in September 1944, when the Southern part of the Netherlands was liberated, 17 for April 1945, and 19 for May 1945, when Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]; Copyright of Mens en Maatschappij is the property of Amsterdam University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder\u27s express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
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