William E Snizek
Biographic Data
| ID | 107584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Snizek |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Snizek |
| SIGNATURE | SNIZEK W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Occupation, Job Characteristics, and the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs
This study uses detailed information from the Department of Labor (O'NET 98) concerning the characteristics and content of 1,122 occupations, and combines these data with information on alcohol and drug use collected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in their 1997 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). Using a merged data set, based on 7,477 full-time workers, weighted logistic regression analyses were use…
The Influences of Knowledge of Hiv/Aids and Self-Esteem on the Sexual Practices of College Students
Using the Health Belief Model as a theoretical starting point, the present study extends previous research on health protective behavior by exploring the relationship among knowledge, self-esteem and students' proclivity to engage in risky sexual behavior. To test the Model, data were analyzed from a sample of undergraduate students at a large land-grant university. Results indicate that students with high levels of self-esteem, as well as high l…
Introduction to a special symposium on the state of sociology worldwide
Gender Differences in Work Values: Perpetuating the Myth
Using data obtained from 12 national samples contained in the General Social Survey over the period 1973 through 1990, this article analyzes the work value preferences of 7,436 full-time male and female workers, representing all major occupational classifications and all major industries. The data presented in the study provide no consistent support for general differences between men's and women's work values. Instead, the data suggest that rega…
On the trail of the centaur
Metatheorizing in Sociology
Combining Head and Heart in Complex Organizations: A Test of Etzioni's Dual Compliance Structure Hypothesis
This study examines the influence of both calculative and moral involvement on the organizational commitment and task performance of a random sample of 121 direct-sales distributors. Based on data gathered from these distributors, organizational commitment is found to be positively related to distributor task performance. Similarly, calculative and moral involvement are found to be positively related to organizational commitment. While organizati…
Neither proscience nor antiscience: Metasociology as dialogue
Encouraging Students in Large Classes to Ask Questions: Some Promising Results from Classes in Chemistry and Sociology
Henry H. Bauer, William E. Snizek, Encouraging Students in Large Classes to Ask Questions: Some Promising Results from Classes in Chemistry and Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul., 1989), pp. 337-340
Words and Sentences Over Time: How Facts Are Built and Sustained in a Specialty Area
This article uses computerized analysis of text, along with a close reading of text, to trace change and development in Burkitt's lymphoma research. While past researchers have focused on the way a text enters the literature, we wish to learn what happens to knowledge claims after they arrive in the published literature. In order to explain why some claims are successfully solidified into facts while others remain as isolated, unsupported claims,…
Gender as a Moderator of Job Satisfaction: A Multiv Ariate Assessment
Based on data gathered from a large Australian federal organization, the present study examines the potential moderating effects of gender on the relationships between various personal and organizational characteristics and employee job satisfaction. Using controlled (n= 168) and representative (n= 298) samples of males, compared to an enumeration of female employees (n= 335), gender is shown to exert a slight impact on the relationship between a…
Some Observations on the Effects of Microcomputers on the Productivity of University Scientists
To date, no systematic empirical research has been conducted to assess the effects of microcomputer usage on the productivity of university scientists. Based on a series of interviews with scientists and engineers, their spouses and graduate students, the present study offers a number of preliminary observations concerning certain advantages and potential drawbacks with respect to scientific productivity associated with the microcomputer's use, b…
Work Values, Job Characteristics, and Gender
This study uses ordinal regression analysis to examine the impact of gender on work values, after controlling for various organizational variables. The analysis is based on a complete enumeration of women in a large Australian organization, together with 'representative' and 'matched' samples of male employees. When organizational variables are controlled, women are shown to place greater importance on working relations, men on salary, job status…
Finnish and American Sociology: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
A comparison is made of the interrelationship between theoretical orientations and research methods of authors publishing in major U. S. journals, with those publishing in Sosiologia, the major Finnish journal. Based on a content analysis of 1,808 articles, similarities are found cross-culturally concerning the tendency for authors with a realist theoretical orientation to use comparative historical data-gathering techniques and for nominalists t…
Introduction: Comparative/Historical Sociology of Science
Professionals’ attitudes toward advertising: A study of accountants, dentists and lawyers
The present study addresses the nature and types of attitudes and behavioral dispositions of accountants, dentists and lawyers toward the use of advertising and delineates professional and work related factors that impact on these attitudes and behavioral dispositions toward advertising. Findings indicate that the concept of professionalism, reduced to five major subscales, fails in the majority of instances to explain a significant amount of var…
Accounting for Occupational and Organizational Commitment: A Longitudinal Reexamination of Structural and Attitudinal Approaches
