Lectures and courses
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Comparing Cultures
Jacobs Foundation, Schloss Marbach, Öhningen, Germany, April 2010 - Religion and traditional values in East Asia. The relevance of generational divides in East Asia origin surveys. [PPT]
Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, September 2008 - Comparing cultures. World surveys and East Asian surveys. [PPT].
China Youth University for Political Sciences, Beijing, China, October 2007 - Carte blanche leadership and young generations in East Asia. Analyses of several East Asian values surveys. [PDF][PPT]
MICM, Utrecht, Netherlands, October 2007 - Cultures, Generations, Communications. [PPT]
Chinese University of Hong Kong, SAR Hong Kong, China / University of Tokyo, Japan / Peking University, China, March-April 2007 - East Asian values surveys. Making a case of East Asian-origin values survey concepts. [PPT]
Kwansei Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, March 2007 - Religion and traditional values in East Asia. Exploring five comparative values surveys in East Asia. [PPT]
MICM, Utrecht / The Hague, Netherlands, November 2006 - Cultures, Generations, Communications. [PPT]
Kwansei Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, May 2006 - Religion in Western sociology. Universalist discourses and particularist indicators. [PPT]
NIOD, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 2005 - Happiness in the Netherlands and Japan since the 1980s. Trends from a generational perspective. [PDF] [PPT].
ASA, San Francisco, USA, August 2004 - Work values on the old continent. Cross-national and intergenerational trends in 12 European countries: 1980-2000 (with P. Ester & A. Román). [PDF]
Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, May 2004 - Cultural dimensions, changing life courses, and the meaning of well-being. [PDF][PPT].
ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany, September 2003 - Value theory and research in sociology. [PDF]
Generations and life courses
Japan Youth Study Group, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, December 2011 - From youth culture to street culture in the Netherlands. [PDF][PPT]
Konstanz University, Konstanz, Germany, December 2008 - Is there a McWorld Generation? [PPT]
Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden, January 2006 - Comparative youth research. A theoretical rationale?[PPT]
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, November 2005 - Sampling experiences. Young people going abroad and new life course dynamics. [PPT]
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, November 2005 - Changing life courses across cultures. [PPT]
International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, June 2005 - The McWorld Generation. Are young people increasingly similar across the globe?.[PPT]
Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan, May 2004 - Young consumer citizens. Comparing citizenship and consumption of young generations across cultures. [PPT]
Universiteit van Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands, February 2004 - Een meerkeuzegeneratie of een meerkeuze-elite?. [PPT]
IUB, International University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, December 2003 - Changing cultures, life courses, and institutions. [PPT] [PDF]
Politics, media, and pop culture
Debatcentrum Tumult, Utrecht, Netherlands, September 2006 - Jong in Europa. Een lezing aan de hand van vier stellingen.... [PDF]
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, February-March 2006 - 10 ECTS course Political Socialization.
Course Manual [PDF]
Lecture 1 [PPT]
Lecture 2 [PPT]
Lecture 3 [PPT]
Lund University, Lund, Sweden, September 2004 - Changing life courses, new media, and citizenship. The impact of the reflexive biographization. [PDF]
FUB, Free University Berlin, Germany, February 2003 - Civic socialization in late modernity. [PDF]
ISPP, Boston, USA, July 2003 - The cultural roots of civic engagement. A cross-national macro-analysis of 22 European countries (with P. Ester & P. Dekker). [PDF].