Russell K Schutt
Biographic Data
| ID | 147830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell K Schutt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell K |
| FAMILY NAME | Schutt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUTT R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2569-6086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Diminished mental well-being in the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of infection risk, social disconnection, and income loss at the individual and neighborhood levels
Self-reported decline in mental well-being during the pandemic was associated with less social connection. • Residents in neighborhoods with a faster return to physical mobility experienced less decline in mental well-being. • Decline in mental well-being was not independently related to income decline. • Decline in mental well-being was not related to neighborhood-level risk of COVID-19 infection. • Persons of color reported less decline in ment…
Explaining Service Use and Residential Stability in Supported Housing: Problems, Preferences, Peers
BACKGROUND: The behavioral model of health service use identified health needs, service preferences (predispositions), and service availability (enabling factors) as important predictors, but research has not conceptualized consistently each type of influence nor identified their separate effects on use of substance abuse and mental health services or their value in predicting service outcomes. OBJECTIVES: To test hypotheses predicting use of sub…
Sociology and evolutionary biology: A troubled past, a promising future
The New Evolutionary Sociology offers a comprehensive review of the history of evolutionary analysis in sociology that demonstrates its present value ‘once old biases and prejudices are mitigated and, eventually, eliminated’ (p. 14). In the book’s first part, the authors highlight the prominence of evolution in the theorizing of sociology’s founders and the reaction against this approach when it was used to support ethnocentrism, racism, and fasc…
Biology and American Sociology, Part II: Developing a Unique Evolutionary Sociology
Impact of Peer Specialist Services on Residential Stability and Behavioral Health Status Among Formerly Homeless Veterans With Cooccurring Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the impacts of peer specialists on housing stability, substance abuse, and mental health status for previously homeless Veterans with cooccurring mental health issues and substance abuse. METHODS: Veterans living in the US Housing and Urban Development-Veterans Administration Supported Housing (HUD-VASH) program were randomized to peer specialist services that worked independently from HUD-VASH case managers (ie, not…
Engaging Youth to Reduce Depression and Risky Behaviors: Challenges of Empowerment
Biology and American Sociology, Part I: The Rise of Evolutionary Thinking, its Rejection, and Potential Resurrection
The healthy immigrant effect: A Test of Competing Explanations in a Low Income Population
Evidence in support of the healthy immigrant effect (HIE) has been mixed and explanations for it divergent. Research on the HIE is reviewed and seven explanatory hypotheses are presented. Support for these hypotheses is evaluated with data collected in a phone survey of patients in a Massachusetts public health program for economically disadvantaged persons. Variation in physical health, depression, and smoking reflect the HIE, but the explanatio…
Secondary Data Analysis
Secondary data analysis is the method of using pre‐existing data to answer a new research question. Pre‐existing data useful to social scientists for secondary analyses may be generated by social science surveys, by government agencies and institutions at all levels, both national and international, and by private for‐profit and nonprofit organizations. Data collected for one purpose and then reanalyzed by the same researcher or research team to …
Who cares? Case management and patient navigation in a public health programme
Public health policy goals of engaging underserved communities and countries more effectively, with a diverse workforce, challenge adherence to a traditional health-care delivery model. Mixed methods were used to compare patient navigators and case managers after reorganising a traditional public health programme in a US state to improve services with patient navigators and holistic care. Findings indicate patient navigators’ value for diversifyi…
Health Care Satisfaction: Effects of Immigration, Acculturation, Language
General Social Survey
The National Opinion Research Corporation (NORC) at the University of Chicago initiated the General Social Survey (GSS), which is funded by the National Science Foundation's Sociology Program and other sources, to allow analysis of social trends by supplying replicated longitudinal measures over as many as 42 years (1972–2014) and to provide social scientists and their students with ready access to high quality data and the opportunity to propose…
Quantitative Methods
This chapter contains sections titled: History and Philosophy Goals and Strategies Specific Quantitative Methods Conclusions References
At Home on the Street: People, Poverty and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness
Training Community Health Workers About Cancer Clinical Trials
Influences on Job Retention Among Homeless Persons with Substance Abuse or Psychiatric Disabilities
Job retention is an important psychosocial rehabilitation goal, but one that is not often achieved. We investigate facilitators of and barriers to employment retention among homeless individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse diagnoses who were re-interviewed eight or more years after participating in a traditional vocational rehabilitation program. Most program graduates who maintained employment had secured social support from a variety o…
