J Kaufman
Biographic Data
| ID | 109526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Kaufman |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaufman |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7874-3440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Five-Day Rustic Nature Retreat with Guided Visual Imagery Enhances Cognitive Flexibility and Well-Being in College Faculty and Staff
There exists a wealth of empirical evidence suggesting that immersive experiences in Nature can promote health and healing. Kaufman argued that there exists a continuum of intervention bolstered by Nature along with meditative practices that can facilitate improved human functioning. Lenartz’s model of Nature connection further provides actionable guidance regarding how one might intentionally leverage the benefits of such a perspective through e…
Impact of Learning Styles on Student’s Creativity: Insights from India
Learning and creativity are the focus of all educational institutions including architecture schools. Various researchers have analyzed the individual differences and preferences of the students' learning processes. These preferences have been collectively termed as 'Learning Styles'
Artemis and an environmentally sustainable future beyond earth
The Nature of Clinical Hypnosis
It has been understood for millennia that nature can foster healing. Therein resides an irony of modern life. Living in a city offers an array of social and technological affordances, but it also promulgates a range of unwanted mind-body consequences that for many individuals disrupt psychological and physical health as our daily habits shift away from the natural history of the places in which we live. In the absence of meaningful interaction wi…
Stress and Coping Among Public School Principals in a Midwest Metropolitan Sample
The present study sought to investigate perceptions of stress and coping among public school principals. School principals are daily called upon to make decisions regarding a range of unscripted events. The position can be stressful, and stress is known to interfere with sound decision making. It was predicted that present samples of school principals would report a mean level of elevated stress. Contrary to expectations, school principals did no…
The Conversion of Cultural Tastes into Social Network Ties
In recent years, sociologists have focused less on cultural tastes as “effects” of social structure and more on their causal efficacy in the creation and maintenance of social ties. Progress on this agenda has been hindered, however, by limitations in theory, methods, and available data. This article attempts to advance all three fronts. First, it clarifies, integrates, and expands upon prior work to develop a more comprehensive theoretical frame…
At the Intersection of Technology and Nature: The Potential for a Bright Green Future
Exposure to Nature appears to be fundamental to optimal human functioning. Yet modern society has become defined in recent decades by a reliance upon computing and mobile technology. This technological ascendance appears to have driven a decrease of human interaction with natural environmental systems as our species has become increasingly urbanized. The result of such city living may be a decrease in mind-body health. Nonetheless, humanity has t…
A Model of Our Contemplative Nature
Nature appears to possess the potential to promote health and well-being. Empirical support for this potential appears to roughly bifurcate along two conceptual lines. Attention restoration theory indicates that exposure to Nature may improve executive functioning via effects on attentional processing. Concomitantly, stress reduction theory posits Nature to confer psychoneuroimmunological advantage through its promotion of a relaxation response. …
Ideologie und Herrschaftsrationalitat: Nationalsozialistische Germanisierungspolitik in Polen
This book is a meticulously researched illustration of how Nazi ideas of race influenced—or, in Wolf’s view, failed to influence—German ethnic engineering policies in those areas of Poland annexed to the Reich and slated for eventual ‘Germanization’. Wolf’s main focus is on the creation of the Volksliste, the list that was supposed to sort the people of the annexed territories into racial categories, with attendant privileges for those deemed to …
Our Contemplative Nature
Social selection and peer influence in an online social network
Disentangling the effects of selection and influence is one of social science's greatest unsolved puzzles: Do people befriend others who are similar to them, or do they become more similar to their friends over time? Recent advances in stochastic actor-based modeling, combined with self-reported data on a popular online social network site, allow us to address this question with a greater degree of precision than has heretofore been possible. Usi…
The re-accomplishment of place in twentieth century Vermont and New Hampshire: History Repeats Itself, Until It Doesn't
The Origins of Canadian and American Political Differences
Why do the United States and Canada have such divergent political cultures when they share one of the closest economic and cultural relationships in the world? Canadians and Americans consistently disagree over issues such as the separation of church and state, the responsibility of government for the welfare of everyone, the relationship between federal and subnational government, and the right to marry a same sex partner or to own an assault ri…
The Hidden Injuries of Work
