David J Tucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 207150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David J Tucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | David J |
| FAMILY NAME | Tucker |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKER D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Attachment theory and change processes in foster care
Death and taxes
Identification of antibacterial constituents from the indigenous Australian medicinal plant Eremophila duttonii F. Muell. (Myoporaceae)
Beyond the World Heritage Site
Splendid isolation and an austere environment allegedly saved Hatra on more than one occasion from the wrath of Rome. Even when the city finally fell to the Sasanians in AD 240 and Shapur carried off its portable wealth, its comparative remoteness prevented the wholesale destruction that happened, for instance, at nearby Ashur. So in 1985 UNESCO had no difficulty in recognising the ruins' value as a gem of world heritage. Hatra's comparative isol…
Integrating Knowledge and Practice
Introduction: Evolution and Change in the Relationship between Social Work and Social Science by David J. Tucker, Charles Garvin, and Rosemary Sarri Promises and Problems Introduction: Progress and Problems in the Integration of Knowledge and Practice by David J. Tucker Making Decisions about Integration by Eileen Gambrill Mechanism, Conflict, and Cultural Symbol: Three Views of the Relationship between Social Insight and Social Transformation by…
Settlement Development in the North Jazira, Iraq
Homer Folks and the Minimization of the Michigan County Agents
We explore why the Michigan county agents, an extensive nineteenth-century system of paid male social workers, were unknown in social welfare history. We trace the problem to a misrepresentation of the Michigan system in Homer Folks's centrally important book, The Care of Destitute, Neglected and Delinquent Children. We argue that Folks's reporting of history is flawed by the biases of "personal projects" and the limitations of "big picture" hist…
The Michigan County Agents and the Development of Juvenile Probation, 1873-1900
Lorna F. Hurl, David J. Tucker; The Michigan County Agents and the Development of Juvenile Probation, 1873–1900, Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issu
Eclecticism Is Not a Free Good
Level of paradigm development has numerous consequences for a field of study, affecting its ability to obtain resources, its level of autonomy, and its capacity for collaborative research. In turn, these consequences perpetuate a field's status as more or less well developed. Evidence shows that social work is not well developed paradigmatically. Its dependence on other fields for abstract knowledge, its diffuse cognitive authority, and disincent…
Constructing an Ecology of Foster Care
This paper aims to illustrate the viability of using concepts and theoretical arguments from organization ecology to analyze dynamic change processes in foster care. The general topic is the relationship between foster homes and their environments. The specific focus is the effects of the environment on the entry and exit patterns of new foster homes. Drawing on our earlier studies of the 23 year history of a population of foster homes, various h…
Applying Organizational Ecology to the Family
David J. Tucker, Lorna F. Hurl, Harry Ford, Applying Organizational Ecology to the Family: The Case of Who Persists in Providing Foster Care, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Nov., 1994), pp. 1005-1018
An Ecological Study of the Dynamics of Foster Home Entries
In this study, we use data from a population of foster homes located in Ontario, Canada, to examine how external environmental conditions and intrapopulation processes affect patterns of foster home openings, or entries. The results show that change over time in the overall size of the foster home population, and in demand for foster homes, have curvilinear effects on entry rates. Institutional change, resulting from change in government legislat…
The Tell al-Hawa Project
Members of the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq first visited Tell al-Hawa in January 1986 from the Saddam Dam. The site appears as a massive, solitary giant, dominating the landscape and dwarfing all other sites in the region (Plate Ia). From the summit, 30 m high, there is an impressive view over a vast plain covered with mounds in all directions. A walk over the main mound revealed a particularly wide range of pottery types representi…
Organizational Change and Organizational Mortality
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Xl World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, India, in August 1986. We gratefully acknowledge the involvement of Howard Aldrich, Glenn Carroll, and Paul DiMaggio at the initial stages of our research program on voluntary organizations in metropolitan Toronto. Specific thanks are due to Howard Aldrich and James G. March for insightful comments on an earlier draft. We would specially like to thank…
Limitations of an Act of Faith
Lorna F. Hurl, David J. Tucker, Limitations of an Act of Faith: An Analysis of the Macdonald Commission's Stance on Social Services, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Dec., 1986), pp. 606-621
