Richard M Merelman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 210782 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard M Merelman |
| NOMBRES | Richard M |
| APELLIDO | Merelman |
| FIRMA | MERELMAN R M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 313 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Intercomparison of Efficacy of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Precooling Vibration Device on Pain and Anxiety Management during Administration of Local Anesthesia Injection in 6–12-ye…
Singh K, Jhingan P, Mathur S, et al. Intercomparison of Efficacy of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Precooling Vibration Device on Pain and Anxiety Management during Administration of Local Anesthesia Injection in 6-12-year-olds. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2024;17(3):297-302.
Markodemocracy? A Reconnaissance
Robert Dahl identifies a “democratic paradox” in which citizens have low faith in democratic institutions but high esteem for democratic principles and ideals. Dahl asserts that the paradox is resolved if citizens principally perceive democracy in terms of political rights (i.e., freedom of speech and assembly) and not political responsibilities (i.e., regular voting). Such an argument, however, excludes the economic realm from conceptions of dem…
The Contours of American Politics
Democracy in Suburbia
Technological Cultures and Liberal Democracy in the United States
This article argues that "technologies of culture" influence citizens' conceptions of the American state. The technology of modernism (which lasted into the 1960s) educated citizens to manipulate machines and control nature. This influenced citizens' views of government's tasks and capacities. Postmodern technology focuses attention on the self and alters people's conceptions of the tasks and capacities of government. The article discusses the po…
Unity and Diversity in American Political Culture
Drawing on participant observation and quantitative analysis, this paper investigates the National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity, a series of local conversation projects organized by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1995 and 1996. After linking this program to debates about American political culture, the paper analyzes the observational and survey data in light of five hypotheses about the conversations. The convers…
The Mundane Experience of Political Culture
This article compares "mundane political culture" and "Inglehartian political culture." Differences between the two concepts are described along nine theoretical dimensions. It is then argued that mundane political culture needs to be investigated in depth. The article uses a series of local conversations about "community" in St. Paul, Minnesota to investigate mundane political culture. Based on this analysis, it is suggested that mundane politic…
On Legitimalaise in the United States
This article argues that Weberian principles of rational/legal legitimacy do not presently support American political institutions effectively. Instead, these institutions are characterized by “legitimalaise,” a condition that Weber himself foresaw. This article provides evidence to support this thesis. It then discusses the distinctive political consequence of legitimalaise, that is, structural innovation, or the more or less permanent reform of…
Symbols as Substance in National Civics Standards
Scientists Examine Civics Standardsamples of what they have taught with success.I suspect those examples will involve classic speeches and writings and the most significant events in American political history, e.g., the Revolution, the framing and ratifying of the Constitution, the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement.In addition, some examples should come from political history generally, such as the French Revolution and the World Wars.Any gen…
Myths and Politics in Western Societies
Language, Symbolism, and Politics
An exploration of some of the multiple roles symbolism and language play in political life. The essays extend Edelman's work to encompass contemporary efforts in structuralism, deconstruction, textual analysis, post-structuralism, critical theory and neo-Marxism, providing ample testimony to the central place of language and symbolism on politics
Racial Conflict and Cultural Politics in the United States
This article argues that recent instances of cultural conflict in the United States are part of a single, historically distinctive trend likely to intensify in the future. Recent cultural conflict springs in part from growing competition for cultural capital between dominant and subordinate racial groups in the United States. This article analyzes this conflict, treating its chief symbolic expression--"multiculturalism"--as a form of subordinate …
Partial Visions
Partial Visions
Black History and Cultural Empowerment
This article considers the prospect of teaching black history as a form of black cultural empowerment. It lays out arguments in favor of such a view and then visualizes, with the help of Gramsci's theories of hegemony, an alternative view. A case study of one school system suggests that empowerment aspects of black history must compete against professional, organizational, and citizenship aspects of classroom practice. The article closes with spe…
Partial Visions
A study of political culture in the USA, Britain and Canada, this book demonstrates how popular culture - expressed through such media as television soap operas and comedies, textbooks, magazine adverts and corporate publications - subtly deflects and suppresses democratic political action
International Relations and Politics
Partial Visions
Partial Visions
Journal Article Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States. By Richard M. Merelman. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. xii + 287 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-299-12990-X. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-299-12994-2.) Get access Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Jeffrey C. Goldfarb New School for Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Is…
