Kurt W Back
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3620928 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kurt W Back |
| NOMBRES | Kurt W |
| APELLIDO | Back |
| FIRMA | BACK K W |
| AFILIACIONES | Duke University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 141 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 544 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 141 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1948 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
In Search for Community: Encounter Groups and Social Change
The game and the myth as two languages of social science
Scientists are only human, and like other human beings, sometimes do battle over conflicting ideologies. Within the social sciences, there is developing an increasingly serious quarrel between the model makers, who emphasize rigorous control and precise definition, and the humanists, who go beyond the clearly denotable rules and principles to develop more intuitive and "transcendental" concepts. The author suggests that this estrangement is cause…
Theories of behavior therapy
Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science. June Deery
Super-paradigms, art, and science
(1997). Super‐paradigms, art, and science: Romanticism and the birth of social science. The European Legacy: Vol. 2, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 749-754
Frankenstein and brave new world
(1995). Frankenstein and brave new world: Two cautionary myths on the boundaries of science. History of European Ideas: Vol. 20, No. 1-3, pp. 327-332
Economics and the dreamtime
Revolution, economics and religion
This Business of Topology
Lewin's introduction of topological psychology was an exciting innovation as well as an object of ridicule. The reasons for its function as a fighting slogan for the Lewinian school and for its decline are analyzed. Topology provided a fruitful metaphor, but its mathematical use was insufficiently developed, partly because topology was an underdeveloped field of mathematics at the time. However, Lewin showed foresight in insisting on the need for…
Metatheorizing in Sociology.George Ritzer
Family Planning and Population Control
Nature Against Us
Friedrich Nietzsche
Regulating Reproduction
Interpretive Biography
Recreating Motherhood
Family Planning and Population Control
Americans about Germany and the Germans
Oracle at the Supermarket
Love as Passion
Public Appearances, Private Realities
Metaphors for Public Opinion in Literature
Myth in the Lives of Leaders of Social Movements
The biography of heroic figures depends on the nature of the heroic role as well as on actual life events; even biographies of current heroes and heroines are subject to this process. A typology of life stories according to content and purpose delineates the place of myth, biography and life course analysis. The life stories of the founding figures of the family planning movement are examined to show the modeling of the main life events of the bi…
Encounter groups revisited
The Semiotic Sphere
Social Pressures in Informal Groups
Influence through social communication
A laboratory experiment designed to investigate aspects of “cohesiveness... the attraction of membership in a group for its members” is described in detail. Results indicate that an increase in cohesiveness, independent of its nature, will produce greater effort to reach an agreement. The different te
Fertility and Family Planning in the United States
Field Work
Overweight as Social Deviance and Disability
George L. Maddox, Kurt W. Back, Veronica R. Liederman, Overweight as Social Deviance and Disability, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 9, No. 4, Special Issue on Patients and Illness (Dec., 1968), pp. 287-298
Briefer Studies and Annotations
The Control of Human Fertility in Jamaica
This classic study of the early use of birth control in Jamaica was based on interviews conducted in 1956 with 1359 lower class women aged 14-40 who were currently in unions. 440 interviews were carried out in Kingston 215 in towns and 704 in rural areas. The questionnaires covered background demographic information on the respondents attitudes toward family size marital factors birth control fertility history and some control questions. The aver…
Sociometric Patterns in Hysterical Contagion
Behavioral Sociology
Slums and Social Insecurity
The Family and Population Control
The June Bug
Apocalyptic and Serial Time Orientations and the Structure of Opinions
Journal Article APOCALYPTIC AND SERIAL TIME ORIENTATIONS AND THE STRUCTURE OF OPINIONS Get access KURT W. BACK, KURT W. BACK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar KENNETH J. GERGEN KENNETH J. GERGEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 3, FALL 1963, Pages 427–442, https://doi.org/10.1086/267186 Published: 01 January 1963
The Control of Human Fertility in Jamaica
New frontiers in demography and social psychology
The topics of demography are those of human fate: birth, illness, marriage, occupation, and death. The methods of demography therefore relate global rates to major events, submerging the individual decision. The social psychologist observes the regularities of people’s behavior in different social conditions and builds models from individual decisions. Since he looks at patterns independent of the event, the kind of event does not matter, and he …
Problems of Communication Between Husband and Wife on Matters Relating to Family Limitation
The Family and Population Control. A Puerto Rican Experiment in Social Change
888 families participated in a survey on the family and population control. As of 1953 the population size of Puerto Rico was 2267000 with a crude birth rate of 37.5 infant mortality rate of 65.7 and an average completed family size of 7 among rural and 1.7 among urban women. For the project described the following steps were taken: 1) transposition of the problem of the islands population increase into family terms 2) selecting a conceptual fram…
Metaphors for Public Opinion in Literature
Language, Society and Subjective Experience
The availability of language codes determines the individual's ability and willingness to describe feeling states. In this study, transcendental experiences are taken as the feeling state in question. Two language codes, religiousmystical and aesthetic, are available in United States' society for describing transcendental experiences. It is suggested that the individual's choice of which code to use is dependent on his position in the social stru…
Self-disclosure and the volunteer
Aging, time perspective, and preferred solutions to international conflicts
Public Health as a Career of Medicine
ONE of the striking features of contemporary society is the multitude of distinct occupations. The Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists almost 25,000 different occupations, and other detailed classifications reach similar numbers. This fact alone suggests the difficulty of rational occupational choices. Not only is the number of alternatives beyond the ability of the individual to assess, but many occupations are completely unfamiliar to most …
