D W Britt
Biographic Data
| ID | 20286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D W Britt |
| GIVEN NAMES | D W |
| FAMILY NAME | Britt |
| SIGNATURE | BRITT D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9753-6404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Problem‐Based Learning Approach to Integrating Foreign Language Into Engineering
Problem‐based learning (PBL) is an instructional methodology placing primary emphasis on students solving realistic problems in a team‐oriented environment. Here we discuss using PBL to integrate a language for specific purposes (LSP) track into an undergraduate biological engineering curriculum as a way to prepare students for an engineering career requiring job‐specific foreign language skills. In Part I we review PBL theory and anticipate prob…
Sometimes doing the right thing sucks: Frame combinations and multi-fetal pregnancy reduction decision difficulty
"Remarks on Some Tendencies of the "Vienna Group
In the piece that follows, I interpret a number of memories from my present standpoint. This is convenient, indeed probably unavoidable; but from the outset I would like to avoid giving the impression that the attitudes I now hold were already clearly formulated at the time. Some notions were, however, already present in my consciousness. In the publications I have seen on the Vienna Group, these ideas have been mentioned only in passing, if at a…
Conceptual Modeling as a Toolbox for Grounded Theorists
Conceptual modeling is proposed as a set of analytic procedures that further the grounded theory approach to theory-discovery and development. The compatibility between grounded theory and conceptual modeling is discussed, and data from a short ethnographic study of a hair salon are used to illustrate the roles of conceptual modeling in the early stages of theory discovery. The major focus of conceptual modeling is on three simultaneous, explicit…
A Conceptual Introduction to Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives
Contents: Preface. First Steps, Basic Dilemmas, Gulfs, and Bridge Building. The Big Leap: Carving Situations Up Into Concepts. Sticks and Spaces: Relationships Between Concepts. Elaboration Within the Constraints of an Additive Model. Closing Circles and Uncovering Dynamics: Feedback in Social Life. Conditional and Moderating Relationships: Elaborating the Contexts of Action. Criteria for Evaluating Models. Strategies for Moving From Elaborated t…
Reaching out and making a difference: The context of meaning in a home-based preschool program
Two years in the operation of a local HIPPY (Home Instructional Program for Preschool Youngsters) are examined to highlight the impact of changed context on processes and impacts. Over the two years of operation, the program went from a staff consisting of a program director and paraprofessionals to an augmented staff which included a family support specialist. “Reaching out to families” and “making a difference” in their lives was a strong norm …
Reaching out and making a difference: The context of meaning in a home‐based preschool program
Two years in the operation of a local HIPPY (Home Instructional Program for Preschool Youngsters) are examined to highlight the impact of changed context on processes and impacts. Over the two years of operation, the program went from a staff consisting of a program director and paraprofessionals to an augmented staff which included a family support specialist. “Reaching out to families” and “making a difference” in their lives was a strong norm …
Alcohol Problem Intervention in the Workplace: Employee Assistance Programs and Strategic Alternatives
Preface The Salience of Alcohol Problems in the Work Setting: Introduction and Overview by Paul M. Roman The Social and Organizational Contexts of Alcohol Problems in the Workplace The Impact of Macrosocial Forces on the Distribution of Alcohol Problems in the Workplace by David J. Pittman Employed Adults at Risk for Diminished Self-Control Over Alcohol Use: The Alienated, the Burned Out and the Unchallenged by Douglas A. Parker and Gail C. Farme…
Homicides and race riots
Comparative analysis of American race riots and homicides during the 1960s shows that the presence of large percentages of non-Whites and people living in structural poverty increased the chances of cities' having both collective (race riots) and individual (homicides) violence. Cities in the South had a greater chance of having relatively serious homicide activity than did other U.S. cities but a lesser chance of having serious race riot activit…
Appraisal of life events, future expectations, and self-reported activity-limiting symptoms
This paper presents two analyses relating the subjective experience of life events to self-reported illness using data from a large panel study. First, the effects of improving and worsening life circumstances on illness are compared. Experiencing relatively improved life changes over the past year decreased the tendency to report illness; experiencing relatively worsening life changes did not increase reporting tendencies. Further analysis sugge…
Inequality and Police Use of Deadly Force: An Empirical Assessment of a Conflict Hypothesis
Conflict theorists assume that force or its threat is the fundamental element that holds unequal societies together. Because conflict theorists also hold that the state's monopoly of violence is controlled by those who benefit from inequality, it follows that the control agents of the state should be more likely to use extreme force when economic inequality is most pronounced. This hypothesis was tested with data on the number of killings committ…
Assessing the Linkage of Norms, Environments, and Deviance
Panel data from a study of adolescent drinking practices are used to study the relationship of norms, deviance, and social environments. Using these data, a test is made of contrasting perspectives which differentially emphasize the extent of individual activity in the construction and maintenance of social order. The normative paradigm emphasizes the impact on individual behavior of normative structures and the groups with which individuals have…
Crime Rates and Police Behavior: A Test of Two Hypotheses
Social Class and the Sick Role: Examining the Issue of Mutual Influence
