Ira L Reis
Biographic Data
| ID | 87674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira L Reis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira L |
| FAMILY NAME | Reis |
| SIGNATURE | REIS I L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Special Reviewers
Is This My Scale? Response to a Revision of the Reiss PSP Scale by Sprecher, McKinney, Walsh, and Anderson
Ira L. Reiss, Susan Sprecher, Kathleen McKinney, Robert Walsh, Carrie Anderson, Is This My Scale? Response to a Revision of the Reiss PSP Scale by Sprecher, McKinney, Walsh, and Anderson, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Nov., 1989), pp. 1079-1082
A Sociological Journey into Sexuality
The Freudian, Marxian, and sociobiological explanations of sexuality are not well designed for answering questions concerning differences among societies or groups in their sexual lifestyles. A macro-level, societal explanation of sexuality is needed to answer such questions. Such a theory is lacking in sociology but is developed in this paper. Sexuality is defined as a societal product whose importance lies more in its physical pleasure and self…
Journey into Sexuality
A Social History of American Family Sociology, 1865-1940
The Mosher Survey
The Operational Approach
Some Observations on Ideology and Sexuality in America
In the last several years the public debate on sexuality has increasingly indicated that strong ideological biases are operating in our sexual lives. In order to illustrate and scientifically analyze these biases, five substantive areas of public controversy are examined for evidence of our ideological tenets concerning human sexuality: (1) abortion, (2) genetic differences, (3) exploitation and pornography, (4) sexual normality, and (5) sexual h…
A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Extramarital Sexual Permissiveness
Ira L. Reiss, Ronald E. Anderson, G. C. Sponaugle, A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Extramarital Sexual Permissiveness, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 42, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 395-411
Contemporary Theories about the Family
Family Systems in America
Family Systems in America
Family Systems in America
"Comment on Davidson and Leslie's Article "Premarital Sexual Intercourse
Premarital Contraceptive Usage
A sample of 482 females from a large Midwestern university attending a contraceptive clinic was observed in terms of comparing those attending and not attending the clinic and those who had sought contraceptive advice from a private physician. 5 hypotheses were observed asserting that the following factors positively influence the seeking of contraceptive assistance: 1) endorsement of sexual choice; 2) self-assurance 3) early sex education in the…
Theory Construction and the Sociology of the Family.Wesley Burr
Readings on the Family System
The Family System in America
Becoming an Unwed Mother
Tearoom Trade
Premarital Sex as Deviant Behavior
Response to the Heltsley and Broderick Retest of Reiss's Proposition One
The Social Context of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
The Social Context of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Kinship in an Urban Setting
Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Among Negroes and Whites
Results from a sample of 903 students and 1515 adults indicate that Negroes and whites differ considerably in the ways in which premarital sexual attitudes are produced and maintained. The white group is less permissive, and its permissiveness is inversely related to church attendance and belief in romantic love and positively related to the number of times in love. In the Negro group these associations were either absent or in the opposite direc…
A Sociological Journey into Sexuality
The Freudian, Marxian, and sociobiological explanations of sexuality are not well designed for answering questions concerning differences among societies or groups in their sexual lifestyles. A macro-level, societal explanation of sexuality is needed to answer such questions. Such a theory is lacking in sociology but is developed in this paper. Sexuality is defined as a societal product whose importance lies more in its physical pleasure and self…
The Scaling of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Guttman scales for measuring premarital sexual permissiveness are presented and analyzed. The scales have been tested on national adult samples and on student samples. A difference appears in the scale order of questions for the high permissive and low permissive groups. This difference centers about the high permissive groups giving less relative support to affectionless kissing and petting behavior while giving more relative support to coital b…
Premarital Sex as Deviant Behavior
Social Class and Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Data from samples of 903 students and 1515 adults were used to investigate the hypothesis that persons of higher social status are less permissive than lower-status persons regarding premarital sexual behavior. In neither sample did the expected negative relation between class and permissiveness appear, but among persons displaying conservative characteristics generally, the relationship was negative. Among those with liberal characteristics, the…
The Sexual Behaviour of Young People
There has been a growing volume of research into sexual behaviour in urbanindustrial societies since 1948, when Kinsey and his associates first published The Sexual Behaviour of the Human Male. The increase of publications in this field is undoubtedly to be welcomed, but it must be noted that with few exceptions the quality of research leaves much to be desired. Scant attention has been paid to the general theoretical implications of problems suc…
Family Systems in America
The Universality of the Family
George P. Murdock's conception of the universal aspects of the family is examined by reference to the ethnographic literature. The results indicate that the nuclear family is not universal and that only the nurturant socialization function is universal. A revised conception of the family is offered which views the family institution as a small kinship structured group with the key function of nurturant socialization of the newborn. Nuturant socia…
