William Rau
Biographic Data
| ID | 174617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Rau |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Rau |
| SIGNATURE | RAU W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Response: To Replicate or Not to Replicate: Is That Schuman's Question?
U chuman raises a series of particulars concerning our investigation of students' study hours and grades, particulars that boil down to one central issue: Who has a better framework for examining this issue-Schuman, Walsh, Olson, and Etheridge (1 985) or Rau and Durand (2000)? He wonders why we (Rau and Durand) did not more closely replicate their study and why we altered without explanation some of their key questions. After careful consideratio…
The Academic Ethic and College Grades: Does Hard Work Help Students to 'Make the Grade
Most scholars and teachers accept, as part of the natural order of the universe, a strong relationship between study efforts and students' academic performance. Yet, the only systematic investigation of this relationship, a 12-year project at the University of Michigan, repeatedly found little to no correlation between hours studied and grades. The study presented here replicated parts of this project but did so with a different conceptualization…
Sexual harassment in the heartland? Community opinion on the EEOC suit against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America
The number of sexual harassment cases filed annually with the EEOC has more than doubled, from 6000 in 1990 to over 15,000 in 1996, and monetary settlements reached through the EEOC have risen from $7.7 million in 1990 to $27 million in 1996. This article reports the results of a survey of community responses to the sexual harassment suit filed by the EEOC against the Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturer of America (MMMA), plant in Normal, Illinois. Eig…
The Chicago School Reforms: Are They Working
The Chicago school reforms have received significant national attention due to their sweeping, radical nature. Growing out of state legislation in 1988 and 1995, the reforms encompass a powerful bottom-up/top-down strategy that provides multiple avenues for initiating building-level changes in teaching and learning. We offer a provisional answer concerning the effects of these reforms by comparing the 1993–1998 performance of Chicago's grammar sc…
An Interview with Kathleen McKinney
The Good Sociology Departments: Will We Ever Find Them? Will We Even Try
Sociology in the 1990s
Humanizing the College Classroom: Collaborative Learning and Social Organization among Students
We show how to use collaborative learninggroups (CLGs) during scheduled class periods to facilitate students' learning. First we discuss faculty members'misgivings about CLGs. Some of these may be related to the human relations school, which led managers to believe that they could exploit workers' informal ties to increase productivity. Sociologists criticized the manipulative tendencies of this school, but critics may have turned the discipline …
Evaluating Ph.D. sociology programs: Theoretical, methodological and policy implications
On the Unfinished Work of Connecting Problems to Solutions: Some Thoughts on Bowker and Gamson
We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the thoughtful comments of Bowker and Gamson. Their constructive suggestions for educational reform offer us an opportunity to clarify our own position. We developed a theoretical and empirical statement on the current structures and processes that shape undergraduate education in the United States. We are grateful to learn that Bowker and Gamson did not find fault with our conceptual framework or suppo…
The Organized Contradictions of Academe: Barriers Facing the Next Academic Revolution
this state of affairs grows out of a number of contradictions that can be linked to the simultaneous bureaucratization and professionalization of American academe. We trace these contradictions from the interorganizational level to the day-to-day realities of the classroom. These contradictions are highlighted in a general systems model which points out the need for a coordinated set of changes in both the bureaucratic and the professional sphere…
Industrialization and World Inequality: The Transformation of the Division of Labor in 59 Nations, 1960-1981
Using smallest space analysis we derive levels, paths, and rates of industrialization from the labor force distributions of 59 nations. Two smallest space dimensions are necessary to represent patterns of labor force change. The first reflects the overall level of industrialization; the second reveals a trade-off between the size of the manufacturing versus service sectors for nations at comparable levels of industrialization. After controlling f…
Public Opinion about Property Distribution at Death
No abstract available for this article
Tacit Convention Two: A Disquisition on Smith
The Tacit Conventions of the Modernity School: An Analysis of Key Assumptions
Nerlove, Marc and S. James Press 1973 Univariate and Multivariate Log-Linear and Logistic Models. Santa Monica: Rand. Newton, George D. and Franklin E. Zimring 1968 Firearms and Violence in American Life. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. O'Connor, James F. and Alan J. Lizotte 1978 'southern subculture of violence' thesis and patterns of gun ownership. Social 25:420-9. Palmer, Jan and Paul Carlson 1976 Problems with the use of re…