Using longitudinal data collected from a subsample (N = 92) of subjects surveyed five years earlier by Shoemaker et al. (1977), the present study assesses the relative utility of two distinctly different approaches to the study of occupational and organizational commitment. The first is the structural investments or side-bet approach made famous by Becker (1960); the second, the attitudinal or social psychological perspective used by Ritzer and T…
Cosmopolitanism and Localism among Undergraduate College Students: A Study in Anticipatory Socialization
The cosmopolitan-local distinction has traditionally been applied to the differing role orientations of salaried professionals confronted with the dilemmas of organizational employment In order to assess the possible existence of such orientations prior to organizational employment, the pres ent study examined data collected from a sample of undergraduate college students majoring in chemistry and business. Analysis of these data indicated chemis…
An assessment of occupational and organizational commitment: A multivariate analysis
Data from 120 park and forest rangers were used to empirically assess the relative impact of sociodemographic, attitudinal, and organizational factors on both occupational and organizational commitment. Through the use of multiple regression analysis, sociodemographic and attitudinal factors were shown generally to bear a positive relationship to both types of commitment. Upon further analysis of partials based on type of occupation, some specifi…
Quality of graduate productivity in sociology as measured by the citation index: A longitudinal overview
Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research: A Metasociological Perspective
Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research: A Metasociological Perspective
The Relationship Between Theory and Research: A Longitudinal Perspective
An earlier study of the theoretical and methodological postures used by the authors of 1,434 sociological journal articles found that those with a realist or social factist theoretical approach tended not to involve empirical data gathering and analysis techniques. In contrast, nominalists or social behaviorists used more highly empirical research procedures. Using the same data set, this study investigates the direction and nature of changes whi…
Job satisfaction and perceived bureaucratization in recreational delivery organizations: A comparison of federal and state park and forest rangers
Data from the responses of 120 park and forest rangers at both the state and federal levels were analyzed relative to stated levels of job satisfaction and perceived degree of bureaucratization in their respective work organizations. While park rangers expressed significantly higher levels of job satisfaction than forest rangers, no significant difference was found between state and federal rangers. The self‐perceived degree of bureaucratization …
Toward a Further Clarification of Becker's Side-Bet Hypothesis as Applied to Organizational and Occupational Commitment
Journal Article Toward a Further Clarification of Becker's Side-Bet Hypothesis as Applied to Organizational and Occupational Commitment Get access Donald J. Shoemaker, Donald J. Shoemaker Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar William E. Snizek, William E. Snizek Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Hall's Professionalism Scale: An Empirical Reassessment
A growing number of sociologists seek to determine appropriate criteria and measurement of individuals' professional standing. One notable attempt in this regard has been the professionalism scale recently developed and employed by Richard Hall. Using Likert scaling procedures, Hall measured five attitudinal components of professionalism: use of the professional organization as a major referent, belief in public service, belief in self regulation…
Gender Differences in Work Values: Perpetuating the Myth
Using data obtained from 12 national samples contained in the General Social Survey over the period 1973 through 1990, this article analyzes the work value preferences of 7,436 full-time male and female workers, representing all major occupational classifications and all major industries. The data presented in the study provide no consistent support for general differences between men's and women's work values. Instead, the data suggest that rega…
Work Values, Job Characteristics, and Gender
This study uses ordinal regression analysis to examine the impact of gender on work values, after controlling for various organizational variables. The analysis is based on a complete enumeration of women in a large Australian organization, together with 'representative' and 'matched' samples of male employees. When organizational variables are controlled, women are shown to place greater importance on working relations, men on salary, job status…
Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research: A Metasociological Perspective
Gender as a Moderator of Job Satisfaction: A Multiv Ariate Assessment
Based on data gathered from a large Australian federal organization, the present study examines the potential moderating effects of gender on the relationships between various personal and organizational characteristics and employee job satisfaction. Using controlled (n= 168) and representative (n= 298) samples of males, compared to an enumeration of female employees (n= 335), gender is shown to exert a slight impact on the relationship between a…
Neither proscience nor antiscience: Metasociology as dialogue
Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research: A Metasociological Perspective
Toward a Further Clarification of Becker's Side-Bet Hypothesis as Applied to Organizational and Occupational Commitment
Journal Article Toward a Further Clarification of Becker's Side-Bet Hypothesis as Applied to Organizational and Occupational Commitment Get access Donald J. Shoemaker, Donald J. Shoemaker Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar William E. Snizek, William E. Snizek Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
On the trail of the centaur
The Relationship between Theory and Research: A Study in the Sociology of Sociology
While the importance of the relationship between theory and research is given credence in sociology, little has been done in delineating the specific nature of such a relationship. In order to do so, the present article examines data concerning the theoretical orientation and methodological procedures employed by the authors of 1,434 articles (in five substantive areas) which have appeared in nine major sociological journals over the period 1950 …