Voluntary Auspices and the Behavior of Social Service Organizations
This paper proposes a theory aimed at explaining the influence of voluntary auspices on selected characteristics of social service organizations. In brief, this theory maintains that because they lack both a legal mandate and guaranteed access to public funds, voluntary social service organizations are more insecure vis-à-vis their environments than are public and quasi-public social service organizations. This theory also holds that organization…
Coordination and Citizen Participation
This study investigates the validity of the assumption that coordination and citizen participation are related inversely and, thus, are incompatible as features in the same social service reform strategy. Seventeen social service organizations situated in the same urban area were studied. Data were obtained by structured interview. The concepts of coordination and citizen participation were operationalized by means of scales. The findings support…
Eclecticism Is Not a Free Good
Level of paradigm development has numerous consequences for a field of study, affecting its ability to obtain resources, its level of autonomy, and its capacity for collaborative research. In turn, these consequences perpetuate a field's status as more or less well developed. Evidence shows that social work is not well developed paradigmatically. Its dependence on other fields for abstract knowledge, its diffuse cognitive authority, and disincent…
Attachment theory and change processes in foster care
An Ecological Study of the Dynamics of Foster Home Entries
In this study, we use data from a population of foster homes located in Ontario, Canada, to examine how external environmental conditions and intrapopulation processes affect patterns of foster home openings, or entries. The results show that change over time in the overall size of the foster home population, and in demand for foster homes, have curvilinear effects on entry rates. Institutional change, resulting from change in government legislat…
Beyond the World Heritage Site
Splendid isolation and an austere environment allegedly saved Hatra on more than one occasion from the wrath of Rome. Even when the city finally fell to the Sasanians in AD 240 and Shapur carried off its portable wealth, its comparative remoteness prevented the wholesale destruction that happened, for instance, at nearby Ashur. So in 1985 UNESCO had no difficulty in recognising the ruins' value as a gem of world heritage. Hatra's comparative isol…
The Michigan County Agents and the Development of Juvenile Probation, 1873-1900
Lorna F. Hurl, David J. Tucker; The Michigan County Agents and the Development of Juvenile Probation, 1873–1900, Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issu
Constructing an Ecology of Foster Care
This paper aims to illustrate the viability of using concepts and theoretical arguments from organization ecology to analyze dynamic change processes in foster care. The general topic is the relationship between foster homes and their environments. The specific focus is the effects of the environment on the entry and exit patterns of new foster homes. Drawing on our earlier studies of the 23 year history of a population of foster homes, various h…
Applying Organizational Ecology to the Family
David J. Tucker, Lorna F. Hurl, Harry Ford, Applying Organizational Ecology to the Family: The Case of Who Persists in Providing Foster Care, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Nov., 1994), pp. 1005-1018
Settlement Development in the North Jazira, Iraq
Voluntary Auspices and the Behavior of Social Service Organizations
This paper proposes a theory aimed at explaining the influence of voluntary auspices on selected characteristics of social service organizations. In brief, this theory maintains that because they lack both a legal mandate and guaranteed access to public funds, voluntary social service organizations are more insecure vis-à-vis their environments than are public and quasi-public social service organizations. This theory also holds that organization…
Coordination and Citizen Participation
This study investigates the validity of the assumption that coordination and citizen participation are related inversely and, thus, are incompatible as features in the same social service reform strategy. Seventeen social service organizations situated in the same urban area were studied. Data were obtained by structured interview. The concepts of coordination and citizen participation were operationalized by means of scales. The findings support…
Coordination and Citizen Participation
This study investigates the validity of the assumption that coordination and citizen participation are related inversely and, thus, are incompatible as features in the same social service reform strategy. Seventeen social service organizations situated in the same urban area were studied. Data were obtained by structured interview. The concepts of coordination and citizen participation were operationalized by means of scales. The findings support…
Voluntary Auspices and the Behavior of Social Service Organizations
