E Barkan
Biographic Data
| ID | 20404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Barkan |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Barkan |
| SIGNATURE | BARKAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5745-9264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 533 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Powerline: The First Battle of America’s Energy War
Socioeconomic Status and Racism as Fundamental Causes of Street Criminality
Measuring Perceived Mistreatment: Potential Problems in Asking About 'Discrimination
Many studies have used survey data on perceived everyday mistreatment to assess the extent and health impact of racial discrimination and of discrimination based on weight, sexual orientation, and other reasons. Some surveys use the word 'discrimination' in the initial question put to respondents, while other surveys do not use this word. This research note argues that including 'discrimination' in the initial question may depress reports of perc…
Legal Control of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Debate over the potential power of social movements has focused on the Southern civil rights experience. This debate has neglected, however, the use of the Southern legal system to harass the civil rights movement. This paper identifies two forms of white response—legalistic and violent—to black protest, and examines their impact on major protest campaigns in several Southern communities. In cities where white officials used legal means and avoid…
Gender and Abortion Attitudes: Religiosity as a Suppressor Variable
Despite the interest-group perspective that women should be more likely than men to support legal abortion, much research finds that women and men hold similar views on this issue. This null relationship has puzzled scholars of abortion attitudes. In an attempt to shed light on this relationship, this paper argues that gender differences in religiosity help explain the lack of a gender difference in abortion attitudes, with religiosity acting as …
State and Regional Suicide Rates: A New Look at an Old Puzzle
U.S. suicide rates vary across the states and are higher in the American West than in other regions. Reasons for these patterns have eluded social scientists. This research note examines whether residential stability and population density as ecological contexts for social integration help explain the patterns. Reflecting Durkheimian reasoning, results suggest that residential stability helps explain both the high Western suicide rate and state s…
Toward a New Abolitionism: Race, Ethnicity, and Social Transformation
Journal Article Toward a New Abolitionism: Race, Ethnicity, and Social Transformation Get access Steven E. Barkan Steven E. Barkan Direct correspondence to: Steven E. Barkan, Department of Sociology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5728. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 February 2010, Pages 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.…
The Value of Quantitative Analysis for a Critical Understanding of Crime and Society
Social Movements, Recruitment to
Social movements have long been an important basis of political participation in democracies and have achieved major political, social, and cultural changes. Although the influence of social movements depends largely on their ability to recruit members, it is by no means obvious why people choose to participate in them
Criminal Prosecution and the Legal Control of Protest
Criminal prosecutions and trials are normal events in the life cycle of many protest efforts and often have important consequences for the struggle between social movements and their opponents. Even so, social movement and law and society scholars have neglected protest prosecutions and trials since some initial work twenty to thirty years ago. This article discusses the relevance of these legal events for issues in contemporary research and offe…
Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise
Religiosity and Premarital Sex in Adulthood
A growing body of literature finds an inverse association between religiosity and several types of deviant behavior. Although studies of adolescent sexuality form a large part of this literature, it is not clear that their results necessarily pertain to adults. This study examines the relationship between religiosity and the number of sexual partners among never-married adults in pooled samples of the General Social Survey. The major findings ind…
On Reducing White Support for the Death Penalty: A Pessimistic Appraisal
Engaging History: Managing Conflict and Reconciliation
The recounting of history has been exploited to provoke conflict, incite war, and inflame genocides. Can it also be drawn upon to facilitate reconciliation? Can historians and historical commissions prove helpful in bridging national conflicts?
