Kenneth D Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 1468638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth D Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth D |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 206 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Education to Work Transitions: How the Old Middle Went Missing and Why the New Middle Remains Elusive
Middling youth were centre stage in research on school-to-work transitions from the early-20th century up to and throughout the 1980s. Since then they have been overshadowed by sociological attention to the young unemployed/NEETs on the one side, and university students and graduates on the other. Simultaneously, economists have been crowding out sociologists in the study of education-to-work transitions, especially in the middle ground. However,…
Youth Culture, Postmodernism, and Social Divisions: An Exploration of Activities, Restrictions, and Expenditures in the Leisure of Spanish University Students
The aim of this research was to establish whether there are class differences in the leisure patterns of university students in Southern Spain. Social class was operationalized using three indices that combined cultural and economic factors: family sociocultural status (FSCS), family economic level (FEL), and family socioeconomic status (FSES). The results show that there were no important differences in the frequency of leisure activities betwee…
The Role of Children in the Migration Decisions of Rural Chinese Women
This paper investigates the role that children play in the migration decisions of Chinese women. The presence of children of various ages is hypothesized to affect the timing of migration, the length of migration, and the nature of migration in terms of who goes along. In addition, we also investigate whether the sex of the children affects migration decisions. Results indicate that whether one's husband ever migrated has a positive effect on mig…
The Impact of Circular Migration on the Position of Married Women in Rural China
This study examines the impact of migration on women's positions in Chinese rural households. A number of studies have found that rural Chinese migrant women experience more autonomy and freedom in urban areas than they would at home. But do these experiences carry over into marriage when they return to rural areas? Using a survey of more than 3, 000 married, rural women in Anhui and Sichuan provinces and controlling for potential endogeneity of …
The Leisure Industries
Introduction Voluntary Associations The Public Sector Tourism Sport: Origins and Development Sport: Commercial Inroads Events The Media and Popular Culture The Media: Recent Developments Hospitality Gambling The Arts Leisure Policies Bibliography Index
Patterns of Temporary Labor Migration of Rural Women from Anhui and Sichuan
Fortune, Risk, and Remittances: An Application of Option Theory to Participation in Village-Based Migration Networks
Fortune and Risk are contending conceptions of the role of chance in the universe. From Chance ... there issues both "hazard" and "opportunity"... The conception of Fortune is founded on the possibility of exercising some measure of choice over the outcomes one will accept from Chance. Paul A. David, 1974 Altruism, insurance, and investment are three potential motives for migrant remittances that have been explored in the literature. The model de…
Female Labor Migrants to Shanghai: Temporary “Floaters” or Potential Settlers
Using data on 54,373 migrants from the Fifth Sampling Survey of the Floating Population of Shanghai, this article isolates a group of 32,967 rural labor migrants who hold rural household registrations and whose previous occupations were in agriculture, and focuses on the women among them. The demographic and occupational characteristics of these 9,124 women are described, demonstrating that migration to Shanghai is a highly gendered process, with…
The Impact of Leisure on Society
This paper identifies the long-term consequences of the growth of leisure in modern societies. Up to now, our 'knowledge' about the effects of leisure has consisted largely of truisms and ideologically-loaded assertions. It is argued that paying more systematic attention to the 'effects of leisure, rather than being pre-occupied with how leisure is 'affected by', will relocate and enhance the status of leisure studies within the contemporary soci…
The Floating Population of Shanghai in the Mid-1990s
The purpose of this paper is to profile the floating population of China's largest city, Shanghai, based upon one of the most representative data sets available, and to estimate the relative size and characteristics of the major groups of this migrant population. The data permit separation of rural labor migrants from other categories of the floating population such as students, tourists, relatives on social visits, and business people from outsi…
Traders and Mafiosi: The Young Self-Employed in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine
Based on interviews during 1996 with 150 self-employed young people in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine, the young entrepreneurs' backgrounds, careers and ways of doing business are analysed. The young people were overwhelmingly male, and were mostly well educated and from high-status families compared with the populations from which they were drawn. Most had started in business by trading, simply buying and selling, but many had subsequently branche…