which date back to the Soviet and pre-Soviet periods without examining the extent to which these practices themselves have been transformed or even obliterated by novel institutional arrangements. Despite the weaknesses listed above, the analyses put forward in each of the books under review are insightful and significant, and I strongly recommend them to students of social change in post-communist societies
Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com
The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network
The rapid growth of contemporary social network sites (SNSs) has coincided with an increasing concern over personal privacy. College students and adolescents routinely provide personal information on profiles that can be viewed by large numbers of unknown people and potentially used in harmful ways. SNSs like Facebook and MySpace allow users to control the privacy level of their profile, thus limiting access to this information. In this paper, we…
Corporate Law and the Sovereignty of States
This article explores the origins of a social form with lasting and profound sociological implications: the corporation. Though corporations date back as far as the Roman Republic, the early United States fostered a significant transformation in corporate law. Shortly after the American Revolution, several states pioneered a system whereby corporate charters became available to almost anyone (at a price), leading (eventually) to a proliferation o…
Why doesn't Canada have an American-style Christian Right? A Comparative Framework for Analyzing the Political Effects of Evangelical Subcultural Identity
Political commentators have asked if Canada could see the rise of an American-style 'Culture War,' where evangelical Protestants are rallied by moral issues to support the Conservative party. This paper argues that even though Canadian evangelicals are just as morally conservative as American evangelicals, they work from very different understandings about the relationship between religious morality and national identity. We predict that rank-and…
Sacralizing Separatism
Et tu , Professor Wimmer
Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein: Deciding on Conflict
Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket
This article explores the dynamics of cross-national cultural diffusion through the study of a case in which a symbolically powerful cultural practice, the traditionally English sport of cricket, successfully diffused to most but not all countries with close cultural ties to England. Neither network ties, nor national values, nor climatic conditions account for this disparity. Our explanation hinges instead on two key factors: first, the degree t…
Rent-Seeking and Municipal Social Spending: Data from America’s Early Urban-Industrial Age
The term rent-seeking refers to special interest group efforts to seek special benefits at little or no cost to themselves. Because government spending has the potential to create both costs and benefits for taxpayers, fiscal policy is commonly viewed as a primary arena of rent-seeking activity. At least five different theories of nineteenth-century American urban development fit this general rubric. Each theory predicts different winners and los…
Cultural capital and the extracurricular activities of girls and boys in the college attainment process
Social-Capital Formation and American Fraternal Association: New Empirical Evidence
Rare membership and lodge data from a late nineteenth-century American fraternal order provide support for the existence of "bridging ties" among its members along class and neighborhood lines, though not across racial or gender lines. Lodge-related political activity centered on issues of exclusivity, such as the desirability of non-English speaking members. The order's system of government was more top-heavy and hierarchical than democratic; de…
Cultural capital and the extracurricular activities of girls and boys in the college attainment process
Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket
This article explores the dynamics of cross-national cultural diffusion through the study of a case in which a symbolically powerful cultural practice, the traditionally English sport of cricket, successfully diffused to most but not all countries with close cultural ties to England. Neither network ties, nor national values, nor climatic conditions account for this disparity. Our explanation hinges instead on two key factors: first, the degree t…
The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network
The rapid growth of contemporary social network sites (SNSs) has coincided with an increasing concern over personal privacy. College students and adolescents routinely provide personal information on profiles that can be viewed by large numbers of unknown people and potentially used in harmful ways. SNSs like Facebook and MySpace allow users to control the privacy level of their profile, thus limiting access to this information. In this paper, we…
The Conversion of Cultural Tastes into Social Network Ties
In recent years, sociologists have focused less on cultural tastes as “effects” of social structure and more on their causal efficacy in the creation and maintenance of social ties. Progress on this agenda has been hindered, however, by limitations in theory, methods, and available data. This article attempts to advance all three fronts. First, it clarifies, integrates, and expands upon prior work to develop a more comprehensive theoretical frame…
The re-accomplishment of place in twentieth century Vermont and New Hampshire: History Repeats Itself, Until It Doesn't
Three Views of Associationalism in 19th-Century America: An Empirical Examination
