Terry Nichols Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terry Nichols Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terry Nichols |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK T N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 131 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 792 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 126 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Cowboy Apocalypse
Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805–1859)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) has been variously considered as historian, sociologist, and political theorist. His most well known work is Democracy in America (1835–1840), a classic study not only of democracy in America but of democracy itself. Sociologists have found in this analysis of the early years of the American Republic a seminal source of inspiration for the study of contemporary American society and politics. In the 1970s, interes…
The arts, Bohemian scenes, and income
Where and how does arts activity drive neighbourhood revitalization? We explore the impact of arts establishments on income in US zip codes, nationally and across quantiles (from four to seven subgroups) of zip codes stratified by disadvantage (based on income and ethnicity/race). We focus on what is new here: how neighbourhood scenes or the mixes of amenities mediate relationships between the arts and income. One dramatic finding is that more bo…
Current debates in urban theory from a scale perspective
Cities, all over the world, have become more diverse than ever. This poses great challenges to urban studies and theorising. In this article, we review current debates in urban theory through Howitt’s (1998) three-facet conceptualisation of geographical scale and find that urban theorists have high levels of disagreement on the areal (scale as size), the hierarchical (scale as level) as well as the dialectical (scale as relation) aspects of the c…
The New Political Culture
A New Political Culture (NPC) is emerging, but its recognition is long overdue—largely because many intelligent persons wear analytical lenses that do not focus on it. This chapter focuses on issues like tolerance for new women's roles or multiculturalism, and other items measured in many citizen surveys on social tolerance. It follows Marx in defining class as rooted in occupational/labor market differences. The chapter shows that the several de…
The New Political Culture
The New Political Culture: An Analytical Framework To Interpret What Has Changed, Where, And Why Overview of the Book (Terry Nichols Clark) The New Political Culture: Changing Dynamics of Support for the Welfare State and Other Policies in Postindustrial Societies (T. N. Clark and Ronald Inglehart. ) Where Has The New Political Culture Emerged And Why? Is There Really a New Political Culture: Evidence from Major Historical Developments of Recent …
Citizen Politics in Post-Industrial Societies
Overview of the Book (Michael Rempel and Terry Nichols Clark.) Introduction Postindustrial Politics: A Framework for Interpreting Citizen Politics Since the 1960s (M. Rempel and T. N. Clark.) Cultural Shifts And Politics: Is Materialism Rising, Declining, Or Both? Implications For Political Activism The Trend Toward Postmaterialist Values Continues (Ronald Inglehart.) American Youth Are Becoming More Materialistic (Richard A. Easterlin and Eileen…
New Political Culture
The Breakdown of Class Politics
This paper reviews debate in the 1990s over whether, why, and how much class is declining in its impact on politics. One position is the “null hypothesis” of many at Berkeley and Oxford: the impact of class has not changed. The other position is that “post-industrial society” is transforming politics and redefining class. To focus, the paper does not seek to inventory themes in abstract, but stresses core points made by actual proponents in the e…
Scenescapes
La puissance des scènes
Cet article propose une théorie générale des scènes urbaines. Elles sont envisagées ici comme des faisceaux multidimensionnels de signification imbriqués dans des pratiques locales concrètes. L’article, qui présente des méthodes de mesure empirique des scènes, veut également montrer comment certaines d’entre elles fournissent un environnement propice aux nouveaux mouvements sociaux (NMS). Malgré la dimension universaliste et cosmopolite des NMS (…
The Third Sector
Civil society organizations, nonprofit organizations, national and international nongovernmental organizations, and a variety of formal and informal associations have coalesced into a world political force. Though the components of this so-called third sector vary by country, their cumulative effects play an ever-greater role in global affairs. Looking at relief and welfare organizations, innovation organizations, social networks, and many other …
The Power of Scenes
This paper elaborates a general theory of scenes as multi-dimensional complexes of meaning embedded in material, local practices. It outlines techniques for measuring scenes empirically and shows how certain types of scenes provide environments in which new social movement (NSM) organizations (like human rights and environmental groups) tend to thrive. However universal and cosmopolitan the content of NSM goals, they appear to get much of their e…
Can Tocqueville Karaoke?
