Kenneth D Bailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 101323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth D Bailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth D |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailey |
| SIGNATURE | BAILEY K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3657-2532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Getting Schooled in Relational Leadership
Systems Theory
Handbook of Data Analysis
Sociology and the New Systems Theory
Typologies and Taxonomies
The Changing Nature of Sociological Inquiry: A Review of Research Methods Textbooks
Talcott parsons, social entropy theory, and living systems theory
Parsonian functionalism popularized grand, macrosociological systems theory in sociology, and dominated the field for over two decades. Unfortunately, it was heavily criticized as teleological, tautological, static, untestable, and conservative. The criticisms not only hastened its demise, but left a harsh legacy in which contemporary systems approaches are often labeled as "functionalism" and thus diminished or even dismissed. Living Systems The…
Constructing the Social System
Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory
This is a study of a method of thinking in the social sciences known as the loop concept. This concept underlies the notions of feedback and circular causality. After tracing its historical roots, the author argues that modern usage of feedback thinking in the social sciences divides into two main lines of development. He makes extensive use of the analysis of citations and texts from many branches of the social sciences to document this split an…
Macro-Micro Linkages in Sociology
Social Entropy Theory
Alternative procedures for macrosociological theorizing
Theory Building in Sociology: Assessing Theoretical Cumulation
Introduction - Jonathan H Turner Can Sociology Be A Cumulative Science? Theory Growth, Social Processes, and Metatheory - Joseph Berger, David G Wagner and Morris Zelditch Jr Structures of Social Positions and Structures of Social Relations - Peter M Blau Rational Choice Foundations of Social Order - Michael Hechter The Paradox of Social Order - Ralph H Turner Code, Structure, and Action - Richard Munch Building a Theory of Structuration from a P…
The Supply of Concepts
From Poet to Pistol: Reflections on the Ecological Complex
Some macroecologists study population characteristics using a single variable, while others specify a system of interrelated variables. The purpose of this paper is to offer an ecological model which is theoretically appropriate and correctly bounded. Based on population (P), information (I), space (S), technology (T), organization (O), and level of living (L), or PISTOL, it is argued that the addition of two variables to the most famous ecologic…
Constructing Typologies Through Cluster Analysis
Construction de typologies avec l'analyse de classification. Le manque de modèles statistiques semble rendre les méthodes classificatoires inadéquantes pour la recherche de types sousjacents. L'auteur montre que ces méthodes, quoi que manquant un modèle statistique, possèdent clairement un modèle logique. Les types monothétiques, polythétiques et complètement polythétiques sont définis avec la logique de classes. L'objectif de la construction typ…
Information Theory: Structural Models for Qualitative Data
Qualitative Data Selective Information Entropy, Diversity, Variety Shannon's Theory of Communication Comparisons of Qualitative Variates Structural Models Models With and Without Loops Information in Models and in Data Structural Zeros Degrees of Freedom The Significance of Information Quantities Maximum Entropy Computations Confirmation Exploration Comparisons with Alternative Approaches
Ethical dilemmas in social problems research: A theoretical framework
The conceptualization of validity: Current perspectives
Social Research in Developing Countries: Surveys and Censuses in The Third World
Abstract Measurement Theory
New directions for anti-theft policy: Reductions in stolen goods buyers
Entropy Measures of Inequality
Although sociologists have long been interested in the analysis of inequality, there have been relatively few systematic attempts to measure it. Most measurement has utilized popular existing measures such as the Gini coefficient, which unfortunately is relatively difficult to compute and interpret. This article presents a new measure of inequality (B) that is based upon the concept of entropy. The B measure is used for categorical data and compl…
Applied Poverty Research
Beyond Functionalism: Towards a Nonequilibrium Analysis of Complex Social Systems
The equilibrium model has long been used in sociology. It has been especially prominent in structural-functional theory, but has been heavily criticized, especially by conflict theorists. In this article the equilibrium model is evaluated both methodologically and from the standpoint of systems theory. It is found deficient as a measure of system state. The equilibrium concept is ambiguous, arbitrary, nonunique, and dichotomous. It should not be …
Methods of Social Research
