L J Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 21046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L J Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | L J |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8517-054X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 859 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Tonal alternations in attributive constructions in Mwaghavul
Mwaghavul is an underdocumented Chadic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria, by approximately 150,000 people (Blench 2011). Mwaghavul has tonal lowering in associative constructions, where the first nominal in the construction surfaces with low tone, regardless of its tone in isolation (Arokoyo & Fwangwar 2019). However, tonal lowering is not fully predictable, as some high tone nominals surface as mid tone in associative constructions, inst…
How are polar interrogatives in Mauritian Creole formed
Mauritian Creole is known to form polar questions in two ways: by using the utterance-initial particle eski, derived from French est-ce que 'is it the case that', or by applying a rising intonation to the declarative sentence. This paper asks the question whether both question forms are syntactically interrogative sentences or instead have different underlying structures. The question is relevant if we consider that a number of languages use decl…
Mobilising for effective redress: The role of international human rights complaints in police accountability in Victoria
This article analyses the role of international human rights complaints mechanisms in the police accountability landscape in Australia, focusing on individual complaints to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) under the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Australia is a signatory. We do so through a case study of Horvath v Australia, which involved 'a disgraceful and out…
What Do These Memories Do? Civil Rights Remembrance and Racial Attitudes
Scholarly inquiry into collective memory has fostered a host of innovative questions, perspectives, and interpretations about how individuals and communities are both constituted by the past and mobilize it for present-day projects. Race is one of the more important current issues demonstrating how the presence of the past is both potent and sorrowful in the United States. It is therefore critical to examine how memories of racial oppression, con…
Still Distinctive After All These Years: Trends in Racial Attitudes in and out of the South
Still Distinctive After All These YearsTrends in Racial Attitudes in and out of the South Larry J. Griffin (bio) and Peggy G. Hargis (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the United States. After decades of struggle and sacrifice, it prodded the federal government to ban racial discrimination in public facilities, to pass fair housing laws after years of de facto and de jure …
The American South and the Self
Click for larger view Figure 1 Each region of the United States has a particular identity hewn from history and culture. Yet none is as distinctive as the American South and none has been imbued with such historical weight in the nation's making or afforded such metaphorical significance in its collective memory and mythological self-understandings. Southern icon Robert E. Lee, frontispiece photograph from Henry Alexander White's Robert E. Lee an…
"Generations and Collective Memory" Revisited: Race, Region, and Memory of Civil Rights
Using the spontaneous memories of a national sample of Americans in 1985, Schuman and Scott (1989) largely confirmed Mannheim's theory of generational identity by demonstrating that respondents' age structured their recall of important national and world events over the past 50 years. But they did not find the predicted age patterns for whites' recollections of civil rights. I argue that their failure was the consequence of ignoring regional diff…
Class, Multiculturalism and the American Quarterly
Introduction Our purposes here are two-fold, one empirical, the other more speculative. First, we adduce systematic evidence from the pages of the American Quarterly since 1949 to explore the dominant questions, organizing concepts, and analytical frames of American studies. Motivated generally by the contradictory assessments of the field's commitment to the study of social class, and particularly by the 1993 debate between John Higham and his c…
Commentary: Subversive Law, Subverting Law
Colorblind Injustice is an angry, ambitious, and very valuable book. In it,Kousser argues that the Second Reconstruction—that is, the post-1965 edifice of law and institutions securing essential African American and Latino civil rights and effective political voice—has been disastrously undermined, possibly mortally so, by the distorted, ignorant, or malicious (and, ultimately, to Kousser, dangerous) misinterpretations of the history of American …
Commentary: Subversive Law, Subverting Law
Social Science History - Volume 24, Number 2, Summer 2000
Workers and their Customers and Clients: An Editorial Introduction
Les etudes sur le secteur des services ont rarement ete etudiees de facon systematique. C'est pourquoi l'A. propose 3 postulats de departs pour remedier a cette lacune : 1) le controle des employeurs sur les ouvriers, 2) les experiences et les strategies des ouvriers travaillant dans le service, 3) l'experience et le pouvoir des clients dans une interaction de service
Forum: Revisiting A Festival of Violence
