Code
160L4515
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2016
Funding
Federal funding: various
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Social psychology
Keywords
poverty
Project description
Jan Vranken (Belgium, 1944) obtained a PhD in political and social sciences (University of Antwerp,
1977) with a dissertation on 'Poverty in the Welfare State. A historical and structural interpretation'.
He spent his academic whole career at the University of Antwerpen from 1968 to 2009. Since 2009,
he is an Emeritus Full Professor.
He taught courses on General Sociology, on Sociology of Inequalities, on Social Problems, on Urban
Sociology and on Poverty and Social Exclusion at his own university and at the Universities of
Maastricht and Cologne.