Why Old Questions are the Right Response to New Challenges: The Sociology of Leisure in the 1990s
It is argued that, contrary to much current opinion within and outside the discipline, the sociology of leisure is a successful enterprise whose current problems arise from success rather than failure. The success of the project can be seen in the reliable methods of investigation, and the robust answers that have been delivered to all the basic questions about the role of leisure in modern societies. These questions are: how much leisure do peop…
China's “Tidal Wave” of Migrant Labor: What Can we Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States
The purpose of this article is to place Chinese labor migration from agriculture within the context of the literature on labor mobility in developing countries by comparing it to undocumented Mexican migration to the United States. The similarities fall within three general areas: the migration process, the economic and social position of migrants at their destination, and the agrarian structure and process of agricultural development that has pe…
China's "Tidal Wave" of Migrant Labor: What Can We Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States
Kenneth D. Roberts, China's "Tidal Wave" of Migrant Labor: What Can We Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States?, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 249-293
Young People, Schools, Sport and Government Policies
This paper compares the policies and assumptions in Sport: Raising the Game, with the findings of three recent national surveys. These show, contrary to the assumptions in the government policy statement, that England's schools have been increasing, not cutting back on their sports teaching and facilities, and that young people are now playing more sport in and out of school than in earlier decades. Also, the drop‐out rate in late‐adolescence has…
Youth Cultures and Sport: The Success of School and Community Sport Provisions in Britain
Class, State, and Revolution in Central America: Nicaragua and El Salvador Compared
Models of revolutionary behavior in Central America are developed that rely initially on the distribution of landholdings. The scarcity of arable land—as in El Salvador, with its high population density—is suggested to result in high inequality, acute class polarization, and class-based redistributive revolutionary movements. A lesser degree of land scarcity, as in Nicaragua, should lead to a diminished extent of inequality, less acute class pola…
Youth and Leisure
Youth unemployment: An old problem or a new life-style
This paper draws on the findings from 551 interviews among 16–20-year-olds from high unemployment areas in Liverpool, London, Manchester and Wolverhampton. It argues that theories about responses to unemployment, derived from the experiences of earlier generations, cannot be reconciled with the behaviour and attitudes of contemporary youth. To make sense of current developments, and in particular to understand the relevance of recreation in an ag…
Agrarian Structure and Labor Mobility in Rural Mexico
This article examines the economic that affect labor allocation of rural landholding households in four areas of Mexico. The original research objective was considerably narrower, focusing on the push factors causing illegal migration to the United States. However, it soon became apparent that restricting the analysis to US migration would make it impossible to distinguish among that cause members of households to work off-farm in general, and th…
The Pineal Gland and Stress: Effect of Pineal Stalk Section on the Plasma Corticosteroid Response to Cold in Rabbits
To investigate the role of the pineal gland on plasma corticosteroid elevation during stress, a pineal stalk section was performed in rabbits implanted with a carotid cannula, while a comparable sham operation was carried out in a control group ( n = 8) similarly implanted. Six days after the surgery, the rabbits were exposed to a cold environment for 2 hr. Blood was withdrawn periodically throughout the 2 hr. of cold stress and for an additional…
Are White-Collar Trade Unionists Different
This paper, based on a broader investigation into class imagery, examines the attitudes of white- and blue-collar workers to certain aspects of trade unionism. The authors conclude that there are basic similarities in the attitudes of both groups of workers and that the differences that do exist may have been exaggerated by previous writers. In particular, the authors question the validity of the distinction between white-collar individualistic a…
The Society of Leisure: Myth and Reality
A definition of the future of leisure in terms of the inexorable growth of institutionalized sports practices is more ideological than theoretical. The practice of leisure has been increasing constantly since the 19th century, and one of its more recent manifestations is the astronomical growth of sports activities. This could of course be only a temporary situation. The author feels that it is too simplistic to base predictions of the emergence …
The Quality of Working Life
Eli Terry and the Connecticut Shelf Clock
China's "Tidal Wave" of Migrant Labor: What Can We Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States
