Ronald D Francis
Biographic Data
| ID | 118684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald D Francis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald D |
| FAMILY NAME | Francis |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCIS R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Whitworth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6649-1891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Film Review: Living in Tents Living in Tents. 57 minutes. 2018. CranePaulHylandMatthew, producers; CranePaul, director. Artica Films. https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/living-in-tents. Purchase:…
Inequality and Perceived Impacts of Class Background on Academic Careers
Social science researchers and higher-education personnel have begun to recognize the unique and unequal experiences of first-generation, low-income, and working-class students, but what of those from such backgrounds that manage to reach the professoriate? What can we learn from their mobility experiences? What obstacles do they and others perceive standing in their way? Using original data on faculty and graduate students collected between 2018…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
The Opportunity of Now: Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Sociology Classroom and Beyond
There is no better time than now for sociologists to adopt open educational resources (OER), and sociology as a discipline is well positioned to lead. Adopting OER takes seriously the well-documented financial challenges faced by many students, supports classroom and campus goals of equity and inclusion, and allows for increased instructor flexibility. However, OER are not without their difficulties and limitations. This conversation article sugg…
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own: Teaching Sociology by, for, and about First-Generation and Working-Class People
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
Movin’ On Up? The Role of Growing Up Rural in Shaping Why Working-Class Men Do—and Don’t—Seek to Improve Their Labor-Market Prospects
Based on interviews with sixty-one working-class men in rural Pennsylvania, this article explores the ways in which rural, working-class men do—and do not—seek to improve their labor-market positions by getting additional education or training, moving, or taking gender-atypical jobs. The evidence presented shows that men are making many efforts to improve their labor-market position, but there are misunderstandings about why they adopt the strate…
Gone Goose: The Remaking of an American Town in the Age of Climate Change
Taking Care of Mine: Can Child Support Become a Family‐Building Institution
U.S. children are more likely to live apart from a biological parent than at any time in history. Although the Child Support Enforcement system has tremendous reach, its policies have not kept pace with significant economic, demographic, and cultural changes. Narrative analysis of in-depth interviews with 429 low-income noncustodial fathers suggests that the system faces a crisis of legitimacy. Visualization of language used to describe all forms…
The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men
In this essay, we explore how working-class men describe their attachments to work, family, and religion. We draw upon in-depth, life history interviews conducted in four metropolitan areas with racially and ethnically diverse groups of working-class men with a high school diploma but no four-year college degree. Between 2000 and 2013, we deployed heterogeneous sampling techniques in the black and white working-class neighborhoods of Boston, Mass…
Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States
There are many hypotheses for why working-class white men supported Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by such a large margin (71 percent to 23 percent), yet little systematic qualitative work has been done on how these men understood their votes. On the basis of interviews with 20 white, working-class men from rural Pennsylvania, the author finds that many of these men expressed concerns about both candidates, yet most who voted still chose Trump…
Tourism and Crime: A Typological Analysis
This article addresses the issue of crime in relation to tourism—and is not nation specific. The aim here is to provide a frame of reference, and illustrations, for studies of tourism and crime: it is a conceptual outline rather than a meta-study of empirical research. It is argued here that an understanding of the range, types, and implications of tourism and crime is as important, at this stage, as is reportage of individual substantive finding…
Ethnicity and Crime: A Statewide Analysis by Local Government Areas in Victoria, Australia
Two approaches have dominated the study of crime using local government area-level analysis: one looks intensively at particular local areas and the other considers a set of population data derived from a number of local areas. This study is of the second kind. It is based on parametric data, and is thus a “population” study rather than a sampling one. Data on police-recorded crime rates and selected ethnicity variables were obtained from all loc…
Social indicators –promises and problems: A critical review
Victoria University in conjunction with Crime Prevention Victoria (CPV) received an ARC grant to investigate the relationships between crime prevention and community governance. The first task of the project was to develop a framework linking community needs, community capacity, wellbeing and CPV interventions, to guide selection of social indicators and then compile a database of data from various sources. Among the difficulties inherent in deve…
Representations of Restructuring in the Meat-Packing Industry of Victoria
Disappointment with narrowly cast industrial-political agendas and an irreconcilable gap between theory and everyday life has brought under scrutiny post-Fordist-derived accounts of industrial restructuring and capitalist social change. In this paper, it is suggested that this inadequacy can be traced to the commitment of post-Fordist writers to periodizing capitalist development as a way of defining the philosophy of capitalism. Both these tasks…
