Jochem Tolsma

Jochem Tolsma

Professor of Sociology

Radboud University

University of Groningen

Biography

Jochem Tolsma is associate professor at the Sociology Department of Radboud University Nijmegen and the program director of the Research Master Social and Cultural Science. In his research he focuses on the causes and consequences of segregation in neighborhoods, schools and friendship networks.

At the moment, this site is mainly intended as a medium to communicate with my students and share course material. Hopefully, it will grow into something larger quickly. The intention is to share my R-tutorials (on diagonal reference models, marginal effects, micro-macro models) here, to make my course Social Networks Analysis for social scientists available through this site, and to share my inner thoughts of life (e.g. on current affairs in academia) within the blog section. Ultimately of course, my aim is to save the world with this site. With that, thanks for reading and enjoy!

Interests

  • Social inequality
  • Segregation
  • Cohesion
  • Social Networks
  • Research Methods

Education

  • PhD in Sociology, 2009

    Radboud University, Nijmegen / Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology

  • MSc Social- Cultural Sciences, 2004

    Free University, Amsterdam

  • MSc Natural Sciences, 2002

    Radboud University, Nijmegen

Recent Posts

Examination-RMSCS

On the 19th of November 2020, nine students received their degree of the Research Master Programme Social and Cultural Science. We had a hybrid meeting: graduates and faculty were present in real life, family and friends watched the live stream.
Last updated on Nov 20, 2020
Examination-RMSCS

MolMan-Triathlon

Although I just love my work, I do have one somewhat time-consuming hobby: Triathlon! Because of the Covid Pandemic all official events have been cancelled. This led Peter-Jan Mol, my friend and club mate, at Cerberus to organize his own full triathlon in the beautiful surroundings of Molenhoek, the MolMan.
Aug 20, 2020
MolMan-Triathlon

Recent Publications

Exposure to asylum seekers and changing support for the radical right: A natural experiment in the Netherlands

As a result of the 2015 refugee crisis, a substantial number of voters experienced a sudden and unexpected influx of asylum seekers in their neighbourhood in the Netherlands. We examined whether and why local exposure to asylum seekers leads to more support for the radical right (i.e. PVV). Our analyses are based on a longitudinal individual-level panel dataset including more than 19,000 respondents (1VOP) who were interviewed just before and shortly after the height of the refugee crisis. We enriched this dataset with detailed information about where asylum seekers were housed from the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers. Our empirical study resembles a natural experiment, because some residents experienced an increase in exposure to asylum seekers but similar residents did not. PVV support increased during the refugee crisis and especially among residents who became more exposed to asylum seekers in their neighbourhood.
Jochem Tolsma, Joran Laméris, Michael Savelkoul
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Exposure to asylum seekers and changing support for the radical right: A natural experiment in the Netherlands

Under what conditions do ethnic minority candidates attract the ethnic minority vote? How neighbourhood and candidate characteristics affected ethnic affinity voting in the Dutch 2017 parliamentary elections

Ethnic affinity voting is the term for when political party candidates with an ethnic minority background receive a larger share of the …
Roos van der Zwan, Jochem Tolsma, Marcel Lubbers
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Under what conditions do ethnic minority candidates attract the ethnic minority vote? How neighbourhood and candidate characteristics affected ethnic affinity voting in the Dutch 2017 parliamentary elections

Where does ethnic concentration matter for populist radical right support? An analysis of geographical scale and the halo effect

It is often hypothesised that the share of the population in an area belonging to an ethnic minority group positively influences the …
Daniël van Wijk, Gideon Bolt, Jochem Tolsma
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Where does ethnic concentration matter for populist radical right support? An analysis of geographical scale and the halo effect

Co-occurrence of adverse childhood experiences and its association with family characteristics. A latent class analysis with Dutch population data

Although adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are relatively common among children, there is limited knowledge on the co-occurrence of …
Carlijn Bussemakers, Gerbert Kraaykamp, Jochem Tolsma
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Co-occurrence of adverse childhood experiences and its association with family characteristics. A latent class analysis with Dutch population data

Size is in the eye of the beholder

In this paper we shed light on the various ways in which native Dutch estimate the size of the ethnic minority population in their …
Joran Laméris, Gerbert Kraaykamp, Stijn Ruiter, Jochem Tolsma
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Size is in the eye of the beholder
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