Harry BG Ganzeboom, short bio

 

Last update: October 23, 2024

 

 

Harry B.G. Ganzeboom (1953) has been Professor of Sociology and Social Research Methodology at VU University Amsterdam since 2002. He was educated at Utrecht University, where he obtained his BA (1975), MA (1978) and PhD (1984). In 1986-1990 he held a postdoctoral Huygens Fellowship and then became Associate Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen (1990-1993), before being appointed as Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University (1993-2002).  He has been the National Coordinator of the European Social Survey in the Netherlands (2006-2009) and the National Representative for the Netherlands in the International Social Survey Programme ISSP (2004-2023). Apart from cross-national survey research, his main interests are in the study of comparative status attainment and intergenerational social mobility. He is the author of the International Socio-Economic Index [ISEI] of occupational status, the International Standard Level of Education [ISLED] scale and other harmonization tools for measurement in comparative stratification research. Other research interests include arts consumption and life-style differentiation; gender roles and gender role attitudes; and international migration. His other methodological specializations are structural equation modelling and categorical data analysis.  His complete CV, publications, presentations, teaching materials and survey data harmonization tools are available at www.harryganzeboom.nl.