Kenneth D. Roberts, China's "Tidal Wave" of Migrant Labor: What Can We Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States?, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 249-293
Class, State, and Revolution in Central America: Nicaragua and El Salvador Compared
Models of revolutionary behavior in Central America are developed that rely initially on the distribution of landholdings. The scarcity of arable land—as in El Salvador, with its high population density—is suggested to result in high inequality, acute class polarization, and class-based redistributive revolutionary movements. A lesser degree of land scarcity, as in Nicaragua, should lead to a diminished extent of inequality, less acute class pola…
China's “Tidal Wave” of Migrant Labor: What Can we Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States
The purpose of this article is to place Chinese labor migration from agriculture within the context of the literature on labor mobility in developing countries by comparing it to undocumented Mexican migration to the United States. The similarities fall within three general areas: the migration process, the economic and social position of migrants at their destination, and the agrarian structure and process of agricultural development that has pe…
Fortune, Risk, and Remittances: An Application of Option Theory to Participation in Village-Based Migration Networks
Fortune and Risk are contending conceptions of the role of chance in the universe. From Chance ... there issues both "hazard" and "opportunity"... The conception of Fortune is founded on the possibility of exercising some measure of choice over the outcomes one will accept from Chance. Paul A. David, 1974 Altruism, insurance, and investment are three potential motives for migrant remittances that have been explored in the literature. The model de…
Agrarian Structure and Labor Mobility in Rural Mexico
This article examines the economic that affect labor allocation of rural landholding households in four areas of Mexico. The original research objective was considerably narrower, focusing on the push factors causing illegal migration to the United States. However, it soon became apparent that restricting the analysis to US migration would make it impossible to distinguish among that cause members of households to work off-farm in general, and th…
Female Labor Migrants to Shanghai: Temporary “Floaters” or Potential Settlers
Using data on 54,373 migrants from the Fifth Sampling Survey of the Floating Population of Shanghai, this article isolates a group of 32,967 rural labor migrants who hold rural household registrations and whose previous occupations were in agriculture, and focuses on the women among them. The demographic and occupational characteristics of these 9,124 women are described, demonstrating that migration to Shanghai is a highly gendered process, with…
Patterns of Temporary Labor Migration of Rural Women from Anhui and Sichuan
The Impact of Circular Migration on the Position of Married Women in Rural China
This study examines the impact of migration on women's positions in Chinese rural households. A number of studies have found that rural Chinese migrant women experience more autonomy and freedom in urban areas than they would at home. But do these experiences carry over into marriage when they return to rural areas? Using a survey of more than 3, 000 married, rural women in Anhui and Sichuan provinces and controlling for potential endogeneity of …
Young People, Schools, Sport and Government Policies
This paper compares the policies and assumptions in Sport: Raising the Game, with the findings of three recent national surveys. These show, contrary to the assumptions in the government policy statement, that England's schools have been increasing, not cutting back on their sports teaching and facilities, and that young people are now playing more sport in and out of school than in earlier decades. Also, the drop‐out rate in late‐adolescence has…
Youth Cultures and Sport: The Success of School and Community Sport Provisions in Britain
The Role of Children in the Migration Decisions of Rural Chinese Women
This paper investigates the role that children play in the migration decisions of Chinese women. The presence of children of various ages is hypothesized to affect the timing of migration, the length of migration, and the nature of migration in terms of who goes along. In addition, we also investigate whether the sex of the children affects migration decisions. Results indicate that whether one's husband ever migrated has a positive effect on mig…
Education to Work Transitions: How the Old Middle Went Missing and Why the New Middle Remains Elusive
Middling youth were centre stage in research on school-to-work transitions from the early-20th century up to and throughout the 1980s. Since then they have been overshadowed by sociological attention to the young unemployed/NEETs on the one side, and university students and graduates on the other. Simultaneously, economists have been crowding out sociologists in the study of education-to-work transitions, especially in the middle ground. However,…
Youth unemployment: An old problem or a new life-style
This paper draws on the findings from 551 interviews among 16–20-year-olds from high unemployment areas in Liverpool, London, Manchester and Wolverhampton. It argues that theories about responses to unemployment, derived from the experiences of earlier generations, cannot be reconciled with the behaviour and attitudes of contemporary youth. To make sense of current developments, and in particular to understand the relevance of recreation in an ag…