Some Observations on the Effects of Microcomputers on the Productivity of University Scientists
To date, no systematic empirical research has been conducted to assess the effects of microcomputer usage on the productivity of university scientists. Based on a series of interviews with scientists and engineers, their spouses and graduate students, the present study offers a number of preliminary observations concerning certain advantages and potential drawbacks with respect to scientific productivity associated with the microcomputer's use, b…
Accounting for Occupational and Organizational Commitment: A Longitudinal Reexamination of Structural and Attitudinal Approaches
Using longitudinal data collected from a subsample (N = 92) of subjects surveyed five years earlier by Shoemaker et al. (1977), the present study assesses the relative utility of two distinctly different approaches to the study of occupational and organizational commitment. The first is the structural investments or side-bet approach made famous by Becker (1960); the second, the attitudinal or social psychological perspective used by Ritzer and T…
The Relationship Between Theory and Research: A Longitudinal Perspective
An earlier study of the theoretical and methodological postures used by the authors of 1,434 sociological journal articles found that those with a realist or social factist theoretical approach tended not to involve empirical data gathering and analysis techniques. In contrast, nominalists or social behaviorists used more highly empirical research procedures. Using the same data set, this study investigates the direction and nature of changes whi…
Combining Head and Heart in Complex Organizations: A Test of Etzioni's Dual Compliance Structure Hypothesis
This study examines the influence of both calculative and moral involvement on the organizational commitment and task performance of a random sample of 121 direct-sales distributors. Based on data gathered from these distributors, organizational commitment is found to be positively related to distributor task performance. Similarly, calculative and moral involvement are found to be positively related to organizational commitment. While organizati…
Encouraging Students in Large Classes to Ask Questions: Some Promising Results from Classes in Chemistry and Sociology
Henry H. Bauer, William E. Snizek, Encouraging Students in Large Classes to Ask Questions: Some Promising Results from Classes in Chemistry and Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul., 1989), pp. 337-340
Cosmopolitanism and Localism among Undergraduate College Students: A Study in Anticipatory Socialization
The cosmopolitan-local distinction has traditionally been applied to the differing role orientations of salaried professionals confronted with the dilemmas of organizational employment In order to assess the possible existence of such orientations prior to organizational employment, the pres ent study examined data collected from a sample of undergraduate college students majoring in chemistry and business. Analysis of these data indicated chemis…
Quality of graduate productivity in sociology as measured by the citation index: A longitudinal overview
Changing career specialties within veterinary medicine
Changing career specialties within veterinary medicine. W E Snizek, and C D BryantCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.4.381 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The iceman cometh: The gryonics movement and frozen immortality
Hall's Professionalism Scale: An Empirical Reassessment
A growing number of sociologists seek to determine appropriate criteria and measurement of individuals' professional standing. One notable attempt in this regard has been the professionalism scale recently developed and employed by Richard Hall. Using Likert scaling procedures, Hall measured five attitudinal components of professionalism: use of the professional organization as a major referent, belief in public service, belief in self regulation…
Reply to Fox and Vonk
The iceman cometh: The gryonics movement and frozen immortality
The Relationship between Theory and Research: A Study in the Sociology of Sociology
While the importance of the relationship between theory and research is given credence in sociology, little has been done in delineating the specific nature of such a relationship. In order to do so, the present article examines data concerning the theoretical orientation and methodological procedures employed by the authors of 1,434 articles (in five substantive areas) which have appeared in nine major sociological journals over the period 1950 …
The Waitress-Diner Relationship: A Multimethod Approach To the Study of Subordinate Influence
Literature in the area of work and occupations suggests that a variety of manipulative ploys are practiced by service workers. Although these maneuvers may be aimed at controlling diverse facets of the work situation, they generally are performed in an effort to master the work's reward structure. Manipulative accounts have contamed sketches of the procedures practiced; yet few accounts acknowledge a test of such procedures. This investigation wa…
Changing career specialties within veterinary medicine
Changing career specialties within veterinary medicine. W E Snizek, and C D BryantCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.4.381 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The Use of Research Entrepreneurship as a Potential Role Conflict Reduction Mechanism: An Empirical Reassessment
Toward a Further Clarification of Becker's Side-Bet Hypothesis as Applied to Organizational and Occupational Commitment
Journal Article Toward a Further Clarification of Becker's Side-Bet Hypothesis as Applied to Organizational and Occupational Commitment Get access Donald J. Shoemaker, Donald J. Shoemaker Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar William E. Snizek, William E. Snizek Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Job satisfaction and perceived bureaucratization in recreational delivery organizations: A comparison of federal and state park and forest rangers