Building on previous work, which suggested that illness symptoms might stabilize into more permanent responses (Scheff, 1966; Szasz, 1961; Dohrenwend and Dohrenwend, 1969), it is argued that there should be a reciprocal relationship between self-reported illness and social class. Data from a national panel study were used to test the hypothesis. Alternative explanationsfor thefinding of a reciprocal relationship were discussed and additional data…
Structural Antecedents of the Shape of Strikes: A Comparative Analysis
Two models purporting to explain variation in strike shape (Shorter and TYlly, 1971; Britt and Galle, 1972) are compared using cross-sectional data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We found that the concentration of workers in larger plants is conducive to shorter, broader, less frequent strikes. More heavily unionized industries tend to be characterized by broader, shorter, more frequent strikes; industries with larger work forces tend to ha…
Industrial Conflict and Unionization
Effects of probability of reinforcement and social stimulus consistency on imitation
The present series of studies evaluated the effects of probability of reinforcement and degree of stimulus consistency on imitation in ambiguous, competitive situations. Three experiments are reported, each addressed to a different specific problem concerning the relationship among these variables and the elimination of alternative explanations for the observed results. In general, the following conclusions emerged: (a) Subjects in ambiguous, com…
New Perspectives on Organization Theory: An Empirical Reconsideration of the Marxian and Classical Analyses
Inequality and Police Use of Deadly Force: An Empirical Assessment of a Conflict Hypothesis
Conflict theorists assume that force or its threat is the fundamental element that holds unequal societies together. Because conflict theorists also hold that the state's monopoly of violence is controlled by those who benefit from inequality, it follows that the control agents of the state should be more likely to use extreme force when economic inequality is most pronounced. This hypothesis was tested with data on the number of killings committ…
Industrial Conflict and Unionization
Conceptual Modeling as a Toolbox for Grounded Theorists
Conceptual modeling is proposed as a set of analytic procedures that further the grounded theory approach to theory-discovery and development. The compatibility between grounded theory and conceptual modeling is discussed, and data from a short ethnographic study of a hair salon are used to illustrate the roles of conceptual modeling in the early stages of theory discovery. The major focus of conceptual modeling is on three simultaneous, explicit…
Structural Antecedents of the Shape of Strikes: A Comparative Analysis
Two models purporting to explain variation in strike shape (Shorter and TYlly, 1971; Britt and Galle, 1972) are compared using cross-sectional data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We found that the concentration of workers in larger plants is conducive to shorter, broader, less frequent strikes. More heavily unionized industries tend to be characterized by broader, shorter, more frequent strikes; industries with larger work forces tend to ha…
Sometimes doing the right thing sucks: Frame combinations and multi-fetal pregnancy reduction decision difficulty
Assessing the Linkage of Norms, Environments, and Deviance
Panel data from a study of adolescent drinking practices are used to study the relationship of norms, deviance, and social environments. Using these data, a test is made of contrasting perspectives which differentially emphasize the extent of individual activity in the construction and maintenance of social order. The normative paradigm emphasizes the impact on individual behavior of normative structures and the groups with which individuals have…
New Perspectives on Organization Theory: An Empirical Reconsideration of the Marxian and Classical Analyses
A Problem‐Based Learning Approach to Integrating Foreign Language Into Engineering
Problem‐based learning (PBL) is an instructional methodology placing primary emphasis on students solving realistic problems in a team‐oriented environment. Here we discuss using PBL to integrate a language for specific purposes (LSP) track into an undergraduate biological engineering curriculum as a way to prepare students for an engineering career requiring job‐specific foreign language skills. In Part I we review PBL theory and anticipate prob…
Social Class and the Sick Role: Examining the Issue of Mutual Influence
Building on previous work, which suggested that illness symptoms might stabilize into more permanent responses (Scheff, 1966; Szasz, 1961; Dohrenwend and Dohrenwend, 1969), it is argued that there should be a reciprocal relationship between self-reported illness and social class. Data from a national panel study were used to test the hypothesis. Alternative explanationsfor thefinding of a reciprocal relationship were discussed and additional data…
Effects of probability of reinforcement and social stimulus consistency on imitation
The present series of studies evaluated the effects of probability of reinforcement and degree of stimulus consistency on imitation in ambiguous, competitive situations. Three experiments are reported, each addressed to a different specific problem concerning the relationship among these variables and the elimination of alternative explanations for the observed results. In general, the following conclusions emerged: (a) Subjects in ambiguous, com…
New Perspectives on Organization Theory: An Empirical Reconsideration of the Marxian and Classical Analyses
Industrial Conflict and Unionization
Structural Antecedents of the Shape of Strikes: A Comparative Analysis
Two models purporting to explain variation in strike shape (Shorter and TYlly, 1971; Britt and Galle, 1972) are compared using cross-sectional data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We found that the concentration of workers in larger plants is conducive to shorter, broader, less frequent strikes. More heavily unionized industries tend to be characterized by broader, shorter, more frequent strikes; industries with larger work forces tend to ha…
Crime Rates and Police Behavior: A Test of Two Hypotheses
Social Class and the Sick Role: Examining the Issue of Mutual Influence
