Sheldon Goldenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 113020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheldon Goldenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheldon |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldenberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDENBERG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Organizational Responses to Issues Concerning the Delegation of Authority in Situations Involving Public Participation
The delegation of authority presents ideological and structural problems for organizations implementing programmes of public participation. Two specific ideological fallacies are examined as these embody rationalizations for opposition to public involvement in decision-making and at most only the “mechanistic” incorporation of public participation bureaus within existing organizations. Since effective public participation requires a flexible orga…
An Exploratory Study of Predicting Perceived Success and Survival of Small Businesses
Explaining Child Custody Determinations in Canada
Many earlier studies of Canadian child custody determinations have been written from ideological and feminist viewpoints. This study attempts to look at this subject from an empirical and sociological stance, within its historical context. Several related issues are considered, including the central issue of sexism, and the effects of legislation and case law on these determinations. Models of how custody cases settled by trial affect those negot…
Canadian White-Collar Workers' Views of Their Experience with Downsizing or Job Loss
Despite continuing bouts of downsizing in North America, there is relatively little literature on Canadian white-collar workers' experience of this kind of job loss. In the present context “downsizing” refers to nonperformance-based job loss, that is, job loss through restructuring, strategic planning, or other organizational initiatives wherein individuals lose their jobs through no fault of their own. From fall of 1992 and through the winter of…
On Distinguishing Variables from Values and Hypotheses from Statements of Association
Scientists generally find it useful to think in terms of relating variation in one phenomenon to variation in another, though Blumer's (1956) critique of variable analysis stands out as one indicator that this position has long been contentious among sociologists. Nonetheless, most of us try to teach students to conceptualize variation in behavior and the factors related to that variation systematically in terms of variable relations
Analytic Induction Revisited
Il semble exister plusieurs versions d'induction analytique, et plusieurs ambiguites importantes sont traitees par Znaniecki, Lindesmith et Cressey. La communication influentielle de Robinson ne reussit pas a representer cette variation et, par consequent, on refuse parfois de tenir compte de sa critique. Bien qu'elle semble effectuer un retour quelconque dans la litterature des sciences sociales, l'induction analytique est incapable d'appuyer le…
Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties
Sheldon Goldenberg, Valerie A. Haines, Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer, 1992), pp. 301-312
Millman, Marcia, Warm Hearts and Cold Cash: The Intimate Dynamics of Families and Money
Gender, science and methodological preferences
What scientists think of science
A partir d'une enquete portant sur 476 chercheurs en sciences de la vie et sciences sociales appartenant a des departements d'universite de haut niveau en Amerique du Nord, l'A. tente d'apprehender la perception de la science par ceux qui la font progresser. Il constate les divergences entre les deux domaines sur la perception plus ou moins relativiste des sujets de recherche
From Empty Nest to Crowded Nest: The Dynamics of Incompletely-Launched Young Adults
This paper concerns problems in the successful transition to adulthood for young people in middle-class American families. We call the most obvious symptom of this problem the returning young adult syndrome. We argue that this symptom points to broader questions of young adults' (YA) deviance from parental expectations of the YAs' autonomy, parental anomie, erratic performance by YAs in adult roles, and substantial intrafamilial conflict. We argu…
Sex Characteristic Stereotypes or Congruence: Do Either Matter Any More to Ratings of Performance
The present study examines students' expectations of the teaching abilities of hypothetical university professors in an attempt to assess the effect of gender stereotypes on ratings of occupational performance. Undergraduate sociology students were presented with a brief description of a hypothetical professor (either male or female) and then indicated their expectations of his/her teaching abilities on a list of positive and negative teaching at…
The study of aggressive pornography: The vicissitudes of relevance
This paper reviews some crucial experimental studies of the behavioral consequences of exposure to violent or aggressive pornography and evaluates their validity and relevance as support for censoring pornography in the aftermath of the Meese Commission. We find this research deficient on a number of grounds. Many designs confound the effects of the stimuli with the anger of the subjects. The theoretical models consistently do not explain the res…
