John Rosecrance
Biographic Data
| ID | 260370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Rosecrance |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosecrance |
| SIGNATURE | ROSECRANCE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5668-8519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Assessing the Impact of Work Activities on the Physiological Load in a Sample of Loggers in Sicily (Italy)
Occupational logging activities expose workers to a wide range of risk factors, such as lifting heavy loads, prolonged, awkward positioning of the lower back, repetitive movements, and insufficient work pauses. Body posture has an important impact on the level of physiological load. The present study involved a group of 40 loggers in the province of Enna (Sicily, Italy) with the aim of defining the impact of logging activities on the workers' phy…
An Assessment of Ergonomics Climate and Its Association with Self-Reported Pain, Organizational Performance and Employee Well-Being
Previous studies have demonstrated that a positive ergonomics climate with an equal focus on improving operational performance and employee well-being is beneficial to both employee health and organizational performance. This study aimed to assess the ergonomics climate at two power plants and examine its association with self-reported pain, performance, and well-being. At two power plants in Iran, survey responses from 109 and 110 employees were…
Mastery Goal Orientation and Performance Affect the Development of Leader Efficacy During Leader Development
Leader efficacy is a key outcome of leader development, but little is known about if and when developmental leader experiences, such as engaging in training, relate to gains in leader efficacy. We present a theoretical model of the effects of mastery goal orientation and performance during development as determinants of leader efficacy. We argue that a mastery goal orientation, whether dispositional (Studies 1, 2) or situationally induced (Study …
Whistleblowing in probation departments
Professional Horse Race Gambling: Working without a Safety Net
Using a comparative framework advocated by Hughes, I describe and analyze the work activities of professional horse race gamblers. Drawing upon qualitative data, I show that this unresearched occupational grouping is involved in a difficult nondeviant task for which commitment, discipline, and the ability to deal with ambiguity are prerequisites. The bane and sustenance of the occupation is its independent character, as players work with neither …
Accommodating Negative Client Perceptions: A Process of Neutralization
Fieldwork evidence and interview data are used to demonstrate that indigent criminal defendants believe legal representation provided by public defenders is inferior to privately retained counsel. While acknowledging this pejorative image, public defenders tend to trivialize client perceptions. Techniques of neutralization are used to describe the accommodation patterns utilized by public defenders to cope with this negative image. Findings are d…
Learning to Live with Variable Ratio Scheduling: The Career of a Horse Player
Although adaptations to variable ratio scheduling are an inevitable aspect of sustained gambling, the long term significance of this phenomena has not been researched adequately. Linking ethnographic data collection and social learning analysis, the author presents a career portrayal of regular horse race gamblers that describes how they deal with differential reinforcement. Over time, most horse players develop strategies that allow them to cont…
The Stooper: A Professional Thief in the Sutherland Manner
Sutherland's conceptualization of professional crime, while hailed as a milestone in criminology, has been criticized as excessively narrow, and its applicability to modern criminal activity has also been seriously questioned. Using qualitative data developed during an 18‐month investigation, this paper demonstrates that modern‐day stoopers, who retrieve discarded winning racetrack tickets, manifest criminal behavior that closely resembles Suther…
Racetrack Buddy Relations: Compartmentalized and Satisfying
Although friendship is a topic of universal interest, social scientists have not precisely defined this concept. Traditional definitions have emphasized the all-encompassing, generalized, and personalisitic quality of the relationship. On the other hand, current research has suggested that modern relationships are often compartmentalized and confined to the situational. My investigation builds upon the latter research. Using qualitative data draw…
Why Regular Gamblers Don't Quit: A Sociological Perspective
This article examines the phenomenon of persistence at gambling by relating regular participation to the social structure in which that behavior occurs. Using qualitative data developed during a study of three naturally occurring gambling groups and implicit knowledge drawn from 28 years of personal experience, I apply sociological perspectives to a subject that traditionally has been examined from either an economic or a psychological viewpoint.…
Attributions and the Origins of Problem Gambling
There is a growing concern with identifying the behavioral components of problem gambling. Using clinical data, advocates of a compulsion model indicate that a big win stimulates an unrealistic optimism that eventually leads to destructive gambling. However, drawing upon ethnographic data from a natural gambling group, I demonstrate that a bad beat (a significant monetary loss resulting from a seemingly inexplicable turn of events) often is the c…
You can't tell the players without a scorecard: A typology of horse players