Some Observations on Ideology and Sexuality in America
In the last several years the public debate on sexuality has increasingly indicated that strong ideological biases are operating in our sexual lives. In order to illustrate and scientifically analyze these biases, five substantive areas of public controversy are examined for evidence of our ideological tenets concerning human sexuality: (1) abortion, (2) genetic differences, (3) exploitation and pornography, (4) sexual normality, and (5) sexual h…
Family
Comparative Family Systems
Premarital Contraceptive Usage
A sample of 482 females from a large Midwestern university attending a contraceptive clinic was observed in terms of comparing those attending and not attending the clinic and those who had sought contraceptive advice from a private physician. 5 hypotheses were observed asserting that the following factors positively influence the seeking of contraceptive assistance: 1) endorsement of sexual choice; 2) self-assurance 3) early sex education in the…
A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Extramarital Sexual Permissiveness
Ira L. Reiss, Ronald E. Anderson, G. C. Sponaugle, A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Extramarital Sexual Permissiveness, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 42, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 395-411
Sociological Aspects of Homosexuality
Premarital Sexual Standards in America
A Social History of American Family Sociology, 1865-1940
Marriage and Family Interaction
Is This My Scale? Response to a Revision of the Reiss PSP Scale by Sprecher, McKinney, Walsh, and Anderson
Ira L. Reiss, Susan Sprecher, Kathleen McKinney, Robert Walsh, Carrie Anderson, Is This My Scale? Response to a Revision of the Reiss PSP Scale by Sprecher, McKinney, Walsh, and Anderson, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Nov., 1989), pp. 1079-1082
Contemporary Theories about the Family
Tearoom Trade
The Social Context of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Premarital Sexual Standards in America
Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Among Negroes and Whites
Results from a sample of 903 students and 1515 adults indicate that Negroes and whites differ considerably in the ways in which premarital sexual attitudes are produced and maintained. The white group is less permissive, and its permissiveness is inversely related to church attendance and belief in romantic love and positively related to the number of times in love. In the Negro group these associations were either absent or in the opposite direc…
Marriage and Family Interaction
The Scaling of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Guttman scales for measuring premarital sexual permissiveness are presented and analyzed. The scales have been tested on national adult samples and on student samples. A difference appears in the scale order of questions for the high permissive and low permissive groups. This difference centers about the high permissive groups giving less relative support to affectionless kissing and petting behavior while giving more relative support to coital b…
Virgin Wives
Family
Comparative Family Systems
Social Class and Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Data from samples of 903 students and 1515 adults were used to investigate the hypothesis that persons of higher social status are less permissive than lower-status persons regarding premarital sexual behavior. In neither sample did the expected negative relation between class and permissiveness appear, but among persons displaying conservative characteristics generally, the relationship was negative. Among those with liberal characteristics, the…
The Universality of the Family
George P. Murdock's conception of the universal aspects of the family is examined by reference to the ethnographic literature. The results indicate that the nuclear family is not universal and that only the nurturant socialization function is universal. A revised conception of the family is offered which views the family institution as a small kinship structured group with the key function of nurturant socialization of the newborn. Nuturant socia…
Nymphomania
Hayes, 'Item Order and Guttman Scales
Sociological Aspects of Homosexuality
The Sexual Behaviour of Young People
There has been a growing volume of research into sexual behaviour in urbanindustrial societies since 1948, when Kinsey and his associates first published The Sexual Behaviour of the Human Male. The increase of publications in this field is undoubtedly to be welcomed, but it must be noted that with few exceptions the quality of research leaves much to be desired. Scant attention has been paid to the general theoretical implications of problems suc…
Sex and the College Student
Feminism and Family Planning in Victorian England
The Social Context of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Kinship in an Urban Setting
Response to the Heltsley and Broderick Retest of Reiss's Proposition One
The Social Context of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Premarital Sex as Deviant Behavior
Tearoom Trade
The Family System in America
Becoming an Unwed Mother
Readings on the Family System
Premarital Contraceptive Usage
A sample of 482 females from a large Midwestern university attending a contraceptive clinic was observed in terms of comparing those attending and not attending the clinic and those who had sought contraceptive advice from a private physician. 5 hypotheses were observed asserting that the following factors positively influence the seeking of contraceptive assistance: 1) endorsement of sexual choice; 2) self-assurance 3) early sex education in the…
Psychology (32 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (10 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (6 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (6 works)