Robert M White
Biographic Data
| ID | 126011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8782-9791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating inclusive education in mainstream primary schools: A phenomenological study of teachers’ perceptions and experiences
Spiritual Foundations for an Ecologically Sustainable Society
This article takes a broad macroevolutionary approach to our changing relationship to Nature in the light of the teachings or the Bahá’í Faith. It suggests that humanity is in a process of evolving consciousness leading to the development of a new planetary culture based on spiritual principles. In an ecological sense, humanity has in many respects appeared to be a delinquent species running out of control. Within a larger vision of humanity’s sp…
Attachment-based psychosocial programme for under-privileged school children with adverse life experiences in Istanbul, Turkey
Children experiencing educational neglect are likely to experience the harm associated with adverse life experiences and a range of emotional and psychological challenges. Using attachment theory and psychosocial frameworks, we devised and implemented an intervention designed to ameliorate the deleterious effects of challenging behaviours in an elementary school situated in a deprived neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. For a period of eight month…
Integrative character education (ICE): Grounding facilitated prosocial development in a humanistic perspective for a multicultural world
Character Education initiatives within schools have gained both proponents and opponents over recent years and continue to garner mixed reviews. Proponents argue that the need is urgent and the increasing level of school disruption, antisocial behavior and violence requires a focus on values/virtues/moral education and claim this is synonymous with good practice in education. Opponents ask, whose values will be taught and how does this address th…
School-wide mediated prosocial development: Applying a sociocultural understanding to inclusive practice and character education
The issue of inclusive practice, particularly as it pertains to how school staff address antisocial behavior to improve learning and life outcomes for children has become a primary topic of discussion among educational stakeholders. Within an action research framework, this investigation used a mixed-method multiple case study approach to investigate what impact character education has on school climate and pupil behavior within five primary scho…
Recovery under sail: Rehabilitation clients' experience of a sail training voyage
Sail training refers to sea voyages designed to foster personal and social change. Such training has mainly involved young people but may have the potential to benefit adults who are recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. During the voyage described here clients in drug rehabilitation centres across the UK were given the opportunity to participate in a 5-day sail training voyage. Pre- and post-voyage interviews were conducted with 11 clients…
Challenges in a Narrative About the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis
Regimes of risk management in corporate annual reports: A case‐study of one globalizing Australian company
An approach to the study of the ‘risks’ of ‘globalization’ that are increasingly the focus of global protest is outlined. By enrolling a blend of Mary Douglas' cultural approach to ‘risk’ and Ulrich Beck's theory of the ‘risk society,’ it is argued that three distinct ‘regimes of risk management’ are evident in corporate activity. After showing that corporate annual reports are useful for analysis of those effects, the argument is tested/illustra…
Climate science, technology and politics: A tangled web
Share ownership in Australia: The emergence of new tensions
The rise in private share ownership over the last decade is an interesting but relatively poorly researched issue in Australia. In the expectation that relations between large companies and their shareholders are already important and will become increasingly so, we report exploratory longitudinal studies of two aspects of the interaction. Regression analysis of shareholders' demographic and attitudinal characteristics, drawn from National Social…
Business in Action: Framing and Overflowing in the Logistics of an Australian Company
As market relations become more pervasive, so the classical sociological issue of the tension between 'economic' and 'social' explanations becomes more salient than ever. Michel Callon has proposed that the Actor-Network Theory (A-NT) developed in science and technology studies provides a useful approach to this tension. In this article we outline his innovatively traditional 'market test' of A-NT, and then test and illustrate it through a contra…
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
An undergraduate laboratory in magnetic recording fundamentals