The game and the myth as two languages of social science
Scientists are only human, and like other human beings, sometimes do battle over conflicting ideologies. Within the social sciences, there is developing an increasingly serious quarrel between the model makers, who emphasize rigorous control and precise definition, and the humanists, who go beyond the clearly denotable rules and principles to develop more intuitive and "transcendental" concepts. The author suggests that this estrangement is cause…
A physiological effect of cognitive dissonance under stress and deprivation
An experiment and a partial replication were conducted to relate the change of motivation due to dissonance reduction and committment to physiological changes. The experimental technique was based on food deprivation studies which showed that already deprived individuals who committed themselves to further fasting under conditions of low reward decreased their self-estimates of hunger, while the reverse was true for those given high rewards. In t…
Individual Orientations, Public Opinion and the Study of International Relations
Journal Article Individual Orientations, Public Opinion and the Study of International Relations Get access Kurt W. Back, Kurt W. Back Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kenneth J. Gergen Kenneth J. Gergen Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 11, Issue 1, Summer 1963, Pages 77–87, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Interpersonal Relations in a Discussion Group
Briefer Studies and Annotations
Social Pressures in Informal Groups
Influence through social communication
A laboratory experiment designed to investigate aspects of “cohesiveness... the attraction of membership in a group for its members” is described in detail. Results indicate that an increase in cohesiveness, independent of its nature, will produce greater effort to reach an agreement. The different te
Interviewer Effect on Scale Reproducibility
IN administering Guttman scales it is assumed that acceptable scales measure unidimensional traits and that deviations from perfect reproducibility are caused by some peculiarity of the situation. If the scale is self-administered, the disturbance can be charged almost wholly to the respondent. But if the scale is administered in the course of an interview, then the deviation from perfect reproducibility may be due also to the interviewer. We exp…
Field Methods and Techniaues
Interviewing situations can be classified according to the interest which is centered in the interviewee himself. On the one extreme, in clinical interviews, the purpose is to understand the respondent, to explore the interrelationships of his reactions. In opinion survey interviewing, a person is selected as a representative of a population, but his attitudes and opinions are important and he is the only one who can give them. In surveys of fact…
Family Structure and Fertility in Puerto Rico
Family Structure and Fertility in Puerto Rico Get access Reuben Hill, Reuben Hill Institute For Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina and Social Science Research Center, University of Puerto Rico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kurt W. Back, Kurt W. Back Institute For Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina and Social Science Research Center, University of Puerto …
The Dynamics of Family Planning
Problems of Communication Between Husband and Wife on Matters Relating to Family Limitation
The Einstellung Test and performance in factual interviewing
Role-Playing in Survey Research
Three studies demostrate that role-playing can be used to obtain data in a regular survey. Most respondents can do it; it is easy to train interviewers to administer; it is quinckly and reliably scored; and it provides valid results. The data gathered by role-playing may prove better than traditional interview procedures where the inquiry is concerned with the respondent's behavior under stress, when he is strongly affected by his perception of o…
Manner of Original Presentation and Subsequent Communication
Manner of Original Presentation and Subsequent Communication
The Puerto Rican Field Experiment in Population Control
The Change-Prone Person in Puerto Rico
Journal Article The Change-prone Person in Puerto Rico Get access KURT W. BACK KURT W. BACK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 3, FALL 1958, Pages 330–340, https://doi.org/10.1086/266798 Published: 01 January 1958
Studying Attitudes Relating to Sex
Journal Article STUDYING ATTITUDES RELATING TO SEX Get access Kurt W. Back, Kurt W. Back University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jean Owen, Jean Owen Elmo Roper & Associates Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Florence A. Ruderman, Florence A. Ruderman Bureau of Applied Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Public Health as a Career of Medicine
ONE of the striking features of contemporary society is the multitude of distinct occupations. The Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists almost 25,000 different occupations, and other detailed classifications reach similar numbers. This fact alone suggests the difficulty of rational occupational choices. Not only is the number of alternatives beyond the ability of the individual to assess, but many occupations are completely unfamiliar to most …
Public Health as Viewed by the Medical Student
Public Health as Viewed by the Medical Student Robert E. Coker, Jr., Kurt W. Back, Thomas G. Donnelly, Norman Miller, and Bernard S. Phillips CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.49.5.601 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The Family and Population Control
The Family and Population Control
The Family and Population Control
The Survey Under Unusual Conditions
Problems encountered in the Jamaica Human Fertility Investigation and how they were overcome are discussed. In conducting a survey which combined an educational experiment on a sensitive topic (fertility behavior) in a country where social research is new and unusual problems were encountered in selection of interviewers their training and supervision evaluation of the survey responses and in the relationship between the interviewer and interview…
The Family and Population Control. A Puerto Rican Experiment in Social Change
888 families participated in a survey on the family and population control. As of 1953 the population size of Puerto Rico was 2267000 with a crude birth rate of 37.5 infant mortality rate of 65.7 and an average completed family size of 7 among rural and 1.7 among urban women. For the project described the following steps were taken: 1) transposition of the problem of the islands population increase into family terms 2) selecting a conceptual fram…
The Family and Population Control. A Puerto Rican Experiment in Social Change
Field Work
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