Seymour Spilerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 220524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seymour Spilerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seymour |
| FAMILY NAME | Spilerman |
| SIGNATURE | SPILERMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3985-2211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 838 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Sixty years of change in the fields of stratification and collective violence
Some New Directions for Research on Household Wealth
The dislocations of terror: Assessments of risk during the Second Intifada
Parental wealth and resource transfers: How they matter in France for home ownership and living standards
Intergenerational Influences of Wealth in Mexico
Using the 2006 Mexican Social Mobility Survey, this research evaluates the influence of parental wealth on several outcomes of adult children, including educational attainment, consumption level, asset holdings, home ownership, and value of residence. Two mechanisms of parental influence on economic wellbeing are explored: an indirect effect mediated by parental investment in human capital, and the direct transfer of resources. Three main finding…
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Societal Responses to Terrorist Attacks
Terrorist attacks in the United States and in Western Europe have been rare, and public awareness of the terrorist menace has largely been molded by a few horrific events. In contrast, other countries have experienced chronic terrorism, with attacks on buses, restaurants, coffee shops, and retail establishments. In this review, we assess the impact of terrorism on civilian society in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Israel. We examine the…
How Globalization Has Impacted Labour: A Review Essay
This essay outlines the features of globalization in the current era and indicates how conceptualizations of this process differ from the related formulations of the Annales School and of World Systems Analysis. The main theme of the article is then developed, namely an assessment of the ways that globalization has impacted the organization of work and the structure of employment careers. This assessment is based on results from a variety of rece…
The Impact of Parental Wealth on Early Living Standards in Israel
This article examines the role of parental wealth as a determinant of the living standards of young adults in Israel. Living standards were examined in terms of four measures: home ownership, car ownership, schooling after marriage, and a subjective evaluation by the respondent. Israel is a strategic site for examining the interplay between parental wealth and living standards because of the particular organization of its housing market. The stud…
Wealth and Stratification Processes
This paper reviews current information on wealth trends, with particular attention to the role of household wealth in the stratification system. The first section considers the relevance of wealth for stratification processes and examines why an appreciation of household wealth has been slow to materialize in stratification research. Subsequent sections discuss aspects of the distribution of household wealth in the United States, the transmission…
Organizational Structure, Determinants of Promotion, and Gender Differences in Attainment
Educational Credentials and Promotion Chances in Japanese and American Organizations
The authors examine how the process of career advancement in organizations is affected by the quality of educational institutions previously attended by the employees and by employees' specializations in college. Using detailed employment records of career-track employees in a large Japanese organization and a U.S. organization, they evaluate three assessments of the effect of college quality on promotion chances : (1) the graduates of high-quali…
Social Theory and Social Policy: Essays in Honor of James S. Coleman
The Material Possessions of Israeli Ethnic Groups
The present research focuses on ethnic disparities in standard of living, as reflected in ownership of household goods. The study examines the extent to which inequality in the possession of household goods is due to ethnic differences in earnings, wealth, and social and demographic characteristics – that is, family resources – versus ethnic styles and preferences. Using the 1986–7 Family Expenditure Survey (conducted by the Israeli Central Burea…
Social Theory and Social Policy: Essays in Honor of James S. Coleman
Introduction Introduction: The Intellectual Contributions of James S. Coleman by Aage B. Sorensen and Seymour Spilerman Policy-Relevant Social Theory The Individual as Participant in Political Exchange by James Buchanan The Conditions of Fruitfulness of Theorizing about Mechanisms in Social Science by Arthur L. Stinchcombe Beyond the Alternative between the Homo Sociologicus and the Homo Oeconomicus: Toward a Theory of Cold Beliefs by Raymond Bou…
Features of Educational Attainment and Job Promotion Prospects
In much sociological research on occupational achievement it is presumed that the full effect of education can be understood from an examination of years of years of schooling. It is also commonly assumed that the impact of education on career development can be investigated without reference to an individual's current organizational rank. This article shows that, with reference to promotion, several features from an employee's educational biogra…
The Age Structures of Occupations and Jobs
