Stack
Biographic Data
| ID | 14230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stack |
| FAMILY NAME | Stack |
| SIGNATURE | STACK |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1312-9773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 148 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 862 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 148 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Gender, Critical Mass, and Lifetime Productivity: A Research Note
Studies on gender and research productivity among sociologists have a recurrent limitation: failure to measure lifetime productivity. Over a lifetime, women live longer than men, providing some years of additional research activity. Gendered family care responsibilities diminish over a lifetime. In addition, sociologists working outside of sociology departments (e.g. nursing, women’s studies) have been excluded. The present study addresses these …
Suicide rates in South Korea and internationally following release of the Netflix series 'Squid Game
Predictors of Desertion: Analysis of the First Michigan Colored Infantry in the American Civil War
Over 180,000 black soldiers served in the Union Army in the American Civil War. They endured horrific deprivation and disease, and also substantial institutional discrimination in such areas as wage and promotion. Nevertheless, most never deserted their duties as soldiers. However, it is not clear what distinguished those who did desert from their counterparts. The present case‐control study fills this gap. It applies social bonds theory to expla…
Escalating costs of self-injury mortality in the 21st century United States: An interstate observational study
The scale and surge in the economic costs of SIM to society are large. Federal and state prevention and intervention programs should be financed with a clear understanding of the total costs-fiscal, social, and personal-incurred by deaths due to self-injurious behaviors
Contributing factors to suicide: Political, social, cultural and economic
Suicide risk and prevention during the Covid-19 pandemic
Media guidelines and suicide: A critical review
Religious Activities and Suicide Prevention: A Gender Specific Analysis
The present analysis contributes to the existing literature on religion and suicide in three interrelated ways: (1) providing an analysis of suicide completions whereas most research is based on non-lethal levels of suicidality; (2) assessing the relationship with concrete individual level data on completed suicides instead of aggregated data marked by the ecological fallacy issue; and (3) providing gender specific analyses to determine if the re…
Religious Orientation and Its Relationship to Suicidality: A Study in One of the Least Religious Countries
The relationship between religious orientation and suicidality can be more complex in samples of low religious rate. The present study was conducted in China, one of the least religious countries, with the purpose of exploring different aspects of religious orientation and their relationships to suicidality. Among a university sample of 2074 respondents, 122 respondents reported being religious and responded to our measures of religious orientati…
Locus of control and the direction of lethal violence: Cross national analysis, research note
Previous work has suggested that economic development affects the direction of lethal violence through a civilizing process wherein there is a shift from an internal to an external locus of control. However, data were not available to measure locus of control. The present work assesses the relationship between a measure of control and the direction of lethal violence or SHR (suicide rate/(suicide + homicide rates)). Data representing 53 nations a…
Cultural Scripts: Analysis of Suicide Location in Film, 1900–2013
Scripts in the cinema provide a cultural definition of suicide, including where suicide takes place. Using opportunity theory, this study examines the concept of “lethal locations” to address questions regarding movies as a risk factor for suicide: (1) Do cinematic scripts overrepresent lethal locations? (2) Given sociological changes, have cinematic scripts for lethal locations intensified over a century of film? and (3) Are scripts for lethal l…
Culture and Suicide Acceptability: A Cross-National, Multilevel Analysis
Cultural perspectives on suicidality have been largely marked by work explaining variability in suicide acceptability in the United States using structural variables including marital status and demographics, and limited symbolic or values orientations such as feminism, political liberalism, and civil liberties. The present article applies recent developments in comparative cultural sociology to the problem of suicidality. The central hypothesis …
The Impact of Exam Environments on Student Test Scores in Online Courses
While enrollment in online courses has tripled in ten years, little is known about the impact of different exam-taking environments on learning. A recent study of economics students found that online students taking un-proctored exams scored one letter grade higher than online students taking proctored exams. However, there were no apparent systematic safeguards against cheating in the un-proctored section. This study adds to the literature by co…