Social Entropy Theory
Handbook of Data Analysis
Sociology and the New Systems Theory
Sociocultural Versus Neoclassical Ecology: A Contribution to the Problem of Scope in Sociology
This paper attempts to reconcile the sociocultural and neoclassical approaches to human ecology. The sociocultural frame of reference emphasizes individual action. It has proven effective in studying phenomena such as land use within a city, but its effectiveness for studying properties of entire populations has not been demonstrated. The ecological complex is a frame of reference designed to study properties of populations. These two frames of r…
Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory
This is a study of a method of thinking in the social sciences known as the loop concept. This concept underlies the notions of feedback and circular causality. After tracing its historical roots, the author argues that modern usage of feedback thinking in the social sciences divides into two main lines of development. He makes extensive use of the analysis of citations and texts from many branches of the social sciences to document this split an…
The conceptualization of validity: Current perspectives
New directions for anti-theft policy: Reductions in stolen goods buyers
Beyond Functionalism: Towards a Nonequilibrium Analysis of Complex Social Systems
The equilibrium model has long been used in sociology. It has been especially prominent in structural-functional theory, but has been heavily criticized, especially by conflict theorists. In this article the equilibrium model is evaluated both methodologically and from the standpoint of systems theory. It is found deficient as a measure of system state. The equilibrium concept is ambiguous, arbitrary, nonunique, and dichotomous. It should not be …
Abstracted Versus Concrete Sociological Theory
This article compares the efficacy of abstracted systems analysis and concrete systems analysis for the study of society. Arguments for both the abstracted approach and the concrete approach are presented. A number of disadvantages of the abstracted approach are noted which hinder its usefulness as an isolated approach to sociology. These include the difficulty of system boundary determination, and the difficulty of consistently excluding the ind…
Cluster Analysis
Talcott parsons, social entropy theory, and living systems theory
Parsonian functionalism popularized grand, macrosociological systems theory in sociology, and dominated the field for over two decades. Unfortunately, it was heavily criticized as teleological, tautological, static, untestable, and conservative. The criticisms not only hastened its demise, but left a harsh legacy in which contemporary systems approaches are often labeled as "functionalism" and thus diminished or even dismissed. Living Systems The…
Alternative procedures for macrosociological theorizing
From Poet to Pistol: Reflections on the Ecological Complex
Some macroecologists study population characteristics using a single variable, while others specify a system of interrelated variables. The purpose of this paper is to offer an ecological model which is theoretically appropriate and correctly bounded. Based on population (P), information (I), space (S), technology (T), organization (O), and level of living (L), or PISTOL, it is argued that the addition of two variables to the most famous ecologic…
Post-Functional Social Systems Analysis
This paper attempts to develop a macro social systems model devoid of the many problems which plagued functionalism. I eschew concepts such as equilibrium, survival, and functional prerequisite. Instead of societal survival I utilize the more general notion of level of living (L) and attempt to derive macro correlates of L. These are the society's population size, spatial area, organization, technology, and information level. Interrelationships a…
Interpreting Smallest Space Analysis
Two kinds of SSA (smallest space analysis) are distinguished: R-SSA, which uses as input a matrix of R-distance coefficients (distances among pairs of variables); and Q-SSA, which uses as input a matrix of Q-distance coefficients (distances among pairs of objects). While both types are common in the literature, only researchers using Q-SSA have attempted to interpret the coordinates of the space. It is shown that the coordinates can be interprete…
Constructing the Social System
Entropy Measures of Inequality
Although sociologists have long been interested in the analysis of inequality, there have been relatively few systematic attempts to measure it. Most measurement has utilized popular existing measures such as the Gini coefficient, which unfortunately is relatively difficult to compute and interpret. This article presents a new measure of inequality (B) that is based upon the concept of entropy. The B measure is used for categorical data and compl…
Constructing Typologies Through Cluster Analysis
Construction de typologies avec l'analyse de classification. Le manque de modèles statistiques semble rendre les méthodes classificatoires inadéquantes pour la recherche de types sousjacents. L'auteur montre que ces méthodes, quoi que manquant un modèle statistique, possèdent clairement un modèle logique. Les types monothétiques, polythétiques et complètement polythétiques sont définis avec la logique de classes. L'objectif de la construction typ…