Cultural Imagery and Racial Conflict in the United States
This paper utilizes recent Marxist cultural theory to theorize about the cultural dynamics of racial group conflict in the United States. After laying out a typology of cultural relations between dominant and subordinate groups, the article examines data on African-American cultural penetration of American public culture. The data indicate that since the late 1960s ‘imagerial hegemony’ has yielded to ‘imagerial projection’ for African-Americans. …
The Cynical Society
Cynical Society is a study of the political despair abdication of (individual) responsibility Goldfarb calls cynicism a central but unexamined aspect of contemporary American political social life. Goldfarb reveals with vivid strokes how cynicism undermines our capacity to think about society's strengths weaknesses. Drawing on thinkers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Allan Bloom on such recent works as Beloved, Bonfire of the Vanities, and Mississi…
Reason, Ideology and Politics. Shawn W. Rosenberg
The Promise of Political Psychology
James David Barber is a rarity among scientists an accomplished and innovative scholar who welcomes the opportunity to make recommendations about the conduct of public affairs. To Barber, psychology should not try vainly to distinguish between facts and values, but should become the normatively engaged policy-science Harold Lasswell originally intended. More broadly, Barber envisages a partnership in a democratic society between the academy and g…
Symbolic racism in candidate evaluation
The Development of Political Ideology
“Myself, I get confused. The President tells ya that he don't want no war, it's peace. You pick up a paper, they're bombing children. And television, the guys being interviewed, talking about peace, and the picture shows where the women and children are being bombed and slaughtered and murdered. How long if I think that way and I have had a bad feeling, how long will other people that their mentality's not strong enough, to separate the cause of …
Learning and Legitimacy
This paper examines the theory of political legitimacy through the framework of psychological learning theory and the theory of cognitive dissonance. The concepts of primary and secondary reinforcement in cases of learning permit a general understanding of the growth of positive affect toward a political system. Cognitive dissonance theory allows us to understand how this general positive affect built up by a regime's actions produces the sub-set…
The Development of Policy Thinking in Adolescence
This article identifies four fundamental modes of thought employed in the cognition of policy problems. These modes of thought are moral, cause-effect, sociocentric, and imaginative. Nine variants of these four forms are described and investigated among a small sample of adolescents. The maturation of these forms of thought appears limited during adolescence, and change is not well predicted by the respondent's level of politicization. The articl…
On the Neo-Elitist Critique of Community Power
The process of inquiry occasionally exhibits a dialectical pattern in which a series of assertions is advanced and then attacked. A third phase, which consists of an attempt to salvage the first set of assertions, often ensues. The study of American community power has followed this sequence almost classically, and today we find ourselves in the third phase of the dialectic. The first period marked the contemporary emergence of community power as…
Democratic Politics and the Culture of American Education
This article argues that weaknesses in the school's socialization of democratic values can be traced to culturally patterned strains in American education. Such strains are cultural adaptations to a conflict between educational knowledge and order, on the one hand, and egalitarian politics in America, on the other. After treating a defective explanation for the school's weakness as a democratic socialization agent-the "hidden curriculum" approach…
Symbolic racism in candidate evaluation
Racial Conflict and Cultural Politics in the United States
This article argues that recent instances of cultural conflict in the United States are part of a single, historically distinctive trend likely to intensify in the future. Recent cultural conflict springs in part from growing competition for cultural capital between dominant and subordinate racial groups in the United States. This article analyzes this conflict, treating its chief symbolic expression--"multiculturalism"--as a form of subordinate …
On Culture and Politics in America
This article proposes a structuralist alternative to mainstream behavioural studies of political culture in the United States. After first describing the deficiencies in the mainstream approach, the article suggests that political culture as attitudes and values should be seen as surface elements of a deep cultural structure. The structuralist alternative is presented in some detail, with emphasis upon cultural narratives. Building upon structura…
The Development of Political Ideology
Myself, I get confused. The President tells ya that he don't want no war, it's peace. You pick up a paper, they're bombing children. And television, the guys being interviewed, talking about peace, and the picture shows where the women and children are being bombed and slaughtered and murdered. How long if I think that way and I have had a bad feeling, how long will other people that their mentality's not strong enough, to separate the cause of i…
Unity and Diversity in American Political Culture
Drawing on participant observation and quantitative analysis, this paper investigates the National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity, a series of local conversation projects organized by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1995 and 1996. After linking this program to debates about American political culture, the paper analyzes the observational and survey data in light of five hypotheses about the conversations. The convers…
