Robert S Wei
Biographic Data
| ID | 146243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Wei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Wei |
| SIGNATURE | WEI R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3327-1379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 350 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Institutions and the Person
Retirement, Marriage, and Social Isolation
Robert Fulton focused his attention on the social and emotional consequences of bereavement: the loss of spouse or other pairbond partner. Another kind of relational loss might be considered that can interact with loss of a pairbond partner: loss is of access to one's community as a consequence of a major change in life. Retirement is one such change
Bereaveavement in Literature
A Taxonomy of Relationships
This paper presents a theory of the determinants of relationships that leads to a taxonomy of relationships. In this taxonomy one class of relationships, attachments,- includes relationships that are maintained by the incorporation of an image of the other into an emotional system associated with feelings of security. A second class of relationships, affiliations, includes relationships that are maintained by a sense of alliance based on common i…
Souvenirs sur Everett C. Hughes
À partir des souvenirs de l’auteur et de la série d’entretiens que celui-ci a réalisés avec E. C. Hughes dans les années quatre-vingt, l’article décrit le mode d’enseignement original de Hughes et, notamment, son recours souvent implicite à la généralisation. La seconde partie de l’article explicite l’un des thèmes majeurs de la réflexion de Hughes sur la recherche: la question de l’émancipation du chercheur par rapport à l’univers social dont il…
A scale for predicting quality of recovery following the death of a partner
Narrative accounts of bereaved partners of men with AIDS provided data regarding caregiving, bereavement, and the period immediately following bereavement. The findings of the Harvard Bereavement Study were used to develop the Bereavement Response Scale I (BR-I), containing 21 items within 6 categories. Total scores were correlated with scores from 4 mood measures taken at the time of bereavement and again 12 months following bereavement. A signi…
Remembrance of Everett Hughes
Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies
Drawing on Weiss's thirty years' experience interviewing and teaching others, Learning from Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. The author of many successful books, Dr. Weiss provides examples and running commentary on how each interaction either inhibits or promotes trust and alliance. Used as a reference, handbook, or text, this book is appropriate for novices and professionals
The More Things Change
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships
Framing the Problem A Fresh Construct Theoretical Dimensions Underlying the Sexually Bonded Primary Relationship Elements Within the Relationship Toward a Model of Developing Sexually Mutual Influences Between the Developing Relationship and Its Developing Environment Influences Among Relationships, Children, and Adults The Impact of Women's Work and Occupational Structure Research Models and Observation Plans Prologue to Research and Application
Loss and Recovery
Relationships whose loss triggers grief are termed “relationships of attachment.” These relationships are pair‐bond relationships, parental attachments to children, transference relationships to helpers, and persisting childlike attachments to parents. Because these relationships share significant characteristics, it is proposed that they are developments of a single socio‐emotional system—the attachment system of children. This point of view per…
Having To: The World of One-Parent Families
Principles underlying a manual for parents whose children were killed by a drunk driver
The idea of the therapeutic manual is introduced. Principles are offered for writing material which may foster movement toward recovery among individuals who have experienced traumatic loss. An example of the application of these principles is provided in the form of a booklet for parents of children killed by drunken drivers
On the Current State of the American Family
Bitter, Bitter Tears: Nineteenth-Century Diarists and Twentieth-Century Grief Theories
Jen's place: 27 Min, color, 16-mm film. Made in 1982 by Cineflic. Rental apply, sale $575, from Beacon Films, P. O. Box 575, Norwood, MA 02062
American family revisited: 55 Min, color, video. Made in 1983 by Susan and Alan Raymond. Rental $100, sale $450, from Video Verite, 927 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10021
The Impact of Marital Dissolution on Income and Consumption in Single-Parent Households
A synthetic cohort of separating and divorcing mothers was constructed from respondents in the University of Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Household income, income sources, and food and housing expenditures were examined for the last married year and for five years after marital dissolution. In general, it is shown that income drops precipitously after marital dissolution and remains nearly at its new low level during the period of obs…
Professional Work and Marriage: An East-West Comparison.Marilyn Rueschemeyer
Film Reviews
Going It Alone: The Family Life and Social Situation of the Single Parent
Growing Up a Little Faster: The Experience of Growing Up in a Single‐Parent Household
