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Overview

Beate Völker is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science. Their research also spans several subfields including Health, Social Psychology, General Health Professions, and Clinical Psychology.

Their work concentrates mainly on topics related to Social Capital and Networks, Health disparities and outcomes, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies, and Work-Family Balance Challenges.

Völker has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Social Networks
  • European Sociological Review
  • Social Forces
  • Network Science
  • Global Environmental Change

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Völker are:

  • "Social capital across the life course: Accumulation, diminution, or segregation?" (2020, Network Science)
  • "Networks in lockdown: The consequences of COVID-19 for social relationships and feelings of loneliness" (2022, Social Networks)

Völker frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jesper Rözer
  • Gabriel Otero
  • Gerald Mollenhorst
  • Bas Hofstra
  • Peter Groenewegen

Best Publications

  • Creation and returns of social capital : a new research program

    Hendrik Derk Flap;Beate Völker

  • Creation and Returns of Social Capital

    Henk Flap;Beate Völker

  • When Are Neighbourhoods Communities? Community in Dutch Neighbourhoods

    Beate Völker;Henk Flap;Siegwart Lindenberg

  • Goal specific social capital and job satisfaction Effects of different types of networks on instrumental and social aspects of work

    Henk Flap;Beate Völker

  • Neighborhood social capital and individual health

    Sigrid M. Mohnen;Peter P. Groenewegen;Beate Völker;Henk Flap

  • Social contexts and personal relationships : The effect of meeting opportunities on similarity for relationships of different strength

    Gerald Mollenhorst;Beate Völker;Henk Flap

  • Getting Ahead in the GDR Social Capital and Status Attainment under Communism

    Beate Völker;Henk Flap

  • WEAK TIES AS A LIABILITY THE CASE OF EAST GERMANY

    Beate Völker;Henk Flap

  • Changes in personal relationships : How social contexts affect the emergence and discontinuation of relationships

    Gerald Mollenhorst;Gerald Mollenhorst;Beate Volker;Henk Flap

  • Intra-organizational Networks and Performance: A Review

    Henk Flap;Bert Bulder;Beate Völker

  • Health-related behavior as a mechanism behind the relationship between neighborhood social capital and individual health--a multilevel analysis.

    Sigrid M Mohnen;Beate Völker;Henk Flap;Peter P Groenewegen

  • The impact of social capital, land use, air pollution and noise on individual morbidity in Dutch neighbourhoods

    Jan Paul Zock;Robert Verheij;Marco Helbich;Beate Volker

  • Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot--?: Institutions of Communism, the Transition to Capitalism and Personal Networks: The Case of East Germany

    Beate Volker

  • Sixteen Million Neighbors A Multilevel Study of the Role of Neighbors in the Personal Networks of the Dutch

    Beate Völker;Henk Flap

  • Social Contexts and Core Discussion Networks: Using a Choice-Constraint Approach to Study Similarity in Intimate Relationships

    Gerald Mollenhorst;Beate Völker;Henk Flap

  • Social networks of participants in voluntary associations

    René Bekkers;Beate Völker;Martin van der Gaag;Henk Flap

  • Revisiting Selection and Influence: An Inquiry into the Friendship Networks of High School Students and Their Association with Delinquency

    Chris Baerveldt;Beate Völker;Ronan Van Rossem

  • Space and social capital: The degree of locality in entrepreneurs' contacts and its consequences for firm success

    Veronique Schutjens;Beate Völker

  • The Influence of Social Capital on Individual Health: Is it the Neighbourhood or the Network?

    Sigrid M. Mohnen;Beate Völker;Henk Flap;S. V. Subramanian

  • Inequality in Access to Social Capital in the Netherlands

    Frank van Tubergen;Beate Volker

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter P. Groenewegen
Peter P. Groenewegen Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research
Paul Nieuwbeerta
Paul Nieuwbeerta Leiden University
Niels Bosma
Niels Bosma Utrecht University
Martin Dijst
Martin Dijst Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
Siegwart Lindenberg
Siegwart Lindenberg University of Groningen
René Veenstra
René Veenstra University of Groningen
Marco Helbich
Marco Helbich Utrecht University
Gerard Hoek
Gerard Hoek Utrecht University
Nicole A.H. Janssen
Nicole A.H. Janssen Wageningen University & Research
Frank van Oort
Frank van Oort Erasmus University Rotterdam

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