Suicide
Suicide is among the top ten leading causes of death. According to recent data (2010), over 38,000 Americans take their own lives each year, or about 108 a day. Further, there are an estimated 250,000–600,000 suicide attempts each year. There are at least 5 million living Americans who have attempted suicide in the past. While Americans fear being murdered more than dying by their own hand, the suicide rate remains about double the homicide rate …
Recency of Divorce, Depression, and Suicide Risk
Previous individual-level research on the association between the status of divorce and suicide risk has been marked by two recurrent limitations: (a) it is not clear if the timing of divorce (recent vs. distal) affects risk of completed suicides and (b) it is not clear if the association between divorce and suicide completions will withstand controls for a series of risk and protective factors including psychiatric morbidity. The present study a…
Confronting Death From Drug Self-Intoxication (DDSI): Prevention Through a Better Definition
Suicide and other self-directed violence deaths are likely grossly underestimated, reflecting inappropriate classification of many drug intoxication deaths as accidents or unintentional and heterogeneous ascertainment and coding practices across states. As the tide of prescription and illicit drug-poisoning deaths is rising, public health and research needs would be better satisfied by considering most of these deaths a result of self-intoxicatio…
Teaching and Salaries in Social Science: A Research Note
Objectives Research on the relationship between teaching productivity and base salary is sparse, but tends to find no association. However, the research is based largely on student evaluations (student evaluation of teaching (SET)). No study uses peer review of teaching, which may capture qualities of excellence in teaching missed by SETs. The present study addresses this gap. Methods Data refer to all 70 faculty in the social sciences at a Carne…
Exposure to Suicide Movies and Suicide Attempts: A Research Note
Research on the impact of exposure to suicide movies on suicidality has been marked by three limitations. It is largely based on (1) aggregate data subject to the ecological fallacy, (2) exposure to a single movie, and (3) relative lack of controls for psychological states and social factors linked to suicide. The present study addresses these gaps. It follows a modified Beach method and assesses the impact of cumulative, voluntary exposure to su…
Does Discussion Promote Learning Outcomes? Analysis of an Online Criminology Class: Research Note
The extent to which discussion promotes learning outcomes is a relatively unexplored area in teaching. The present paper contributes to the literature by assessing the extent to which student use of a discussion board is predictive of grades. The sample consists of 341 students who completed an online course in criminology. Learning outcomes are measured in terms of final examination scores. The number of participations or hits (N = 6,934) on a w…
Citation Classics inDeviant Behavior: A Research Note
The number of citations a scholarly work receives is a common measure of its impact on a field. Citation classics are works that are the most highly cited. The purpose of the present article is to describe and analyze citation classics in the journal Deviant Behavior (DB) and to compare them to classics in related academic journals. Data are from the Web of Science and refer to the number of citations each of the top 1% of articles in DB received…
Social integration and suicide: Denmark, 1906–2006
Highlights► Suicide trends are assessed for males and females in Denmark. ► Years covered are 1906–2006. ► Divorce is found to predict both male and female suicide
The effect of survivalism-self-expressionism culture on black male suicide acceptability: A cross-national analysis
Religion and Suicide Acceptability: A Cross-National Analysis
Four perspectives (moral community thesis, religious integration, religious commitment, and social networks) guide the selection of variables in this study. Data are from the combined World Values/European Values Surveys for 2000 (50,547 individuals nested in 56 nations). The results of a multivariate hierarchical linear model support all four perspectives. Persons residing in nations with relatively high levels of religiosity, who are affiliated…
Survivalism and Public Opinion on Criminality: A Cross-National Analysis of Prostitution
Explanations of variability in public opinion on crime have drawn disproportionately from the literature on specific symbolic orientations including religious fundamentalism and racial prejudice. In contrast, this article hypothesizes that public opinion is linked to the strength of a general cultural axis of nations: survivalism vs. self-expressionism. Data are from the fourth wave of the World Values Survey. Hierarchical modeling techniques are…
Suicide and unintentional poisoning mortality trends in the United States, 1987-2006: Two unrelated phenomena