Ecology, Social Structure, and Blood Feud1
Cross-cultural research has indicated a correlation between social structural indicators of close-knit networks and feud. It has been argued by other investigators that such a relationship is spurious and that ecological variables account for the covariation. This spuriousness hypothesis is tested, employing ecological measures from the Ethno graphic Atlas and two foraging indicators derived from theoretical ecology. A conditional model is found …
Social Responses to Technological Change
"Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner: The Study of Pornography, Harm, and the Law of Obscenity in Canada
Augustine Brannigan, Sheldon Goldenberg, Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner": The Study of Pornography, Harm, and the Law of Obscenity in Canada, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 419-431
Measuring the effects of public participation programs
An Empirical Test of Bott's Network Hypotheses, Based on Analysis of Ethnographic Atlas Data
Elizabeth Bott's Family and Social Network (1957) has stimulated much research in the area of kinship networks and network analysis in general. Her hypotheses have been tested and criticized, refined and modified. And still they remain provocative and controversial. Thepresentpaper is an attempt to test Bott, using the international data on 1,170 societies gathered by fieldworkers over the years and summarized in the Ethnographic Atlas materials …
Measuring Patterns of Acquaintanceship [and Comments and Reply]
This paper examines some of the factors which determine how people know each other and is a preliminary attempt to discover the rules which govern such interactions. An informant-defined experiment was conducted to elicit the information about a person needed by individuals in a small U.S. university town to choose which of their acquaintances was most likely to know that person. We found, as with a previous experiment, that knowledge of the pers…
Public Participation in Planning for Community Relocation: A Case Study of Keephills, Alberta
Sheldon Goldenberg, James S. Frideres, Joseph E. DiSanto, Usher Fleising, Public Participation in Planning for Community Relocation: A Case Study of Keephills, Alberta, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1984), pp. 34-53
Social Impact Assessment in Small Communities: An Integrative Review of Selected Literature
A Note on the Nature of Science: Its Meaning to Social and Physical Scientists
Permission-Seeking, Declaration of Intent, and Consultation: A Note on Varying Forms of Dialogue
Mitchell, W. E. Mishpokhe , A Study of New York City Jewish Family Clubs. New Babylon Studies in the Social Sciences. Mouton Publishers. The Hague, Paris, New York. 1978
American and European Citations in the Feud Literature
From Empty Nest to Crowded Nest: The Dynamics of Incompletely-Launched Young Adults
This paper concerns problems in the successful transition to adulthood for young people in middle-class American families. We call the most obvious symptom of this problem the returning young adult syndrome. We argue that this symptom points to broader questions of young adults' (YA) deviance from parental expectations of the YAs' autonomy, parental anomie, erratic performance by YAs in adult roles, and substantial intrafamilial conflict. We argu…
Measuring Patterns of Acquaintanceship [and Comments and Reply]
This paper examines some of the factors which determine how people know each other and is a preliminary attempt to discover the rules which govern such interactions. An informant-defined experiment was conducted to elicit the information about a person needed by individuals in a small U.S. university town to choose which of their acquaintances was most likely to know that person. We found, as with a previous experiment, that knowledge of the pers…
Closing the Circle: The Impact of Children on Parental Status
Analytic Induction Revisited
Il semble exister plusieurs versions d'induction analytique, et plusieurs ambiguites importantes sont traitees par Znaniecki, Lindesmith et Cressey. La communication influentielle de Robinson ne reussit pas a representer cette variation et, par consequent, on refuse parfois de tenir compte de sa critique. Bien qu'elle semble effectuer un retour quelconque dans la litterature des sciences sociales, l'induction analytique est incapable d'appuyer le…
Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties
Sheldon Goldenberg, Valerie A. Haines, Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer, 1992), pp. 301-312
Measuring the effects of public participation programs
An Empirical Test of Bott's Network Hypotheses, Based on Analysis of Ethnographic Atlas Data
Elizabeth Bott's Family and Social Network (1957) has stimulated much research in the area of kinship networks and network analysis in general. Her hypotheses have been tested and criticized, refined and modified. And still they remain provocative and controversial. Thepresentpaper is an attempt to test Bott, using the international data on 1,170 societies gathered by fieldworkers over the years and summarized in the Ethnographic Atlas materials …
