William A Rushing
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William A Rushing |
| GIVEN NAMES | William A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rushing |
| SIGNATURE | RUSHING W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Supply of Physicians and Expenditures for Health Services with Implications for the Coming Physician Surplus
William A. Rushing, The Supply of Physicians and Expenditures for Health Services with Implications for the Coming Physician Surplus, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1985), pp. 297-311
The Interaction of Structural Variables and Discretion in Individual Outcomes
There is a long history or debate concerning the relative effects of external variables and individual discretion on individual outcomes. Yet, few attempts have been made to specify their cumulative effects on individual outcomes. Using length of stay in mental hospitals as our outcome measure, and type of commitment as our discretion measure, results from regression analyses indicate that discretionary and external variables (i.e., positions in …
Marital Status and Mental Disorder
Research has consistently shown that marital status and rates of mental disorder are related, but few studies provide an answer to the causal question: Does marital status determine mental status, as a social causation model of individual attributes would stipulate, or does mental status cause marital status, as an individual causation model of social status would stipulate? Analysis of admissions to Tennessee state mental hospitals between 1956 …
Organizations and Beyond
The Functional Importance of Sex Roles and Sex-Related Behavior in Societal Reactions to Residual Deviants
William A. Rushing, The Functional Importance of Sex Roles and Sex-Related Behavior in Societal Reactions to Residual Deviants, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 208-217
Socioeconomic Status and Mental Disorder
Despite numerous studies which show that socioeconomic status and mental illness are inversely related, it is possible that this relationship exists for some disorders but not others. Study of approximately 10,000 first admissions to state hospitals in one state covering the period 1956-65 shows an inverse relationship only for organic and schizophrenic disorders. In light of the etiological and predisposing factors that are involved in these two…
Organizations and Beyond
Status Resources, Societal Reactions, and Type of Mental Hospital Admission
203-22 in D. Mechanic, Public Expectations and Care. New York: Wiley. Mendelson, M. A. 1974 Tender Loving Greed. New York: Vintage. Myles, John F. 1977 Institutionalizing the Elderly: An Empirical Assessment of the Sociology of Total Institutions. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Neugarten, B. L., R. J. Havighurst, and S. S. Tobin 1961 The measurement of life satisfaction. Journal of Gerontology 16:13…
Community, Physicians, and Inequality
Physicians, Physicians?? Assistants, and the Social Characteristics of Patients in Southern Appalachia
A focus on health care delivery systems and the emergence of New Health Practitioners, particularly Physicians' Assistants (PAs), represents one of the more significant nonbiomedical developments in American medicine since World War II. Much discussion about PAs revolves around the kinds of illnesses they are qualified to treat which then permits physicians to concentrate on patients with other types of illnesses. Ignored in this focus on illness…
Status Resources and Behavioral Deviance as Contingencies of Societal Reaction
Anthologies and Readers on Deviance
A Study of Physicians?? Assistants in a Rural Setting
In an effort to improve the health care in a rural county in Southern Appalachia, physicians' assistants (MEDEX) have been employed in the offices of three general practitioners over a three-year period. This program was evaluated using a before-after and experimental-control (county) design, utilizing data both from physician office contracts and a continuing survey of the populations of the experimental and control counties. Results show the fo…
Profit and Nonprofit Orientations and the Differentiations-Coordination Hypothesis for Organizations
Community, Physicians, and Inequality
The Relation Between Social Class and Functional Status
John Harvey, David L. Miles, William A. Rushing, The Relation Between Social Class and Functional Status: A New Look at the Drift Hypothesis, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 194-204
Class, Culture, and Alienation
The Validation of a Function Status Index
A proposed measure of health status (Function Status Index) is based on a conception more specific than one that equates health with quality of life but is still relevant to theoreticalframeworks that view health in terms of its social behavioral aspects and its relationship to social and cultural variables. Three dimensions offunction status (activity, mobility, and movement) are measured objectively by an interview schedule administered to 2,62…
Class, Culture, and Alienation
Occupational Structure of Community General Hospitals
Zipf's (1949) generalized harmonic series model of occupational differentiation is tested in 91 community general hospitals. It was not possible to reject this model in the majority of cases and problems of measurement error make it difficult to claim a firm rejection in the remainder. Relationships among the generalized harmonic series parameters are essentially the same as those reported by Mayhew et al. (1972) for military organizations. Accor…
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Public Policy, Community Constraints, and the Distribution of Medical Resources
Public Policy, Community Constraints, and the Distribution of Medical Resources William A. Rushing William A. Rushing Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 19, Issue 1, Summer 1971, Pages 21–36, https://doi.org/10.2307/799937 Published: 07 August 2014
Individual Resources, Societal Reaction, and Hospital Commitment