Building on previous work, which suggested that illness symptoms might stabilize into more permanent responses (Scheff, 1966; Szasz, 1961; Dohrenwend and Dohrenwend, 1969), it is argued that there should be a reciprocal relationship between self-reported illness and social class. Data from a national panel study were used to test the hypothesis. Alternative explanationsfor thefinding of a reciprocal relationship were discussed and additional data…
Assessing the Linkage of Norms, Environments, and Deviance
Panel data from a study of adolescent drinking practices are used to study the relationship of norms, deviance, and social environments. Using these data, a test is made of contrasting perspectives which differentially emphasize the extent of individual activity in the construction and maintenance of social order. The normative paradigm emphasizes the impact on individual behavior of normative structures and the groups with which individuals have…
Inequality and Police Use of Deadly Force: An Empirical Assessment of a Conflict Hypothesis
Conflict theorists assume that force or its threat is the fundamental element that holds unequal societies together. Because conflict theorists also hold that the state's monopoly of violence is controlled by those who benefit from inequality, it follows that the control agents of the state should be more likely to use extreme force when economic inequality is most pronounced. This hypothesis was tested with data on the number of killings committ…
Appraisal of life events, future expectations, and self-reported activity-limiting symptoms
This paper presents two analyses relating the subjective experience of life events to self-reported illness using data from a large panel study. First, the effects of improving and worsening life circumstances on illness are compared. Experiencing relatively improved life changes over the past year decreased the tendency to report illness; experiencing relatively worsening life changes did not increase reporting tendencies. Further analysis sugge…
Homicides and race riots
Comparative analysis of American race riots and homicides during the 1960s shows that the presence of large percentages of non-Whites and people living in structural poverty increased the chances of cities' having both collective (race riots) and individual (homicides) violence. Cities in the South had a greater chance of having relatively serious homicide activity than did other U.S. cities but a lesser chance of having serious race riot activit…
Alcohol Problem Intervention in the Workplace: Employee Assistance Programs and Strategic Alternatives
Preface The Salience of Alcohol Problems in the Work Setting: Introduction and Overview by Paul M. Roman The Social and Organizational Contexts of Alcohol Problems in the Workplace The Impact of Macrosocial Forces on the Distribution of Alcohol Problems in the Workplace by David J. Pittman Employed Adults at Risk for Diminished Self-Control Over Alcohol Use: The Alienated, the Burned Out and the Unchallenged by Douglas A. Parker and Gail C. Farme…
Reaching out and making a difference: The context of meaning in a home-based preschool program
Two years in the operation of a local HIPPY (Home Instructional Program for Preschool Youngsters) are examined to highlight the impact of changed context on processes and impacts. Over the two years of operation, the program went from a staff consisting of a program director and paraprofessionals to an augmented staff which included a family support specialist. “Reaching out to families” and “making a difference” in their lives was a strong norm …
Reaching out and making a difference: The context of meaning in a home‐based preschool program
Two years in the operation of a local HIPPY (Home Instructional Program for Preschool Youngsters) are examined to highlight the impact of changed context on processes and impacts. Over the two years of operation, the program went from a staff consisting of a program director and paraprofessionals to an augmented staff which included a family support specialist. “Reaching out to families” and “making a difference” in their lives was a strong norm …
A Conceptual Introduction to Modeling: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives
Contents: Preface. First Steps, Basic Dilemmas, Gulfs, and Bridge Building. The Big Leap: Carving Situations Up Into Concepts. Sticks and Spaces: Relationships Between Concepts. Elaboration Within the Constraints of an Additive Model. Closing Circles and Uncovering Dynamics: Feedback in Social Life. Conditional and Moderating Relationships: Elaborating the Contexts of Action. Criteria for Evaluating Models. Strategies for Moving From Elaborated t…
"Remarks on Some Tendencies of the "Vienna Group
In the piece that follows, I interpret a number of memories from my present standpoint. This is convenient, indeed probably unavoidable; but from the outset I would like to avoid giving the impression that the attitudes I now hold were already clearly formulated at the time. Some notions were, however, already present in my consciousness. In the publications I have seen on the Vienna Group, these ideas have been mentioned only in passing, if at a…
Conceptual Modeling as a Toolbox for Grounded Theorists
Conceptual modeling is proposed as a set of analytic procedures that further the grounded theory approach to theory-discovery and development. The compatibility between grounded theory and conceptual modeling is discussed, and data from a short ethnographic study of a hair salon are used to illustrate the roles of conceptual modeling in the early stages of theory discovery. The major focus of conceptual modeling is on three simultaneous, explicit…
A Problem‐Based Learning Approach to Integrating Foreign Language Into Engineering
Problem‐based learning (PBL) is an instructional methodology placing primary emphasis on students solving realistic problems in a team‐oriented environment. Here we discuss using PBL to integrate a language for specific purposes (LSP) track into an undergraduate biological engineering curriculum as a way to prepare students for an engineering career requiring job‐specific foreign language skills. In Part I we review PBL theory and anticipate prob…
Sometimes doing the right thing sucks: Frame combinations and multi-fetal pregnancy reduction decision difficulty
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