Why Whites Favor Spending More Money to Fight Crime: The Role of Racial Prejudice
A “get-tough” approach has guided criminal justice policy in the United States since the 1970s. This approach has involved hiring more police, building more prisons, and handing out longer and more certain prison terms for a variety of offenses. Although scholars dispute the impact of such measures, they generally agree that these steps stem in part from widespread public concern over crime and the desire that the criminal justice system treat su…
Explaining Public Support for the Environmental Movement: A Civic Voluntarism Model
Objective. The literature on environmentalism includes many more studies of environmental concern than of the public's practical support for the environmental movement. This article develops several categories of predictors of such support from the civic voluntarism model of Verba and associates. Methods. These predictors are tested with data from the 2000 General Social Survey, which included a special module of items on environmental attitudes …
Religious Attendance and Subjective Well-Being among Older Americans: Evidence from the General Social Survey
Steven E. Barkan, Susan F. Greenwood, Religious Attendance and Subjective Well-Being among Older Americans: Evidence from the General Social Survey, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Dec., 2003), pp. 116-129
Dimensions of Participation in a Professional Social-Movement Organization
Differential participation after recruitment remains a black box in the social-movement and voluntary-association literatures. This paper identifies several dimensions of membership participation in a professional social-movement organization (SMO) with a national membership and analyzes the determinants of differential involvement in these forms. In general, members' ideological beliefs, social and organizational ties, perceptions about their SM…
La justice et les mouvements sociaux
Cet article tire parti de mes précédentes études sur la justice politique pour analyser les sources, la dynamique et les conséquences des procès politiques par rapport aux luttes entre les mouvements sociaux et leurs adversaires. Je porte une attention particulière aux expériences juridiques relatives au mouvement pour les droits civils dans le sud des États-Unis et au mouvement d'opposition à la guerre du Vietnam d'il y a deux décennies. Les der…
The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century
Chapter 1 A Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century Chapter 2 The Structure and Culture of Collective Protest in Germany since 1950 Chapter 3 Are the Times A-Changin'? Assessing the Acceptance of Protest in Western Democracies Chapter 4 The Institutionalization of Protest in the United States Chapter 5 Policing Protest in France and Italy: From Intimidation to Cooperation? Donatella della Porta Chapter 6 Institutionalization of P…
Discovering Sociology: An Introduction Using Explorit
Race, issue engagement, and political participation: Evidence from the 1987 general social survey
Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994
Beyond recruitment: Predictors of differential participation in a national antihunger organization
Racial Prejudice and Support for the Death Penalty by Whites
Although many studies have found that Whites are more likely than Blacks to support the death penalty, little research has investigated the reasons for this difference. Using data from the 1990 General Social Survey, this study finds that White support for capital punishment is associated with prejudice against Blacks. Final remarks discuss the implications of the results for legislative and judicial decisions regarding capital punishment.
Strategic, Tactical and Organizational Dilemmas of the Protest Movement against Nuclear Power
Recent research has recognized that social movements face several dilemmas in simultaneously mobilizing the many resources that are necessary for their success. This study examines some of the problems that have confronted the contemporary protest movement against the construction and operation of nuclear power plants. Its emphasis is on differences within the antinuclear movement over four strategic, tactical, or organizational matters: (1) the …
Legal Control of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Punitive Attitudes toward Criminals: Racial Consensus or Racial Conflict
A sizeable body of literature has found a surprising amount of agreement among racial and other demographic subgroups on punitive attitudes toward criminals. This consensus has been widely interpreted as evidence for functionalist views of crime and society. Challenging this interpretation, this paper argues that the similar attitudes between the races on punitiveness may in fact mask underlying hostilities and conflicting interests. Analyzing da…
Why Whites Favor Spending More Money to Fight Crime: The Role of Racial Prejudice
A “get-tough” approach has guided criminal justice policy in the United States since the 1970s. This approach has involved hiring more police, building more prisons, and handing out longer and more certain prison terms for a variety of offenses. Although scholars dispute the impact of such measures, they generally agree that these steps stem in part from widespread public concern over crime and the desire that the criminal justice system treat su…
