James M Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 258068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine at Augusta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8447-6126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring User Experiences with Amanita muscaria: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Online Forum Discussions
Background: Amanita muscaria, commonly known as fly agaric or fly amanita, is a mushroom renowned for its distinctive appearance and psychoactive properties attributed to its compounds, ibotenic acid, and muscimol. Contemporary interest in Amanita muscaria has surged, driven by anecdotal reports of perceived psychological and medicinal benefits.Objectives: However, no clinical studies exist thus far. This study employs thematic analysis of discus…
More than Two… but not Right Now: Interpretations and Responses to Covid-19 Measures on Reddit for Two Communities of Consensual Non-Monogamy
Twitter Adoption and Activity in U.S. Legislatures: A 50-State Study
This study draws inspiration from the literature on Twitter adoption and activity in U.S. legislatures, applying predictions from those limited studies to all 7,378 politicians serving across 50 American state legislatures in the fall of 2015. Tests of bivariate association carried out for individual states lead to widely varying results, indicating an underlying diversity of legislative environments. However, a pooled multivariate analysis for a…
Gender, Party, and Presentation of Family in the Social Media Profiles of 10 State Legislatures
Recent research has identified neither consistent gendered stereotypes about legislators among constituents, nor a link between legislators' gender and their electoral success, nor consistent gender coalitions in legislative voting and co-sponsorship. However, it would be premature to declare that gender is irrelevant to legislative politics. This article considers state legislators' choice to discuss or omit family in their social media profiles…
Filling Structural Holes: Social Networks in the Introductory Course
Although the literature on social networks has made a considerable contribution to the sociological imagination in recent years, it has been largely ignored in conventional course materials. Such an omission is curious, considering social networks' intuitive imagery, broad theoretical relevance and extensive empirical application. This article offers a remedy to that oversight, describing a challenging yet accessible curriculum including readings…
Sex Ratios: Concepts and Research Methods
Covering sex allocation, sex determination and operational sex ratios, this multi-author volume provides both a conceptual context and an instruction in methods for many aspects of sex ratio research. Theory, statistical analysis and genetics are each explained and discussed in the first three sections. The remaining chapters each focus on research in one of a wide spectrum of animal, plant and microbial taxa, including sex ratio distorting bacte…
Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
Similarity breeds connection. This principle-the homophily principle-structures network ties of every type, including marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer, exchange, comembership, and other types of relationship. The result is that people's personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, behavioral, and intrapersonal characteristics. Homophily limits people's social worlds in a way that has pow…
National Power on the Local Stage: How Cable Captured Congress and Cornered Cities
This article examines the interaction of national power and local authority in cable television licensing over time. Our work supplements power elite theory in three ways. First, power elite theory focuses on indicators of power such as membership, money, and access; to these we add the availability of alternatives. Second, while power elite research has demonstrated that policy victors are powerful, it is equally important to determine whether t…
Politics and Institutionalism: Explaining Durability and Change
From the complex literatures on 'institutionalisms' in political science and sociology, various components of institutional change are identified: mutability, contradiction, multiplicity, containment and diffusion, learning and innovation, and mediation. This exercise results in a number of clear prescriptions for the analysis of politics and institutional change: disaggregate institutions into schemas and resources; decompose institutional durab…
Yanomamo Hallucinogens: Anthropological, Botanical, and Chemical Findings
Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
Similarity breeds connection. This principle-the homophily principle-structures network ties of every type, including marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer, exchange, comembership, and other types of relationship. The result is that people's personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, behavioral, and intrapersonal characteristics. Homophily limits people's social worlds in a way that has pow…
Politics and Institutionalism: Explaining Durability and Change
From the complex literatures on 'institutionalisms' in political science and sociology, various components of institutional change are identified: mutability, contradiction, multiplicity, containment and diffusion, learning and innovation, and mediation. This exercise results in a number of clear prescriptions for the analysis of politics and institutional change: disaggregate institutions into schemas and resources; decompose institutional durab…
Yanomamo Hallucinogens: Anthropological, Botanical, and Chemical Findings
Twitter Adoption and Activity in U.S. Legislatures: A 50-State Study
