Phillip R Kunz
Biographic Data
| ID | 120823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip R Kunz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip R |
| FAMILY NAME | Kunz |
| SIGNATURE | KUNZ P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social Distance of Deviants and Deviant Offenders
Previous studies have focused on the seriousness of the offenses but have neglected the offenders. This analysis used a Bogardus-type social distance scale of 23 deviant roles using a sample of 524 respondents who indicated decided preferences for some types of deviant offenders over others. It was concluded that individuals occupying various roles such as judges, defenders, juries, and so on may feel great social distance toward certain types of…
Social Support During the Process of Divorce
This study examined the influence of family of origin and social network on the divorce process. It turned out that this network of relationships, including the family and organizations, has an impact on the effects of divorce in a supportive manner which helps to facilitate the divorce and adjustments to it. The satisfaction one feels with their current marriage is influenced by the contact they have had with relatives since the divorce. Partici…
Teaching Criterion-Related Validity in Sociology
Validity is important to the credibility of research findings. As Babbie (1989) explains, there are three types of validity, one of which is criterion-related validity. Criterion-related validity is a predictive validity and should not be neglected when one is doing research. Operational definitions must be such that they measure what the researcher purports to measure if any valid prediction about human behavior is to be made. Therefore it is im…
Physiognomic homogamy
The concept of physiognomic homogamy between parents and children was tested using 39 photo sets consisting of two sets of parents and one child. These photo sets included black and white slides, black and white photographs, and color slides. Matchings of the parents and child were attempted by 171 introductory sociology students. The results indicate that while the matches were far from universal, the students were able to match the children wit…
Opinions on Abortion as Measured by the Lost-Letter Technique
This study uses a postal card as a modification of the "lost letter" technique to obtain information about abortion attitudes. The message on the cards (which can be read easily by the finder) included 100 with a promise to donate money to a proabortion committee, 100 to an antiabortion committee, and 100 contained a neutral message having nothing to do with abortion. 50 of each type of card were dropped in one of two urban areas. There were more…
Social Distance
This study reports the changes of Bogardus Social Distance scores for beginning students at Brigham Young University from 1979 to 1989. A revelation was reported by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1978 which permitted black members to receive the Priesthood on an equal basis with whites. An earlier study reported an initial decrease in the social distance toward black members by the university students. This study was designed …
Georges Sorel and the Sociology of Virtue
Biorhythms
This article examines the theory of biorhythms and indicates that it is possible that the success of the theory depends upon selective use of confirming data. The theory is examined by using three separate data sets: 727 deaths, 319 marriages, and data from students who kept track of their feelings and abilities for a period of time, one group having a biorhythm to follow and the other not knowing about the theory. None of the data sets provided …
Physiognomic Homogamy
This study tests the hypothesis that physiognomic similarity is a factor in the process of mate selection. Judges asked to match photographs of males and females who looked most alike actually paired engaged and newlywed couples to a significant degree. This study highlights the possible importance of similar physical appearance as a factor in the formation of interpersonal relationships
Automobile accidents and birthdays
Although recent studies have found a relationship between one's birthday and such events as suicide, mortality, and accidents, this study of automobile accident reports in one of the Mountain states found no relationship between the drivers’ birthdays and the accidents. The expected increase in automobile accidents following birthdays did not occur, even though other variables were carefully controlled
A Time to Die
Using data from several sources, the authors found that almost half of all deaths occur during the first quarter after one's birthday, while less than 10 per cent occur in the quarter just prior to the birthday. This finding obtained for deaths of several types included long illnesses, accidental death, suicide, and natural causes. Death did not follow this pattern in the case of war casualties and homicide victims, however. The data supported th…
Blacks and Mormonism
84 students in 1975 and 132 students in 1979 completed the Bogardus Social Distance Scale for 30 ethnic groups. Scores for 27 ethnic groups decreased over 3 yr., while that for Negroes showed greatest decrease for these 2 groups of Mormon students
Response to comment by Howell and Malone
(1979). Response to comment by Howell and Malone. Social Biology: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 84-85
Relationship between Suicide and Month of Birth
In this paper we consider an Assemble-to-Order system with multiple end-products. Demands for an end-product follow a Poisson process and each end-product requires a fixed set of components. We are interested in the order fill rates, i.e., the percentage of demands for which all requested components are available from stock. Requested components that are not in stock are supplied via an emergency shipment and the demand for these components is lo…
Family size, birth order, and academic achievement
Responses from 6,642 adolescents from forty‐six high schools in the United States were analyzed in a stepwise multiple regression to determine the independent as well as the combined effects of the variables (family size, birth order, and objective social class of father) on high‐school grade point average. Family size and birth order were not important. Contrary to other research findings, social class was of some importance. However, additional…
An Analysis of the Social Distance of Offenders