The official decline in the suicide rate between 1987 and 2000 may have been a partial artifact of misclassification of non-elderly suicides within unintentional poisoning mortality. We recommend in-depth national, regional, and local population-based research investigations of the poisoning-suicide nexus, and endorse calls for widening the scope of the definition of suicide and evaluation of its risk factors
Marital Status and Happiness: A 17-Nation Study
The literature on marital status and happiness has neglected comparative analysis, cohabitation, and gender-specific analysis. It is not clear if the married-happiness relationship is consistent across nations, if it is stronger than a cohabitation-happiness link, and if it applies to both genders. We address these issues using data from 17 national surveys. A multiple regression analysis determined that the relationship between marital status an…
Celebrities and Suicide: A Taxonomy and Analysis, 1948-1983
Research on the impact of suicide stories in the media on imitative suicides has been marked by poor theory and undifferentiated indexes. This study focuses on celebrity suicides. It uses a taxonomy of celebrities based on Tarde's laws of imitation and Pareto's concept of elite. Propositions are drawn from differential identification theory, using mass cultural values and beliefs as points of identification. The imitation effect holds only for Am…
Income Inequality and Property Crime: A Cross‐National Analysis of Relative Deprivation Theory
Cultural issues that act as intervening variables in the inequality‐crime relationship have been neglected in the literature on inequality and crime. The present article explores the interaction between inequality and variables thought to be associated with a perception that inequality is illegitimate. The central argument is that the strength of inequality‐crime relationship is dependent on a contextual factor, a radical egalitarian culture prom…
Adult Social Bonds and Use of Internet Pornography
Objective. Sociological theories of deviant behavior have not been systematically applied to the problem of who uses and who does not use cyberpornography on the Internet. The present study contributes to the literature by providing the first systematic application of selected sociological theories of deviance to the problem of explaining use of cyberpornography. It tests a blended theoretical perspective, which includes measures from social cont…
The Effect of Religious Commitment on Suicide: A Cross-National Analysis
Research on the relationship of religion and suicide has relied almost exclusively on the concept of religious integration as a causal variable. The present paper proposes an alternative linkage, based on the concept of religious commitment. A theory is developed that argues that a high level of commitment to a few life-preserving religious beliefs, values, and practices will lower suicide levels. Control variables are taken from the industrializ…
Religion and Suicide Acceptability: A Cross-National Analysis
Four perspectives (moral community thesis, religious integration, religious commitment, and social networks) guide the selection of variables in this study. Data are from the combined World Values/European Values Surveys for 2000 (50,547 individuals nested in 56 nations). The results of a multivariate hierarchical linear model support all four perspectives. Persons residing in nations with relatively high levels of religiosity, who are affiliated…
The Effects of Political Participation and Socialist Party Strength on the Degree of Income Inequality
The Effect of Direct Government Involvement in the Economy on the Degree of Income Inequality: A Cross-National Study
Sen, Amartya 1973 On Economic Inequality. New York: Norton. Theil, Henri 1967 Economics and Information Theory. Chicago: Rand McNally. Williamson, Jeffrey G. 1977 'Strategic' wage goods, prices, and inequality. American Economic Review 66:29-41. Yntema, D. B. 1933 Measures of inequality in the personal distribution of income or wealth. Journal of the American Statistical Association 28:423-33
Public attitudes toward the police
Support for the Death Penalty: A Gender-Specific Model
Authoritarianism and Support for the Death Penalty: A Multivariate Analysis
While a widely used concept in the social sciences, authoritarianism has been neglected in research on death penalty support. The few existing studies on the association tend to be limited by the lack of an integrated theory, reliance on bivariate analysis, local and often nonrepresentative samples, and use of data from the 1960s. In addition, the large majority of death penalty support studies from the last quarter century have omitted authorita…
The Effect of Geographic Mobility on Premarital Sex
One recurrent theme in the literature on premarital sex is the impact of social control factors on sexual behavior. Religious control systems, for example, act as a powerful deterrent to adolescent sexuality both in terms of attitudes and behavior (e.g., Beck, Bettie Cole, & Hammond, 1991; Davidson & Leslie, 1977). Other measures of social control, including socioeconomic class position and bonds to family, have been linked to the odds of premari…