Gender and Abortion Attitudes: Religiosity as a Suppressor Variable
Despite the interest-group perspective that women should be more likely than men to support legal abortion, much research finds that women and men hold similar views on this issue. This null relationship has puzzled scholars of abortion attitudes. In an attempt to shed light on this relationship, this paper argues that gender differences in religiosity help explain the lack of a gender difference in abortion attitudes, with religiosity acting as …
The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century
Chapter 1 A Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century Chapter 2 The Structure and Culture of Collective Protest in Germany since 1950 Chapter 3 Are the Times A-Changin'? Assessing the Acceptance of Protest in Western Democracies Chapter 4 The Institutionalization of Protest in the United States Chapter 5 Policing Protest in France and Italy: From Intimidation to Cooperation? Donatella della Porta Chapter 6 Institutionalization of P…
Criminal Prosecution and the Legal Control of Protest
Criminal prosecutions and trials are normal events in the life cycle of many protest efforts and often have important consequences for the struggle between social movements and their opponents. Even so, social movement and law and society scholars have neglected protest prosecutions and trials since some initial work twenty to thirty years ago. This article discusses the relevance of these legal events for issues in contemporary research and offe…
Beyond recruitment: Predictors of differential participation in a national antihunger organization
Explaining Public Support for the Environmental Movement: A Civic Voluntarism Model
Objective. The literature on environmentalism includes many more studies of environmental concern than of the public's practical support for the environmental movement. This article develops several categories of predictors of such support from the civic voluntarism model of Verba and associates. Methods. These predictors are tested with data from the 2000 General Social Survey, which included a special module of items on environmental attitudes …
Religiosity and Premarital Sex in Adulthood
A growing body of literature finds an inverse association between religiosity and several types of deviant behavior. Although studies of adolescent sexuality form a large part of this literature, it is not clear that their results necessarily pertain to adults. This study examines the relationship between religiosity and the number of sexual partners among never-married adults in pooled samples of the General Social Survey. The major findings ind…
Political Trials and the 'Pro Se' Defendant in the Adversary System
The struggle for political power in American society frequently finds its way into the courtroom. Sometimes political trials result. This paper draws upon several such trials to analyze the goals and behavior of their participants, especially the defense. Often political defendants and their lawyers wish, for several reasons, to introduce ideological issues into the proceedings, creating a degree of conflict lacking in most ordinary criminal case…
Commitment across the Miles: Ideological and Microstructural Sources of Membership Support in a National Antihunger Organization
The national membership organizations that often compose social movements usually find it very difficult to promote and sustain membership commitment. Since their isolated members have relatively little contact with the organization or with each other, they are unlikely to develop strong feelings of support for the national organization. Despite these problems, levels of commitment among members still vary, making it important for theoretical and…
Measuring Perceived Mistreatment: Potential Problems in Asking About 'Discrimination
Many studies have used survey data on perceived everyday mistreatment to assess the extent and health impact of racial discrimination and of discrimination based on weight, sexual orientation, and other reasons. Some surveys use the word 'discrimination' in the initial question put to respondents, while other surveys do not use this word. This research note argues that including 'discrimination' in the initial question may depress reports of perc…
Interorganizational Conflict in the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Moderate social movement organizations (SMOs) often denounce radical SMOs for statements and actions that threaten to alienate potential sources of external support. This paper analyzes the development of such interorganizational hostility in the Southern civil rights movement over the issues of Communist participation, the Vietnam War, and black power. In demonstrating how the moderate SMOs' perceived need for external support aggravated divisio…
Religious Attendance and Subjective Well-Being among Older Americans: Evidence from the General Social Survey
Steven E. Barkan, Susan F. Greenwood, Religious Attendance and Subjective Well-Being among Older Americans: Evidence from the General Social Survey, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Dec., 2003), pp. 116-129
Dimensions of Participation in a Professional Social-Movement Organization