Age segmentation in the labor force can be analyzed in terms of the age distributions of occupations. In this paper we show that the majority of detailed census occupations conform to one of five basic age profiles. Further, these age profiles have meaning as they derive from the operation of well-defined institutional forces. We discuss the relevance of industry for a refined understanding of occupational-age patterns and conclude with some obse…
Clustering on the Main Diagonal in Mobility Matrices
An empirical regularity in mobility matrices that has given rise to a considerable volume of research concerns the phenomenon of clustering on the main diagonal.The reference model This content downloaded from 160.39.33.214 on Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:51:55 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions'By the caret (A) over a matrix or over entries in a matrix we mean esti-.mates made directly from observations.Entries without this symbol refer to …
Reply to Vigderhous
City Nondifferences Revisited
Careers, Labor Market Structure, and Socioeconomic Achievement
The objective of this paper is to develop the notion of the career as a strategic link between structural features of the labor market and the socioeconomic attainments of individuals. In the first section we review the treatment of careers in the occupational sociology literature and consider limitations of the traditional conceptualization. In the second section the main features of career lines, their structures and reward trajectories, are de…
Social Information for the 1970s
Structural Characteristics of Cities and the Severity of Racial Disorders
This study attempts to ascertain whether particular structural arrangements and demographic features of a community were responsible for especially severe disturbances during the 1960s.Preliminary to addressing this question, consideration is given to the manner of measuring severity and to the volatile components of this phenomenon.With respect to the latter, it is found that (1) disorder severity declined as a function of the number of prior ou…
The Representation of Social Processes by Markov Models
In this paper we consider a class of issues which are central to modeling social phenomena by continuous-time Markov structures. In particular, we discuss (a) embeddability, or how to determine whether observations on an empirical process could have arisen via the evolution of a continuous-time Markov structure; and (b) identification, or what to do if the observations are consisten with more than one continuous-time Markov structure. With respec…
Development Towns in Israel: The Role of Community in Creating Ethnic Disparities in Labor Force Characteristics
This paper investigates the contribution of community to ethnic stratification is Israel. We show that "development towns," a category of new settlements established to achieve population dispersal and immigrant absorption, have influenced (a) the areal distributions of different ethnic (country-of origin) group, (b) the tendency for each group to be concentrated in certain industries, and (c) the occupational opportunities available to the membe…
Wealth and Stratification Processes
This paper reviews current information on wealth trends, with particular attention to the role of household wealth in the stratification system. The first section considers the relevance of wealth for stratification processes and examines why an appreciation of household wealth has been slow to materialize in stratification research. Subsequent sections discuss aspects of the distribution of household wealth in the United States, the transmission…
The Causes of Racial Disturbances: A Comparison of Alternative Explanations
A range of hypotheses of varying specificity is exmnined in this paper in an attempt to account for the location of racial disorders.The initial sections consider what general assumptions must be met by any satisfactory explanation of the distribution of disorders.Mathematical models are constructed which embody the most prevalent assumptions as to the determinants of community riot-proneness, and their predictions are compared with empirical dat…
Careers, Labor Market Structure, and Socioeconomic Achievement
The objective of this paper is to develop the notion of the career as a strategic link between structural features of the labor market and the socioeconomic attainments of individuals. In the first section we review the treatment of careers in the occupational sociology literature and consider limitations of the traditional conceptualization. In the second section the main features of career lines, their structures and reward trajectories, are de…
Structural Characteristics of Cities and the Severity of Racial Disorders
This study attempts to ascertain whether particular structural arrangements and demographic features of a community were responsible for especially severe disturbances during the 1960s.Preliminary to addressing this question, consideration is given to the manner of measuring severity and to the volatile components of this phenomenon.With respect to the latter, it is found that (1) disorder severity declined as a function of the number of prior ou…
The Causes of Racial Disturbances: Tests of an Explanation
The adequacy of a recently proposed explanation for the location of racial disorders during the 1960's is evaluated in this paper.Two approaches to evaluation are used: (1) The proportion of variation accounted for by the variables assumed to be related to the occurrence of disorders is compared with an estimate of the "maximum explanable proportion of variation," and (2) the structural equation derived from an analysis of the 1961-67 disorders i…
Educational Credentials and Promotion Chances in Japanese and American Organizations