Explaining Child Custody Determinations in Canada
Many earlier studies of Canadian child custody determinations have been written from ideological and feminist viewpoints. This study attempts to look at this subject from an empirical and sociological stance, within its historical context. Several related issues are considered, including the central issue of sexism, and the effects of legislation and case law on these determinations. Models of how custody cases settled by trial affect those negot…
Gender, science and methodological preferences
What scientists think of science
A partir d'une enquete portant sur 476 chercheurs en sciences de la vie et sciences sociales appartenant a des departements d'universite de haut niveau en Amerique du Nord, l'A. tente d'apprehender la perception de la science par ceux qui la font progresser. Il constate les divergences entre les deux domaines sur la perception plus ou moins relativiste des sujets de recherche
Kinship and Ethnicity Viewed as Adaptive Responses to Location in the Opportunity Structure
Organizational Responses to Issues Concerning the Delegation of Authority in Situations Involving Public Participation
The delegation of authority presents ideological and structural problems for organizations implementing programmes of public participation. Two specific ideological fallacies are examined as these embody rationalizations for opposition to public involvement in decision-making and at most only the “mechanistic” incorporation of public participation bureaus within existing organizations. Since effective public participation requires a flexible orga…
On Distinguishing Variables from Values and Hypotheses from Statements of Association
Scientists generally find it useful to think in terms of relating variation in one phenomenon to variation in another, though Blumer's (1956) critique of variable analysis stands out as one indicator that this position has long been contentious among sociologists. Nonetheless, most of us try to teach students to conceptualize variation in behavior and the factors related to that variation systematically in terms of variable relations
Ecology, Social Structure, and Blood Feud1
Cross-cultural research has indicated a correlation between social structural indicators of close-knit networks and feud. It has been argued by other investigators that such a relationship is spurious and that ecological variables account for the covariation. This spuriousness hypothesis is tested, employing ecological measures from the Ethno graphic Atlas and two foraging indicators derived from theoretical ecology. A conditional model is found …
"Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner: The Study of Pornography, Harm, and the Law of Obscenity in Canada
Augustine Brannigan, Sheldon Goldenberg, Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner": The Study of Pornography, Harm, and the Law of Obscenity in Canada, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 419-431
Public Participation in Planning for Community Relocation: A Case Study of Keephills, Alberta
Sheldon Goldenberg, James S. Frideres, Joseph E. DiSanto, Usher Fleising, Public Participation in Planning for Community Relocation: A Case Study of Keephills, Alberta, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1984), pp. 34-53
Social Impact Assessment in Small Communities: An Integrative Review of Selected Literature
Closing the Circle: The Impact of Children on Parental Status
Canadian Encouragement of Higher Educational Participation: An Empirical Assessment
Kinship and Ethnicity Viewed as Adaptive Responses to Location in the Opportunity Structure
American and European Citations in the Feud Literature
Mitchell, W. E. Mishpokhe , A Study of New York City Jewish Family Clubs. New Babylon Studies in the Social Sciences. Mouton Publishers. The Hague, Paris, New York. 1978
A Note on the Nature of Science: Its Meaning to Social and Physical Scientists
Permission-Seeking, Declaration of Intent, and Consultation: A Note on Varying Forms of Dialogue
Social Impact Assessment in Small Communities: An Integrative Review of Selected Literature
An Empirical Test of Bott's Network Hypotheses, Based on Analysis of Ethnographic Atlas Data
Elizabeth Bott's Family and Social Network (1957) has stimulated much research in the area of kinship networks and network analysis in general. Her hypotheses have been tested and criticized, refined and modified. And still they remain provocative and controversial. Thepresentpaper is an attempt to test Bott, using the international data on 1,170 societies gathered by fieldworkers over the years and summarized in the Ethnographic Atlas materials …
Measuring Patterns of Acquaintanceship [and Comments and Reply]
This paper examines some of the factors which determine how people know each other and is a preliminary attempt to discover the rules which govern such interactions. An informant-defined experiment was conducted to elicit the information about a person needed by individuals in a small U.S. university town to choose which of their acquaintances was most likely to know that person. We found, as with a previous experiment, that knowledge of the pers…
