Ira Wasserman
Biographic Data
| ID | 98558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira Wasserman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasserman |
| SIGNATURE | WASSERMAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6618-6096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 225 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Lethal Locations
Location of suicide is a neglected area in suicidology, but is important because location is related to the presence of motivated rescuers who can prevent suicides. The present study analyzes the predictors of suicide in a location that is apt to be free of motivated rescuers: the motel room. Data from the files of a medical examiner in a Midwestern city included 1457 suicides, of which 27 took place in motel rooms. Predictor variables include de…
Gender and the Internet
Objective. The article examines differences in the use of the Internet by gender, with a consideration of access to the web, use of communication facilities related to email and chat rooms, frequency of use, and types of websites used. The study considers the impact of socioeconomic status and social, geographic, racial, and ethnic variables for explaining variations in the use of the web by men and women, and how these factors are mediated by kn…
Adult Social Bonds and Use of Internet Pornography
Objective. Sociological theories of deviant behavior have not been systematically applied to the problem of who uses and who does not use cyberpornography on the Internet. The present study contributes to the literature by providing the first systematic application of selected sociological theories of deviance to the problem of explaining use of cyberpornography. It tests a blended theoretical perspective, which includes measures from social cont…
The Effect of Marriage, Family, and Religious Ties on African American Suicide Ideology
Work on the incidence of suicide, and more generally crime and deviant behavior, has tended to neglect racially disaggregated empirical research (e.g., Peterson & Krivco, 1993; Sampson, 1987). As noted by Wilson and Aponte (1985), up to the 1980s, sociologists tended to shy away from race as a point of departure for research. With respect to the field of suicidology, race has been perhaps the most understudied basic demographic variable (for revi…
Suicide and the Media
Between 1913 and 1914 The New York Times presented a record number of front-page suicide stories. This study is concerned with analyzing a range of factors that might have contributed to this hyper coverage. Employing a time-series model, and examining monthly coverage of suicide stories between 1910 and 1920, the authors found that hyper coverage was not caused by increased suicide in the city or nation but was generated by a dynamic combination…
The Effects of Religion and Feminism on Suicide Ideology
Steve Stack, Ira Wasserman, Augustine Kposowa, The Effects of Religion and Feminism on Suicide Ideology: An Analysis of National Survey Data, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 110-121
The Effect of Religion on Suicide
Research on the impact of religion has been marked by a recurrent flaw: the failure to analyze the greater social context of religion. The present study addresses this by inspecting the impact of Catholicism on suicide in two socio-culturally different regions in the state of Louisiana. A multiple regression analysis of county suicide rates, however, finds no evidence for a contextual effect. Catholicism does not reduce suicide in the historicall…
Marital Status, Alcohol Consumption, and Suicide
Les travaux a propos de l'influence du statut marital sur le risque de suicide ont neglige de prendre en consideration la consommation d'alcool. Il n'est pas clair que le statut marital ait un effet direct sur le suicide. L'etude presente montre qu'une faible integration conjugale augmente significativement le risque de suicide, independemment de la consommation d'alcool. La consommation d'alcool est toutefois plus etroitement liee au risque de s…
The Effect of Religion on Suicide Ideology
Previous work on religion and suicide has pursued a number of themes. The present work tested a new perspective which stresses the extent of social support networks in religions as protections against suicide. This study employed micro-level data on suicide attitudes as a check on previous findings based on ecological data. An analysis of national data from the General Social Surveys tended to support network theory. Churches promoting network in…
Status Politics and Economic Class Interests
The status politics paradigm has been utilized to examine many social movements, including prohibition and anti-pornography. The model assumes that economic and non-economic factors can be disassociated in such studies. This article disputes this and examines county-level 1918 prohibition referendum voting data from California. California is examined because it had a large wine industry, many breweries, and regionally separated religious and ethn…
Age, period and cohort effects in suicide behavior in the United States and Canada in the 20th century
The Effects of War and Alcohol Consumption Patterns on Suicide
The study examines longitudinal suicide data for the United States between 1910 and 1933. Marshall found that national wars decrease suicide not because they produce greater political integration in society, but because they decrease the national unemployment rate, thereby producing greater economic integration. This work argues that national wars also decrease suicide because they diminish alcohol availability in society, which reduces suicide t…
Anomie
Social Indicators Linking Divorce and Suicide
The Changing Television Audience in America
Political Crisis, Social Integration and Suicide
Imitation and Suicide
The study reexamines Phillips's findings regarding the linkage between the appearance of news stories on prominent suicides and the subsequent monthly rise of national suicides-the Werther effect. Extending Phillips's original data set to 1977, and employing the quasi-experimental method, it is found that stories on prominent suicides are likely to trigger a subsequent rise in national suicides. However, this rise may be related to the linkage of…
