Bogdan Voicu
Sociologist.
Research interests (past & curent):
sociology of values, postcommunism & social change,
social capital,
social policy (focus on education, housing, welfare ideologies), relative deprivation and poverty,
rural development, social development, community development,
sociology of education and education policy
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Research interests (past & curent):
sociology of values, postcommunism & social change,
social capital,
social policy (focus on education, housing, welfare ideologies), relative deprivation and poverty,
rural development, social development, community development,
sociology of education and education policy
Check my website for papers, books, CV etc.
If interested of any of my papers and you do not find it online, please do not hesitate to ask me for the full version; if I am allowed to disseminate it, I will gladly do it.
Address: If interested of any of my papers, do not hesitate to ask me for the full version; if I am allowed to disseminate it, I will gladly do it.
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Books by Bogdan Voicu
Attached files include:
- full text of the book in Romanian
- an English version of chapter 4
ISI Papers by Bogdan Voicu
response to modernisation, industrialisation, and the generally rising level of education. A transformation in gender beliefs has accompanied the progress on gender equality and beliefs about gender roles have mainly changed in countries in North America and Europe, while in Muslim and Asian countries they have remained the same. The analysis in this article focuses on civic participation and investigates its relation to equalitarian gender beliefs. Multi-level regression models and data from World Values Survey (WVS) collected from 46 countries in 2005 allow depicting the relationships. The fi ndings show that membership in civic associations covariates with equalitarian gender beliefs, but the sign of the relation depends on the gender and the type of association.
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• We explain how high-skilled immigrants (HSIM) cope with times of global crisis.
• The acculturation perspective and the self-selection hypothesis are used.
• HSIM are compared to other groups of migrants and native-born depending on economic growth.
• In troubled economies, HSIM increase employment and civic participation, and relatively lose in terms of life satisfaction.
• In functioning economies across Europe, the opposite findings hold true.
Europe using the idea of the cultural embeddedness of subjective well-being, expressed
in various approaches such as social comparison theory, the Easterlin paradox and
Cummins’ (2003) assumption of normativeness. The authors claim that immigrants’
levels of life satisfaction will be the subject of a dual contextuality. First, the cultural
heritage of the country of origin has a pervasive influence long after migration. Second,
a permanent upward adjustment is likely to occur toward the average level of life
satisfaction in the country of current residence. Additional interaction effects, namely
the impact of cultural distance and exposure to the two relevant cultures, are also
considered. For testing, the authors employ multilevel cross-classified models on data
from the 2008 wave of the European Values Study. The findings indicate that both origin
and host societies provide relevant contextual frameworks and mould immigrants’ life
satisfaction.
Attached files include:
- full text of the book in Romanian
- an English version of chapter 4
response to modernisation, industrialisation, and the generally rising level of education. A transformation in gender beliefs has accompanied the progress on gender equality and beliefs about gender roles have mainly changed in countries in North America and Europe, while in Muslim and Asian countries they have remained the same. The analysis in this article focuses on civic participation and investigates its relation to equalitarian gender beliefs. Multi-level regression models and data from World Values Survey (WVS) collected from 46 countries in 2005 allow depicting the relationships. The fi ndings show that membership in civic associations covariates with equalitarian gender beliefs, but the sign of the relation depends on the gender and the type of association.
Highlights
========
• We explain how high-skilled immigrants (HSIM) cope with times of global crisis.
• The acculturation perspective and the self-selection hypothesis are used.
• HSIM are compared to other groups of migrants and native-born depending on economic growth.
• In troubled economies, HSIM increase employment and civic participation, and relatively lose in terms of life satisfaction.
• In functioning economies across Europe, the opposite findings hold true.
Europe using the idea of the cultural embeddedness of subjective well-being, expressed
in various approaches such as social comparison theory, the Easterlin paradox and
Cummins’ (2003) assumption of normativeness. The authors claim that immigrants’
levels of life satisfaction will be the subject of a dual contextuality. First, the cultural
heritage of the country of origin has a pervasive influence long after migration. Second,
a permanent upward adjustment is likely to occur toward the average level of life
satisfaction in the country of current residence. Additional interaction effects, namely
the impact of cultural distance and exposure to the two relevant cultures, are also
considered. For testing, the authors employ multilevel cross-classified models on data
from the 2008 wave of the European Values Study. The findings indicate that both origin
and host societies provide relevant contextual frameworks and mould immigrants’ life
satisfaction.
This paper considers two assumptions commonly used in analyzing the formation of social trust. They stress the importance of early socialization, on one hand, and of life events, on the other. We consider birth as a major life event for anyone and focus on the situation of Children Born of War. This group, even if lesser visible in some societies, has the peculiar characteristic to be born and socialized in very specific conditions. Typically, these people are the offspring of foreign soldiers, and local women. They may bear stigma, might be marginalized in family, school and society, and might develop a low level of generalized trust even if they may have lived all life in a culture rich in social trust. We explore at theoretical level their case, bring in a few statistics, and suggest a research direction that may be fruitful in learning about both such hidden populations and about social trust. In the end, we argue upon the importance of the topic for post-conflict societies.
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Since birth, in 1930s, public opinion polls were associated in public representations with electoral estimates (Converse, 1987:S12). Surveys inform policy and influence political responsiveness (Druckman, 2014; Page & Shapiro, 1987). However, diversification of survey modes and investigation techniques, as well as lack of transparency with respect to methodology, makes surveys, particularly the electoral ones, to become less luster, while a raising skepticism towards the polling industry is to be found (Hillygus, 2012). Data collecting agencies tried to react by setting up more restrictive professional standards, particularly with respect to methodology. This is also reflected in academic papers, with scholars arguing that focus on method might be the future of social science (Savage, 2013). In a context where the exit-poll lose their informational role due to technological advances, and retain merely entertainment goal, hampered by very high costs (Greiner & Queen, 2012), this paper focuses on how such surveys were presented after the Romanian presidential elections in 2009 and 2014. I consider the standard in the field, as depicted by the ESOMAR/WAPOR guide to opinion polls. Compliance with the respective requirements is considered as key to avoid manipulations, particularly in post-communist societies (Kharchenko & Paniotto, 2010). The findings shed light on surprising failures to comply with the WAPOR/ESOMAR guide, which increases vulnerability particularly when predicted ballot outcomes are not accurate. I argue that, in order to generate confidence in surveying as a tool, one needs transparency, accountability, and methodological accuracy.
pp. 53-76 : Mihai Păunescu, Magdalena Balica, Bogdan Voicu et al., Synthesis of the comprehensiv study on labor market insertion of bachelor graduates from four fields of study
pp. 91-115. Bogdan Voicu, Magda Balica, Claudiu Tufiş et al, Insertion on the labor market of ICT graduates
pp. 135-143. Bogdan Voicu, Magda Balica, Claudiu Tufiş et al, Insertion on the labor market of Law graduates
pp. 174-184. Bogdan Voicu, Magda Balica, Claudiu Tufiş et al, Insertion on the labor market of Mechanical Engineering graduates
pp. 195-219. Bogdan Voicu, Magda Balica, Claudiu Tufiş et al, Insertion on the labor market of Communication Science graduates
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