Differential participation after recruitment remains a black box in the social-movement and voluntary-association literatures. This paper identifies several dimensions of membership participation in a professional social-movement organization (SMO) with a national membership and analyzes the determinants of differential involvement in these forms. In general, members' ideological beliefs, social and organizational ties, perceptions about their SM…
Predictors of Rank-and-File Feminist Activism: Evidence from the 1983 General Social Survey
This study uses data from a nationally representative sample to identify predictors of rank-and-file feminist activism by women in the United States. Predictors are identified as relevant from the literatures on feminist attitudes, social movements, and political participation. Under a wide range of controls, activists are distinguished from nonactivists by certain attitudinal variables and by their higher levels of education, non-South residence…
Political Trials and Resource Mobilization: Towards an Understanding of Social Movement Litigation
Journal Article Political Trials and Resource Mobilization: Towards an Understanding of Social Movement Litigation Get access Steven E. Barkan Steven E. Barkan University of Maine at Orono Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 58, Issue 3, March 1980, Pages 944–961, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/58.3.944 Published: 01 March 1980
Activists against hunger: Membership characteristics of a national social movement organization
Jury Nullification in Political Trials
Judges in the United States usually do not tell juries of their historic power to nullify the law by acquitting defendants who are guilty according to the evidence. This fact may affect the fortunes of political defendants and their protest movements. This paper looks at the history of jury nullification in political trials in England and the United States and the ideological consequences of the refusal of many judges in trials of Vietnam War pro…
Socioeconomic Status and Racism as Fundamental Causes of Street Criminality
State and Regional Suicide Rates: A New Look at an Old Puzzle
U.S. suicide rates vary across the states and are higher in the American West than in other regions. Reasons for these patterns have eluded social scientists. This research note examines whether residential stability and population density as ecological contexts for social integration help explain the patterns. Reflecting Durkheimian reasoning, results suggest that residential stability helps explain both the high Western suicide rate and state s…
On Reducing White Support for the Death Penalty: A Pessimistic Appraisal
Toward a New Abolitionism: Race, Ethnicity, and Social Transformation
Journal Article Toward a New Abolitionism: Race, Ethnicity, and Social Transformation Get access Steven E. Barkan Steven E. Barkan Direct correspondence to: Steven E. Barkan, Department of Sociology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5728. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1 February 2010, Pages 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.…
Engaging History: Managing Conflict and Reconciliation
The recounting of history has been exploited to provoke conflict, incite war, and inflame genocides. Can it also be drawn upon to facilitate reconciliation? Can historians and historical commissions prove helpful in bridging national conflicts?
Political Trials and the 'Pro Se' Defendant in the Adversary System
The struggle for political power in American society frequently finds its way into the courtroom. Sometimes political trials result. This paper draws upon several such trials to analyze the goals and behavior of their participants, especially the defense. Often political defendants and their lawyers wish, for several reasons, to introduce ideological issues into the proceedings, creating a degree of conflict lacking in most ordinary criminal case…
Strategic, Tactical and Organizational Dilemmas of the Protest Movement against Nuclear Power
Recent research has recognized that social movements face several dilemmas in simultaneously mobilizing the many resources that are necessary for their success. This study examines some of the problems that have confronted the contemporary protest movement against the construction and operation of nuclear power plants. Its emphasis is on differences within the antinuclear movement over four strategic, tactical, or organizational matters: (1) the …
Political Trials and Resource Mobilization: Towards an Understanding of Social Movement Litigation
Journal Article Political Trials and Resource Mobilization: Towards an Understanding of Social Movement Litigation Get access Steven E. Barkan Steven E. Barkan University of Maine at Orono Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 58, Issue 3, March 1980, Pages 944–961, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/58.3.944 Published: 01 March 1980
Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War
Public reaction to the construction of a high-voltage direct-current powerline from a new generating plant at a lignite mine in Bismarck, ND to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota illustrates how rural America is gaining a stronger voice in national energy policy. The author traces the project from its inception by two cooperative utilities and the Rural Electrification Administration, which would provide low-interest financing. The story is one of n…
Jury Nullification in Political Trials
