Kenneth Roberts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3659653 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth Roberts |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth |
| APELLIDO | Roberts |
| FIRMA | ROBERTS K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8033-0864 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 173 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1926 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Democratic Backsliding, Resilience, and Resistance
This article assesses two next-level questions in the study of democratic backsliding: democratic resilience and political polarization. It first advances a set of methodological decision points to improve clarity in contemporary debates surrounding democratic backsliding measurement and the possibility of identifying moments of democratic recovery. It then moves to a theoretical and empirical assessment of pathways by which democratic backslidin…
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
We provide an analytical framework that identifies three distinct institutional pathways for democratic backsliding that culminate in executive aggrandizement: legislative capture, plebiscitary override, and executive power grabs. We also identify a fourth pathway of elite collusion that erodes democracy without necessarily concentrating powers in the executive. These four pathways reflect different combinations of ruling and opposition party str…
Lateinamerika / Latin America
Paine, John Knowles
Education to Work Transitions
Middling youth were centre stage in research on school-to-work transitions from the early-20th century up to and throughout the 1980s. Since then they have been overshadowed by sociological attention to the young unemployed/NEETs on the one side, and university students and graduates on the other. Simultaneously, economists have been crowding out sociologists in the study of education-to-work transitions, especially in the middle ground. However,…
Youth Culture, Postmodernism, and Social Divisions
The aim of this research was to establish whether there are class differences in the leisure patterns of university students in Southern Spain. Social class was operationalized using three indices that combined cultural and economic factors: family sociocultural status (FSCS), family economic level (FEL), and family socioeconomic status (FSES). The results show that there were no important differences in the frequency of leisure activities betwee…
The Great Migration
The Role of Children in the Migration Decisions of Rural Chinese Women
This paper investigates the role that children play in the migration decisions of Chinese women. The presence of children of various ages is hypothesized to affect the timing of migration, the length of migration, and the nature of migration in terms of who goes along. In addition, we also investigate whether the sex of the children affects migration decisions. Results indicate that whether one's husband ever migrated has a positive effect on mig…
The Impact of Circular Migration on the Position of Married Women in Rural China
This study examines the impact of migration on women's positions in Chinese rural households. A number of studies have found that rural Chinese migrant women experience more autonomy and freedom in urban areas than they would at home. But do these experiences carry over into marriage when they return to rural areas? Using a survey of more than 3, 000 married, rural women in Anhui and Sichuan provinces and controlling for potential endogeneity of …
The Politics of Economic Crisis in Latin America
Youth in Transition
Leisure in contemporary society
This second edition is a complete rewrite of the first edition published in 1999. It is an introductory undergraduate text on leisure in the UK and other similar Western societies. It has a sociological perspective and discusses recent debates and research on topics such as post-modernity, gender/feminist issues, consumer cultures and lifestyles. The book has 8 chapters and a subject index.
Patterns of Temporary Labor Migration of Rural Women from Anhui and Sichuan
Female Labor Migrants to Shanghai
Using data on 54,373 migrants from the Fifth Sampling Survey of the Floating Population of Shanghai, this article isolates a group of 32,967 rural labor migrants who hold rural household registrations and whose previous occupations were in agriculture, and focuses on the women among them. The demographic and occupational characteristics of these 9,124 women are described, demonstrating that migration to Shanghai is a highly gendered process, with…
Paine, John Knowles
Traders and Mafiosi
Based on interviews during 1996 with 150 self-employed young people in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine, the young entrepreneurs' backgrounds, careers and ways of doing business are analysed. The young people were overwhelmingly male, and were mostly well educated and from high-status families compared with the populations from which they were drawn. Most had started in business by trading, simply buying and selling, but many had subsequently branche…
Why Old Questions are the Right Response to New Challenges
It is argued that, contrary to much current opinion within and outside the discipline, the sociology of leisure is a successful enterprise whose current problems arise from success rather than failure. The success of the project can be seen in the reliable methods of investigation, and the robust answers that have been delivered to all the basic questions about the role of leisure in modern societies. These questions are: how much leisure do peop…
Young People, Schools, Sport and Government Policies
This paper compares the policies and assumptions in Sport: Raising the Game, with the findings of three recent national surveys. These show, contrary to the assumptions in the government policy statement, that England's schools have been increasing, not cutting back on their sports teaching and facilities, and that young people are now playing more sport in and out of school than in earlier decades. Also, the drop‐out rate in late‐adolescence has…
Youth Cultures and Sport
Democracy, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights
The wave of authoritarianism that swept over Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s focused international attention on the human rights violations committed by military dictatorships. As most Latin American nations experienced transitions to democratic rule in the 1980s, hopes were raised that human rights would be more widely respected. Nevertheless, it is questionable whether a regime change from dictatorship to democracy necessarily entails rene…
Bullying and Bargaining
Retrieval of a basic-level category in prelinguistic infants
A lower boundary for category formation in preverbal infants
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Basic level categorization in seven- and nine-month-old infants