Empowerment and peer support: Structure and process of self‐help in a consumer‐run center for individuals with mental illness
Personal empowerment is a guiding philosophy of many mental health service programs, but there has been little empirical research on the empowerment process in these programs. The authors examine social processes and consumer orientations within a self‐help drop‐in center for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, using intensive interviews and focus groups. They investigate motives for consumer involvement, bases for program retention, and p…
Secondary Data Analysis
Secondary data analysis is the method of using preexisting data in a different way or to answer a different research question than that intended by those who collected the data. The work of the secondary data analyst begins where the survey, experiment, or qualitative method that generates the data ends. The most common sources of data used in secondary analyses are social science surveys and data collected by government agencies, often with surv…
Society and Its Metaphors: Language, Social Theory, and Social Structure
Shelterization in Theory and Practice
Investigating the social world: The Process and Practice of Research
SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND SOCIAL RESEARCH LEARNING ABOUT THE SOCIAL WORLD THE SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH SOCIAL RESEARCH GOALS STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH CONCLUSIONS Chapter 2. THE PROCESS AND PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH SOCIAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS SOCIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS SOCIAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES SOCIAL RESEARCH ETHICS SOCIAL RESEARCH PROPOSALS, PART I CONCLUSIONS Chapter 3. THEORIES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH THE ORIGINS…
Assessing homeless mentally ill persons for permanent housing: Screening for safety
Distress, Suicidal Thoughts, and Social Support Among Homeless Adults
Influences on psychological distress and suicidal thoughts are evaluated with a sample of 218 sheltered homeless adults. Levels of distress and suicidal thoughts are much higher than in the general population, and are comparable to those found by Rossi (1989). Perceived social support lessens distress and suicidal thoughts directly and also buffers homeless persons from the distress associated with traumatic experiences. There is little indicatio…
Homeless Persons' Interest in Basic and Health Services: The Role of Absolute, Relative, and Repressed Needs
This study describes and explains the interest of homeless persons in housing, economic, and health-related services with intake interview data collected by a large urban shelter for single adults. Shelter guests were most interested in assistance with housing, job, and economic benefits, rather than health services. Three explanations of variation in service interests are identified: the "absolute needs" explanation expects service interests to …
A Soft Approach to Research Methods: "Lessons to Accompany Baker's "Doing Social Research
Race and Juvenile Justice Processing in Court and Police Agencies
Studies of race bias in the juvenile justice system have yielded contradictory and inconclusive findings. The diversity of findings, though due in part to inadequacies in the methods used in pervious studies, is also attributable in part to the differential possibilities for bias in different settings. This paper develops and tests hypotheses that specify two conditions which affect the likelihood of bias: the characteristics and procedural const…
At Home on the Street: People, Poverty and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness
General Social Survey
The National Opinion Research Corporation (NORC) at the University of Chicago initiated the General Social Survey (GSS), which is funded by the National Science Foundation's Sociology Program and other sources, to allow analysis of social trends by supplying replicated longitudinal measures over as many as 42 years (1972–2014) and to provide social scientists and their students with ready access to high quality data and the opportunity to propose…
Distress, Suicidal Thoughts, and Social Support Among Homeless Adults
Influences on psychological distress and suicidal thoughts are evaluated with a sample of 218 sheltered homeless adults. Levels of distress and suicidal thoughts are much higher than in the general population, and are comparable to those found by Rossi (1989). Perceived social support lessens distress and suicidal thoughts directly and also buffers homeless persons from the distress associated with traumatic experiences. There is little indicatio…
Goals and Means for Research Methods Courses
an identification of the central issues in social science research, these goals range from some that provide students with an understanding of the centralproblems in all scientific investigations, to others that introduce students to the specific problems sociologists confront in designing research projects. Following Goldsmid and Wilson (1981), operational statements of the goals arepresented, and means for their achievement are discussed. Parti…
Models of Militancy: Support for Strikes and Work Actions among Public Employees
This paper examines support for militant action among the employees of a public assistance agency in which negotiations were occurring over a first contract. A questionnaire survey obtained information on whether employees were willing to strike over various issues during negotiations; whether they would participate in certain work actions, such as sick-outs, in the future; and whether they actually had participated in any work actions during the…