Can Tocqueville Karaoke?
This volume questions the importance of arts and culture and their possible impact on politics and the economy. Chapters outline a new framework for analysis of democratic participation and economic growth and explore how these new patterns work around the world. The ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and Joseph Schumpeter and Jane Jacobs are analysed.
Culture on the Rise
Walk and Be Moved
Recent scholarship recognizes the city’s role as “civitas”—a “space of active democratic citizenship” and “full human realization” based on open and free encounter and exchange with difference. The current research emerges from and fills a need within this perspective by examining how local urban contexts undergird and bolster social movement organizations (SMOs). Our theory elaborates and linear regressions assess the relationships between four …
Buzz as an Urban Resource
The global rise of arts and culture is transforming local politics. Though new to many academic urban analysts, this is a commonplace for many mayors and local policymakers around the world. We seek to overcome this divide by joining culture and the arts with classic concepts of urban politics. We offer an analytical framework incorporating the politics of cultural policy alongside the typical political economic concerns in the urban politics and…
Cultural Policy in European Cities
Culture policy is a rising issue in local governance. However, the character of this policy is not clear according to the classical division between developmental and redistributive local policies. A first reaction is that culture does not fit into either. But if we dig deeper, we can distinguish three different perspectives on the role of culture in city development following three conceptualisations of cities: (i) creative cities (culture as de…
Scenes, Innovation, and Urban Development
12 Scenes, innovation, and urban development Daniel Silver, Terry Nichols Clark and Christopher Graziul This chapter investigates the consequences of local 'scenes' for urban development. It treats the particular constellation of amenities in a pl...
Urban Politics
Scenes
This article builds on an important but underdeveloped social science concept — the “scene” as a cluster of urban amenities — to contribute to social science theory and subspecialties such as urban and rural, class, race and gender studies. Scenes grow more important in less industrial, more expressively-oriented and contingent societies where traditional constraints fall and self-motivated action around consumption, leisure and amenities is a mo…
An Expression of Appreciation
Culturas políticas locales
uno aspecto central de la gobernabilidad en el ámbito local es el relacionado con el estilo de liderazgo político.Éste, en buena medida, refleja la cultura política característica de las sociedades políticas locales en las que se ejerce como reglas-en-uso de los procesos y dinámicas socio-políticos que tienen lugar en ellas.en este marco, cabe señalar la aparición de una 'nueva cultura política' como estilo de liderazgo diferente al clásico de 'p…
Comparative community politics
Are Social Classes Dying
New forms of social stratification are emerging. Much of our thinking about stratification - from Marx, Weber, and others - must be recast to capture these new developments. Social class was the key theme of past stratification work. Yet class is an increasingly outmoded concept. Class stratification implies that people can be differentiated hierarchically on one or more criteria into distinct layers, classes. Class analysis has grown increasingl…
Amenities Drive Urban Growth
Studies of the city traditionally posit a division between a city's economy and its culture, with culture subordinate in explanatory power to work. However, post–industrial and globalizing trends are dramatically elevating the importance of culture. Cultural activities are increasingly crucial to urban economic vitality. Models to explain the growth of cities from the era of industrial manufacturing are outmoded. Citizens in the postindustrial ci…
Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence
The Declining Political Significance of Social Class
Social classes have not died, but their political significance has declined substantially; this justifies a shift from class-centred analysis towards multi-causal explanations of political behaviour and related social phenomena. This contribution extends key propositions from Clark and Lipset and adds new empirical evidence to the commentaries by Hout et al. and Pakulski. Four general propositions are stated concerning where and why class is weak…
Community Structure, Decision-Making, Budget Expenditures, and Urban Renewal in 51 American Communities