The authors examine how the process of career advancement in organizations is affected by the quality of educational institutions previously attended by the employees and by employees' specializations in college. Using detailed employment records of career-track employees in a large Japanese organization and a U.S. organization, they evaluate three assessments of the effect of college quality on promotion chances : (1) the graduates of high-quali…
The Analysis of Mobility Processes by the Introduction of Independent Variables into a Markov Chain
Thrupp, Sylvia 1962 The Merchant Class of Medieval London. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Tilly, Charles 1964 The Vendee. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. United States National Center for Health Statistics 1965 Vital and Health Statistics. Demographic Characteristics of Persons Married Between 1955 and June 1958, United States. Series 21, No. 2, Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office. Veblen, Thorsten 1…
Parental wealth and resource transfers: How they matter in France for home ownership and living standards
Societal Responses to Terrorist Attacks
Terrorist attacks in the United States and in Western Europe have been rare, and public awareness of the terrorist menace has largely been molded by a few horrific events. In contrast, other countries have experienced chronic terrorism, with attacks on buses, restaurants, coffee shops, and retail establishments. In this review, we assess the impact of terrorism on civilian society in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Israel. We examine the…
The Representation of Social Processes by Markov Models
In this paper we consider a class of issues which are central to modeling social phenomena by continuous-time Markov structures. In particular, we discuss (a) embeddability, or how to determine whether observations on an empirical process could have arisen via the evolution of a continuous-time Markov structure; and (b) identification, or what to do if the observations are consisten with more than one continuous-time Markov structure. With respec…
The Impact of Parental Wealth on Early Living Standards in Israel
This article examines the role of parental wealth as a determinant of the living standards of young adults in Israel. Living standards were examined in terms of four measures: home ownership, car ownership, schooling after marriage, and a subjective evaluation by the respondent. Israel is a strategic site for examining the interplay between parental wealth and living standards because of the particular organization of its housing market. The stud…
Development Towns in Israel: The Role of Community in Creating Ethnic Disparities in Labor Force Characteristics
This paper investigates the contribution of community to ethnic stratification is Israel. We show that "development towns," a category of new settlements established to achieve population dispersal and immigrant absorption, have influenced (a) the areal distributions of different ethnic (country-of origin) group, (b) the tendency for each group to be concentrated in certain industries, and (c) the occupational opportunities available to the membe…
Organizational Structure, Determinants of Promotion, and Gender Differences in Attainment
Features of Educational Attainment and Job Promotion Prospects
In much sociological research on occupational achievement it is presumed that the full effect of education can be understood from an examination of years of years of schooling. It is also commonly assumed that the impact of education on career development can be investigated without reference to an individual's current organizational rank. This article shows that, with reference to promotion, several features from an employee's educational biogra…
Extensions of the Mover-Stayer Model
A major drawback to the traditional Markov formulation of mobility processes is that it assumes population homogeneity with respect to transition behavior. This assumption is clearly violated in most instances of social mobility. In an attemp to relax the homogeneity requirement and still retain the essential character of a Markov process, Blumen, Kogan, and McCarthy (1955) developed the "mover-stayer" model in which heterogeneity is atributed to…
Strategic Considerations in Analyzing the Distribution of Racial Disturbances
The Age Structures of Occupations and Jobs
Age segmentation in the labor force can be analyzed in terms of the age distributions of occupations. In this paper we show that the majority of detailed census occupations conform to one of five basic age profiles. Further, these age profiles have meaning as they derive from the operation of well-defined institutional forces. We discuss the relevance of industry for a refined understanding of occupational-age patterns and conclude with some obse…
City Nondifferences Revisited
Alternative Conceptions of Poverty and Their Implications for Income Maintenance
This paper speaks to the problem of designing income maintenance programs from the perspective of sociological theory. First, the underlying logic of situational and cultural theories of poverty is delineated, and some of their general implications are explored. Afterwards, the predictions of these theories with respect to the response by poor persons to an income maintenance program are examined. It is argued that, in place of seeking whether on…
The Material Possessions of Israeli Ethnic Groups
The present research focuses on ethnic disparities in standard of living, as reflected in ownership of household goods. The study examines the extent to which inequality in the possession of household goods is due to ethnic differences in earnings, wealth, and social and demographic characteristics – that is, family resources – versus ethnic styles and preferences. Using the 1986–7 Family Expenditure Survey (conducted by the Israeli Central Burea…