Past studies have focused on the seriousness of the offenses, but have neglected the offenders per se. Using a Bogardus-type social distance scale 23 deviant roles were examined using a sample of 355 respondents who indicated decided preferences for some types of deviant offenders over others. It is concluded that persons occupying various roles such as judges, defenders, juries and so on may be in a position where they feel great social distance…
Polygyny and fertility in nineteenth-century America
Completed marital fertility in polygynous and monogamous unions in the nineteenth-century Mormon population is examined. Overall, women in polygynous unions show slightly lower completed marital fertility than do women in monogamous unions. In addition, patterns of differential fertility among wives of various positions in polygynous families are examined. Attempts to account for differential fertility in terms of differential childlessness, chil…
Marital and Family Role Satisfaction
This paper reports the association between several independent variables and marital satisfactions. Marital satisfaction was conceptualized as both a global measure of marital happiness associated with the entire marital relationship and also as a global measure of satisfaction from participation in specific family role activities. Social background factors, husband-wife similarity in social background, adequacy of performance of family roles, hu…
Season's greetings
The Application of Age-Specific Rates to Divorce
Age-Specific divorce rates and weighted divorce rates are evaluated in comparison with several traditional rates. First, hypothetical data reveal that the age-specific and weighted-rates do not have the weaknesses of the traditional measures of divorce. In addition, they are more sensitive than the alternatives. Second, age-specific and weighted-rates are presented for 16 states to determine whether the use of such rates will in fact increase the…
Residency differentials in Mormon fertility
Although one of the most consistent findings of recent fertility studies is the convergence of the religious differentials in fertility, few data have been analysed to discover Mormon fertility trends and differentials. This paper, based on data obtained on 1,001 Mormon couples, is concerned with describing the effects that the dispersion of Mormon families from the Mormon centre in Utah to surrounding areas with various social conditions is havi…
The Changing Family , by David A. Schulz
Family size and academic achievement of persons enrolled in high school and the university
(1973). Family size and academic achievement of persons enrolled in high school and the university. Social Biology: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 454-459
Assortative mating
Relationship of income and childlessness
The Neutralization of Religious Dissonance
Assortative mating
Relationship of income and childlessness
Differential Childlessness by Color
This study treats the relationship of childlessness and color. There is a general cultural belief in the United States that indicates a higher amount of childlessness for white couples as compared with nonwhite couples. This belief was tested by using data from the 1960 United States Census. A five-percent sample of women, aged 35 to 54 years, indicates that the percentage of childless couples is much higher among nonwhite couples even under vari…
Marital and Family Role Satisfaction
This paper reports the association between several independent variables and marital satisfactions. Marital satisfaction was conceptualized as both a global measure of marital happiness associated with the entire marital relationship and also as a global measure of satisfaction from participation in specific family role activities. Social background factors, husband-wife similarity in social background, adequacy of performance of family roles, hu…
Conversion
John Seggar, Phillip Kunz, Conversion: Evaluation of a Step-like Process for Problem-Solving, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 13, No. 3, Denominational and Interdenominational Studies (Spring, 1972), pp. 178-184
Family size, birth order, and academic achievement
Responses from 6,642 adolescents from forty‐six high schools in the United States were analyzed in a stepwise multiple regression to determine the independent as well as the combined effects of the variables (family size, birth order, and objective social class of father) on high‐school grade point average. Family size and birth order were not important. Contrary to other research findings, social class was of some importance. However, additional…
Residency differentials in Mormon fertility
Although one of the most consistent findings of recent fertility studies is the convergence of the religious differentials in fertility, few data have been analysed to discover Mormon fertility trends and differentials. This paper, based on data obtained on 1,001 Mormon couples, is concerned with describing the effects that the dispersion of Mormon families from the Mormon centre in Utah to surrounding areas with various social conditions is havi…
Sponsorship and Organizational Stability
Sponsorship is conceptualized as a special case of interorganizational relations in which the organization being sponsored utilizes other organizations to implement its own program at the grass-roots level. A national probability sample of the Boy Scout troops is examined, and it is determined that the type of sponsor has little effect on the activities of the scout troop. The type of sponsor, however, does effect the troop in that sponsors tend …
The Relation of Income and Fertility
Using 1960 Census data, evidence is compiled to show the reversal of the historical inverse relationship of and fertility with a five percent national sample of urbanized women whose husbands have the same type of social characteristics but vary in income. The hypothesis that couples with more relative income when compared with other couples with similar education, occupation, and age would be able to afford the same style of life and would have …
Season's greetings
The Application of Age-Specific Rates to Divorce
Age-Specific divorce rates and weighted divorce rates are evaluated in comparison with several traditional rates. First, hypothetical data reveal that the age-specific and weighted-rates do not have the weaknesses of the traditional measures of divorce. In addition, they are more sensitive than the alternatives. Second, age-specific and weighted-rates are presented for 16 states to determine whether the use of such rates will in fact increase the…
Family size and academic achievement of persons enrolled in high school and the university
(1973). Family size and academic achievement of persons enrolled in high school and the university. Social Biology: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 454-459