Despite the attention a number of sociologists have given to the societal reaction perspective on deviant behavior and especially mental illness, few efforts have been made to investigate or even systematically to conceptualize conceptualize contingences of the social reaction. In this paper I hypothesize that important contingencies in hospital commitment are individual resources and community integration-visibility. Using the ratio of involunta…
Class, Culture, and 'Social Structure and Anomie
Hypotheses derived from Merton's theory of "social structure and anomie" are tested on 240 well-to-do and affluent farmers and 1,031 mostly poverty-level farm workers in Washington. Farm workers consist of Anglo-Americans, bilingual Mexican-Americans, and non-English-speaking Mexican-Americans. Results indicate that disjunction between educational aspirations for children and perceived opportunity is greater among Anglo-American farm workers than…
Organizational Size and Administration
Status Resources, Societal Reactions, and Type of Mental Hospital Admission
203-22 in D. Mechanic, Public Expectations and Care. New York: Wiley. Mendelson, M. A. 1974 Tender Loving Greed. New York: Vintage. Myles, John F. 1977 Institutionalizing the Elderly: An Empirical Assessment of the Sociology of Total Institutions. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Neugarten, B. L., R. J. Havighurst, and S. S. Tobin 1961 The measurement of life satisfaction. Journal of Gerontology 16:13…
Profit and Nonprofit Orientations and the Differentiations-Coordination Hypothesis for Organizations
Individual Resources, Societal Reaction, and Hospital Commitment
Despite the attention a number of sociologists have given to the societal reaction perspective on deviant behavior and especially mental illness, few efforts have been made to investigate or even systematically to conceptualize conceptualize contingences of the social reaction. In this paper I hypothesize that important contingencies in hospital commitment are individual resources and community integration-visibility. Using the ratio of involunta…
Deviant Behavior and Social Process
The Functional Importance of Sex Roles and Sex-Related Behavior in Societal Reactions to Residual Deviants
William A. Rushing, The Functional Importance of Sex Roles and Sex-Related Behavior in Societal Reactions to Residual Deviants, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 208-217
The Relation Between Social Class and Functional Status
John Harvey, David L. Miles, William A. Rushing, The Relation Between Social Class and Functional Status: A New Look at the Drift Hypothesis, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 194-204
Public Policy, Community Constraints, and the Distribution of Medical Resources
Public Policy, Community Constraints, and the Distribution of Medical Resources William A. Rushing William A. Rushing Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 19, Issue 1, Summer 1971, Pages 21–36, https://doi.org/10.2307/799937 Published: 07 August 2014
Class, Culture, and 'Social Structure and Anomie
Hypotheses derived from Merton's theory of "social structure and anomie" are tested on 240 well-to-do and affluent farmers and 1,031 mostly poverty-level farm workers in Washington. Farm workers consist of Anglo-Americans, bilingual Mexican-Americans, and non-English-speaking Mexican-Americans. Results indicate that disjunction between educational aspirations for children and perceived opportunity is greater among Anglo-American farm workers than…
Marital Status and Mental Disorder
Research has consistently shown that marital status and rates of mental disorder are related, but few studies provide an answer to the causal question: Does marital status determine mental status, as a social causation model of individual attributes would stipulate, or does mental status cause marital status, as an individual causation model of social status would stipulate? Analysis of admissions to Tennessee state mental hospitals between 1956 …
Two Patterns in the Relationship Between Social Class and Mental Hospitalization
and Family Living 15 (November) :312317. Smith, E. and J. M. Greenberg-Monane. 1953 Courtship values in a youth sample, American Sociological Review 18 (December): 635-640. Spuhler, J. N. 1968 Assortative mating with respect to physical characteristics, Eugenics Quarterly, 15 (June): 128-140. Turner, R. 1964 Some aspects of women's ambition, American Journal of Sociology 70 (November) :271-285. Udry, J. R. and Karl E. Bauman. 1968 Skin color, sta…
The Supply of Physicians and Expenditures for Health Services with Implications for the Coming Physician Surplus
William A. Rushing, The Supply of Physicians and Expenditures for Health Services with Implications for the Coming Physician Surplus, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1985), pp. 297-311
Socioeconomic Status and Mental Disorder
Despite numerous studies which show that socioeconomic status and mental illness are inversely related, it is possible that this relationship exists for some disorders but not others. Study of approximately 10,000 first admissions to state hospitals in one state covering the period 1956-65 shows an inverse relationship only for organic and schizophrenic disorders. In light of the etiological and predisposing factors that are involved in these two…
Two Patterns of Industrial Administration
Although everyone agrees that administrative personnel are essential for a bureaucratic organization, the effect of organizational size in determining the proportion of personnel who perform administrative tasks is in doubt. From a variety of organizational settings, positive, negative, and nonexistent relationships between organizational size and relative size of the administrative component have been reported, leaving the question for organizat…
Organizational size, rules, and surveillance
The Psychiatric Professions
Note on the Mathematical Formalization of A Measure of Division of Labor
Journal Article Note on the Mathematical Formalization of A Measure of Division of Labor Get access William A Rushing, William A Rushing Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vernon Davies Vernon Davies Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 48, Issue 3, March 1970, Pages 394–396, https://doi.org/10.2307/257…