An undergraduate course in data storage systems has been augmented with several laboratory experiments designed to enrich the students' understanding of magnetic hysteresis, magnetic sensors, and storage systems. In this paper, the three devices that have been designed for such experiments are described. Each device is conceptually simple and is easily replicated using inexpensive, off-the-shelf electronics. One device demonstrates the concept of…
Animals and modernity: Changing Human-Animal Relations, 1949-98
In this article we provide an empirical test of Franklin's (1999) recent contribution to the burgeoning study of human-animal relations. Drawing on the anthropological claim that animals are good to think with, Franklin used theories of reflexive modernization to explain a shift to increasingly zoocentric and sentimentalized relations with animals. After deriving a series of expectations from this account, we tested them through a content-analysi…
The life of class: A case study in a sociological concept
This study in the use of a sociological concept is based in recent sociologies of knowledge. The empirical material is Pakulski and Waters' (1996a) argument for 'the death of class'. Three anomalies are identified in their claim: puzzles of 'reflexion' (referring to a precondition that sociology be self-exemplifying); of 'repetition' (denoting an isomorphism between Pakulski and Waters' case and Bernstein's revisionism; and of 'reception' (referr…
Statement
India and the United States
Applied physical anthropology
Francis Eugene Randall, 1914–1949
Francis Eugene Randall, 1914-1949
Animals and modernity: Changing Human-Animal Relations, 1949-98
In this article we provide an empirical test of Franklin's (1999) recent contribution to the burgeoning study of human-animal relations. Drawing on the anthropological claim that animals are good to think with, Franklin used theories of reflexive modernization to explain a shift to increasingly zoocentric and sentimentalized relations with animals. After deriving a series of expectations from this account, we tested them through a content-analysi…
Applied physical anthropology
Business in Action: Framing and Overflowing in the Logistics of an Australian Company
As market relations become more pervasive, so the classical sociological issue of the tension between 'economic' and 'social' explanations becomes more salient than ever. Michel Callon has proposed that the Actor-Network Theory (A-NT) developed in science and technology studies provides a useful approach to this tension. In this article we outline his innovatively traditional 'market test' of A-NT, and then test and illustrate it through a contra…
Climate science, technology and politics: A tangled web
Navigating inclusive education in mainstream primary schools: A phenomenological study of teachers’ perceptions and experiences
Regimes of risk management in corporate annual reports: A case‐study of one globalizing Australian company
An approach to the study of the ‘risks’ of ‘globalization’ that are increasingly the focus of global protest is outlined. By enrolling a blend of Mary Douglas' cultural approach to ‘risk’ and Ulrich Beck's theory of the ‘risk society,’ it is argued that three distinct ‘regimes of risk management’ are evident in corporate activity. After showing that corporate annual reports are useful for analysis of those effects, the argument is tested/illustra…
Share ownership in Australia: The emergence of new tensions
The rise in private share ownership over the last decade is an interesting but relatively poorly researched issue in Australia. In the expectation that relations between large companies and their shareholders are already important and will become increasingly so, we report exploratory longitudinal studies of two aspects of the interaction. Regression analysis of shareholders' demographic and attitudinal characteristics, drawn from National Social…
Francis Eugene Randall, 1914–1949
Francis Eugene Randall, 1914-1949
Applied physical anthropology
India and the United States
Statement
The life of class: A case study in a sociological concept
This study in the use of a sociological concept is based in recent sociologies of knowledge. The empirical material is Pakulski and Waters' (1996a) argument for 'the death of class'. Three anomalies are identified in their claim: puzzles of 'reflexion' (referring to a precondition that sociology be self-exemplifying); of 'repetition' (denoting an isomorphism between Pakulski and Waters' case and Bernstein's revisionism; and of 'reception' (referr…
An undergraduate laboratory in magnetic recording fundamentals
An undergraduate course in data storage systems has been augmented with several laboratory experiments designed to enrich the students' understanding of magnetic hysteresis, magnetic sensors, and storage systems. In this paper, the three devices that have been designed for such experiments are described. Each device is conceptually simple and is easily replicated using inexpensive, off-the-shelf electronics. One device demonstrates the concept of…
Animals and modernity: Changing Human-Animal Relations, 1949-98