Social Mobility Models for Heterogeneous Populations
Sociological Methodology is currently published by American Sociological Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the …
Clustering on the Main Diagonal in Mobility Matrices
An empirical regularity in mobility matrices that has given rise to a considerable volume of research concerns the phenomenon of clustering on the main diagonal.The reference model This content downloaded from 160.39.33.214 on Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:51:55 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions'By the caret (A) over a matrix or over entries in a matrix we mean esti-.mates made directly from observations.Entries without this symbol refer to …
Who Will Gain and Who Will Lose Influence Under Different Electoral Rules
Electoral reform has periodically been an issue of immense importance, and as long s the potential for crisis remains, this issue is certain to recur. What would constitute an electoral crisis is, foremost, an indecisive contest, and, secondarily, a failure by the electoral vote winner to capture a plurality of the popular vote. A number of proposals for electoral reform have been advanced, ranging from simple alterations of the present Electoral…
Raising Academic Motivation in Lower Class Adolescents: A Convergence of Two Research Traditions
This paper argues for the desirability of integrating two research traditions in the study of adolescent behavior. One is concerned primarily with the normal functioning of adolescent society, the other with the design of reward structures to foster academic achievement. Specifically, it is suggested that a combination of material inducements with a reward structure emphasizing peer group attainment can provide an effective strategy for motivatin…
The dislocations of terror: Assessments of risk during the Second Intifada
The Causes of Racial Disturbances: A Comparison of Alternative Explanations
A range of hypotheses of varying specificity is exmnined in this paper in an attempt to account for the location of racial disorders.The initial sections consider what general assumptions must be met by any satisfactory explanation of the distribution of disorders.Mathematical models are constructed which embody the most prevalent assumptions as to the determinants of community riot-proneness, and their predictions are compared with empirical dat…
Reply to DeFronzo
Politics and the Ghettos
The Causes of Racial Disturbances: Tests of an Explanation
The adequacy of a recently proposed explanation for the location of racial disorders during the 1960's is evaluated in this paper.Two approaches to evaluation are used: (1) The proportion of variation accounted for by the variables assumed to be related to the occurrence of disorders is compared with an estimate of the "maximum explanable proportion of variation," and (2) the structural equation derived from an analysis of the 1961-67 disorders i…
Raising Academic Motivation in Lower Class Adolescents: A Convergence of Two Research Traditions
This paper argues for the desirability of integrating two research traditions in the study of adolescent behavior. One is concerned primarily with the normal functioning of adolescent society, the other with the design of reward structures to foster academic achievement. Specifically, it is suggested that a combination of material inducements with a reward structure emphasizing peer group attainment can provide an effective strategy for motivatin…
Alternative Conceptions of Poverty and Their Implications for Income Maintenance
This paper speaks to the problem of designing income maintenance programs from the perspective of sociological theory. First, the underlying logic of situational and cultural theories of poverty is delineated, and some of their general implications are explored. Afterwards, the predictions of these theories with respect to the response by poor persons to an income maintenance program are examined. It is argued that, in place of seeking whether on…
The Analysis of Mobility Processes by the Introduction of Independent Variables into a Markov Chain
Thrupp, Sylvia 1962 The Merchant Class of Medieval London. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Tilly, Charles 1964 The Vendee. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. United States National Center for Health Statistics 1965 Vital and Health Statistics. Demographic Characteristics of Persons Married Between 1955 and June 1958, United States. Series 21, No. 2, Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office. Veblen, Thorsten 1…
Strategic Considerations in Analyzing the Distribution of Racial Disturbances
Extensions of the Mover-Stayer Model
A major drawback to the traditional Markov formulation of mobility processes is that it assumes population homogeneity with respect to transition behavior. This assumption is clearly violated in most instances of social mobility. In an attemp to relax the homogeneity requirement and still retain the essential character of a Markov process, Blumen, Kogan, and McCarthy (1955) developed the "mover-stayer" model in which heterogeneity is atributed to…
Social Mobility Models for Heterogeneous Populations
Sociological Methodology is currently published by American Sociological Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the …
Who Will Gain and Who Will Lose Influence Under Different Electoral Rules