Traders and Mafiosi: The Young Self-Employed in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine
Based on interviews during 1996 with 150 self-employed young people in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine, the young entrepreneurs' backgrounds, careers and ways of doing business are analysed. The young people were overwhelmingly male, and were mostly well educated and from high-status families compared with the populations from which they were drawn. Most had started in business by trading, simply buying and selling, but many had subsequently branche…
Why Old Questions are the Right Response to New Challenges: The Sociology of Leisure in the 1990s
It is argued that, contrary to much current opinion within and outside the discipline, the sociology of leisure is a successful enterprise whose current problems arise from success rather than failure. The success of the project can be seen in the reliable methods of investigation, and the robust answers that have been delivered to all the basic questions about the role of leisure in modern societies. These questions are: how much leisure do peop…
The Society of Leisure: Myth and Reality
A definition of the future of leisure in terms of the inexorable growth of institutionalized sports practices is more ideological than theoretical. The practice of leisure has been increasing constantly since the 19th century, and one of its more recent manifestations is the astronomical growth of sports activities. This could of course be only a temporary situation. The author feels that it is too simplistic to base predictions of the emergence …
The Floating Population of Shanghai in the Mid-1990s
The purpose of this paper is to profile the floating population of China's largest city, Shanghai, based upon one of the most representative data sets available, and to estimate the relative size and characteristics of the major groups of this migrant population. The data permit separation of rural labor migrants from other categories of the floating population such as students, tourists, relatives on social visits, and business people from outsi…
British Plane Makers from 1700
Planemakers and Other Edge Tool Enterprises in New York State in the Nineteenth Century
The Contributions of Joseph Ives to Connecticut Clock Technology, 1810-1862
Eli Terry and the Connecticut Shelf Clock
Wooden Planes in 19th-Century America
Sport and Social Order: Contributions to the Sociology of Sport
Are White-Collar Trade Unionists Different
This paper, based on a broader investigation into class imagery, examines the attitudes of white- and blue-collar workers to certain aspects of trade unionism. The authors conclude that there are basic similarities in the attitudes of both groups of workers and that the differences that do exist may have been exaggerated by previous writers. In particular, the authors question the validity of the distinction between white-collar individualistic a…
The Society of Leisure: Myth and Reality
A definition of the future of leisure in terms of the inexorable growth of institutionalized sports practices is more ideological than theoretical. The practice of leisure has been increasing constantly since the 19th century, and one of its more recent manifestations is the astronomical growth of sports activities. This could of course be only a temporary situation. The author feels that it is too simplistic to base predictions of the emergence …
The Quality of Working Life
The Pineal Gland and Stress: Effect of Pineal Stalk Section on the Plasma Corticosteroid Response to Cold in Rabbits
To investigate the role of the pineal gland on plasma corticosteroid elevation during stress, a pineal stalk section was performed in rabbits implanted with a carotid cannula, while a comparable sham operation was carried out in a control group ( n = 8) similarly implanted. Six days after the surgery, the rabbits were exposed to a cold environment for 2 hr. Blood was withdrawn periodically throughout the 2 hr. of cold stress and for an additional…
Youth unemployment: An old problem or a new life-style
This paper draws on the findings from 551 interviews among 16–20-year-olds from high unemployment areas in Liverpool, London, Manchester and Wolverhampton. It argues that theories about responses to unemployment, derived from the experiences of earlier generations, cannot be reconciled with the behaviour and attitudes of contemporary youth. To make sense of current developments, and in particular to understand the relevance of recreation in an ag…
Agrarian Structure and Labor Mobility in Rural Mexico
This article examines the economic that affect labor allocation of rural landholding households in four areas of Mexico. The original research objective was considerably narrower, focusing on the push factors causing illegal migration to the United States. However, it soon became apparent that restricting the analysis to US migration would make it impossible to distinguish among that cause members of households to work off-farm in general, and th…
Youth and Leisure
Class, State, and Revolution in Central America: Nicaragua and El Salvador Compared