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Linkage between Suicide, Unemployment, and Marital Dissolution
Political Business Cycles, Presidential Elections, and Suicide and Mortality Patterns
Indicators of contraceptive policy for nations at three levels of development
A cross-national comparison of contraception and abortion laws
Political beliefs and subjective indicators of quality of life
Size of place in relation to community attachment and satisfaction with community services
Non-Deterrent Effect of Executions on Homicide Rates
Reexamining Lester's recent findings regarding the relationship between changes in homicides and executions, the relationship holds only in Southern and Northern industrial states with many executions. However, in the latter states changes in homicides were caused by economic and demographic shifts. Without controls for these factors it is not possible to relate homicides and executions among the states
Objective and subjective social indicators of the quality of life in American SMSA'S
Adult Social Bonds and Use of Internet Pornography
Objective. Sociological theories of deviant behavior have not been systematically applied to the problem of who uses and who does not use cyberpornography on the Internet. The present study contributes to the literature by providing the first systematic application of selected sociological theories of deviance to the problem of explaining use of cyberpornography. It tests a blended theoretical perspective, which includes measures from social cont…
Imitation and Suicide
The study reexamines Phillips's findings regarding the linkage between the appearance of news stories on prominent suicides and the subsequent monthly rise of national suicides-the Werther effect. Extending Phillips's original data set to 1977, and employing the quasi-experimental method, it is found that stories on prominent suicides are likely to trigger a subsequent rise in national suicides. However, this rise may be related to the linkage of…
Size of place in relation to community attachment and satisfaction with community services
Gender and the Internet
Objective. The article examines differences in the use of the Internet by gender, with a consideration of access to the web, use of communication facilities related to email and chat rooms, frequency of use, and types of websites used. The study considers the impact of socioeconomic status and social, geographic, racial, and ethnic variables for explaining variations in the use of the web by men and women, and how these factors are mediated by kn…
Objective and subjective social indicators of the quality of life in American SMSA'S
The Effect of Marriage, Family, and Religious Ties on African American Suicide Ideology
Work on the incidence of suicide, and more generally crime and deviant behavior, has tended to neglect racially disaggregated empirical research (e.g., Peterson & Krivco, 1993; Sampson, 1987). As noted by Wilson and Aponte (1985), up to the 1980s, sociologists tended to shy away from race as a point of departure for research. With respect to the field of suicidology, race has been perhaps the most understudied basic demographic variable (for revi…
The Effect of Religion on Suicide Ideology
Previous work on religion and suicide has pursued a number of themes. The present work tested a new perspective which stresses the extent of social support networks in religions as protections against suicide. This study employed micro-level data on suicide attitudes as a check on previous findings based on ecological data. An analysis of national data from the General Social Surveys tended to support network theory. Churches promoting network in…
Marital Status, Alcohol Consumption, and Suicide
Les travaux a propos de l'influence du statut marital sur le risque de suicide ont neglige de prendre en consideration la consommation d'alcool. Il n'est pas clair que le statut marital ait un effet direct sur le suicide. L'etude presente montre qu'une faible integration conjugale augmente significativement le risque de suicide, independemment de la consommation d'alcool. La consommation d'alcool est toutefois plus etroitement liee au risque de s…
Political Business Cycles, Presidential Elections, and Suicide and Mortality Patterns
The Effects of Religion and Feminism on Suicide Ideology
Steve Stack, Ira Wasserman, Augustine Kposowa, The Effects of Religion and Feminism on Suicide Ideology: An Analysis of National Survey Data, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 110-121
Aggregation Effects in the Ecological Study of Presidential Voting
Status Politics and Economic Class Interests
The status politics paradigm has been utilized to examine many social movements, including prohibition and anti-pornography. The model assumes that economic and non-economic factors can be disassociated in such studies. This article disputes this and examines county-level 1918 prohibition referendum voting data from California. California is examined because it had a large wine industry, many breweries, and regionally separated religious and ethn…
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Linkage between Suicide, Unemployment, and Marital Dissolution
The Effects of War and Alcohol Consumption Patterns on Suicide
The study examines longitudinal suicide data for the United States between 1910 and 1933. Marshall found that national wars decrease suicide not because they produce greater political integration in society, but because they decrease the national unemployment rate, thereby producing greater economic integration. This work argues that national wars also decrease suicide because they diminish alcohol availability in society, which reduces suicide t…
Southern Violence and the Political Process
A cross-national comparison of contraception and abortion laws
Lethal Locations
Location of suicide is a neglected area in suicidology, but is important because location is related to the presence of motivated rescuers who can prevent suicides. The present study analyzes the predictors of suicide in a location that is apt to be free of motivated rescuers: the motel room. Data from the files of a medical examiner in a Midwestern city included 1457 suicides, of which 27 took place in motel rooms. Predictor variables include de…