Empowerment and peer support: Structure and process of self‐help in a consumer‐run center for individuals with mental illness
Personal empowerment is a guiding philosophy of many mental health service programs, but there has been little empirical research on the empowerment process in these programs. The authors examine social processes and consumer orientations within a self‐help drop‐in center for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, using intensive interviews and focus groups. They investigate motives for consumer involvement, bases for program retention, and p…
Biology and American Sociology, Part I: The Rise of Evolutionary Thinking, its Rejection, and Potential Resurrection
Biology and American Sociology, Part II: Developing a Unique Evolutionary Sociology
Society and Its Metaphors: Language, Social Theory, and Social Structure
Detention Decisions in Juvenile Cases: JINs, JDs, and Gender
Preadjudicatory detention is used for about one-third of all juvenile offenders (Poulin et al., 1980). A protectionist purpose is often held to justify both the need for discretionary decision making in these cases and the absence of due process protections. In this study, we have included measures of juvenile offenders' socioemotional status with indicators of their legal status and social background in a log-linear analysis of detention decisio…
Recent Research Methods Texts; Means for Achieving Course Goals
The undergraduate research methods course encourages critical examination of the social world, aids understanding of empirical studies, and develops skills essential for actually conducting social research. The importance our discipline attaches to these functions is reflected in the almost universal requirement of methods for sociology majors and in the profusion of undergraduate research methods texts. Given the number of texts, it may be hard …
Assessing homeless mentally ill persons for permanent housing: Screening for safety
Homeless Persons' Interest in Basic and Health Services: The Role of Absolute, Relative, and Repressed Needs
This study describes and explains the interest of homeless persons in housing, economic, and health-related services with intake interview data collected by a large urban shelter for single adults. Shelter guests were most interested in assistance with housing, job, and economic benefits, rather than health services. Three explanations of variation in service interests are identified: the "absolute needs" explanation expects service interests to …
Craft Unions and Minorities: Determinants of Change in Admission Practices
Journal Article Craft Unions and Minorities: Determinants of Change in Admission Practices Get access Russell K. Schutt Russell K. Schutt University of Massachusetts at Boston Correspondence to: Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA 02125. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 34, Issue 4, 1 October 1987, Pages 388–402, https://doi.org/10.2307/8…
Influences on Job Retention Among Homeless Persons with Substance Abuse or Psychiatric Disabilities
Job retention is an important psychosocial rehabilitation goal, but one that is not often achieved. We investigate facilitators of and barriers to employment retention among homeless individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse diagnoses who were re-interviewed eight or more years after participating in a traditional vocational rehabilitation program. Most program graduates who maintained employment had secured social support from a variety o…
Shelterization in Theory and Practice
Models of Militancy: Support for Strikes and Work Actions among Public Employees
This paper examines support for militant action among the employees of a public assistance agency in which negotiations were occurring over a first contract. A questionnaire survey obtained information on whether employees were willing to strike over various issues during negotiations; whether they would participate in certain work actions, such as sick-outs, in the future; and whether they actually had participated in any work actions during the…
Union Organization and Militancy: Conclusions from a Study of the United Mine Workers of America, 1940-1974.Makoto Takamiya
Race and Juvenile Justice Processing in Court and Police Agencies
Studies of race bias in the juvenile justice system have yielded contradictory and inconclusive findings. The diversity of findings, though due in part to inadequacies in the methods used in pervious studies, is also attributable in part to the differential possibilities for bias in different settings. This paper develops and tests hypotheses that specify two conditions which affect the likelihood of bias: the characteristics and procedural const…
Goals and Means for Research Methods Courses
an identification of the central issues in social science research, these goals range from some that provide students with an understanding of the centralproblems in all scientific investigations, to others that introduce students to the specific problems sociologists confront in designing research projects. Following Goldsmid and Wilson (1981), operational statements of the goals arepresented, and means for their achievement are discussed. Parti…
Organization in a Changing Environment: Unionization of Welfare Employees
Recent Research Methods Texts; Means for Achieving Course Goals
The undergraduate research methods course encourages critical examination of the social world, aids understanding of empirical studies, and develops skills essential for actually conducting social research. The importance our discipline attaches to these functions is reflected in the almost universal requirement of methods for sociology majors and in the profusion of undergraduate research methods texts. Given the number of texts, it may be hard …
