The LISS panel grant call offers financing for data collection via the LISS panel. In the 2023 round of the Call for Proposals ODISSEI received 34 applications. In total, 6 regular LISS panel grants could be funded and two grants for a project that combined the LISS panel data collection with access to the CBS microdata.
Social class: an exploitation-based class scheme Jaap Nieuwenhuis (University of Groningen); Agata Troost (University of Groningen); Jonathan Mijs (Erasmus University Rotterdam) With this project, we aim to enrich and innovate research in social stratification by collecting fine-grained data to operationalize an exploitation-based class scheme, currently underused in the social sciences. Current understanding of social inequality is based on indicators such as income and education, used as proxies for a person’s social position and experiences. We argue that to really understand social inequality and stratification, we need better data on class dynamics between different socioeconomic positions in society and of people’s understanding of their own position within the social hierarchy. Expanding the toolkit for understanding social stratification will enable researchers and policy makers to better analyse other problems related to inequality and polarization, such as voting behaviour and belief in meritocracy.