This article examines three different theoretical conceptions of asso‐ciationalism with respect to cross‐sectional data on municipal expenditure and voter participation in American cities for the fiscal year 1880: a “neo‐Tocquevillian” perspective, which generally views as‐sociational activity as an alternative to government intervention; a “social movements” perspective, which views associations as interest groups mobilized to stimulate governme…
Corporate Law and the Sovereignty of States
This article explores the origins of a social form with lasting and profound sociological implications: the corporation. Though corporations date back as far as the Roman Republic, the early United States fostered a significant transformation in corporate law. Shortly after the American Revolution, several states pioneered a system whereby corporate charters became available to almost anyone (at a price), leading (eventually) to a proliferation o…
Why doesn't Canada have an American-style Christian Right? A Comparative Framework for Analyzing the Political Effects of Evangelical Subcultural Identity
Political commentators have asked if Canada could see the rise of an American-style 'Culture War,' where evangelical Protestants are rallied by moral issues to support the Conservative party. This paper argues that even though Canadian evangelicals are just as morally conservative as American evangelicals, they work from very different understandings about the relationship between religious morality and national identity. We predict that rank-and…
Rise and Fall of a Nation of Joiners: The Knights of Labor Revisited
Journal of Interdisciplinary History - Volume 31, Number 4, Spring 2001
Social-Capital Formation and American Fraternal Association: New Empirical Evidence
Rare membership and lodge data from a late nineteenth-century American fraternal order provide support for the existence of "bridging ties" among its members along class and neighborhood lines, though not across racial or gender lines. Lodge-related political activity centered on issues of exclusivity, such as the desirability of non-English speaking members. The order's system of government was more top-heavy and hierarchical than democratic; de…
On the Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: Independent Support from Highly Encephalized Fish
Stress and Coping Among Public School Principals in a Midwest Metropolitan Sample
The present study sought to investigate perceptions of stress and coping among public school principals. School principals are daily called upon to make decisions regarding a range of unscripted events. The position can be stressful, and stress is known to interfere with sound decision making. It was predicted that present samples of school principals would report a mean level of elevated stress. Contrary to expectations, school principals did no…
Rent-Seeking and Municipal Social Spending: Data from America’s Early Urban-Industrial Age
The term rent-seeking refers to special interest group efforts to seek special benefits at little or no cost to themselves. Because government spending has the potential to create both costs and benefits for taxpayers, fiscal policy is commonly viewed as a primary arena of rent-seeking activity. At least five different theories of nineteenth-century American urban development fit this general rubric. Each theory predicts different winners and los…
Cream of the Crop: The Importance of Elite Education in the Decade After College
Politics as Social Learning: Policy Experts, Political Mobilization, and Aids Preventive Policy
In a world increasingly dominated by high technology and esoteric scientific knowledge it is not surprising that political scientists and sociologists have begun to ask what role experts and specialists play in the policymaking process. Inaugurated almost a century ago by Weber's seminal essay on bureaucracy and the rationalization of authority, this issue was subsequently developed out of neo-Marxist debates over the relative autonomy of the sta…
Competing conceptions of individualism in contemporary American Aids policy: A re-examination of neo-institutionalist analysis
Three Views of Associationalism in 19th-Century America: An Empirical Examination
This article examines three different theoretical conceptions of asso‐ciationalism with respect to cross‐sectional data on municipal expenditure and voter participation in American cities for the fiscal year 1880: a “neo‐Tocquevillian” perspective, which generally views as‐sociational activity as an alternative to government intervention; a “social movements” perspective, which views associations as interest groups mobilized to stimulate governme…
Americans and Their Guns”: Civilian Military Organizations and the Destabilization of American National Security
“The Second Amendment is there as a balance of power. It is literally a loaded gun in the hands of the people held to the heads of government.” —NRA field representative Fred Romero, 1990 The right to bear arms is one of the most controversial issues in United States history; it has always been so, though not for the reasons usually cited by contemporaries. It has been customary since at least the late nineteenth century to view military organiza…
Rise and Fall of a Nation of Joiners: The Knights of Labor Revisited
Journal of Interdisciplinary History - Volume 31, Number 4, Spring 2001
For the Common Good: American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American History. “Jinners”—and from 1870-1910 more than half of all Americans participated in clubs, fraternities, militias, and mutual benefit societies—helped create a booming associational life in America between the Civil and First World Wars. Today this period is held up as a model for a revitalization of contemporary civil society. But what if these much-admired voluntary organizations more…
Asymmetric regional cerebral blood flow in sedated baboons measured by positron emission tomography (PET)