Political Crisis, Social Integration and Suicide
Indicators of contraceptive policy for nations at three levels of development
Aggregation Effects in the Ecological Study of Presidential Voting
Southern Violence and the Political Process
Characteristics of Respondents and Non-Respondents in a Telephone Survey Study of Elderly Consumers
Religious Affiliations and Homicide
Durkheim had argued that Protestantism decreased homicidal tendencies while Catholicism tended to increase it. However, other writers have maintained that fundamental Protestantism may increase the tendency toward homicide. This study examines the question by relating religious affiliation data by race obtained from a 1916 Census Department study to homicidal rates in the rural South for 1920, and finds that both Protestant and Catholic affiliati…
Objective and subjective social indicators of the quality of life in American SMSA'S
Non-Deterrent Effect of Executions on Homicide Rates
Reexamining Lester's recent findings regarding the relationship between changes in homicides and executions, the relationship holds only in Southern and Northern industrial states with many executions. However, in the latter states changes in homicides were caused by economic and demographic shifts. Without controls for these factors it is not possible to relate homicides and executions among the states
Political beliefs and subjective indicators of quality of life
Size of place in relation to community attachment and satisfaction with community services
Political Business Cycles, Presidential Elections, and Suicide and Mortality Patterns
Indicators of contraceptive policy for nations at three levels of development
A cross-national comparison of contraception and abortion laws
Political Crisis, Social Integration and Suicide
Imitation and Suicide
The study reexamines Phillips's findings regarding the linkage between the appearance of news stories on prominent suicides and the subsequent monthly rise of national suicides-the Werther effect. Extending Phillips's original data set to 1977, and employing the quasi-experimental method, it is found that stories on prominent suicides are likely to trigger a subsequent rise in national suicides. However, this rise may be related to the linkage of…
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Linkage between Suicide, Unemployment, and Marital Dissolution
Social Indicators Linking Divorce and Suicide
The Changing Television Audience in America
Age, period and cohort effects in suicide behavior in the United States and Canada in the 20th century
The Effects of War and Alcohol Consumption Patterns on Suicide
The study examines longitudinal suicide data for the United States between 1910 and 1933. Marshall found that national wars decrease suicide not because they produce greater political integration in society, but because they decrease the national unemployment rate, thereby producing greater economic integration. This work argues that national wars also decrease suicide because they diminish alcohol availability in society, which reduces suicide t…
Anomie
Status Politics and Economic Class Interests
The status politics paradigm has been utilized to examine many social movements, including prohibition and anti-pornography. The model assumes that economic and non-economic factors can be disassociated in such studies. This article disputes this and examines county-level 1918 prohibition referendum voting data from California. California is examined because it had a large wine industry, many breweries, and regionally separated religious and ethn…
The Effect of Religion on Suicide Ideology
Previous work on religion and suicide has pursued a number of themes. The present work tested a new perspective which stresses the extent of social support networks in religions as protections against suicide. This study employed micro-level data on suicide attitudes as a check on previous findings based on ecological data. An analysis of national data from the General Social Surveys tended to support network theory. Churches promoting network in…
The Effect of Religion on Suicide
Research on the impact of religion has been marked by a recurrent flaw: the failure to analyze the greater social context of religion. The present study addresses this by inspecting the impact of Catholicism on suicide in two socio-culturally different regions in the state of Louisiana. A multiple regression analysis of county suicide rates, however, finds no evidence for a contextual effect. Catholicism does not reduce suicide in the historicall…
Marital Status, Alcohol Consumption, and Suicide
Les travaux a propos de l'influence du statut marital sur le risque de suicide ont neglige de prendre en consideration la consommation d'alcool. Il n'est pas clair que le statut marital ait un effet direct sur le suicide. L'etude presente montre qu'une faible integration conjugale augmente significativement le risque de suicide, independemment de la consommation d'alcool. La consommation d'alcool est toutefois plus etroitement liee au risque de s…
Suicide and the Media
Between 1913 and 1914 The New York Times presented a record number of front-page suicide stories. This study is concerned with analyzing a range of factors that might have contributed to this hyper coverage. Employing a time-series model, and examining monthly coverage of suicide stories between 1910 and 1920, the authors found that hyper coverage was not caused by increased suicide in the city or nation but was generated by a dynamic combination…
The Effects of Religion and Feminism on Suicide Ideology
Steve Stack, Ira Wasserman, Augustine Kposowa, The Effects of Religion and Feminism on Suicide Ideology: An Analysis of National Survey Data, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 110-121
Sociology (24 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Political science (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Demography (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Poison control (9 works) · Suicide prevention (9 works)