Stan C Weeber
Biographic Data
| ID | 115760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stan C Weeber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Weeber |
| SIGNATURE | WEEBER S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McNeese State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Innovation in Austere Times: Louisiana's Call Program
The state budget for public higher education in Louisiana was reduced 55 percent from 2008-2016. Colleges in the state decreased payrolls, eliminated or consolidated 387 degree programs, and dramatically shifted the burden of paying for college from the state to individuals and families through a series of budget cuts and tuition hikes. Despite this depletion of resources available to higher education, interest surged in programs offered through …
Elites
Elites are social groups that rank high in the systems that societies adopt to measure who has accumulated the greatest amount of the most valued possessions. Elites are identified by social, occupational, educational, income, and wealth benchmarks that differentiate such groups from other classes or categories of people. However, elitists do more than occupy prestigious social spaces in stratification systems: they run things by their abilities …
The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 by Murry R. Nelson
Elite versus mass sociology: An elaboration on Sociology's Academic Caste System
The Political Sociology of Private Armies in Colombia and the United States
This paper provides a comparative sociological analysis of private armies in Colombia and the United States. Private armies in both nations have economic and political underpinnings. An ethic of economic inequality pervaded Colombian life and institutions since colonialism, creating a milieu for private armies to develop. The cocaine industry seized a historic moment in the weakness of the Colombian state, and private armies in their employ helpe…
Militias at the Millennium
Critically important to Neil Smelser's theory of collective behavior is the idea that people join radical social movements because they experience strain. A social movement arises to reassure participants that something is being done to redress the underlying source of strain. Militia presence and activity on the Internet (especially Usenet) is a phenomenon that can be studied within Smelser's framework. Militia watchers contend that those who jo…
Militias at the Millennium: A Test of Smelser's Theory of Collective Behavior
Critically important to Neil Smelser's theory of collective behavior is the idea that people join radical social movements because they experience strain. A social movement arises to reassure participants that something is being done to redress the underlying source of strain. Militia presence and activity on the Internet (especially Usenet) is a phenomenon that can be studied within Smelser's framework. Militia watchers contend that those who jo…
Elite versus mass sociology: An elaboration on Sociology's Academic Caste System
Militias at the Millennium: A Test of Smelser's Theory of Collective Behavior
Critically important to Neil Smelser's theory of collective behavior is the idea that people join radical social movements because they experience strain. A social movement arises to reassure participants that something is being done to redress the underlying source of strain. Militia presence and activity on the Internet (especially Usenet) is a phenomenon that can be studied within Smelser's framework. Militia watchers contend that those who jo…
The Political Sociology of Private Armies in Colombia and the United States
This paper provides a comparative sociological analysis of private armies in Colombia and the United States. Private armies in both nations have economic and political underpinnings. An ethic of economic inequality pervaded Colombian life and institutions since colonialism, creating a milieu for private armies to develop. The cocaine industry seized a historic moment in the weakness of the Colombian state, and private armies in their employ helpe…
Militias at the Millennium
Critically important to Neil Smelser's theory of collective behavior is the idea that people join radical social movements because they experience strain. A social movement arises to reassure participants that something is being done to redress the underlying source of strain. Militia presence and activity on the Internet (especially Usenet) is a phenomenon that can be studied within Smelser's framework. Militia watchers contend that those who jo…
Militias at the Millennium: A Test of Smelser's Theory of Collective Behavior
Critically important to Neil Smelser's theory of collective behavior is the idea that people join radical social movements because they experience strain. A social movement arises to reassure participants that something is being done to redress the underlying source of strain. Militia presence and activity on the Internet (especially Usenet) is a phenomenon that can be studied within Smelser's framework. Militia watchers contend that those who jo…
Elite versus mass sociology: An elaboration on Sociology's Academic Caste System
The National Basketball League: A History, 1935–1949 by Murry R. Nelson
Innovation in Austere Times: Louisiana's Call Program
The state budget for public higher education in Louisiana was reduced 55 percent from 2008-2016. Colleges in the state decreased payrolls, eliminated or consolidated 387 degree programs, and dramatically shifted the burden of paying for college from the state to individuals and families through a series of budget cuts and tuition hikes. Despite this depletion of resources available to higher education, interest surged in programs offered through …
Elites
Elites are social groups that rank high in the systems that societies adopt to measure who has accumulated the greatest amount of the most valued possessions. Elites are identified by social, occupational, educational, income, and wealth benchmarks that differentiate such groups from other classes or categories of people. However, elitists do more than occupy prestigious social spaces in stratification systems: they run things by their abilities …
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works)