Public Versus Statutory Choice of Heirs: A Study of Public Attitudes about Property Distribution at Death
Intestate succession statutes should reflect the distributive preferences of intestate decendents. This telephone survey of 750 persons living in Alabama, California, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Texas supplements prior will studies and provides new insights concerning public attitudes about property distribution at death. Two other important findings of this study suggest that a modern intestacy statute should provide that (1) the surviving spouse i…
Sociology in the 1990s
Humanizing the College Classroom: Collaborative Learning and Social Organization among Students
We show how to use collaborative learninggroups (CLGs) during scheduled class periods to facilitate students' learning. First we discuss faculty members'misgivings about CLGs. Some of these may be related to the human relations school, which led managers to believe that they could exploit workers' informal ties to increase productivity. Sociologists criticized the manipulative tendencies of this school, but critics may have turned the discipline …
The Academic Ethic and College Grades: Does Hard Work Help Students to 'Make the Grade
Most scholars and teachers accept, as part of the natural order of the universe, a strong relationship between study efforts and students' academic performance. Yet, the only systematic investigation of this relationship, a 12-year project at the University of Michigan, repeatedly found little to no correlation between hours studied and grades. The study presented here replicated parts of this project but did so with a different conceptualization…
The Organized Contradictions of Academe: Barriers Facing the Next Academic Revolution
this state of affairs grows out of a number of contradictions that can be linked to the simultaneous bureaucratization and professionalization of American academe. We trace these contradictions from the interorganizational level to the day-to-day realities of the classroom. These contradictions are highlighted in a general systems model which points out the need for a coordinated set of changes in both the bureaucratic and the professional sphere…
Industrialization and World Inequality: The Transformation of the Division of Labor in 59 Nations, 1960-1981
Using smallest space analysis we derive levels, paths, and rates of industrialization from the labor force distributions of 59 nations. Two smallest space dimensions are necessary to represent patterns of labor force change. The first reflects the overall level of industrialization; the second reveals a trade-off between the size of the manufacturing versus service sectors for nations at comparable levels of industrialization. After controlling f…
The Tacit Conventions of the Modernity School: An Analysis of Key Assumptions
Nerlove, Marc and S. James Press 1973 Univariate and Multivariate Log-Linear and Logistic Models. Santa Monica: Rand. Newton, George D. and Franklin E. Zimring 1968 Firearms and Violence in American Life. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. O'Connor, James F. and Alan J. Lizotte 1978 'southern subculture of violence' thesis and patterns of gun ownership. Social 25:420-9. Palmer, Jan and Paul Carlson 1976 Problems with the use of re…
Evaluating Ph.D. sociology programs: Theoretical, methodological and policy implications
The Good Sociology Departments: Will We Ever Find Them? Will We Even Try
On the Unfinished Work of Connecting Problems to Solutions: Some Thoughts on Bowker and Gamson
We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the thoughtful comments of Bowker and Gamson. Their constructive suggestions for educational reform offer us an opportunity to clarify our own position. We developed a theoretical and empirical statement on the current structures and processes that shape undergraduate education in the United States. We are grateful to learn that Bowker and Gamson did not find fault with our conceptual framework or suppo…
Public Opinion about Property Distribution at Death
No abstract available for this article
An Interview with Kathleen McKinney
Public Versus Statutory Choice of Heirs: A Study of Public Attitudes about Property Distribution at Death
Intestate succession statutes should reflect the distributive preferences of intestate decendents. This telephone survey of 750 persons living in Alabama, California, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Texas supplements prior will studies and provides new insights concerning public attitudes about property distribution at death. Two other important findings of this study suggest that a modern intestacy statute should provide that (1) the surviving spouse i…
The Tacit Conventions of the Modernity School: An Analysis of Key Assumptions
Nerlove, Marc and S. James Press 1973 Univariate and Multivariate Log-Linear and Logistic Models. Santa Monica: Rand. Newton, George D. and Franklin E. Zimring 1968 Firearms and Violence in American Life. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. O'Connor, James F. and Alan J. Lizotte 1978 'southern subculture of violence' thesis and patterns of gun ownership. Social 25:420-9. Palmer, Jan and Paul Carlson 1976 Problems with the use of re…