On the basis of interviews with single parents, and with adolescent children living with single parents, a theory of the structure and functioning of single‐parent households is proposed. The premise of this theory is that the two‐parent household maintains a hierarchy—an echelon structure—that the one‐parent household can forgo. The absence of hierarchy permits the single parent who works full time to share managerial responsibility for the hous…
Who remembers mama: 58 Minutes, color, 1978. Made by Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen Mondell. Rental $75, Purchase $550 (also available in videocassette) from Media Projects, Inc., 5215 Homer, Dalla…
Housing for Single Parents
Marital Separation
The Function and Meaning of Work and the Job
W ITH the increasing complexity and industrialization of society, work for many people has become more and more simply a means toward the end of earning a living. However, we are in danger of over-generalizing this trend and pushing it to its logical conclusion, expecting that working serves only a means function. 1 The present study of the meaning of work among a national sample of employed men indicates that for most men having a job serves oth…
Growing Up a Little Faster: The Experience of Growing Up in a Single‐Parent Household
On the basis of interviews with single parents, and with adolescent children living with single parents, a theory of the structure and functioning of single‐parent households is proposed. The premise of this theory is that the two‐parent household maintains a hierarchy—an echelon structure—that the one‐parent household can forgo. The absence of hierarchy permits the single parent who works full time to share managerial responsibility for the hous…
Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Formulations
The Impact of Marital Dissolution on Income and Consumption in Single-Parent Households
A synthetic cohort of separating and divorcing mothers was constructed from respondents in the University of Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Household income, income sources, and food and housing expenditures were examined for the last married year and for five years after marital dissolution. In general, it is shown that income drops precipitously after marital dissolution and remains nearly at its new low level during the period of obs…
The Fund of Sociability: Relationships with other people are essential and their loss can be traumatic
A Taxonomy of Relationships
This paper presents a theory of the determinants of relationships that leads to a taxonomy of relationships. In this taxonomy one class of relationships, attachments,- includes relationships that are maintained by the incorporation of an image of the other into an emotional system associated with feelings of security. A second class of relationships, affiliations, includes relationships that are maintained by a sense of alliance based on common i…
Interviewing: Its Forms and Functions
The Emotional Impact of Marital Separation
The disruption of marriage regularly produces emotional distress, almost irrespective of the quality of the marriage or of desire for its dissolution. The distress is similar to that described as occurring in children who have lost attachment figures and suggests that similar feelings are present in the separating adults. It also suggests that, although other components of love fade in troubled marriages, attachment persists. Separated individual…
A Method for the Analysis of the Structure of Complex Organizations
ability assist science in a practical way in the solution of operating and policy questions. Likewise, the operation of a limited program of research support and graduate fellowships in the social sciences will provide the Foundation with a concrete body of experience in terms of which the requirements, needs, and accomplishments of the social sciences can be assessed. It is anticipated that experience over the next few years with this type of li…
Processes of Organization
Definitions of Work and Occupation
Definitions of Work and Occupation Get access Robert S. Weiss, Robert S. Weiss Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robert L. Kahn Robert L. Kahn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 8, Issue 2, Autumn 1960, Pages 142–151, https://doi.org/10.2307/799271 Published: 07 August 2014
A scale for predicting quality of recovery following the death of a partner
Narrative accounts of bereaved partners of men with AIDS provided data regarding caregiving, bereavement, and the period immediately following bereavement. The findings of the Harvard Bereavement Study were used to develop the Bereavement Response Scale I (BR-I), containing 21 items within 6 categories. Total scores were correlated with scores from 4 mood measures taken at the time of bereavement and again 12 months following bereavement. A signi…
Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies
Drawing on Weiss's thirty years' experience interviewing and teaching others, Learning from Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. The author of many successful books, Dr. Weiss provides examples and running commentary on how each interaction either inhibits or promotes trust and alliance. Used as a reference, handbook, or text, this book is appropriate for novices and professionals
Loss and Recovery