A BODY OF PROPOSITIONS RELATING COMMUNITY STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS TO DECISION-MAKING PATTERNS AND TO BUDGET AND URBAN RENEWAL EXPENDITURES WAS TESTED USING DATA COLLECTED IN 51 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. FROM 22 DIFFERENT STATES, THE COMMUNITIES RANGED IN POPULATION SIZE FROM 50,000 TO 750,000. DECISION-MAKING WAS INVESTIGATED THROUGH QUESTIONNAIRES ADMINISTERED TO A STANDARD PANEL OF COMMUNITY INFORMANTS. AN 'ERSATZ DECISIONAL METHOD' WAS USED TO …
The Causes of Racial Disorders
This paper presents three basic arguments that draw on data from a sample of forty-two American cities. First, the data reveal that three separate factors-frequency, precipitation conditions, and severity-are important to the structure of racial disorders. Much earlier work, especially that of Spilerman, focused only on frequency. Hence, in part two we consider disorder frequency, replicating and extending Spilerinan's findings. In particular, we…
Old and New Paradigms for Urban Research
Globalization increases local democracy. Both economic and democratic changes illustrate how global developments interpenetrate regional and local processes. Globalization also demands reformulation of past research paradigms. For instance, central place theory, regimes and growth machines, class and race politics, rational choice models, and patronage/clientelism paradigms are all losing power. A new political culture is emerging with globalizat…
The breakdown of class politics
Gabriel Tarde on Communication and Social Influence
Structural Realignments in American City Politics
In the past, theorists have debated class versus race versus nonclass interpretations of city politics. This author suggests transcending the debate, concluding that some cities have race and class politics, and others do not. One can join this simple observation to more general theories by formulating propositions showing how structural characteristics generate or dampen racial cleavages and class politics. A new political culture is emerging, w…
Can You Cut a Budget Pie
How assess a study which shows, for example, that city police expenditures increased and fire expenditures were held constant? Or how respond to a public official who asks how better to allocate a budget? Can we systematize, at least partially, such elusive concepts as the ‘quality of life’? Consultants may comment, with varying success, from personal experience and ideology. Others may undertake cost-benefit analyses. This paper considers proced…
Community Structure and Decision-Making
Émile Durkheim and the Institutionalization of Sociology in the French University System
Between 1870 and 1914, a great deal of creative sociological research was completed in France. But this activity did not follow any sort of regular, coherent process of development; there were several quite separate lines of investigation which generally corresponded to distinct social groupings. And while the term "school" may imply too rigid a demarcation, there were at this time a number of what we may term "clusters" of researchers
Gabriel Tarde on Communication and Social Influence
Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his continuing relevance to a new generation of students and thinkers. Tarde's landmark research and empirical analysis drew upon collective behavior, mass communications, and civic opinion as elements to be …
Mayors and Local Governing Coalitions in Democratic Countries
This paper focuses on the form or 'morphology' of mayor governing coalitions in municipalities of 11 democratic countries. If there exists an 'analytical consensus' regarding the form that these coalitions can adopt, the 'empirical consensus' seems to lean toward a modal form: the 'pro-growth coalition'. Nevertheless, our results show the existence of two other forms of mayor governing coalitions which are as numerous as the pro-growth: 'progress…
Robert K. Merton and Contemporary Sociology
This volume offers scholars of sociology and allied areas the fruits of an international conference on the contributions of the eminent Robert K. Merton. The assessment, as good in content as well as in participants, took place in Amalfi, Italy, with the participation of Merton himself and under the auspices of the Italian Sociology Association. Carlo Mongardini aptly summarizes the unique impact of Merton on the social theory of our century. His…
Walk and Be Moved
Recent scholarship recognizes the city’s role as “civitas”—a “space of active democratic citizenship” and “full human realization” based on open and free encounter and exchange with difference. The current research emerges from and fills a need within this perspective by examining how local urban contexts undergird and bolster social movement organizations (SMOs). Our theory elaborates and linear regressions assess the relationships between four …
Community Power
Prophets and Patrons