When, more than 30 years ago, I was writing my second graduate research paper, I was strongly advised by the professor in the course, John Morton Blum, to give up my effort to weigh the factors that I hypothesized might have caused the phenomenon that I was trying to explain.Just list all the causes for which there was any credible evidence, I was told; don't try even to rank them and certainly don't waste your time attempting to reject any.It's …
Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995
Journal Article Southern Labor in Transition, 1940—1995. Ed. by Robert H. Zieger. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. x, 346 pp. $42.00, ISBN 0-87049-990-4.) Get access Larry J. Griffin Larry J. Griffin Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1157–1158, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567356 Publ…
Historical Inference and Event-Structure Analysis
Event-structure analysis (ESA) is a member of a family of formal analytic procedures designed to analyze and interpret text, in particular the temporal sequences constituting the narrative of a historical event. Its basic purpose is to aid the analyst in “unpacking” an event – that is, in breaking it into constituent parts – and analytically reconstituting it as a causal interpretation of what happened and why it happened as it did. ESA focuses o…
The South as an American Problem
Promotional poster for the seminar The South as an American Problem sponsored by The Houston Vanderbilt Club
Comparative-Historical Analysis and Scientific Inference: Disfranchisement in the U.S. South as a Test Case
1997). Comparative-Historical Analysis and Scientific Inference: Disfranchisement in the U.S. South as a Test Case. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 30, Research in Historical Sociology, pp. 13-27
Trade Policy and the Southern Economy: Nafta in Historical Perspective
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is part of a 50-year process of trade liberalization in the United States. From the end of the Civil War through World War II, however, average tariff rates were high by historical standards. The article explores the impact of 'free trade' on regional economic performance-specifically, the pace of economic convergence between the American South and the rest of the United States. Econometric analysis…
Class as Race and Gender|Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South
Early in 1944 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certified Local 22 of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) as the bargaining agent for manufacturing workers at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The local was built and largely sustained by the collective actions of African Americans, especially women, who quickly made it the primary institutional locus a…
Class as Race and Gender: Making and Breaking a Labor Union in the Jim Crow South
How Is Sociology Informed by History
Often mischaracterized as merely the application of social theory to past events and happenings, historical sociology is actually a distinct way of approaching, explaining, and interpreting general sociological problems. By situating social action and social structures in their historical contexts and by examining their historical unfoldings, historical sociologists exploit the temporality of social life to ask and answer questions of perennial i…
How do we Disentangle Race and Class? or Should we Even Try
Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930
Some Observations on Formal Methods of Qualitative Analysis
W. J. Cash and the Minds of the South
Ethno
Temporality, Events, and Explanation in Historical Sociology: An Introduction
Ahistoricism in Time-Series Analyses of Historical Process: Critique, Redirection, and Illustrations from U.S. Labor History
Most time-ordered analyses of historical processes are rendered because the premises that direct quantitative inquiry obscure changing historical relations through time. These conventional practices stem from three problematic presuppositions: (1) the separation of theory and history, (2) ahistorical conceptions of time, and (3) methodological autonomy and the primacy of the theory of statistical technique. We illustrate how these premises shape …
Capitalist Resistance to the Organization of Labor Before the New Deal: Why? How? Success
Larry J. Griffin, Michael E. Wallace, Beth A. Rubin, Capitalist Resistance to the Organization of Labor Before the New Deal: Why? How? Success?, American Sociological Review, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Apr., 1986), pp. 147-167
Narrative, Event-Structure Analysis, and Causal Interpretation in Historical Sociology
Recent developments in historical sociology emphasize the centrality of temporality to analysis and explanation. Narrative uses temporal order to organize information about events and to foster their understanding but is insufficiently systematic to substitute for sociological explanation. This article illustrates a new interpretative heuristic for the computer- assisted analysis of qualitative narrative sequences, "event-structure analysis,"that…
"Generations and Collective Memory" Revisited: Race, Region, and Memory of Civil Rights
Using the spontaneous memories of a national sample of Americans in 1985, Schuman and Scott (1989) largely confirmed Mannheim's theory of generational identity by demonstrating that respondents' age structured their recall of important national and world events over the past 50 years. But they did not find the predicted age patterns for whites' recollections of civil rights. I argue that their failure was the consequence of ignoring regional diff…
Class, Occupation, and Inequality in Job Rewards