Public Participation in Planning for Community Relocation: A Case Study of Keephills, Alberta
Sheldon Goldenberg, James S. Frideres, Joseph E. DiSanto, Usher Fleising, Public Participation in Planning for Community Relocation: A Case Study of Keephills, Alberta, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1984), pp. 34-53
"Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner: The Study of Pornography, Harm, and the Law of Obscenity in Canada
Augustine Brannigan, Sheldon Goldenberg, Social Science versus Jurisprudence in "Wagner": The Study of Pornography, Harm, and the Law of Obscenity in Canada, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 419-431
Measuring the effects of public participation programs
The study of aggressive pornography: The vicissitudes of relevance
This paper reviews some crucial experimental studies of the behavioral consequences of exposure to violent or aggressive pornography and evaluates their validity and relevance as support for censoring pornography in the aftermath of the Meese Commission. We find this research deficient on a number of grounds. Many designs confound the effects of the stimuli with the anger of the subjects. The theoretical models consistently do not explain the res…
Ecology, Social Structure, and Blood Feud1
Cross-cultural research has indicated a correlation between social structural indicators of close-knit networks and feud. It has been argued by other investigators that such a relationship is spurious and that ecological variables account for the covariation. This spuriousness hypothesis is tested, employing ecological measures from the Ethno graphic Atlas and two foraging indicators derived from theoretical ecology. A conditional model is found …
Social Responses to Technological Change
Sex Characteristic Stereotypes or Congruence: Do Either Matter Any More to Ratings of Performance
The present study examines students' expectations of the teaching abilities of hypothetical university professors in an attempt to assess the effect of gender stereotypes on ratings of occupational performance. Undergraduate sociology students were presented with a brief description of a hypothetical professor (either male or female) and then indicated their expectations of his/her teaching abilities on a list of positive and negative teaching at…
What scientists think of science
A partir d'une enquete portant sur 476 chercheurs en sciences de la vie et sciences sociales appartenant a des departements d'universite de haut niveau en Amerique du Nord, l'A. tente d'apprehender la perception de la science par ceux qui la font progresser. Il constate les divergences entre les deux domaines sur la perception plus ou moins relativiste des sujets de recherche
From Empty Nest to Crowded Nest: The Dynamics of Incompletely-Launched Young Adults
This paper concerns problems in the successful transition to adulthood for young people in middle-class American families. We call the most obvious symptom of this problem the returning young adult syndrome. We argue that this symptom points to broader questions of young adults' (YA) deviance from parental expectations of the YAs' autonomy, parental anomie, erratic performance by YAs in adult roles, and substantial intrafamilial conflict. We argu…
Gender, science and methodological preferences
Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties
Sheldon Goldenberg, Valerie A. Haines, Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer, 1992), pp. 301-312
Millman, Marcia, Warm Hearts and Cold Cash: The Intimate Dynamics of Families and Money
On Distinguishing Variables from Values and Hypotheses from Statements of Association
Scientists generally find it useful to think in terms of relating variation in one phenomenon to variation in another, though Blumer's (1956) critique of variable analysis stands out as one indicator that this position has long been contentious among sociologists. Nonetheless, most of us try to teach students to conceptualize variation in behavior and the factors related to that variation systematically in terms of variable relations
Analytic Induction Revisited
Il semble exister plusieurs versions d'induction analytique, et plusieurs ambiguites importantes sont traitees par Znaniecki, Lindesmith et Cressey. La communication influentielle de Robinson ne reussit pas a representer cette variation et, par consequent, on refuse parfois de tenir compte de sa critique. Bien qu'elle semble effectuer un retour quelconque dans la litterature des sciences sociales, l'induction analytique est incapable d'appuyer le…
Canadian White-Collar Workers' Views of Their Experience with Downsizing or Job Loss
Despite continuing bouts of downsizing in North America, there is relatively little literature on Canadian white-collar workers' experience of this kind of job loss. In the present context “downsizing” refers to nonperformance-based job loss, that is, job loss through restructuring, strategic planning, or other organizational initiatives wherein individuals lose their jobs through no fault of their own. From fall of 1992 and through the winter of…
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