The analysis of structural brain asymmetry has been a focal point in anthropological theories of human brain evolution and the development of lateralized behaviors. While physiological brain asymmetries have been documented for humans and animals presenting with pathological conditions or under certain activation tasks, published studies on baseline asymmetries in healthy individuals have produced conflicting results. We tested for the presence o…
On the Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: Independent Support from Highly Encephalized Fish
Rent-Seeking and Municipal Social Spending: Data from America’s Early Urban-Industrial Age
The term rent-seeking refers to special interest group efforts to seek special benefits at little or no cost to themselves. Because government spending has the potential to create both costs and benefits for taxpayers, fiscal policy is commonly viewed as a primary arena of rent-seeking activity. At least five different theories of nineteenth-century American urban development fit this general rubric. Each theory predicts different winners and los…
Cultural capital and the extracurricular activities of girls and boys in the college attainment process
Social-Capital Formation and American Fraternal Association: New Empirical Evidence
Rare membership and lodge data from a late nineteenth-century American fraternal order provide support for the existence of "bridging ties" among its members along class and neighborhood lines, though not across racial or gender lines. Lodge-related political activity centered on issues of exclusivity, such as the desirability of non-English speaking members. The order's system of government was more top-heavy and hierarchical than democratic; de…
Cross-National Cultural Diffusion: The Global Spread of Cricket
This article explores the dynamics of cross-national cultural diffusion through the study of a case in which a symbolically powerful cultural practice, the traditionally English sport of cricket, successfully diffused to most but not all countries with close cultural ties to England. Neither network ties, nor national values, nor climatic conditions account for this disparity. Our explanation hinges instead on two key factors: first, the degree t…
Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein: Deciding on Conflict
Sacralizing Separatism
Et tu , Professor Wimmer
Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com
The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network
The rapid growth of contemporary social network sites (SNSs) has coincided with an increasing concern over personal privacy. College students and adolescents routinely provide personal information on profiles that can be viewed by large numbers of unknown people and potentially used in harmful ways. SNSs like Facebook and MySpace allow users to control the privacy level of their profile, thus limiting access to this information. In this paper, we…
Corporate Law and the Sovereignty of States
This article explores the origins of a social form with lasting and profound sociological implications: the corporation. Though corporations date back as far as the Roman Republic, the early United States fostered a significant transformation in corporate law. Shortly after the American Revolution, several states pioneered a system whereby corporate charters became available to almost anyone (at a price), leading (eventually) to a proliferation o…
Why doesn't Canada have an American-style Christian Right? A Comparative Framework for Analyzing the Political Effects of Evangelical Subcultural Identity
Political commentators have asked if Canada could see the rise of an American-style 'Culture War,' where evangelical Protestants are rallied by moral issues to support the Conservative party. This paper argues that even though Canadian evangelicals are just as morally conservative as American evangelicals, they work from very different understandings about the relationship between religious morality and national identity. We predict that rank-and…
The Origins of Canadian and American Political Differences
Why do the United States and Canada have such divergent political cultures when they share one of the closest economic and cultural relationships in the world? Canadians and Americans consistently disagree over issues such as the separation of church and state, the responsibility of government for the welfare of everyone, the relationship between federal and subnational government, and the right to marry a same sex partner or to own an assault ri…
The Hidden Injuries of Work
which date back to the Soviet and pre-Soviet periods without examining the extent to which these practices themselves have been transformed or even obliterated by novel institutional arrangements. Despite the weaknesses listed above, the analyses put forward in each of the books under review are insightful and significant, and I strongly recommend them to students of social change in post-communist societies
The re-accomplishment of place in twentieth century Vermont and New Hampshire: History Repeats Itself, Until It Doesn't
Social selection and peer influence in an online social network
Disentangling the effects of selection and influence is one of social science's greatest unsolved puzzles: Do people befriend others who are similar to them, or do they become more similar to their friends over time? Recent advances in stochastic actor-based modeling, combined with self-reported data on a popular online social network site, allow us to address this question with a greater degree of precision than has heretofore been possible. Usi…
Our Contemplative Nature
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works)