This paper argues that within an economic system class and occupation are conceptually distinct positions. Class refers to control by some positions over others in a production system, and occupation refers to the functional differentiation of positions in a technical division of labor. The effects of measures of class and occupation on both economic and noneconomic rewards are analyzed using data obtained from two national samples of individuals…
The Wisconsin Model of Socioeconomic Achievement: A Replication
Status attainment research has been characterized by the evaluation of analytic models of increasing complexity. This project replicates one of the Wisconsin "social-psychological" models of socioeconomic achievement with 15-year longitudinal data for a national sample of males first sampled in 1955 as high school sophomores and followed up in 1970. Interpersonal and subjective school variables are found to mediate a substantial part of the effec…
Positional Power, Strikes and Wages
Some time ago, Eric Olin Wright asked whether the ASR would entertain the possibility of publishing a paper written by the late Luca Perrone and edited by Wright, with the understanding that the paper contained serious flaws that under the circumstances could not be corrected through the review process. I said that we would, that I would inform reviewers of the circumstances and ask them to evaluate the paper, not against the standard of what it …
The Positional Power of American Labor, 1963-1977
This paper extends Perrone's conceptualization of positional power of labor and investigates its impact on three labor outcomes. We conceptualize positional power as embedded in the structural relations among interconnected spheres of production in the economy. We maintain that positional power is a threedimensional construct. It entails (1) the ability of workers in a given industry to disrupt operations of other industries upstream in the produ…
What Do These Memories Do? Civil Rights Remembrance and Racial Attitudes
Scholarly inquiry into collective memory has fostered a host of innovative questions, perspectives, and interpretations about how individuals and communities are both constituted by the past and mobilize it for present-day projects. Race is one of the more important current issues demonstrating how the presence of the past is both potent and sorrowful in the United States. It is therefore critical to examine how memories of racial oppression, con…
Some Observations on Formal Methods of Qualitative Analysis
Workers and their Customers and Clients: An Editorial Introduction
Les etudes sur le secteur des services ont rarement ete etudiees de facon systematique. C'est pourquoi l'A. propose 3 postulats de departs pour remedier a cette lacune : 1) le controle des employeurs sur les ouvriers, 2) les experiences et les strategies des ouvriers travaillant dans le service, 3) l'experience et le pouvoir des clients dans une interaction de service
Recursive Regression and the Historical Use of “Time” in Time-Series Analysis of Historical Process
(1992). Recursive Regression and the Historical Use of "Time" in Time-Series Analysis of Historical Process. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 166-179
Provided Only that their Voice was Strong: Insurgency and Organization of American Labor from NRA to Taft-Hartley
Students of the labor movement have been fascinated with the years between 1933 and 1946 for the impact they had on the experiences of workers in subsequent years, and because they redefined the possibilities for concerted working class action. In this article we present quantitative historical analyses to address the following issues: (1) In what ways did the various modes of worker action stimulate mass unionization efforts? (2) Under what cond…
Theoretical Generality, Case Particularity: Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Trade Union Growth and Decline
Schooling and Socioeconomic Attainments: High School and College Influences
The socioeconomic consequences of qualitative variations in educational experiences are evaluated for a sample of young adult males who were first surveyed in 1955 as high school sophomores and followed up in 1970. Models of institutional influence and of within-school processes are developed for both secondary and postsecondary education to integrate and refine the literatures on school effects and returns to schooling. Rather impressive occupat…
Determinants of Early Labor Market Entry and Attainment: A Study of Labor Market Segmentation
The early career attainments of a large, national sample of non-college educated workers are considered from a dual labor market perspective. Our analysis considers both the kinds of workers selected initially into secondary sector employment and the consequences of being so situatedfor a variety of indicators of market success, including subsequent sector positioning, unemployment, occupational status, job tenure, on-the-job training and earning…
On the Economic and Political Determinants of Welfare Spending in the Post-World War II Era
Stratification and Meritocracy in the United States: Class and Occupational Recruitment Patterns
It has been argued that achievement in the United States is governed by 'meritocratic' processes. In this paper we examine a number of aspects of this thesis. We argue that previous researchers have failed to sufficiently demonstrate the validity of the 'meritocratic' thesis because they have restricted their focus to occupation and have not considered the processes allocating people to unequally rewarded class positions. We first identify six cl…
How Is Sociology Informed by History