This study draws inspiration from the literature on Twitter adoption and activity in U.S. legislatures, applying predictions from those limited studies to all 7,378 politicians serving across 50 American state legislatures in the fall of 2015. Tests of bivariate association carried out for individual states lead to widely varying results, indicating an underlying diversity of legislative environments. However, a pooled multivariate analysis for a…
Gender, Party, and Presentation of Family in the Social Media Profiles of 10 State Legislatures
Recent research has identified neither consistent gendered stereotypes about legislators among constituents, nor a link between legislators' gender and their electoral success, nor consistent gender coalitions in legislative voting and co-sponsorship. However, it would be premature to declare that gender is irrelevant to legislative politics. This article considers state legislators' choice to discuss or omit family in their social media profiles…
Filling Structural Holes: Social Networks in the Introductory Course
Although the literature on social networks has made a considerable contribution to the sociological imagination in recent years, it has been largely ignored in conventional course materials. Such an omission is curious, considering social networks' intuitive imagery, broad theoretical relevance and extensive empirical application. This article offers a remedy to that oversight, describing a challenging yet accessible curriculum including readings…
Yanomamo Hallucinogens: Anthropological, Botanical, and Chemical Findings
Politics and Institutionalism: Explaining Durability and Change
From the complex literatures on 'institutionalisms' in political science and sociology, various components of institutional change are identified: mutability, contradiction, multiplicity, containment and diffusion, learning and innovation, and mediation. This exercise results in a number of clear prescriptions for the analysis of politics and institutional change: disaggregate institutions into schemas and resources; decompose institutional durab…
National Power on the Local Stage: How Cable Captured Congress and Cornered Cities
This article examines the interaction of national power and local authority in cable television licensing over time. Our work supplements power elite theory in three ways. First, power elite theory focuses on indicators of power such as membership, money, and access; to these we add the availability of alternatives. Second, while power elite research has demonstrated that policy victors are powerful, it is equally important to determine whether t…
Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
Similarity breeds connection. This principle-the homophily principle-structures network ties of every type, including marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer, exchange, comembership, and other types of relationship. The result is that people's personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, behavioral, and intrapersonal characteristics. Homophily limits people's social worlds in a way that has pow…
Sex Ratios: Concepts and Research Methods
Covering sex allocation, sex determination and operational sex ratios, this multi-author volume provides both a conceptual context and an instruction in methods for many aspects of sex ratio research. Theory, statistical analysis and genetics are each explained and discussed in the first three sections. The remaining chapters each focus on research in one of a wide spectrum of animal, plant and microbial taxa, including sex ratio distorting bacte…
Filling Structural Holes: Social Networks in the Introductory Course
Although the literature on social networks has made a considerable contribution to the sociological imagination in recent years, it has been largely ignored in conventional course materials. Such an omission is curious, considering social networks' intuitive imagery, broad theoretical relevance and extensive empirical application. This article offers a remedy to that oversight, describing a challenging yet accessible curriculum including readings…
Gender, Party, and Presentation of Family in the Social Media Profiles of 10 State Legislatures
Recent research has identified neither consistent gendered stereotypes about legislators among constituents, nor a link between legislators' gender and their electoral success, nor consistent gender coalitions in legislative voting and co-sponsorship. However, it would be premature to declare that gender is irrelevant to legislative politics. This article considers state legislators' choice to discuss or omit family in their social media profiles…
Twitter Adoption and Activity in U.S. Legislatures: A 50-State Study
This study draws inspiration from the literature on Twitter adoption and activity in U.S. legislatures, applying predictions from those limited studies to all 7,378 politicians serving across 50 American state legislatures in the fall of 2015. Tests of bivariate association carried out for individual states lead to widely varying results, indicating an underlying diversity of legislative environments. However, a pooled multivariate analysis for a…
More than Two… but not Right Now: Interpretations and Responses to Covid-19 Measures on Reddit for Two Communities of Consensual Non-Monogamy
Exploring User Experiences with Amanita muscaria: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Online Forum Discussions
Background: Amanita muscaria, commonly known as fly agaric or fly amanita, is a mushroom renowned for its distinctive appearance and psychoactive properties attributed to its compounds, ibotenic acid, and muscimol. Contemporary interest in Amanita muscaria has surged, driven by anecdotal reports of perceived psychological and medicinal benefits.Objectives: However, no clinical studies exist thus far. This study employs thematic analysis of discus…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social media (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works)