title: Albert Benschop
text: # Albert Benschop
  
  Albert Benschop (10 May 1949, Rijswijk - 27 February 2018) was a Dutch sociologist with the University of Amsterdam's faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He ran a sociology-focussed website called SocioSite.
  
  ## 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.
  
  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.
  
  ## 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
  