The current reliance on linguistic data for inferences about the concept–word relationship has led to serious questions being raised regarding the existence and facilitative role of prelinguistic categories in early word learning. In three experiments a multiple habituation paradigm was used to examine the ability of 7- and 9-month-old prelinguistic infants to form a natural, basic-level object category. In Experiment 1, 9-month-old infants appea…
Democracy and the Dependent Capitalist State in Latin America
It is an intriguing paradox of Latin American political systems that instability often appears to be their most enduring and dependable feature. Regimes that legitimize their authority—or even consolidate it to the extent of institutionalizing political structures and procedures—are aberrations in Latin America. Historically, alternations between democratic and authoritarian forms of government have occurred not only within nations, but within th…
Democratic Backsliding, Resilience, and Resistance
This article assesses two next-level questions in the study of democratic backsliding: democratic resilience and political polarization. It first advances a set of methodological decision points to improve clarity in contemporary debates surrounding democratic backsliding measurement and the possibility of identifying moments of democratic recovery. It then moves to a theoretical and empirical assessment of pathways by which democratic backslidin…
Class, State, and Revolution in Central America
Models of revolutionary behavior in Central America are developed that rely initially on the distribution of landholdings. The scarcity of arable land—as in El Salvador, with its high population density—is suggested to result in high inequality, acute class polarization, and class-based redistributive revolutionary movements. A lesser degree of land scarcity, as in Nicaragua, should lead to a diminished extent of inequality, less acute class pola…
Female Labor Migrants to Shanghai
Using data on 54,373 migrants from the Fifth Sampling Survey of the Floating Population of Shanghai, this article isolates a group of 32,967 rural labor migrants who hold rural household registrations and whose previous occupations were in agriculture, and focuses on the women among them. The demographic and occupational characteristics of these 9,124 women are described, demonstrating that migration to Shanghai is a highly gendered process, with…
Patterns of Temporary Labor Migration of Rural Women from Anhui and Sichuan
The Impact of Circular Migration on the Position of Married Women in Rural China
This study examines the impact of migration on women's positions in Chinese rural households. A number of studies have found that rural Chinese migrant women experience more autonomy and freedom in urban areas than they would at home. But do these experiences carry over into marriage when they return to rural areas? Using a survey of more than 3, 000 married, rural women in Anhui and Sichuan provinces and controlling for potential endogeneity of …
Young People, Schools, Sport and Government Policies
This paper compares the policies and assumptions in Sport: Raising the Game, with the findings of three recent national surveys. These show, contrary to the assumptions in the government policy statement, that England's schools have been increasing, not cutting back on their sports teaching and facilities, and that young people are now playing more sport in and out of school than in earlier decades. Also, the drop‐out rate in late‐adolescence has…
Youth Cultures and Sport
The Role of Children in the Migration Decisions of Rural Chinese Women
This paper investigates the role that children play in the migration decisions of Chinese women. The presence of children of various ages is hypothesized to affect the timing of migration, the length of migration, and the nature of migration in terms of who goes along. In addition, we also investigate whether the sex of the children affects migration decisions. Results indicate that whether one's husband ever migrated has a positive effect on mig…
Pathways of Democratic Backsliding, Resistance, and (Partial) Recoveries
We provide an analytical framework that identifies three distinct institutional pathways for democratic backsliding that culminate in executive aggrandizement: legislative capture, plebiscitary override, and executive power grabs. We also identify a fourth pathway of elite collusion that erodes democracy without necessarily concentrating powers in the executive. These four pathways reflect different combinations of ruling and opposition party str…
Education to Work Transitions
Middling youth were centre stage in research on school-to-work transitions from the early-20th century up to and throughout the 1980s. Since then they have been overshadowed by sociological attention to the young unemployed/NEETs on the one side, and university students and graduates on the other. Simultaneously, economists have been crowding out sociologists in the study of education-to-work transitions, especially in the middle ground. However,…
Youth unemployment
This paper draws on the findings from 551 interviews among 16–20-year-olds from high unemployment areas in Liverpool, London, Manchester and Wolverhampton. It argues that theories about responses to unemployment, derived from the experiences of earlier generations, cannot be reconciled with the behaviour and attitudes of contemporary youth. To make sense of current developments, and in particular to understand the relevance of recreation in an ag…
Traders and Mafiosi
Based on interviews during 1996 with 150 self-employed young people in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine, the young entrepreneurs' backgrounds, careers and ways of doing business are analysed. The young people were overwhelmingly male, and were mostly well educated and from high-status families compared with the populations from which they were drawn. Most had started in business by trading, simply buying and selling, but many had subsequently branche…
Democracy, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights
The wave of authoritarianism that swept over Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s focused international attention on the human rights violations committed by military dictatorships. As most Latin American nations experienced transitions to democratic rule in the 1980s, hopes were raised that human rights would be more widely respected. Nevertheless, it is questionable whether a regime change from dictatorship to democracy necessarily entails rene…
Why Old Questions are the Right Response to New Challenges
It is argued that, contrary to much current opinion within and outside the discipline, the sociology of leisure is a successful enterprise whose current problems arise from success rather than failure. The success of the project can be seen in the reliable methods of investigation, and the robust answers that have been delivered to all the basic questions about the role of leisure in modern societies. These questions are: how much leisure do peop…
