Elaine Cummings
Biographic Data
| ID | 143406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Cummings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Cummings |
| SIGNATURE | CUMMINGS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas City Study of Adult Life, Kansas City, Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Another Look at Status Integration and Suicide
Old People in Three Industrial Societies
Systems of Social Regulation
Systems of Social Regulation
Social Aspects of Aging
Ego and Milieu. Theory and Practice of Environmental Therapy
Policeman as Philosopher, Guide and Friend
Journal Article Policeman as Philosopher, Guide and Friend Get access Elaine Cumming, Elaine Cumming Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Ian Cumming, Ian Cumming Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Laura Edell Laura Edell Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse, New Y…
Psychiatry and Religion
Aging in a Changing Society
Clergyman as Counselor
The cleryman's role as counselor is examined with reference to its articulation with the whole deviance-controlling system. His activities appear to vary with the characteristics of his congregation and his own educational level. It is proposed that the effect is produced by certain strains, some of which inhibit the development of a system of divided labor between clergymen and other deviance-controlling agents, particularly social workers
Growing Old
The Organization of the Large Mental Hospital
This is an attempt to put into perspective the successes and failures of a program of change introduced seven years ago into a large state-supported mental hospital. We will review briefly how we, together with our colleague, Ian M. Clancey, proceeded with the task of improving this hospital, comment on the problems we met, and touch on what we think to be important issues now occupying the attention of those concerning themselves with the effici…
Sibling Solidarity
Colonel Hillendale
I would like to comment on Burdick's letter in which he responded to Mr. Whyte's editorial in the Winter Issue, 1958-1959, of Human Organization. In it he says, "there is a terrible dilemma in the means-end argument." It does not seem to me that this is so. The means-end argument is quickly resolved once the question of moral relativism is decided. In short, if there are no absolute values, we can only discern good from evil in context. We then h…
Closed Ranks
What is 'Morale'? A Case History of a Validity Problem
Our purpose in this paper is to describe how a single community study,1 the Kansas City Study of Adult Life, has gone about trying to fathom the essential meaning of its own dependent variable, namely
Community Involvement
Policeman as Philosopher, Guide and Friend
Journal Article Policeman as Philosopher, Guide and Friend Get access Elaine Cumming, Elaine Cumming Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Ian Cumming, Ian Cumming Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Laura Edell Laura Edell Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse, New Y…
Sibling Solidarity
Systems of Social Regulation
Growing Old
Another Look at Status Integration and Suicide
Aging in a Changing Society
Clergyman as Counselor
The cleryman's role as counselor is examined with reference to its articulation with the whole deviance-controlling system. His activities appear to vary with the characteristics of his congregation and his own educational level. It is proposed that the effect is produced by certain strains, some of which inhibit the development of a system of divided labor between clergymen and other deviance-controlling agents, particularly social workers
The Organization of the Large Mental Hospital
This is an attempt to put into perspective the successes and failures of a program of change introduced seven years ago into a large state-supported mental hospital. We will review briefly how we, together with our colleague, Ian M. Clancey, proceeded with the task of improving this hospital, comment on the problems we met, and touch on what we think to be important issues now occupying the attention of those concerning themselves with the effici…
What is 'Morale'? A Case History of a Validity Problem
Our purpose in this paper is to describe how a single community study,1 the Kansas City Study of Adult Life, has gone about trying to fathom the essential meaning of its own dependent variable, namely
Closed Ranks
What is 'Morale'? A Case History of a Validity Problem
Our purpose in this paper is to describe how a single community study,1 the Kansas City Study of Adult Life, has gone about trying to fathom the essential meaning of its own dependent variable, namely
Community Involvement
Colonel Hillendale
I would like to comment on Burdick's letter in which he responded to Mr. Whyte's editorial in the Winter Issue, 1958-1959, of Human Organization. In it he says, "there is a terrible dilemma in the means-end argument." It does not seem to me that this is so. The means-end argument is quickly resolved once the question of moral relativism is decided. In short, if there are no absolute values, we can only discern good from evil in context. We then h…
Sibling Solidarity
Growing Old
The Organization of the Large Mental Hospital
This is an attempt to put into perspective the successes and failures of a program of change introduced seven years ago into a large state-supported mental hospital. We will review briefly how we, together with our colleague, Ian M. Clancey, proceeded with the task of improving this hospital, comment on the problems we met, and touch on what we think to be important issues now occupying the attention of those concerning themselves with the effici…
Aging in a Changing Society
Clergyman as Counselor
The cleryman's role as counselor is examined with reference to its articulation with the whole deviance-controlling system. His activities appear to vary with the characteristics of his congregation and his own educational level. It is proposed that the effect is produced by certain strains, some of which inhibit the development of a system of divided labor between clergymen and other deviance-controlling agents, particularly social workers
Psychiatry and Religion
Ego and Milieu. Theory and Practice of Environmental Therapy
Policeman as Philosopher, Guide and Friend
Journal Article Policeman as Philosopher, Guide and Friend Get access Elaine Cumming, Elaine Cumming Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Ian Cumming, Ian Cumming Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Laura Edell Laura Edell Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse, New Y…
Social Aspects of Aging
Old People in Three Industrial Societies
Systems of Social Regulation
Systems of Social Regulation
Another Look at Status Integration and Suicide
Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)