Education increases people’s chances on the labor market and their position in society. But what if it also contributes to inequality, as well as to wider acceptance of inequality? In this blog, Leandros Kavadias describes his recently completed PhD research on the schooled society and its effects.
Stadjers Hand in Hand (SHH) is a community-building project aiming to tackle poverty in Groningen. Yasin Koc (a teacher) and Gido Metz (a student) got enthused by the project through a Master’s course, and became volunteers. “We used our knowledge of social psychology and helped develop the project to become larger and more sustainable.”
You don’t have to be a gambler to commit a gambler’s mistakes. Here, I present the idea that misconceptions of chance and probability can eventually lead to misunderstandings in society and erroneous stereotypical judgments.