Book Reviews in novels to reflect sociological and historical happenings and influences, and to examine it closely, is not only to discover this but also to scrutinize fundamental factors, such as the writers themselves and the role of the novel in general.Both organic and psychological illness are encountered and the four scholarly essays discussing them are of excellent quality.It is, however, difficult to get at the discussions of the diseases…
International Community Power Structures
Buzz as an Urban Resource
The global rise of arts and culture is transforming local politics. Though new to many academic urban analysts, this is a commonplace for many mayors and local policymakers around the world. We seek to overcome this divide by joining culture and the arts with classic concepts of urban politics. We offer an analytical framework incorporating the politics of cultural policy alongside the typical political economic concerns in the urban politics and…
Regime Politics
Community Power and Decision Making
To a greater extent than before, decisions affecting social workers and their clients will be made at the community level. It is therefore important for practitioners to be familiar with the results of current research on community power and decision making. Newer studies have built on the work of Floyd Hunter, Edward Banfield, Robert Dahl, and others. This paper presents alternative approaches for studying community power and decision making and…
Functionalism, Exchange and Theoretical Strategy
Le patron et son cercle
Clark Terry Nichols, Clark Priscilla P. Le patron et son cercle : clef de l'Université française. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1971, 12-1. pp. 19-39
Community or Communities? -- A Dilemma for Studies of Community Power
The great majority of writings in the field of community power tend to use an undifferentiated concept of the community, classifying together social units performing widely differing functions. This paper argues that in order for the field of community power to advance toward developing comparative propositions, it is necessary to formulate a more differentiated classification for communities. Approaches to this problem utilized in other areas be…
Un Art Moyen
Discontinuities in social research
Power and Community Structure
Community Structure, Decision-Making, Budget Expenditures, and Urban Renewal in 51 American Communities
A BODY OF PROPOSITIONS RELATING COMMUNITY STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS TO DECISION-MAKING PATTERNS AND TO BUDGET AND URBAN RENEWAL EXPENDITURES WAS TESTED USING DATA COLLECTED IN 51 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. FROM 22 DIFFERENT STATES, THE COMMUNITIES RANGED IN POPULATION SIZE FROM 50,000 TO 750,000. DECISION-MAKING WAS INVESTIGATED THROUGH QUESTIONNAIRES ADMINISTERED TO A STANDARD PANEL OF COMMUNITY INFORMANTS. AN 'ERSATZ DECISIONAL METHOD' WAS USED TO …
Émile Durkheim and the Institutionalization of Sociology in the French University System
Between 1870 and 1914, a great deal of creative sociological research was completed in France. But this activity did not follow any sort of regular, coherent process of development; there were several quite separate lines of investigation which generally corresponded to distinct social groupings. And while the term "school" may imply too rigid a demarcation, there were at this time a number of what we may term "clusters" of researchers
The Structure and Functions of a Research Institute
Research institutes are nearly as varied as the results they produce. The term itself generally implies the continuing cooperation of two or more persons in order to conduct research of one kind or another. Beyond these minimal conditions, however, innumerable variations are possible. The research institute as such is a recent phenomenon, one that did not arise, or at any rate did not become widespread, until the nineteenth century. Research inst…
Les cadres sociaux de la connaissance.Georges Gurvitch
The Decline of the German Mandarins
Power and Discontent. William A. Gamson
The Reviewer Replies
Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence
Patterns of Local Community Leadership
Writers, Literature, and Student Movements in France
La reussite sociale.Alain Girard
Urban typologies and political outputs
Community Political Analysis
The rise and decline of france as a scientific centre
On Decentralization
Gabriel Tarde on Communication and Social Influence
Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde's most important work and demonstrates his continuing relevance to a new generation of students and thinkers. Tarde's landmark research and empirical analysis drew upon collective behavior, mass communications, and civic opinion as elements to be …
Gabriel Tarde on Communication and Social Influence
The Structure of Community Power. Michael Aiken , Paul E. Mott
Financing the Metropolis
International Community Power Structures
Community Structure and Decision-Making
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