In this article we provide an empirical test of Franklin's (1999) recent contribution to the burgeoning study of human-animal relations. Drawing on the anthropological claim that animals are good to think with, Franklin used theories of reflexive modernization to explain a shift to increasingly zoocentric and sentimentalized relations with animals. After deriving a series of expectations from this account, we tested them through a content-analysi…
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Regimes of risk management in corporate annual reports: A case‐study of one globalizing Australian company
An approach to the study of the ‘risks’ of ‘globalization’ that are increasingly the focus of global protest is outlined. By enrolling a blend of Mary Douglas' cultural approach to ‘risk’ and Ulrich Beck's theory of the ‘risk society,’ it is argued that three distinct ‘regimes of risk management’ are evident in corporate activity. After showing that corporate annual reports are useful for analysis of those effects, the argument is tested/illustra…
Climate science, technology and politics: A tangled web
Share ownership in Australia: The emergence of new tensions
The rise in private share ownership over the last decade is an interesting but relatively poorly researched issue in Australia. In the expectation that relations between large companies and their shareholders are already important and will become increasingly so, we report exploratory longitudinal studies of two aspects of the interaction. Regression analysis of shareholders' demographic and attitudinal characteristics, drawn from National Social…
Business in Action: Framing and Overflowing in the Logistics of an Australian Company
As market relations become more pervasive, so the classical sociological issue of the tension between 'economic' and 'social' explanations becomes more salient than ever. Michel Callon has proposed that the Actor-Network Theory (A-NT) developed in science and technology studies provides a useful approach to this tension. In this article we outline his innovatively traditional 'market test' of A-NT, and then test and illustrate it through a contra…
Challenges in a Narrative About the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis
School-wide mediated prosocial development: Applying a sociocultural understanding to inclusive practice and character education
The issue of inclusive practice, particularly as it pertains to how school staff address antisocial behavior to improve learning and life outcomes for children has become a primary topic of discussion among educational stakeholders. Within an action research framework, this investigation used a mixed-method multiple case study approach to investigate what impact character education has on school climate and pupil behavior within five primary scho…
Recovery under sail: Rehabilitation clients' experience of a sail training voyage
Sail training refers to sea voyages designed to foster personal and social change. Such training has mainly involved young people but may have the potential to benefit adults who are recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. During the voyage described here clients in drug rehabilitation centres across the UK were given the opportunity to participate in a 5-day sail training voyage. Pre- and post-voyage interviews were conducted with 11 clients…
Integrative character education (ICE): Grounding facilitated prosocial development in a humanistic perspective for a multicultural world
Character Education initiatives within schools have gained both proponents and opponents over recent years and continue to garner mixed reviews. Proponents argue that the need is urgent and the increasing level of school disruption, antisocial behavior and violence requires a focus on values/virtues/moral education and claim this is synonymous with good practice in education. Opponents ask, whose values will be taught and how does this address th…
Spiritual Foundations for an Ecologically Sustainable Society
This article takes a broad macroevolutionary approach to our changing relationship to Nature in the light of the teachings or the Bahá’í Faith. It suggests that humanity is in a process of evolving consciousness leading to the development of a new planetary culture based on spiritual principles. In an ecological sense, humanity has in many respects appeared to be a delinquent species running out of control. Within a larger vision of humanity’s sp…
Attachment-based psychosocial programme for under-privileged school children with adverse life experiences in Istanbul, Turkey
Children experiencing educational neglect are likely to experience the harm associated with adverse life experiences and a range of emotional and psychological challenges. Using attachment theory and psychosocial frameworks, we devised and implemented an intervention designed to ameliorate the deleterious effects of challenging behaviours in an elementary school situated in a deprived neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. For a period of eight month…
Navigating inclusive education in mainstream primary schools: A phenomenological study of teachers’ perceptions and experiences
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