Clinical-Analog Research: A Reply to Galassi
Selecting Student Analog Samples
The use of student analog samples in research may produce low external validity given unintended but perceived coercion on the part of students when the researcher is also their teacher. Using a scale that measured dental fear, analysis showed no significant difference for ‘known’ compared to ‘unknown’ students. The students unknown to the researcher had a lower response rate. Of those who did comply with the request, some were tardy in respondin…
Clinical-Analog Research: A Reply to Galassi
The several points raised critically by Galassi are answered
Analogue measurement of dental fear
Reliability and validity data are presented for the dental fear thermometer, an analogue scale of dental fear. Test-retest reliability over approximately two months was 0.78. Correlations with the Corah, Gale, and Illig (1978) Dental Anxiety Scale and with estimates of dental fear made by dentists were 0.61 and 0.49 respectively. Therapy produced a significant reduction in the mean fear thermometer score for a group of dental phobics. Horizontal …
Insights into a Dating Partner's Expectations of How Behavior Should Ensue during the Courtship Process
John K. Collins, Judith R. Kennedy, Ronald D. Francis, Insights into a Dating Partner's Expectations of How Behavior Should Ensue during the Courtship Process, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May, 1976), pp. 373-378
Taking Care of Mine: Can Child Support Become a Family‐Building Institution
U.S. children are more likely to live apart from a biological parent than at any time in history. Although the Child Support Enforcement system has tremendous reach, its policies have not kept pace with significant economic, demographic, and cultural changes. Narrative analysis of in-depth interviews with 429 low-income noncustodial fathers suggests that the system faces a crisis of legitimacy. Visualization of language used to describe all forms…
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States
There are many hypotheses for why working-class white men supported Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by such a large margin (71 percent to 23 percent), yet little systematic qualitative work has been done on how these men understood their votes. On the basis of interviews with 20 white, working-class men from rural Pennsylvania, the author finds that many of these men expressed concerns about both candidates, yet most who voted still chose Trump…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men
In this essay, we explore how working-class men describe their attachments to work, family, and religion. We draw upon in-depth, life history interviews conducted in four metropolitan areas with racially and ethnically diverse groups of working-class men with a high school diploma but no four-year college degree. Between 2000 and 2013, we deployed heterogeneous sampling techniques in the black and white working-class neighborhoods of Boston, Mass…
The Opportunity of Now: Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Sociology Classroom and Beyond
There is no better time than now for sociologists to adopt open educational resources (OER), and sociology as a discipline is well positioned to lead. Adopting OER takes seriously the well-documented financial challenges faced by many students, supports classroom and campus goals of equity and inclusion, and allows for increased instructor flexibility. However, OER are not without their difficulties and limitations. This conversation article sugg…
Movin’ On Up? The Role of Growing Up Rural in Shaping Why Working-Class Men Do—and Don’t—Seek to Improve Their Labor-Market Prospects
Based on interviews with sixty-one working-class men in rural Pennsylvania, this article explores the ways in which rural, working-class men do—and do not—seek to improve their labor-market positions by getting additional education or training, moving, or taking gender-atypical jobs. The evidence presented shows that men are making many efforts to improve their labor-market position, but there are misunderstandings about why they adopt the strate…
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own: Teaching Sociology by, for, and about First-Generation and Working-Class People
Insights into a Dating Partner's Expectations of How Behavior Should Ensue during the Courtship Process
John K. Collins, Judith R. Kennedy, Ronald D. Francis, Insights into a Dating Partner's Expectations of How Behavior Should Ensue during the Courtship Process, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May, 1976), pp. 373-378
Insights into a Dating Partner's Expectations of How Behavior Should Ensue during the Courtship Process
John K. Collins, Judith R. Kennedy, Ronald D. Francis, Insights into a Dating Partner's Expectations of How Behavior Should Ensue during the Courtship Process, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May, 1976), pp. 373-378
Analogue measurement of dental fear
Reliability and validity data are presented for the dental fear thermometer, an analogue scale of dental fear. Test-retest reliability over approximately two months was 0.78. Correlations with the Corah, Gale, and Illig (1978) Dental Anxiety Scale and with estimates of dental fear made by dentists were 0.61 and 0.49 respectively. Therapy produced a significant reduction in the mean fear thermometer score for a group of dental phobics. Horizontal …
Clinical-Analog Research: A Reply to Galassi
Selecting Student Analog Samples
The use of student analog samples in research may produce low external validity given unintended but perceived coercion on the part of students when the researcher is also their teacher. Using a scale that measured dental fear, analysis showed no significant difference for ‘known’ compared to ‘unknown’ students. The students unknown to the researcher had a lower response rate. Of those who did comply with the request, some were tardy in respondin…
