1. RMSS methods and thematic specialisation meeting
Today:
General information
Introduction tutors
Thematic introduction 
- Sources of Inequalities
- Cultures in the Making               
- Comparative International Politics
Thematic electives
Methods specialisations
- Empirical Analytical methods specialisation
- Interpretative methods specialization
              - Mixed methods specialisation
Questions

2. RMSS thematic specialisations – thematic electives
Choose at least one thematic elective of your thematic specialisation
(Draft) Course manuals for thematic electives in semester 2 are available before December
Optional: replace one thematic elective with a reading course

3. RMSS methods specialisation, main differences between methods specialisations

4. Sources of Inequality

5. Core specialization course: Sources of Inequality
Cultural sociology:
Alex van Venrooij
Don Weenink
Institutions, inequality and life courses
Bram Lancee
Stephanie Steinmetz
Political sociology
Justus Uitermark ?

6. Guest lecture Unemployment: minorities vs. majority in NL
Source: Jaarraport integratie 2012

7. Programme group Institutions, Inequalities and Life Courses
 Institutions: the formal and informal rules and arrangements in society that govern individual behavior and social relationships
Inequality: the distribution of income, status, and wellbeing in a society.
Life courses: changes in the household- and family relationships that people experience as they grow older, as well as the age-related transitions in other life domains, such as leaving schooling, making a career, and retirement. 

8. Topics studied in IIL group
Staff
Topics studied in IIL group
Herman van de Werfhorst
Matthijs Kalmijn
Beate Volker
Thijs Bol
Thomas Leopold
Stephanie Steinmetz
Agnieszka Kanas
Johan de Deken
Bram Lancee
And many more!
Labor market
Education
Family
Wealth
Status
Health/ Wellbeing
Minorities (ethnic, LBGTQ)
Personality
Neighborhoods
Social networks

9. Methods used Mainly quantitative
Survey (multilevel, longitudinal, differences-in-differences, fixed effects, event history analysis, etc etc)
Register data
Social networks
Policy analysis
Experiments (field experiments, vignettes, laboratory)
Occasionally focus groups, interviews.