Often mischaracterized as merely the application of social theory to past events and happenings, historical sociology is actually a distinct way of approaching, explaining, and interpreting general sociological problems. By situating social action and social structures in their historical contexts and by examining their historical unfoldings, historical sociologists exploit the temporality of social life to ask and answer questions of perennial i…
Race and Sex Influences in the Schooling Processes of Rural and Small Town Youth
This paper assesses how race and sex act to determine the educational performance and career aspirations of over 3,000 students enrolled in 23 public schools in Mississippi. The data, collected in 1972, pertain to the schooling experiences of small town and rural students. The results strongly support the conclusions of Wisconsin researchers and others concerning the dynamics of early achievement processes for whites. Moreover, we find that even …
Class, Multiculturalism and the American Quarterly
Introduction Our purposes here are two-fold, one empirical, the other more speculative. First, we adduce systematic evidence from the pages of the American Quarterly since 1949 to explore the dominant questions, organizing concepts, and analytical frames of American studies. Motivated generally by the contradictory assessments of the field's commitment to the study of social class, and particularly by the 1993 debate between John Higham and his c…
Social Origins, Parental Values, and the Transmission of Inequality
Consensus exist among social scientists on the importance of the family of oring for a multitude of individual outcomes, but a complete understanding of the mechanisms producing these parental-filial linkages is lacking. This paper explores the interpretation of the connection between parental socioeconomic origins and adolescent schooling experiences using Melvin Kohn's concept of parental self-direction/conformity values. Using data from public…
Comparative-Historical Analysis and Scientific Inference: Disfranchisement in the U.S. South as a Test Case
1997). Comparative-Historical Analysis and Scientific Inference: Disfranchisement in the U.S. South as a Test Case. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 30, Research in Historical Sociology, pp. 13-27
School District Effects on Academic Achievement: A Reconsideration
The Wisconsin Model of Socioeconomic Achievement: A Replication
Status attainment research has been characterized by the evaluation of analytic models of increasing complexity. This project replicates one of the Wisconsin "social-psychological" models of socioeconomic achievement with 15-year longitudinal data for a national sample of males first sampled in 1955 as high school sophomores and followed up in 1970. Interpersonal and subjective school variables are found to mediate a substantial part of the effec…
Reply to Bidwell and Kasarda
School District Effects on Academic Achievement: A Reconsideration
Specification Biases in Estimates of Socioeconomic Returns to Schooling
This paper, based on a reanalysis of published data from seven sources and on new data, attempts to quantify the specification bias in estimates of the socioeconomic returns to schooling owing to the omission from earnings functions of socioeconomic status (SES) origins and ability. The results suggest that estimates of the occupational status returns to schooling are not seriously inflated. The biases in earnings returns are more pronounced, how…
Race and Sex Influences in the Schooling Processes of Rural and Small Town Youth
This paper assesses how race and sex act to determine the educational performance and career aspirations of over 3,000 students enrolled in 23 public schools in Mississippi. The data, collected in 1972, pertain to the schooling experiences of small town and rural students. The results strongly support the conclusions of Wisconsin researchers and others concerning the dynamics of early achievement processes for whites. Moreover, we find that even …
Positional Sources of Inequality in Job Satisfaction
Differences in job satisfaction constitute an important form of social inequality. In this paper, we conceptualize and assess that portion of the variation injob satisfaction that is generated by differential positions in the social and technical division of labor. We further attempt to explain these inequalities on the basis of the job rewards and work values that are associated with these social positions. Our results suggest, in particular, th…
On Estimating the Economic Value of Schooling and Experience: Some Issues in Conceptualization and Measurement
This paper attempts to demonstrate two things. First, sociologists interested in the processes governing income attainment and inequality should consider incorporating into socioeconomic achievement models indicators of work experience that correspond to the following life-cycle events: schooling, initialfull- time entry into the labor market, and assumption of current job. The findings presented here suggest that two types of postschooling marke…
Schooling and Socioeconomic Attainments: High School and College Influences
The socioeconomic consequences of qualitative variations in educational experiences are evaluated for a sample of young adult males who were first surveyed in 1955 as high school sophomores and followed up in 1970. Models of institutional influence and of within-school processes are developed for both secondary and postsecondary education to integrate and refine the literatures on school effects and returns to schooling. Rather impressive occupat…
Social Origins, Parental Values, and the Transmission of Inequality