Evaluating Axiomatic Theories
Methods of Social Research
Emile B. Ader
Evaluating Axiomatic Theories
Migration
Key Variables
Polythetic Reduction of Monothetic Property Space
Sociocultural Versus Neoclassical Ecology: A Contribution to the Problem of Scope in Sociology
This paper attempts to reconcile the sociocultural and neoclassical approaches to human ecology. The sociocultural frame of reference emphasizes individual action. It has proven effective in studying phenomena such as land use within a city, but its effectiveness for studying properties of entire populations has not been demonstrated. The ecological complex is a frame of reference designed to study properties of populations. These two frames of r…
Constructing Monothetic and Polythetic Typologies By the Heuristic Method
Past students of heuristic types such as the ideal or constructed types have often proposed that empirical cases be studied by comparison with the heuristic type. However, they have provided no specific guidelines for such comparison, and critics have deemed the operation unfruitful. Such guidelines are provided here, based on the monothetic-polythetic distinction. Each empirical case is initially assigned to a monothetic type, then later a decis…
Monothetic and Polythetic Typologies and their Relation to Conceptualization, Measurement and Scaling
Past studies of the relationship between conceptualization and measurement in typology construction have depended upon the over-simplified heuristic-empirical (H-E) distinction. This paper presents the classification-identification and monothetic-polythetic distinctions. These are used not only to construct an extension of the H-E distinction (heuristic, empirical, classical and reduced classical types), but also to examine previously neglected r…
Arkansas
Population: Quantity vs. Quality: A Sociological Examination of the Causes and Consequences of the Population Explosion. Shirley Foster Hartley
Attitudes toward population growth: Demographic predictors
Arkansas
Interpreting Smallest Space Analysis
Two kinds of SSA (smallest space analysis) are distinguished: R-SSA, which uses as input a matrix of R-distance coefficients (distances among pairs of variables); and Q-SSA, which uses as input a matrix of Q-distance coefficients (distances among pairs of objects). While both types are common in the literature, only researchers using Q-SSA have attempted to interpret the coordinates of the space. It is shown that the coordinates can be interprete…
Cluster Analysis
Cluster Analysis
On Systems Analysis: An Essay Concerning the Limitations of Some Mathematical Methods in the Social, Political, and Biological Sciences
Abstracted Versus Concrete Sociological Theory
This article compares the efficacy of abstracted systems analysis and concrete systems analysis for the study of society. Arguments for both the abstracted approach and the concrete approach are presented. A number of disadvantages of the abstracted approach are noted which hinder its usefulness as an isolated approach to sociology. These include the difficulty of system boundary determination, and the difficulty of consistently excluding the ind…
Post-Functional Social Systems Analysis
This paper attempts to develop a macro social systems model devoid of the many problems which plagued functionalism. I eschew concepts such as equilibrium, survival, and functional prerequisite. Instead of societal survival I utilize the more general notion of level of living (L) and attempt to derive macro correlates of L. These are the society's population size, spatial area, organization, technology, and information level. Interrelationships a…
Applied Poverty Research
Beyond Functionalism: Towards a Nonequilibrium Analysis of Complex Social Systems
The equilibrium model has long been used in sociology. It has been especially prominent in structural-functional theory, but has been heavily criticized, especially by conflict theorists. In this article the equilibrium model is evaluated both methodologically and from the standpoint of systems theory. It is found deficient as a measure of system state. The equilibrium concept is ambiguous, arbitrary, nonunique, and dichotomous. It should not be …
New directions for anti-theft policy: Reductions in stolen goods buyers
Entropy Measures of Inequality
Although sociologists have long been interested in the analysis of inequality, there have been relatively few systematic attempts to measure it. Most measurement has utilized popular existing measures such as the Gini coefficient, which unfortunately is relatively difficult to compute and interpret. This article presents a new measure of inequality (B) that is based upon the concept of entropy. The B measure is used for categorical data and compl…
Abstract Measurement Theory
Social Research in Developing Countries: Surveys and Censuses in The Third World
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