This paper proposes a theory aimed at explaining the influence of voluntary auspices on selected characteristics of social service organizations. In brief, this theory maintains that because they lack both a legal mandate and guaranteed access to public funds, voluntary social service organizations are more insecure vis-à-vis their environments than are public and quasi-public social service organizations. This theory also holds that organization…
Organizational Change and Organizational Mortality
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Xl World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, India, in August 1986. We gratefully acknowledge the involvement of Howard Aldrich, Glenn Carroll, and Paul DiMaggio at the initial stages of our research program on voluntary organizations in metropolitan Toronto. Specific thanks are due to Howard Aldrich and James G. March for insightful comments on an earlier draft. We would specially like to thank…
Limitations of an Act of Faith
Lorna F. Hurl, David J. Tucker, Limitations of an Act of Faith: An Analysis of the Macdonald Commission's Stance on Social Services, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Dec., 1986), pp. 606-621
The Tell al-Hawa Project
Members of the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq first visited Tell al-Hawa in January 1986 from the Saddam Dam. The site appears as a massive, solitary giant, dominating the landscape and dwarfing all other sites in the region (Plate Ia). From the summit, 30 m high, there is an impressive view over a vast plain covered with mounds in all directions. A walk over the main mound revealed a particularly wide range of pottery types representi…
An Ecological Study of the Dynamics of Foster Home Entries
In this study, we use data from a population of foster homes located in Ontario, Canada, to examine how external environmental conditions and intrapopulation processes affect patterns of foster home openings, or entries. The results show that change over time in the overall size of the foster home population, and in demand for foster homes, have curvilinear effects on entry rates. Institutional change, resulting from change in government legislat…
Applying Organizational Ecology to the Family
David J. Tucker, Lorna F. Hurl, Harry Ford, Applying Organizational Ecology to the Family: The Case of Who Persists in Providing Foster Care, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Nov., 1994), pp. 1005-1018
Constructing an Ecology of Foster Care
This paper aims to illustrate the viability of using concepts and theoretical arguments from organization ecology to analyze dynamic change processes in foster care. The general topic is the relationship between foster homes and their environments. The specific focus is the effects of the environment on the entry and exit patterns of new foster homes. Drawing on our earlier studies of the 23 year history of a population of foster homes, various h…
Eclecticism Is Not a Free Good
Level of paradigm development has numerous consequences for a field of study, affecting its ability to obtain resources, its level of autonomy, and its capacity for collaborative research. In turn, these consequences perpetuate a field's status as more or less well developed. Evidence shows that social work is not well developed paradigmatically. Its dependence on other fields for abstract knowledge, its diffuse cognitive authority, and disincent…
Homer Folks and the Minimization of the Michigan County Agents
We explore why the Michigan county agents, an extensive nineteenth-century system of paid male social workers, were unknown in social welfare history. We trace the problem to a misrepresentation of the Michigan system in Homer Folks's centrally important book, The Care of Destitute, Neglected and Delinquent Children. We argue that Folks's reporting of history is flawed by the biases of "personal projects" and the limitations of "big picture" hist…
The Michigan County Agents and the Development of Juvenile Probation, 1873-1900
Lorna F. Hurl, David J. Tucker; The Michigan County Agents and the Development of Juvenile Probation, 1873–1900, Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issu
Settlement Development in the North Jazira, Iraq
Integrating Knowledge and Practice
Introduction: Evolution and Change in the Relationship between Social Work and Social Science by David J. Tucker, Charles Garvin, and Rosemary Sarri Promises and Problems Introduction: Progress and Problems in the Integration of Knowledge and Practice by David J. Tucker Making Decisions about Integration by Eileen Gambrill Mechanism, Conflict, and Cultural Symbol: Three Views of the Relationship between Social Insight and Social Transformation by…
Beyond the World Heritage Site
Splendid isolation and an austere environment allegedly saved Hatra on more than one occasion from the wrath of Rome. Even when the city finally fell to the Sasanians in AD 240 and Shapur carried off its portable wealth, its comparative remoteness prevented the wholesale destruction that happened, for instance, at nearby Ashur. So in 1985 UNESCO had no difficulty in recognising the ruins' value as a gem of world heritage. Hatra's comparative isol…
Identification of antibacterial constituents from the indigenous Australian medicinal plant Eremophila duttonii F. Muell. (Myoporaceae)
Death and taxes
Attachment theory and change processes in foster care
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)