New Micro-Level Data on the Impact of Divorce on Suicide, 1959-1980: A Test of Two Theories
The Association of Suicide Rates with Individual‐Level Suicide Attitudes: A Cross‐National Analysis
Objective. Research on the predictors of individual‐level attitudes toward suicide has neglected the possible role of contextual‐level predictors. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by assessing the association between suicide rates and the attitudes of individuals. Based on social learning theory, it is argued that persons socialized in nations with relatively high rates of suicide are more likely to be exposed to suicidal ro…
Publicized Executions and Homicide, 1950-1980
Marriage, Family and Loneliness: A Cross-National Study
Previous research on loneliness has often neglected the role of marriage and family ties, comparative analysis, and cohabitation. It is not clear if the married/parent - loneliness relationship is consistent across nations, is stronger than a cohabitant-loneliness relationship, and applies to both genders. The present study addresses these issues. Data are from 17 nations in the World Values Survey. The results of multiple regression analyses det…
Media coverage as a risk factor in suicide
A total of 293 findings from 42 studies on the impact of publicized suicide stories in the media on the incidence of suicide in the real world were analyzed by logistic regression analysis. Studies measuring the effect of either an entertainment or political celebrity suicide story were 14.3 times more likely to find a copycat effect than studies that did not. Studies based on a real as opposed to fictional story were 4.03 times more likely to un…
The Effect of Marriage, Family, and Religious Ties on African American Suicide Ideology
Work on the incidence of suicide, and more generally crime and deviant behavior, has tended to neglect racially disaggregated empirical research (e.g., Peterson & Krivco, 1993; Sampson, 1987). As noted by Wilson and Aponte (1985), up to the 1980s, sociologists tended to shy away from race as a point of departure for research. With respect to the field of suicidology, race has been perhaps the most understudied basic demographic variable (for revi…
The Effect of Religion on Suicide Ideology: An Analysis of the Networks Perspective
Previous work on religion and suicide has pursued a number of themes. The present work tested a new perspective which stresses the extent of social support networks in religions as protections against suicide. This study employed micro-level data on suicide attitudes as a check on previous findings based on ecological data. An analysis of national data from the General Social Surveys tended to support network theory. Churches promoting network in…
The Effects of Marital Dissolution on Suicide
The Effect of Religiosity on Tax Fraud Acceptability: A Cross-National Analysis
Religion provides an important basis for social integration and the prevention of deviant behavior, such as tax fraud, a crime that costs society billions of dollars in lost revenue. The literature on tax fraud and tax fraud acceptability (TFA) has neglected religiosity as a social bond that may deter this type of behavior. Furthermore, existing work is based on the United States; there are no systematic cross-national studies. In particular, the…
The Relationship between Culture and Suicide: An Analysis of African Americans
Traditional explanations of suicide, such as economic strain, are often unable to explain the low incidence of suicide among African Americans. Recent qualitative work has suggested, however, that African American cultural definitions of suicide, derived from religion, may explain the low suicide risk among African Americans. The present paper analyzes quantitative, national survey data to address this issue. The results of a multiple regression …
Marital Status, Alcohol Consumption, and Suicide: An Analysis of National Data
Les travaux a propos de l'influence du statut marital sur le risque de suicide ont neglige de prendre en consideration la consommation d'alcool. Il n'est pas clair que le statut marital ait un effet direct sur le suicide. L'etude presente montre qu'une faible integration conjugale augmente significativement le risque de suicide, independemment de la consommation d'alcool. La consommation d'alcool est toutefois plus etroitement liee au risque de s…
The effect of female participation in the labor force on suicide: A time series analysis, 1948?1980
The Effect of Domestic/Religious Individualism on Suicide, 1954-1978
Previous work on the effects of domestic and religious factors on suicide usually has treated domestic and religious variables as separate entities, often not incorporating measures of both in any given study. In contrast, the present paper conceptualizes domestic and religious life as parts of a greater institutional complex centered around collectivistic values. Analysis of data from 1954 to 1978 corroborates this thesis. A Cochrane-Orcutt anal…
Comment on Krohn's “Inequality, Unemployment and Crime: A Cross-National Analysis”
(1978). Comment on Krohn's “Inequality, Unemployment and Crime: A Cross-National Analysis”. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 340-342.