Data from the responses of 120 park and forest rangers at both the state and federal levels were analyzed relative to stated levels of job satisfaction and perceived degree of bureaucratization in their respective work organizations. While park rangers expressed significantly higher levels of job satisfaction than forest rangers, no significant difference was found between state and federal rangers. The self‐perceived degree of bureaucratization …
The Relationship Between Theory and Research: A Longitudinal Perspective
An earlier study of the theoretical and methodological postures used by the authors of 1,434 sociological journal articles found that those with a realist or social factist theoretical approach tended not to involve empirical data gathering and analysis techniques. In contrast, nominalists or social behaviorists used more highly empirical research procedures. Using the same data set, this study investigates the direction and nature of changes whi…
Quality of graduate productivity in sociology as measured by the citation index: A longitudinal overview
Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research: A Metasociological Perspective
Contemporary Issues in Theory and Research: A Metasociological Perspective
An assessment of occupational and organizational commitment: A multivariate analysis
Data from 120 park and forest rangers were used to empirically assess the relative impact of sociodemographic, attitudinal, and organizational factors on both occupational and organizational commitment. Through the use of multiple regression analysis, sociodemographic and attitudinal factors were shown generally to bear a positive relationship to both types of commitment. Upon further analysis of partials based on type of occupation, some specifi…
Accounting for Occupational and Organizational Commitment: A Longitudinal Reexamination of Structural and Attitudinal Approaches
Using longitudinal data collected from a subsample (N = 92) of subjects surveyed five years earlier by Shoemaker et al. (1977), the present study assesses the relative utility of two distinctly different approaches to the study of occupational and organizational commitment. The first is the structural investments or side-bet approach made famous by Becker (1960); the second, the attitudinal or social psychological perspective used by Ritzer and T…
Cosmopolitanism and Localism among Undergraduate College Students: A Study in Anticipatory Socialization
The cosmopolitan-local distinction has traditionally been applied to the differing role orientations of salaried professionals confronted with the dilemmas of organizational employment In order to assess the possible existence of such orientations prior to organizational employment, the pres ent study examined data collected from a sample of undergraduate college students majoring in chemistry and business. Analysis of these data indicated chemis…
Professionals’ attitudes toward advertising: A study of accountants, dentists and lawyers
The present study addresses the nature and types of attitudes and behavioral dispositions of accountants, dentists and lawyers toward the use of advertising and delineates professional and work related factors that impact on these attitudes and behavioral dispositions toward advertising. Findings indicate that the concept of professionalism, reduced to five major subscales, fails in the majority of instances to explain a significant amount of var…
Some Observations on the Effects of Microcomputers on the Productivity of University Scientists
To date, no systematic empirical research has been conducted to assess the effects of microcomputer usage on the productivity of university scientists. Based on a series of interviews with scientists and engineers, their spouses and graduate students, the present study offers a number of preliminary observations concerning certain advantages and potential drawbacks with respect to scientific productivity associated with the microcomputer's use, b…
Work Values, Job Characteristics, and Gender
This study uses ordinal regression analysis to examine the impact of gender on work values, after controlling for various organizational variables. The analysis is based on a complete enumeration of women in a large Australian organization, together with 'representative' and 'matched' samples of male employees. When organizational variables are controlled, women are shown to place greater importance on working relations, men on salary, job status…
Finnish and American Sociology: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
A comparison is made of the interrelationship between theoretical orientations and research methods of authors publishing in major U. S. journals, with those publishing in Sosiologia, the major Finnish journal. Based on a content analysis of 1,808 articles, similarities are found cross-culturally concerning the tendency for authors with a realist theoretical orientation to use comparative historical data-gathering techniques and for nominalists t…
Introduction: Comparative/Historical Sociology of Science
Gender as a Moderator of Job Satisfaction: A Multiv Ariate Assessment
Based on data gathered from a large Australian federal organization, the present study examines the potential moderating effects of gender on the relationships between various personal and organizational characteristics and employee job satisfaction. Using controlled (n= 168) and representative (n= 298) samples of males, compared to an enumeration of female employees (n= 335), gender is shown to exert a slight impact on the relationship between a…
Encouraging Students in Large Classes to Ask Questions: Some Promising Results from Classes in Chemistry and Sociology
Henry H. Bauer, William E. Snizek, Encouraging Students in Large Classes to Ask Questions: Some Promising Results from Classes in Chemistry and Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jul., 1989), pp. 337-340
Words and Sentences Over Time: How Facts Are Built and Sustained in a Specialty Area
This article uses computerized analysis of text, along with a close reading of text, to trace change and development in Burkitt's lymphoma research. While past researchers have focused on the way a text enters the literature, we wish to learn what happens to knowledge claims after they arrive in the published literature. In order to explain why some claims are successfully solidified into facts while others remain as isolated, unsupported claims,…
Neither proscience nor antiscience: Metasociology as dialogue
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works)