Models of revolutionary behavior in Central America are developed that rely initially on the distribution of landholdings. The scarcity of arable land—as in El Salvador, with its high population density—is suggested to result in high inequality, acute class polarization, and class-based redistributive revolutionary movements. A lesser degree of land scarcity, as in Nicaragua, should lead to a diminished extent of inequality, less acute class pola…
Young People, Schools, Sport and Government Policies
This paper compares the policies and assumptions in Sport: Raising the Game, with the findings of three recent national surveys. These show, contrary to the assumptions in the government policy statement, that England's schools have been increasing, not cutting back on their sports teaching and facilities, and that young people are now playing more sport in and out of school than in earlier decades. Also, the drop‐out rate in late‐adolescence has…
Youth Cultures and Sport: The Success of School and Community Sport Provisions in Britain
Why Old Questions are the Right Response to New Challenges: The Sociology of Leisure in the 1990s
It is argued that, contrary to much current opinion within and outside the discipline, the sociology of leisure is a successful enterprise whose current problems arise from success rather than failure. The success of the project can be seen in the reliable methods of investigation, and the robust answers that have been delivered to all the basic questions about the role of leisure in modern societies. These questions are: how much leisure do peop…
China's “Tidal Wave” of Migrant Labor: What Can we Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States
The purpose of this article is to place Chinese labor migration from agriculture within the context of the literature on labor mobility in developing countries by comparing it to undocumented Mexican migration to the United States. The similarities fall within three general areas: the migration process, the economic and social position of migrants at their destination, and the agrarian structure and process of agricultural development that has pe…
China's "Tidal Wave" of Migrant Labor: What Can We Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States
Kenneth D. Roberts, China's "Tidal Wave" of Migrant Labor: What Can We Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States?, The International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 249-293
Traders and Mafiosi: The Young Self-Employed in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine
Based on interviews during 1996 with 150 self-employed young people in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine, the young entrepreneurs' backgrounds, careers and ways of doing business are analysed. The young people were overwhelmingly male, and were mostly well educated and from high-status families compared with the populations from which they were drawn. Most had started in business by trading, simply buying and selling, but many had subsequently branche…
The Floating Population of Shanghai in the Mid-1990s
The purpose of this paper is to profile the floating population of China's largest city, Shanghai, based upon one of the most representative data sets available, and to estimate the relative size and characteristics of the major groups of this migrant population. The data permit separation of rural labor migrants from other categories of the floating population such as students, tourists, relatives on social visits, and business people from outsi…
The Impact of Leisure on Society
This paper identifies the long-term consequences of the growth of leisure in modern societies. Up to now, our 'knowledge' about the effects of leisure has consisted largely of truisms and ideologically-loaded assertions. It is argued that paying more systematic attention to the 'effects of leisure, rather than being pre-occupied with how leisure is 'affected by', will relocate and enhance the status of leisure studies within the contemporary soci…
Female Labor Migrants to Shanghai: Temporary “Floaters” or Potential Settlers
Using data on 54,373 migrants from the Fifth Sampling Survey of the Floating Population of Shanghai, this article isolates a group of 32,967 rural labor migrants who hold rural household registrations and whose previous occupations were in agriculture, and focuses on the women among them. The demographic and occupational characteristics of these 9,124 women are described, demonstrating that migration to Shanghai is a highly gendered process, with…
Fortune, Risk, and Remittances: An Application of Option Theory to Participation in Village-Based Migration Networks
Fortune and Risk are contending conceptions of the role of chance in the universe. From Chance ... there issues both "hazard" and "opportunity"... The conception of Fortune is founded on the possibility of exercising some measure of choice over the outcomes one will accept from Chance. Paul A. David, 1974 Altruism, insurance, and investment are three potential motives for migrant remittances that have been explored in the literature. The model de…
The Leisure Industries
Introduction Voluntary Associations The Public Sector Tourism Sport: Origins and Development Sport: Commercial Inroads Events The Media and Popular Culture The Media: Recent Developments Hospitality Gambling The Arts Leisure Policies Bibliography Index
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Demography (8 works) · Geography (8 works)