The Adolescence of Political Socialization
This article assesses political socialization research in terms of its theoretical adequacy, descriptive findings, and methodology. Research in political socialization has uncovered much about the substance of childhood and adolescent political orientations and also has managed to link some agencies of socialization reliably to particular political attitudes. Major deficiencies include the lack of attention to socialization as a process, the divo…
Cultural displays
Evolving Orientations toward Policy Choice in Adolescence
This article investigates the development of formal and substantive orientations towards policy debates in adolescence. After distinguishing between these two modes of orientation and placing them in the context of democratic theory and practice, the article selects two formal criteria-majoritarianism and intensity-for special attention. The article tests six hypotheses about the evolution of these formal orientations, utilizing a sample of 7th a…
The Dramaturgy of Politics
ANY SERIOUS student of politics who nowadays takes it upon himself to introduce new conceptual frameworks, new priorities, and new terms into the study of politics should tread carefully indeed. The proliferation of theory and speculation in political science defies our capacity to absorb, integrate, synthesize, and choose. Ideally, perhaps, ours should be a period more of consolidation and careful exploitation of what we already have than of mad…
The Structure of Policy Thinking in Adolescence
Drawing on findings reported in an earlier issue of this Review, the present Note examines the extent to which nine forms of reasoning about the problem of poverty cohere into recognizable structures or cognitive styles among a small sample of eighth and twelfth graders. The degree of structured policy thinking among the respondents is lower than might have been predicted on the basis of cognitive developmental theory. Moreover, a respondent's am…
The Mundane Experience of Political Culture
This article compares "mundane political culture" and "Inglehartian political culture." Differences between the two concepts are described along nine theoretical dimensions. It is then argued that mundane political culture needs to be investigated in depth. The article uses a series of local conversations about "community" in St. Paul, Minnesota to investigate mundane political culture. Based on this analysis, it is suggested that mundane politic…
The Cynical Society
Cynical Society is a study of the political despair abdication of (individual) responsibility Goldfarb calls cynicism a central but unexamined aspect of contemporary American political social life. Goldfarb reveals with vivid strokes how cynicism undermines our capacity to think about society's strengths weaknesses. Drawing on thinkers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Allan Bloom on such recent works as Beloved, Bonfire of the Vanities, and Mississi…
Domination, Self-Justification, and Self-Doubt
This article employs social psychology to illuminate processes of domination, self-justification, and self-doubt among dominant groups. It claims that social identity theory as formulated by Tajfel and his associates helps explain group domination. It argues that attribution research, the just world phenomenon, the "base line fallacy," and schema theory, inter alia, help understand dominant group self-justification. But dominant group self-justif…
The Family and Political Socialization
On Interventionist Behavioralism
Black History and Cultural Empowerment
This article considers the prospect of teaching black history as a form of black cultural empowerment. It lays out arguments in favor of such a view and then visualizes, with the help of Gramsci's theories of hegemony, an alternative view. A case study of one school system suggests that empowerment aspects of black history must compete against professional, organizational, and citizenship aspects of classroom practice. The article closes with spe…
Partial Visions
Symbols as Substance in National Civics Standards
Scientists Examine Civics Standardsamples of what they have taught with success.I suspect those examples will involve classic speeches and writings and the most significant events in American political history, e.g., the Revolution, the framing and ratifying of the Constitution, the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement.In addition, some examples should come from political history generally, such as the French Revolution and the World Wars.Any gen…
Harold D. Lasswell's Political World
I first encountered the work of Harold Lasswell in the late 1950s, when I was a barely awake undergraduate at a university whose reputation for mediocrity was richly deserved. I opened Politics: Who Gets What, When, How to the first paragraph: ‘The study of politics is the study of influence and the influential. The science of politics states conditions; the philosophy of politics justifies preferences. This book, restricted to political analysis…
Cultural Imagery and Racial Conflict in the United States
This paper utilizes recent Marxist cultural theory to theorize about the cultural dynamics of racial group conflict in the United States. After laying out a typology of cultural relations between dominant and subordinate groups, the article examines data on African-American cultural penetration of American public culture. The data indicate that since the late 1960s ‘imagerial hegemony’ has yielded to ‘imagerial projection’ for African-Americans. …
Moral Development and Potential Radicalism in Adolescence
Learning and Legitimacy
This paper examines the theory of political legitimacy through the framework of psychological learning theory and the theory of cognitive dissonance. The concepts of primary and secondary reinforcement in cases of learning permit a general understanding of the growth of positive affect toward a political system. Cognitive dissonance theory allows us to understand how this general positive affect built up by a regime's actions produces the sub-set…