The Politics of Economic Crisis in Latin America
School Leavers and Their Prospects
The Society of Leisure
A definition of the future of leisure in terms of the inexorable growth of institutionalized sports practices is more ideological than theoretical. The practice of leisure has been increasing constantly since the 19th century, and one of its more recent manifestations is the astronomical growth of sports activities. This could of course be only a temporary situation. The author feels that it is too simplistic to base predictions of the emergence …
Retrieval of a basic-level category in prelinguistic infants
Leisure And Life Styles Under Welfare Capitalism
The passage from a rural to an urban society is one of the characteristics of modern times. With urbanization and industrialization has developed the concept of the “quality of life”, a concept which is at times adopted by a corporatist ideology preaching economic liberalism and the protection of democratic rights and at other times by a collectivist ideology favoring the defence of collective rights and a state system. Kenneth Roberts calls this…
Bullying and Bargaining
Democracy and the Dependent Capitalist State in Latin America
It is an intriguing paradox of Latin American political systems that instability often appears to be their most enduring and dependable feature. Regimes that legitimize their authority—or even consolidate it to the extent of institutionalizing political structures and procedures—are aberrations in Latin America. Historically, alternations between democratic and authoritarian forms of government have occurred not only within nations, but within th…
Florida
Trending into Maine
March to Quebec
Lydia Bailey
Moreau De St. Mery's American Journey (1793-1798)
Moreau de St. Mery's American Journey [1793-1798]
The Battle of Cowpens
Leisure
Strike at Pilkingtons
Sport and Social Order
Are White-Collar Trade Unionists Different
This paper, based on a broader investigation into class imagery, examines the attitudes of white- and blue-collar workers to certain aspects of trade unionism. The authors conclude that there are basic similarities in the attitudes of both groups of workers and that the differences that do exist may have been exaggerated by previous writers. In particular, the authors question the validity of the distinction between white-collar individualistic a…
The Society of Leisure
A definition of the future of leisure in terms of the inexorable growth of institutionalized sports practices is more ideological than theoretical. The practice of leisure has been increasing constantly since the 19th century, and one of its more recent manifestations is the astronomical growth of sports activities. This could of course be only a temporary situation. The author feels that it is too simplistic to base predictions of the emergence …
Leisure And Life Styles Under Welfare Capitalism
The passage from a rural to an urban society is one of the characteristics of modern times. With urbanization and industrialization has developed the concept of the “quality of life”, a concept which is at times adopted by a corporatist ideology preaching economic liberalism and the protection of democratic rights and at other times by a collectivist ideology favoring the defence of collective rights and a state system. Kenneth Roberts calls this…
The Quality of Working Life
Youth unemployment
This paper draws on the findings from 551 interviews among 16–20-year-olds from high unemployment areas in Liverpool, London, Manchester and Wolverhampton. It argues that theories about responses to unemployment, derived from the experiences of earlier generations, cannot be reconciled with the behaviour and attitudes of contemporary youth. To make sense of current developments, and in particular to understand the relevance of recreation in an ag…
Youth and Leisure
Democracy and the Dependent Capitalist State in Latin America
It is an intriguing paradox of Latin American political systems that instability often appears to be their most enduring and dependable feature. Regimes that legitimize their authority—or even consolidate it to the extent of institutionalizing political structures and procedures—are aberrations in Latin America. Historically, alternations between democratic and authoritarian forms of government have occurred not only within nations, but within th…
Class, State, and Revolution in Central America
Models of revolutionary behavior in Central America are developed that rely initially on the distribution of landholdings. The scarcity of arable land—as in El Salvador, with its high population density—is suggested to result in high inequality, acute class polarization, and class-based redistributive revolutionary movements. A lesser degree of land scarcity, as in Nicaragua, should lead to a diminished extent of inequality, less acute class pola…
School Leavers and Their Prospects
Basic level categorization in seven- and nine-month-old infants
The current reliance on linguistic data for inferences about the concept–word relationship has led to serious questions being raised regarding the existence and facilitative role of prelinguistic categories in early word learning. In three experiments a multiple habituation paradigm was used to examine the ability of 7- and 9-month-old prelinguistic infants to form a natural, basic-level object category. In Experiment 1, 9-month-old infants appea…
A lower boundary for category formation in preverbal infants
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Retrieval of a basic-level category in prelinguistic infants
Democracy, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights
The wave of authoritarianism that swept over Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s focused international attention on the human rights violations committed by military dictatorships. As most Latin American nations experienced transitions to democratic rule in the 1980s, hopes were raised that human rights would be more widely respected. Nevertheless, it is questionable whether a regime change from dictatorship to democracy necessarily entails rene…
Bullying and Bargaining
Young People, Schools, Sport and Government Policies
This paper compares the policies and assumptions in Sport: Raising the Game, with the findings of three recent national surveys. These show, contrary to the assumptions in the government policy statement, that England's schools have been increasing, not cutting back on their sports teaching and facilities, and that young people are now playing more sport in and out of school than in earlier decades. Also, the drop‐out rate in late‐adolescence has…
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