Politics and Social Equality: A Comparative Analysis
Public Expenditures, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income: The United States, 1950, 1961, 1970
The American Class System: An Introduction to Social Stratification
Ideological Beliefs on the American Distribution of Opportunity, Power, and Rewards
This study is a replication of selected portions of earlier research on stratification ideology in Muskegon, Michigan. A sample of 232 Muskegonites were questioned concerning their beliefs on the distribution of opportunity, distribution of power, and distribution of material rewards, an additional category not included in earlier research. The findings suggest a shift from a pluralist perception of power to a Millsian-elitist perception. This is…
Blue Collar Aristocrats: Life Styles at a Working Class Tavern. E. E. LeMasters
The Effect of Direct Government Involvement in the Economy on the Degree of Income Inequality: A Cross-National Study
Sen, Amartya 1973 On Economic Inequality. New York: Norton. Theil, Henri 1967 Economics and Information Theory. Chicago: Rand McNally. Williamson, Jeffrey G. 1977 'Strategic' wage goods, prices, and inequality. American Economic Review 66:29-41. Yntema, D. B. 1933 Measures of inequality in the personal distribution of income or wealth. Journal of the American Statistical Association 28:423-33
Internal Political Organization and the World Economy of Income Inequality
Suicide: A Comparative Analysis
Sociological theories of suicide rates have not been systematically tested by cross-national research. This paper reports tests of three related theories of suicide (status integration, anomie, and industrialization theories) with data from 45 nations. A multiple regression analysis determined that the degree of female labor force participation, a variable in the status integration theory, was the most important correlate of suicide rates. A prel…
The End of the Golden Age of Higher Education
Industry and Inequality
The Effects of Political Participation and Socialist Party Strength on the Degree of Income Inequality
The Effects of Interstate Migration On Suicide
Previous research on the impact of migration on suicide has focused on a few case studies of how the culture shock of international migration is associated with suicide. The present study investigates the relationship between a more limited form of culture shock, interstate migration, on the rate of suicide in the 50 American states. The rate of interstate migration was found to influence the rate of suicide independent of the control variables i…
Occupational status and suicide: A relationship reexamined (research note)
Direct Government Involvement in the Economy: Theoretical and Empirical Extensions: Reply to Jackman and Firebaugh
The Political Economy of Income Inequality: A Comparative Analysis
Les théories sociologiques sur l'inégalité des revenus nl'ont reposé jusqul'ici que sur un ou deux modèles. Dans cet article nous intégrons et nous vérifions certains aspects de quatre théories de la stratification des revenus. A l'aide de données sur le partage des revenus dans 37 pays nous démontrons que le niveau de démocratic est la variable la plus importante parmi celles reliées à une faible inégalité des revenus. Au surplus, notre analyse …
The Effects of Marital Dissolution on Suicide
Deviant Interpretations: Problems in Criminological Theory
Religion, Ideal Family Size, and Abortion: Extending Renzi's Hypothesis
Recent research has noted a negative relationship between ideal family size (IFS) and proabortion attitudes (AA) which is independent of religious affiliation. The present investigation extends the investigation of this relationship in several ways. First, we find considerable variation in abortion attitudes among the Protestant denominations; this finding warrants a denomination-specific analysis. Second, controlling for religious affiliation wi…
Comparative Analysis of Immigration and Suicide
Past research on the relationship between immigration and suicide has focused on a few case studies of the bivariate relationship in nations marked by considerable forced immigration. The present study expands the sample to 34 nations characterized by voluntary immigration. Using the techniques of multiple regression analysis, it confirms the immigration-suicide linkage
Suicide and Religion: A Comparative Analysis
Previous work on the relationship between religion and suicide has focused on the simple bivariate relationship and has failed to address the problem of the possible convergence between Catholicism and Protestantism in the underlying determinant of suicide, the degree of social integration. The present study explores the relationship more systematically through a series of multiple regression analyses. The lack of any significant relationship bet…
Divorce and Suicide: A Time Series Analysis, 1933–1970
The author examines the relationship between divorce and suicide using U.S. data for the period 1933-1970. The increase in the strength of the positive relationship between divorce and suicide in the period after World War II is contrasted with trends during the era of the Depression preceding World War II
Suicide: A decade review of the sociological literature
Major works on suicide are reviewed and classified into four analytic categories according to their theoretical emphasis: cultural, economic, modernization, and social integration perspectives. The research under these paradigms is assessed in terms of four themes. First, attention is drawn to research evidence that questions traditional theories. An example is Durkheim's position on social class and suicide. Second, the review notes several new …
The Petite Bourgeoisie: Comparative Studies of the Uneasy Stratum
Five Thousand American Families: Patterns of Economic Progress, Vol. 9: Analyses of the First Twelve Years of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
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