Judges in the United States usually do not tell juries of their historic power to nullify the law by acquitting defendants who are guilty according to the evidence. This fact may affect the fortunes of political defendants and their protest movements. This paper looks at the history of jury nullification in political trials in England and the United States and the ideological consequences of the refusal of many judges in trials of Vietnam War pro…
Anti-Nuclear Protest: The Opposition to Nuclear Energy in France
Legal Control of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Protesters on Trial: Criminal Justice in the Southern Civil Rights and Vietnam Antiwar Movements
Protesters on Trial: Criminal Justice in the Southern Civil Rights and Vietnam Antiwar Movements
Interorganizational Conflict in the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Moderate social movement organizations (SMOs) often denounce radical SMOs for statements and actions that threaten to alienate potential sources of external support. This paper analyzes the development of such interorganizational hostility in the Southern civil rights movement over the issues of Communist participation, the Vietnam War, and black power. In demonstrating how the moderate SMOs' perceived need for external support aggravated divisio…
Black Labor and the American Legal System: Race, Work, and the Law
Protesters on Trial: Criminal Justice in the Southern Civil Rights and Vietnam Antiwar Movements
Punitive Attitudes toward Criminals: Racial Consensus or Racial Conflict
A sizeable body of literature has found a surprising amount of agreement among racial and other demographic subgroups on punitive attitudes toward criminals. This consensus has been widely interpreted as evidence for functionalist views of crime and society. Challenging this interpretation, this paper argues that the similar attitudes between the races on punitiveness may in fact mask underlying hostilities and conflicting interests. Analyzing da…
Predictors of Rank-and-File Feminist Activism: Evidence from the 1983 General Social Survey
This study uses data from a nationally representative sample to identify predictors of rank-and-file feminist activism by women in the United States. Predictors are identified as relevant from the literatures on feminist attitudes, social movements, and political participation. Under a wide range of controls, activists are distinguished from nonactivists by certain attitudinal variables and by their higher levels of education, non-South residence…
Activists against hunger: Membership characteristics of a national social movement organization
The Sixties Experience: Hard Lessons about Modern America
Commitment across the Miles: Ideological and Microstructural Sources of Membership Support in a National Antihunger Organization
The national membership organizations that often compose social movements usually find it very difficult to promote and sustain membership commitment. Since their isolated members have relatively little contact with the organization or with each other, they are unlikely to develop strong feelings of support for the national organization. Despite these problems, levels of commitment among members still vary, making it important for theoretical and…
Racial Prejudice and Support for the Death Penalty by Whites
Although many studies have found that Whites are more likely than Blacks to support the death penalty, little research has investigated the reasons for this difference. Using data from the 1990 General Social Survey, this study finds that White support for capital punishment is associated with prejudice against Blacks. Final remarks discuss the implications of the results for legislative and judicial decisions regarding capital punishment.
Beyond recruitment: Predictors of differential participation in a national antihunger organization
Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994
Race, issue engagement, and political participation: Evidence from the 1987 general social survey
The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century
Chapter 1 A Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century Chapter 2 The Structure and Culture of Collective Protest in Germany since 1950 Chapter 3 Are the Times A-Changin'? Assessing the Acceptance of Protest in Western Democracies Chapter 4 The Institutionalization of Protest in the United States Chapter 5 Policing Protest in France and Italy: From Intimidation to Cooperation? Donatella della Porta Chapter 6 Institutionalization of P…
Discovering Sociology: An Introduction Using Explorit
La justice et les mouvements sociaux
Cet article tire parti de mes précédentes études sur la justice politique pour analyser les sources, la dynamique et les conséquences des procès politiques par rapport aux luttes entre les mouvements sociaux et leurs adversaires. Je porte une attention particulière aux expériences juridiques relatives au mouvement pour les droits civils dans le sud des États-Unis et au mouvement d'opposition à la guerre du Vietnam d'il y a deux décennies. Les der…
Religious Attendance and Subjective Well-Being among Older Americans: Evidence from the General Social Survey
Steven E. Barkan, Susan F. Greenwood, Religious Attendance and Subjective Well-Being among Older Americans: Evidence from the General Social Survey, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Dec., 2003), pp. 116-129
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