Clinical-Analog Research: A Reply to Galassi
The several points raised critically by Galassi are answered
Representations of Restructuring in the Meat-Packing Industry of Victoria
Disappointment with narrowly cast industrial-political agendas and an irreconcilable gap between theory and everyday life has brought under scrutiny post-Fordist-derived accounts of industrial restructuring and capitalist social change. In this paper, it is suggested that this inadequacy can be traced to the commitment of post-Fordist writers to periodizing capitalist development as a way of defining the philosophy of capitalism. Both these tasks…
Social indicators –promises and problems: A critical review
Victoria University in conjunction with Crime Prevention Victoria (CPV) received an ARC grant to investigate the relationships between crime prevention and community governance. The first task of the project was to develop a framework linking community needs, community capacity, wellbeing and CPV interventions, to guide selection of social indicators and then compile a database of data from various sources. Among the difficulties inherent in deve…
Ethnicity and Crime: A Statewide Analysis by Local Government Areas in Victoria, Australia
Two approaches have dominated the study of crime using local government area-level analysis: one looks intensively at particular local areas and the other considers a set of population data derived from a number of local areas. This study is of the second kind. It is based on parametric data, and is thus a “population” study rather than a sampling one. Data on police-recorded crime rates and selected ethnicity variables were obtained from all loc…
Tourism and Crime: A Typological Analysis
This article addresses the issue of crime in relation to tourism—and is not nation specific. The aim here is to provide a frame of reference, and illustrations, for studies of tourism and crime: it is a conceptual outline rather than a meta-study of empirical research. It is argued here that an understanding of the range, types, and implications of tourism and crime is as important, at this stage, as is reportage of individual substantive finding…
Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States
There are many hypotheses for why working-class white men supported Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by such a large margin (71 percent to 23 percent), yet little systematic qualitative work has been done on how these men understood their votes. On the basis of interviews with 20 white, working-class men from rural Pennsylvania, the author finds that many of these men expressed concerns about both candidates, yet most who voted still chose Trump…
Taking Care of Mine: Can Child Support Become a Family‐Building Institution
U.S. children are more likely to live apart from a biological parent than at any time in history. Although the Child Support Enforcement system has tremendous reach, its policies have not kept pace with significant economic, demographic, and cultural changes. Narrative analysis of in-depth interviews with 429 low-income noncustodial fathers suggests that the system faces a crisis of legitimacy. Visualization of language used to describe all forms…
The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men
In this essay, we explore how working-class men describe their attachments to work, family, and religion. We draw upon in-depth, life history interviews conducted in four metropolitan areas with racially and ethnically diverse groups of working-class men with a high school diploma but no four-year college degree. Between 2000 and 2013, we deployed heterogeneous sampling techniques in the black and white working-class neighborhoods of Boston, Mass…
Movin’ On Up? The Role of Growing Up Rural in Shaping Why Working-Class Men Do—and Don’t—Seek to Improve Their Labor-Market Prospects
Based on interviews with sixty-one working-class men in rural Pennsylvania, this article explores the ways in which rural, working-class men do—and do not—seek to improve their labor-market positions by getting additional education or training, moving, or taking gender-atypical jobs. The evidence presented shows that men are making many efforts to improve their labor-market position, but there are misunderstandings about why they adopt the strate…
Gone Goose: The Remaking of an American Town in the Age of Climate Change
The Opportunity of Now: Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Sociology Classroom and Beyond
There is no better time than now for sociologists to adopt open educational resources (OER), and sociology as a discipline is well positioned to lead. Adopting OER takes seriously the well-documented financial challenges faced by many students, supports classroom and campus goals of equity and inclusion, and allows for increased instructor flexibility. However, OER are not without their difficulties and limitations. This conversation article sugg…
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own: Teaching Sociology by, for, and about First-Generation and Working-Class People
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Inequality and Perceived Impacts of Class Background on Academic Careers
Social science researchers and higher-education personnel have begun to recognize the unique and unequal experiences of first-generation, low-income, and working-class students, but what of those from such backgrounds that manage to reach the professoriate? What can we learn from their mobility experiences? What obstacles do they and others perceive standing in their way? Using original data on faculty and graduate students collected between 2018…
Film Review: Living in Tents Living in Tents. 57 minutes. 2018. CranePaulHylandMatthew, producers; CranePaul, director. Artica Films. https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/living-in-tents. Purchase:…
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