Religious Influences on Parental Discipline and Achievement Demands
Mormon and Non-Mormon Divorce Patterns
school or early school years and therefore had not reached the age where discrimination would be noticeable to them. However, none of the couples expressed doubts about the wisdom of having interracial children. In only one case did the white mother of an interracial child believe that her Negro neighbors discriminated against her child. With two exceptions, the couples stated that their children would be raised as Negroes, despite, in some cases…
The Relation of Income and Fertility
Using 1960 Census data, evidence is compiled to show the reversal of the historical inverse relationship of and fertility with a five percent national sample of urbanized women whose husbands have the same type of social characteristics but vary in income. The hypothesis that couples with more relative income when compared with other couples with similar education, occupation, and age would be able to afford the same style of life and would have …
Immigrants and Socialisation
Romantic Love and Reciprocity
Purity and Danger
Differential Childlessness by Color
This study treats the relationship of childlessness and color. There is a general cultural belief in the United States that indicates a higher amount of childlessness for white couples as compared with nonwhite couples. This belief was tested by using data from the 1960 United States Census. A five-percent sample of women, aged 35 to 54 years, indicates that the percentage of childless couples is much higher among nonwhite couples even under vari…
Sponsorship and Organizational Stability
Sponsorship is conceptualized as a special case of interorganizational relations in which the organization being sponsored utilizes other organizations to implement its own program at the grass-roots level. A national probability sample of the Boy Scout troops is examined, and it is determined that the type of sponsor has little effect on the activities of the scout troop. The type of sponsor, however, does effect the troop in that sponsors tend …
Family Counseling in East Asia
Sponsorhip and Organizational Efficiency
Conversion
John Seggar, Phillip Kunz, Conversion: Evaluation of a Step-like Process for Problem-Solving, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 13, No. 3, Denominational and Interdenominational Studies (Spring, 1972), pp. 178-184
The Changing Family , by David A. Schulz
Family size and academic achievement of persons enrolled in high school and the university
(1973). Family size and academic achievement of persons enrolled in high school and the university. Social Biology: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 454-459
Assortative mating
Relationship of income and childlessness
The Neutralization of Religious Dissonance
Residency differentials in Mormon fertility
Although one of the most consistent findings of recent fertility studies is the convergence of the religious differentials in fertility, few data have been analysed to discover Mormon fertility trends and differentials. This paper, based on data obtained on 1,001 Mormon couples, is concerned with describing the effects that the dispersion of Mormon families from the Mormon centre in Utah to surrounding areas with various social conditions is havi…
The Application of Age-Specific Rates to Divorce
Age-Specific divorce rates and weighted divorce rates are evaluated in comparison with several traditional rates. First, hypothetical data reveal that the age-specific and weighted-rates do not have the weaknesses of the traditional measures of divorce. In addition, they are more sensitive than the alternatives. Second, age-specific and weighted-rates are presented for 16 states to determine whether the use of such rates will in fact increase the…
Polygyny and fertility in nineteenth-century America
Completed marital fertility in polygynous and monogamous unions in the nineteenth-century Mormon population is examined. Overall, women in polygynous unions show slightly lower completed marital fertility than do women in monogamous unions. In addition, patterns of differential fertility among wives of various positions in polygynous families are examined. Attempts to account for differential fertility in terms of differential childlessness, chil…
Marital and Family Role Satisfaction
This paper reports the association between several independent variables and marital satisfactions. Marital satisfaction was conceptualized as both a global measure of marital happiness associated with the entire marital relationship and also as a global measure of satisfaction from participation in specific family role activities. Social background factors, husband-wife similarity in social background, adequacy of performance of family roles, hu…
Season's greetings
Family size, birth order, and academic achievement
Responses from 6,642 adolescents from forty‐six high schools in the United States were analyzed in a stepwise multiple regression to determine the independent as well as the combined effects of the variables (family size, birth order, and objective social class of father) on high‐school grade point average. Family size and birth order were not important. Contrary to other research findings, social class was of some importance. However, additional…
An Analysis of the Social Distance of Offenders
Past studies have focused on the seriousness of the offenses, but have neglected the offenders per se. Using a Bogardus-type social distance scale 23 deviant roles were examined using a sample of 355 respondents who indicated decided preferences for some types of deviant offenders over others. It is concluded that persons occupying various roles such as judges, defenders, juries and so on may be in a position where they feel great social distance…
Relationship between Suicide and Month of Birth
In this paper we consider an Assemble-to-Order system with multiple end-products. Demands for an end-product follow a Poisson process and each end-product requires a fixed set of components. We are interested in the order fill rates, i.e., the percentage of demands for which all requested components are available from stock. Requested components that are not in stock are supplied via an emergency shipment and the demand for these components is lo…
Blacks and Mormonism
84 students in 1975 and 132 students in 1979 completed the Bogardus Social Distance Scale for 30 ethnic groups. Scores for 27 ethnic groups decreased over 3 yr., while that for Negroes showed greatest decrease for these 2 groups of Mormon students
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