Electoral reform has periodically been an issue of immense importance, and as long s the potential for crisis remains, this issue is certain to recur. What would constitute an electoral crisis is, foremost, an indecisive contest, and, secondarily, a failure by the electoral vote winner to capture a plurality of the popular vote. A number of proposals for electoral reform have been advanced, ranging from simple alterations of the present Electoral…
Social indicator models
Social Information for the 1970s
Structural Characteristics of Cities and the Severity of Racial Disorders
This study attempts to ascertain whether particular structural arrangements and demographic features of a community were responsible for especially severe disturbances during the 1960s.Preliminary to addressing this question, consideration is given to the manner of measuring severity and to the volatile components of this phenomenon.With respect to the latter, it is found that (1) disorder severity declined as a function of the number of prior ou…
The Representation of Social Processes by Markov Models
In this paper we consider a class of issues which are central to modeling social phenomena by continuous-time Markov structures. In particular, we discuss (a) embeddability, or how to determine whether observations on an empirical process could have arisen via the evolution of a continuous-time Markov structure; and (b) identification, or what to do if the observations are consisten with more than one continuous-time Markov structure. With respec…
Development Towns in Israel: The Role of Community in Creating Ethnic Disparities in Labor Force Characteristics
This paper investigates the contribution of community to ethnic stratification is Israel. We show that "development towns," a category of new settlements established to achieve population dispersal and immigrant absorption, have influenced (a) the areal distributions of different ethnic (country-of origin) group, (b) the tendency for each group to be concentrated in certain industries, and (c) the occupational opportunities available to the membe…
City Nondifferences Revisited
Careers, Labor Market Structure, and Socioeconomic Achievement
The objective of this paper is to develop the notion of the career as a strategic link between structural features of the labor market and the socioeconomic attainments of individuals. In the first section we review the treatment of careers in the occupational sociology literature and consider limitations of the traditional conceptualization. In the second section the main features of career lines, their structures and reward trajectories, are de…
Reply to Vigderhous
Clustering on the Main Diagonal in Mobility Matrices
An empirical regularity in mobility matrices that has given rise to a considerable volume of research concerns the phenomenon of clustering on the main diagonal.The reference model This content downloaded from 160.39.33.214 on Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:51:55 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions'By the caret (A) over a matrix or over entries in a matrix we mean esti-.mates made directly from observations.Entries without this symbol refer to …
The Age Structures of Occupations and Jobs
Age segmentation in the labor force can be analyzed in terms of the age distributions of occupations. In this paper we show that the majority of detailed census occupations conform to one of five basic age profiles. Further, these age profiles have meaning as they derive from the operation of well-defined institutional forces. We discuss the relevance of industry for a refined understanding of occupational-age patterns and conclude with some obse…
Features of Educational Attainment and Job Promotion Prospects
In much sociological research on occupational achievement it is presumed that the full effect of education can be understood from an examination of years of years of schooling. It is also commonly assumed that the impact of education on career development can be investigated without reference to an individual's current organizational rank. This article shows that, with reference to promotion, several features from an employee's educational biogra…
Social Theory and Social Policy: Essays in Honor of James S. Coleman
Introduction Introduction: The Intellectual Contributions of James S. Coleman by Aage B. Sorensen and Seymour Spilerman Policy-Relevant Social Theory The Individual as Participant in Political Exchange by James Buchanan The Conditions of Fruitfulness of Theorizing about Mechanisms in Social Science by Arthur L. Stinchcombe Beyond the Alternative between the Homo Sociologicus and the Homo Oeconomicus: Toward a Theory of Cold Beliefs by Raymond Bou…
The Material Possessions of Israeli Ethnic Groups
The present research focuses on ethnic disparities in standard of living, as reflected in ownership of household goods. The study examines the extent to which inequality in the possession of household goods is due to ethnic differences in earnings, wealth, and social and demographic characteristics – that is, family resources – versus ethnic styles and preferences. Using the 1986–7 Family Expenditure Survey (conducted by the Israeli Central Burea…
Educational Credentials and Promotion Chances in Japanese and American Organizations
The authors examine how the process of career advancement in organizations is affected by the quality of educational institutions previously attended by the employees and by employees' specializations in college. Using detailed employment records of career-track employees in a large Japanese organization and a U.S. organization, they evaluate three assessments of the effect of college quality on promotion chances : (1) the graduates of high-quali…
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