On the Neo-Elitist Critique of Community Power
The process of inquiry occasionally exhibits a dialectical pattern in which a series of assertions is advanced and then attacked. A third phase, which consists of an attempt to salvage the first set of assertions, often ensues. The study of American community power has followed this sequence almost classically, and today we find ourselves in the third phase of the dialectic. The first period marked the contemporary emergence of community power as…
The Development of Political Ideology
Myself, I get confused. The President tells ya that he don't want no war, it's peace. You pick up a paper, they're bombing children. And television, the guys being interviewed, talking about peace, and the picture shows where the women and children are being bombed and slaughtered and murdered. How long if I think that way and I have had a bad feeling, how long will other people that their mentality's not strong enough, to separate the cause of i…
The Dramaturgy of Politics
ANY SERIOUS student of politics who nowadays takes it upon himself to introduce new conceptual frameworks, new priorities, and new terms into the study of politics should tread carefully indeed. The proliferation of theory and speculation in political science defies our capacity to absorb, integrate, synthesize, and choose. Ideally, perhaps, ours should be a period more of consolidation and careful exploitation of what we already have than of mad…
Electoral Instability and the American Party System
The Development of Policy Thinking in Adolescence
This article identifies four fundamental modes of thought employed in the cognition of policy problems. These modes of thought are moral, cause-effect, sociocentric, and imaginative. Nine variants of these four forms are described and investigated among a small sample of adolescents. The maturation of these forms of thought appears limited during adolescence, and change is not well predicted by the respondent's level of politicization. The articl…
The Adolescence of Political Socialization
This article assesses political socialization research in terms of its theoretical adequacy, descriptive findings, and methodology. Research in political socialization has uncovered much about the substance of childhood and adolescent political orientations and also has managed to link some agencies of socialization reliably to particular political attitudes. Major deficiencies include the lack of attention to socialization as a process, the divo…
Community Power and Democratic Theory
A. F. Dvies’ marginal stance
A. F. Davies, Essays in Political Sociology, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1972, pp. 207 + x, $3.95
Public Education and Social Structure
Political Science in the Public Schools
Social Mobility and Equal Opportunity
The concept of equal opportunity is explored by first contrasting individualistic conceptions of equal opportunity with a class conception. Next, an index of class opportunity is introduced and applied to data for nine western countries. The resultant patterns of inequality are discussed with reference to the underlying mobility process-redistributive mobility-that is responsible for them. The article concludes with speculations about the causes …
The Child's Construction of Politics
The Structure of Policy Thinking in Adolescence
Drawing on findings reported in an earlier issue of this Review, the present Note examines the extent to which nine forms of reasoning about the problem of poverty cohere into recognizable structures or cognitive styles among a small sample of eighth and twelfth graders. The degree of structured policy thinking among the respondents is lower than might have been predicted on the basis of cognitive developmental theory. Moreover, a respondent's am…
Evolving Orientations toward Policy Choice in Adolescence
This article investigates the development of formal and substantive orientations towards policy debates in adolescence. After distinguishing between these two modes of orientation and placing them in the context of democratic theory and practice, the article selects two formal criteria-majoritarianism and intensity-for special attention. The article tests six hypotheses about the evolution of these formal orientations, utilizing a sample of 7th a…
On Interventionist Behavioralism
The Beliefs of Politicians
On Social Psychological Handy Work
This paper reviews the new Handbook of Social Psychology , with a special eye towards its utility for political scientists. The review focuses on theory, methodology, substantive areas of social psychological research, and political applications of social psychological findings. Special attention is paid to Handbook articles of particular merit and application to political science. These include articles on cognitive theory, experimentation, obse…
Moral Development and Potential Radicalism in Adolescence
Political culture and education in advanced industrial societies
On the Asking of Relevant Questions
Nothing is more appealing than the opportunity to pontificate, and no occasion is more inviting to the potential pontificator than the formation of a new organization devoted to such worthy ends as the pursuit of political psychology. Thus, the time for pontification seems uncomfortably right, as does the topic of this panel: the training of political psychologists. Indeed, on a subject as opaque as this one, pontification can almost pass itself …
A Reply to Jennings
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The Family and Political Socialization
Democratic Politics and the Culture of American Education
This article argues that weaknesses in the school's socialization of democratic values can be traced to culturally patterned strains in American education. Such strains are cultural adaptations to a conflict between educational knowledge and order, on the one hand, and egalitarian politics in America, on the other. After treating a defective explanation for the school's weakness as a democratic socialization agent-the "hidden curriculum" approach…
Politics and Social Structure
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