Public Versus Statutory Choice of Heirs: A Study of Public Attitudes about Property Distribution at Death
Intestate succession statutes should reflect the distributive preferences of intestate decendents. This telephone survey of 750 persons living in Alabama, California, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Texas supplements prior will studies and provides new insights concerning public attitudes about property distribution at death. Two other important findings of this study suggest that a modern intestacy statute should provide that (1) the surviving spouse i…
Public Opinion about Property Distribution at Death
No abstract available for this article
Tacit Convention Two: A Disquisition on Smith
Industrialization and World Inequality: The Transformation of the Division of Labor in 59 Nations, 1960-1981
Using smallest space analysis we derive levels, paths, and rates of industrialization from the labor force distributions of 59 nations. Two smallest space dimensions are necessary to represent patterns of labor force change. The first reflects the overall level of industrialization; the second reveals a trade-off between the size of the manufacturing versus service sectors for nations at comparable levels of industrialization. After controlling f…
On the Unfinished Work of Connecting Problems to Solutions: Some Thoughts on Bowker and Gamson
We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the thoughtful comments of Bowker and Gamson. Their constructive suggestions for educational reform offer us an opportunity to clarify our own position. We developed a theoretical and empirical statement on the current structures and processes that shape undergraduate education in the United States. We are grateful to learn that Bowker and Gamson did not find fault with our conceptual framework or suppo…
The Organized Contradictions of Academe: Barriers Facing the Next Academic Revolution
this state of affairs grows out of a number of contradictions that can be linked to the simultaneous bureaucratization and professionalization of American academe. We trace these contradictions from the interorganizational level to the day-to-day realities of the classroom. These contradictions are highlighted in a general systems model which points out the need for a coordinated set of changes in both the bureaucratic and the professional sphere…
Humanizing the College Classroom: Collaborative Learning and Social Organization among Students
We show how to use collaborative learninggroups (CLGs) during scheduled class periods to facilitate students' learning. First we discuss faculty members'misgivings about CLGs. Some of these may be related to the human relations school, which led managers to believe that they could exploit workers' informal ties to increase productivity. Sociologists criticized the manipulative tendencies of this school, but critics may have turned the discipline …
Evaluating Ph.D. sociology programs: Theoretical, methodological and policy implications
The Good Sociology Departments: Will We Ever Find Them? Will We Even Try
Sociology in the 1990s
An Interview with Kathleen McKinney
Sexual harassment in the heartland? Community opinion on the EEOC suit against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America
The number of sexual harassment cases filed annually with the EEOC has more than doubled, from 6000 in 1990 to over 15,000 in 1996, and monetary settlements reached through the EEOC have risen from $7.7 million in 1990 to $27 million in 1996. This article reports the results of a survey of community responses to the sexual harassment suit filed by the EEOC against the Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturer of America (MMMA), plant in Normal, Illinois. Eig…
The Chicago School Reforms: Are They Working
The Chicago school reforms have received significant national attention due to their sweeping, radical nature. Growing out of state legislation in 1988 and 1995, the reforms encompass a powerful bottom-up/top-down strategy that provides multiple avenues for initiating building-level changes in teaching and learning. We offer a provisional answer concerning the effects of these reforms by comparing the 1993–1998 performance of Chicago's grammar sc…
The Academic Ethic and College Grades: Does Hard Work Help Students to 'Make the Grade
Most scholars and teachers accept, as part of the natural order of the universe, a strong relationship between study efforts and students' academic performance. Yet, the only systematic investigation of this relationship, a 12-year project at the University of Michigan, repeatedly found little to no correlation between hours studied and grades. The study presented here replicated parts of this project but did so with a different conceptualization…
Response: To Replicate or Not to Replicate: Is That Schuman's Question?
U chuman raises a series of particulars concerning our investigation of students' study hours and grades, particulars that boil down to one central issue: Who has a better framework for examining this issue-Schuman, Walsh, Olson, and Etheridge (1 985) or Rau and Durand (2000)? He wonders why we (Rau and Durand) did not more closely replicate their study and why we altered without explanation some of their key questions. After careful consideratio…
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