Relationships whose loss triggers grief are termed “relationships of attachment.” These relationships are pair‐bond relationships, parental attachments to children, transference relationships to helpers, and persisting childlike attachments to parents. Because these relationships share significant characteristics, it is proposed that they are developments of a single socio‐emotional system—the attachment system of children. This point of view per…
Retirement, Marriage, and Social Isolation
Robert Fulton focused his attention on the social and emotional consequences of bereavement: the loss of spouse or other pairbond partner. Another kind of relational loss might be considered that can interact with loss of a pairbond partner: loss is of access to one's community as a consequence of a major change in life. Retirement is one such change
Remembrance of Everett Hughes
The Contributions of an Organization of Single Parents to the Well-Being of Its Members
Institutions and the Person: Essays Presented to Everett C. Hughes
Statistics in Social Research. An Introduction
Statistics in Social Research: An Introduction
Alternative Approaches in the Study of Complex Situations
There seems to be a continuing debate concerning two alternative approaches to the study of complex situations. The debate occurs explicitly or implicitly in discussions of the proper way to study any number of problems; e.g., the proper way to examine the nature of higher educationo,1 ommunity action programs,2 the phenomena of poverty. Sometimes the issue is phrased in terms of the relative merits of quantitative as opposed to qualitative work,…
A Method for the Analysis of the Structure of Complex Organizations
ability assist science in a practical way in the solution of operating and policy questions. Likewise, the operation of a limited program of research support and graduate fellowships in the social sciences will provide the Foundation with a concrete body of experience in terms of which the requirements, needs, and accomplishments of the social sciences can be assessed. It is anticipated that experience over the next few years with this type of li…
The Function and Meaning of Work and the Job
W ITH the increasing complexity and industrialization of society, work for many people has become more and more simply a means toward the end of earning a living. However, we are in danger of over-generalizing this trend and pushing it to its logical conclusion, expecting that working serves only a means function. 1 The present study of the meaning of work among a national sample of employed men indicates that for most men having a job serves oth…
A Structure‐Function Approach to Organization 1
Processes of Organization
Processes of Organization
Social Roles of American Women: Their Contribution to a Sense of Usefulness and Importance
Job Attitudes: Review of Research and Opinion. Frederic Herzberg , Bernard Mausner , Richard O. Peterson , Dora F. Capwell
Definitions of Work and Occupation
Definitions of Work and Occupation Get access Robert S. Weiss, Robert S. Weiss Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robert L. Kahn Robert L. Kahn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 8, Issue 2, Autumn 1960, Pages 142–151, https://doi.org/10.2307/799271 Published: 07 August 2014
A Case Study of High Level Administration in a Large Organization
Some Issues in the Future of Leisure
Journal Article Some Issues in the Future of Leisure Get access Robert S. Weiss, Robert S. Weiss Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar David Riesman David Riesman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 9, Issue 1, Summer 1961, Pages 78–86, https://doi.org/10.2307/799423 Published: 07 August 2014
Interviewing: Its Forms and Functions
Alternative Approaches in the Study of Complex Situations
There seems to be a continuing debate concerning two alternative approaches to the study of complex situations. The debate occurs explicitly or implicitly in discussions of the proper way to study any number of problems; e.g., the proper way to examine the nature of higher educationo,1 ommunity action programs,2 the phenomena of poverty. Sometimes the issue is phrased in terms of the relative merits of quantitative as opposed to qualitative work,…
Planning for diversity and choice
Institutions and the Person: Essays Presented to Everett C. Hughes
The Fund of Sociability: Relationships with other people are essential and their loss can be traumatic
Statistics in Social Research: An Introduction
Theory Construction: From Verbal to Mathematical Formulations
Neurosis in the ordinary family
Statistics in Social Research. An Introduction
Divorce and After
Helping Relationships: Relationships of Clients with Physicians, Social Workers, Priests, and Others
Helping Relationships: Relationships of Clients with Physicians, Social Workers, Priests, and Others
Appeals for help were frequently made to specialists in institutional settings by women living in low-income areas who were raising children by themselves. These appeals often were productive of distress for the women. Appeals for service were responded to by examinations regarding eligibility, bargaining regarding the character of the service, and incidental derogation of the women's worth. Appeals for support and guidance customarily were rejec…
The Contributions of an Organization of Single Parents to the Well-Being of Its Members
Loneliness: The Experience of Emotional and Social Isolation
The First Year of Bereavement
Psychology (42 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Economics (7 works)