Consensus exist among social scientists on the importance of the family of oring for a multitude of individual outcomes, but a complete understanding of the mechanisms producing these parental-filial linkages is lacking. This paper explores the interpretation of the connection between parental socioeconomic origins and adolescent schooling experiences using Melvin Kohn's concept of parental self-direction/conformity values. Using data from public…
Class, Occupation, and Inequality in Job Rewards
This paper argues that within an economic system class and occupation are conceptually distinct positions. Class refers to control by some positions over others in a production system, and occupation refers to the functional differentiation of positions in a technical division of labor. The effects of measures of class and occupation on both economic and noneconomic rewards are analyzed using data obtained from two national samples of individuals…
Progress Without Poverty: Socially Responsible Economic Growth
Stratification and Meritocracy in the United States: Class and Occupational Recruitment Patterns
It has been argued that achievement in the United States is governed by 'meritocratic' processes. In this paper we examine a number of aspects of this thesis. We argue that previous researchers have failed to sufficiently demonstrate the validity of the 'meritocratic' thesis because they have restricted their focus to occupation and have not considered the processes allocating people to unequally rewarded class positions. We first identify six cl…
Determinants of Early Labor Market Entry and Attainment: A Study of Labor Market Segmentation
The early career attainments of a large, national sample of non-college educated workers are considered from a dual labor market perspective. Our analysis considers both the kinds of workers selected initially into secondary sector employment and the consequences of being so situatedfor a variety of indicators of market success, including subsequent sector positioning, unemployment, occupational status, job tenure, on-the-job training and earning…
Monopoly Capital, Organized Labor, and Military Expenditures in the United States, 1949-1976
In this paper we systematically assess the neo-Marxian view that military expenditures are used by the state as a countercyclical fiscal policy either to forestall a serious recession or to facilitate economic recovery. In particular, we examine the post-World War II political-economic experience of the United States, because the military expenditures thesis was most fully developed initially in an attempt to explain postwar American prosperity. …
Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth Century Reform
Economy and the Class Structure
Provided Only that their Voice was Strong: Insurgency and Organization of American Labor from NRA to Taft-Hartley
Students of the labor movement have been fascinated with the years between 1933 and 1946 for the impact they had on the experiences of workers in subsequent years, and because they redefined the possibilities for concerted working class action. In this article we present quantitative historical analyses to address the following issues: (1) In what ways did the various modes of worker action stimulate mass unionization efforts? (2) Under what cond…
On the Economic and Political Determinants of Welfare Spending in the Post-World War II Era
Positional Power, Strikes and Wages
Some time ago, Eric Olin Wright asked whether the ASR would entertain the possibility of publishing a paper written by the late Luca Perrone and edited by Wright, with the understanding that the paper contained serious flaws that under the circumstances could not be corrected through the review process. I said that we would, that I would inform reviewers of the circumstances and ask them to evaluate the paper, not against the standard of what it …
Farmers in Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers' Alliance and People's Party in Texas
Review of: Farmers in Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers' Alliance and People's Party in Texas. Barnes, Donna A
One More Time: Militarizing the U.S. Budget: Reply to Jencks
The Politics of Insurgency: The Farm Worker Movement in the 1960s
Capitalist Resistance to the Organization of Labor Before the New Deal: Why? How? Success
Larry J. Griffin, Michael E. Wallace, Beth A. Rubin, Capitalist Resistance to the Organization of Labor Before the New Deal: Why? How? Success?, American Sociological Review, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Apr., 1986), pp. 147-167
National variation in the context of struggle: Postwar class conflict and market distribution in the capitalist democracies
Comment et pourqui la dynamique des classes varie‐t‐elle d'un pays capitaliste démocratique à l'autre, alors que I'on s'attendrait à découvrir un scénario commun? On ne trouve que peu d'évaluations d'ensemble de cette question qui soient d'inspiration marxiste. Ce manque a pour effet d'invalider diverses conceptions marxistes de l'organisation de classe et de la lutte de classe, en leur donnant souvent une allure exagérément mécaniste. Les approc…
Ahistoricism in Time-Series Analyses of Historical Process: Critique, Redirection, and Illustrations from U.S. Labor History
Most time-ordered analyses of historical processes are rendered because the premises that direct quantitative inquiry obscure changing historical relations through time. These conventional practices stem from three problematic presuppositions: (1) the separation of theory and history, (2) ahistorical conceptions of time, and (3) methodological autonomy and the primacy of the theory of statistical technique. We illustrate how these premises shape …
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