Institution and Outcome
Status Resources and Behavioral Deviance as Contingencies of Societal Reaction
Anthologies and Readers on Deviance
Deviance, Interpersonal Relations and Suicide
Social Influence and the Social-Psychological Function of Deference
Deference behavior is viewed from two standpoints: (a) as an attempt to influence and (2) its function in maintaining social relationships. Data reveal that psychiatric nurses attempt to influence doctors' treatment decisions by engaging in deferential actions; these actions also perform the function of maintaining the doctor-nurse relationship. Such actions are defined as power strategies—actions that are oriented to a normative order but which …
The Mental Patient Comes Home
Adolescent-Parent Relationship and Mobility Aspirations
To aspire beyond one's present station in life constitutes an important American norm, but all persons do not have such aspirations. One hypothesis of differential mobility aspirations is that individuals who experience a depriving family of orientation milieux are more likely to be aspirants than are individuals who experience more satisfying mileux. Using a relative measure of mobility aspirations, it was found that the deprivation-aspirations …
Handbook of Medical Sociology
The Psychiatric Professions
The Psychiatric Professions
THE PSYCHIATRIC PROFESSIONS By William A. Rushing Studies in the Mental Health Professions The setting of this incisive study is the psychiatric wing of a modern teaching hospital, and the subject is the conflicts, and the resolution of conflicts, within its professional staff. Basing his work upon personal observation and interviews with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and the recreation director, Dr. Rushing ha…
Organizational Size and Administration
Organizational size, rules, and surveillance
Two Patterns of Industrial Administration
Although everyone agrees that administrative personnel are essential for a bureaucratic organization, the effect of organizational size in determining the proportion of personnel who perform administrative tasks is in doubt. From a variety of organizational settings, positive, negative, and nonexistent relationships between organizational size and relative size of the administrative component have been reported, leaving the question for organizat…
Alcoholism and Suicide Rates by Status Set and Occupation
Institution and Outcome
Income, Unemployment, and Suicide
(1968). Income, Unemployment, and Suicide: An Occupational Study. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 493-503
Suicide and the Interaction of Alcoholism (Liver Cirrhosis) with the Social Situation
Deviance, Interpersonal Relations and Suicide
Deviant Behavior and Social Process
Two Patterns in the Relationship Between Social Class and Mental Hospitalization
and Family Living 15 (November) :312317. Smith, E. and J. M. Greenberg-Monane. 1953 Courtship values in a youth sample, American Sociological Review 18 (December): 635-640. Spuhler, J. N. 1968 Assortative mating with respect to physical characteristics, Eugenics Quarterly, 15 (June): 128-140. Turner, R. 1964 Some aspects of women's ambition, American Journal of Sociology 70 (November) :271-285. Udry, J. R. and Karl E. Bauman. 1968 Skin color, sta…
Class, Power, and Alienation
The postulation of an inverse relationship between social class and powerlessness has been central in writings on alienation since the works of Marx. Results of the present study, based on 240 middle to upper class farmers and 1,031 mostly poverty-level farm workers, suggest that powerlessness is associated with income and perceived socio-economic deprivation as expected, but not position in the system of production. Although farmers have much gr…
Note on the Mathematical Formalization of A Measure of Division of Labor
Journal Article Note on the Mathematical Formalization of A Measure of Division of Labor Get access William A Rushing, William A Rushing Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vernon Davies Vernon Davies Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 48, Issue 3, March 1970, Pages 394–396, https://doi.org/10.2307/257…
People, Groups and Organizations
Public Policy, Community Constraints, and the Distribution of Medical Resources
Public Policy, Community Constraints, and the Distribution of Medical Resources William A. Rushing William A. Rushing Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 19, Issue 1, Summer 1971, Pages 21–36, https://doi.org/10.2307/799937 Published: 07 August 2014
Individual Resources, Societal Reaction, and Hospital Commitment
Despite the attention a number of sociologists have given to the societal reaction perspective on deviant behavior and especially mental illness, few efforts have been made to investigate or even systematically to conceptualize conceptualize contingences of the social reaction. In this paper I hypothesize that important contingencies in hospital commitment are individual resources and community integration-visibility. Using the ratio of involunta…
Class, Culture, and 'Social Structure and Anomie
Hypotheses derived from Merton's theory of "social structure and anomie" are tested on 240 well-to-do and affluent farmers and 1,031 mostly poverty-level farm workers in Washington. Farm workers consist of Anglo-Americans, bilingual Mexican-Americans, and non-English-speaking Mexican-Americans. Results indicate that disjunction between educational aspirations for children and perceived opportunity is greater among Anglo-American farm workers than…
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Occupational Structure of Community General Hospitals
Zipf's (1949) generalized harmonic series model of occupational differentiation is tested in 91 community general hospitals. It was not possible to reject this model in the majority of cases and problems of measurement error make it difficult to claim a firm rejection in the remainder. Relationships among the generalized harmonic series parameters are essentially the same as those reported by Mayhew et al. (1972) for military organizations. Accor…
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