Craft Unions and Minorities: Determinants of Change in Admission Practices
Journal Article Craft Unions and Minorities: Determinants of Change in Admission Practices Get access Russell K. Schutt Russell K. Schutt University of Massachusetts at Boston Correspondence to: Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA 02125. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 34, Issue 4, 1 October 1987, Pages 388–402, https://doi.org/10.2307/8…
Detention Decisions in Juvenile Cases: JINs, JDs, and Gender
Preadjudicatory detention is used for about one-third of all juvenile offenders (Poulin et al., 1980). A protectionist purpose is often held to justify both the need for discretionary decision making in these cases and the absence of due process protections. In this study, we have included measures of juvenile offenders' socioemotional status with indicators of their legal status and social background in a log-linear analysis of detention decisio…
Organization in a Changing Environment: Unionization of Welfare Employees
Software Reviews: Ex-Sample: An Expert System to Assist in Designing Sampling Plans, Version 1.4 Publisher: The Idea Works, Inc., 100 W. Briarwood, Columbia, MO 65203 (telephone: 314-445-4554) Year of…
EX-SAMPLE uses artificial intelligence techniques to facilitate sample size determination in social and behavioral science research projects. The program encourages systematic attention to the numerous factors that should be but rarely are considered in determining sample size. EX-SAMPLE users simply respond to a series of questions; however, answering these questions still requires substantial methodological sophistication. EX-SAMPLE has limited…
Objectivity versus outrage
Organization in a Changing Environment: Unionization of Welfare Employees
A Soft Approach to Research Methods: "Lessons to Accompany Baker's "Doing Social Research
Homeless Persons' Interest in Basic and Health Services: The Role of Absolute, Relative, and Repressed Needs
This study describes and explains the interest of homeless persons in housing, economic, and health-related services with intake interview data collected by a large urban shelter for single adults. Shelter guests were most interested in assistance with housing, job, and economic benefits, rather than health services. Three explanations of variation in service interests are identified: the "absolute needs" explanation expects service interests to …
Distress, Suicidal Thoughts, and Social Support Among Homeless Adults
Influences on psychological distress and suicidal thoughts are evaluated with a sample of 218 sheltered homeless adults. Levels of distress and suicidal thoughts are much higher than in the general population, and are comparable to those found by Rossi (1989). Perceived social support lessens distress and suicidal thoughts directly and also buffers homeless persons from the distress associated with traumatic experiences. There is little indicatio…
Assessing homeless mentally ill persons for permanent housing: Screening for safety
Investigating the social world: The Process and Practice of Research
SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND SOCIAL RESEARCH LEARNING ABOUT THE SOCIAL WORLD THE SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH SOCIAL RESEARCH GOALS STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH CONCLUSIONS Chapter 2. THE PROCESS AND PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH SOCIAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS SOCIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS SOCIAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES SOCIAL RESEARCH ETHICS SOCIAL RESEARCH PROPOSALS, PART I CONCLUSIONS Chapter 3. THEORIES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH THE ORIGINS…
Shelterization in Theory and Practice
Society and Its Metaphors: Language, Social Theory, and Social Structure
Secondary Data Analysis
Secondary data analysis is the method of using preexisting data in a different way or to answer a different research question than that intended by those who collected the data. The work of the secondary data analyst begins where the survey, experiment, or qualitative method that generates the data ends. The most common sources of data used in secondary analyses are social science surveys and data collected by government agencies, often with surv…
Influences on Job Retention Among Homeless Persons with Substance Abuse or Psychiatric Disabilities
Job retention is an important psychosocial rehabilitation goal, but one that is not often achieved. We investigate facilitators of and barriers to employment retention among homeless individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse diagnoses who were re-interviewed eight or more years after participating in a traditional vocational rehabilitation program. Most program graduates who maintained employment had secured social support from a variety o…
Empowerment and peer support: Structure and process of self‐help in a consumer‐run center for individuals with mental illness
Personal empowerment is a guiding philosophy of many mental health service programs, but there has been little empirical research on the empowerment process in these programs. The authors examine social processes and consumer orientations within a self‐help drop‐in center for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, using intensive interviews and focus groups. They investigate motives for consumer involvement, bases for program retention, and p…
Training Community Health Workers About Cancer Clinical Trials
Quantitative Methods
This chapter contains sections titled: History and Philosophy Goals and Strategies Specific Quantitative Methods Conclusions References
At Home on the Street: People, Poverty and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness
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