Albert Benschop

Albert Benschop (10 May 1949, Rijswijk - 27 February 2018^[1]) was a Dutch sociologist with the University of Amsterdam's faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He initiated and ran a sociology-focussed website called SocioSite.^[2] This online source - available since August, 2000 - is designed to offer access to relevant information and resources for social scientists.

Biography

Benschop received a master's degree in sociology and psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam early 1970s. In 1972 he made name as leader of the SRVU Students' union of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, which occupied the main building of the Vrije Universiteit during the student protests that year.^[3]

Since 1973 Benschop has been a lecturer and researcher at the department of Sociology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In the late 1990s he founded the SocioSite website, which is considered to be one of the world's most consulted social-science websites.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Publication list (partial)

English

Classes - Outline of a Transformational Class Analysis Archived 2018-08-18 at the Wayback Machine, Summary, 1993
The future of the semantic web Archived 2006-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, Making content understandable for computers, April 2004
Peer-to-peer: Networks of unknown friends Archived 2006-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, The power of sharing, March 2004
Chronicle of a Political Murder Foretold, Jihad in the Netherlands, November 2005

Dutch

Max Weber’s bijdrage aan de theorie van sociale ongelijkheid en klassen, 1987–2011

References

^ "familieberichten :: Albert Benschop". Archived from the original on 2018-03-07.
^ SocioSite - Social Science Information System
^ Arie Theodorus van Deursen, Herbert Donald Morton (2008) The distinctive character of the Free University in Amsterdam, 1880-2005. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing p. 323.
^ Jim Millhorn, Jim Millhorn (1999). Student's companion to the World Wide Web: social sciences and humanities resources. p.49
^ Stuart Stein (2002). Sociology on the web: a student guide. p.139
^ David Fisher, Sandra P. Price, Terry Hanstock (2002). Information sources in the social sciences. K.G. Saur,
^ Jorinde Seijdel, Oliver Marchart, Geert Lovink (2007). The rise of the informal media: how search engines, weblogs and YouTube change public opinion. p.170

[1] "familieberichten :: Albert Benschop". Archived from the original on 2018-03-07.

[2] SocioSite - Social Science Information System

[3] Arie Theodorus van Deursen, Herbert Donald Morton (2008) The distinctive character of the Free University in Amsterdam, 1880-2005. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing p. 323.

[4] Jim Millhorn, Jim Millhorn (1999). Student's companion to the World Wide Web: social sciences and humanities resources. p.49

[5] Stuart Stein (2002). Sociology on the web: a student guide. p.139

[6] David Fisher, Sandra P. Price, Terry Hanstock (2002). Information sources in the social sciences. K.G. Saur,

[7] Jorinde Seijdel, Oliver Marchart, Geert Lovink (2007). The rise of the informal media: how search engines, weblogs and YouTube change public opinion. p.170