Horse racing, America's number one spectator sport, attracts a loyal core of patrons who persist at gambling on horses despite the low probability of financial gain. Traditional perspectives which view gambling as a social problem and the behavior of its regular participants as deviant have narrowly restricted scientific investigation into a track milieu, and the wide range of behaviors demonstrated by these gamblers have never been placed into a…
The invisible horsemen: The social world of the backstretch
Compulsive Gambling and the Medicalization of Deviance
This paper describes the process whereby excessive gambling is being defined as both a disease and a serious social problem. Gamblers whose repeated losses lead to serious financial and psychological difficulties are increasingly being labeled “compulsive” or “pathological.” I use a model advanced by Conrad and Schneider (1980) to delineate this process. Clinicians developed the prevailing illness model from accounts of those seeking treatment to…
Compulsive Gambling and the Medicalization of Deviance
This paper describes the process whereby excessive gambling is being defined as both a disease and a serious social problem. Gamblers whose repeated losses lead to serious financial and psychological difficulties are increasingly being labeled “compulsive” or “pathological.” I use a model advanced by Conrad and Schneider (1980) to delineate this process. Clinicians developed the prevailing illness model from accounts of those seeking treatment to…
Why Regular Gamblers Don't Quit: A Sociological Perspective
This article examines the phenomenon of persistence at gambling by relating regular participation to the social structure in which that behavior occurs. Using qualitative data developed during a study of three naturally occurring gambling groups and implicit knowledge drawn from 28 years of personal experience, I apply sociological perspectives to a subject that traditionally has been examined from either an economic or a psychological viewpoint.…
The invisible horsemen: The social world of the backstretch
Racetrack Buddy Relations: Compartmentalized and Satisfying
Although friendship is a topic of universal interest, social scientists have not precisely defined this concept. Traditional definitions have emphasized the all-encompassing, generalized, and personalisitic quality of the relationship. On the other hand, current research has suggested that modern relationships are often compartmentalized and confined to the situational. My investigation builds upon the latter research. Using qualitative data draw…
Accommodating Negative Client Perceptions: A Process of Neutralization
Fieldwork evidence and interview data are used to demonstrate that indigent criminal defendants believe legal representation provided by public defenders is inferior to privately retained counsel. While acknowledging this pejorative image, public defenders tend to trivialize client perceptions. Techniques of neutralization are used to describe the accommodation patterns utilized by public defenders to cope with this negative image. Findings are d…
The Stooper: A Professional Thief in the Sutherland Manner
Sutherland's conceptualization of professional crime, while hailed as a milestone in criminology, has been criticized as excessively narrow, and its applicability to modern criminal activity has also been seriously questioned. Using qualitative data developed during an 18‐month investigation, this paper demonstrates that modern‐day stoopers, who retrieve discarded winning racetrack tickets, manifest criminal behavior that closely resembles Suther…
Professional Horse Race Gambling: Working without a Safety Net
Using a comparative framework advocated by Hughes, I describe and analyze the work activities of professional horse race gamblers. Drawing upon qualitative data, I show that this unresearched occupational grouping is involved in a difficult nondeviant task for which commitment, discipline, and the ability to deal with ambiguity are prerequisites. The bane and sustenance of the occupation is its independent character, as players work with neither …
Whistleblowing in probation departments
Attributions and the Origins of Problem Gambling
There is a growing concern with identifying the behavioral components of problem gambling. Using clinical data, advocates of a compulsion model indicate that a big win stimulates an unrealistic optimism that eventually leads to destructive gambling. However, drawing upon ethnographic data from a natural gambling group, I demonstrate that a bad beat (a significant monetary loss resulting from a seemingly inexplicable turn of events) often is the c…
The invisible horsemen: The social world of the backstretch
Compulsive Gambling and the Medicalization of Deviance
This paper describes the process whereby excessive gambling is being defined as both a disease and a serious social problem. Gamblers whose repeated losses lead to serious financial and psychological difficulties are increasingly being labeled “compulsive” or “pathological.” I use a model advanced by Conrad and Schneider (1980) to delineate this process. Clinicians developed the prevailing illness model from accounts of those seeking treatment to…
Learning to Live with Variable Ratio Scheduling: The Career of a Horse Player
Although adaptations to variable ratio scheduling are an inevitable aspect of sustained gambling, the long term significance of this phenomena has not been researched adequately. Linking ethnographic data collection and social learning analysis, the author presents a career portrayal of regular horse race gamblers that describes how they deal with differential reinforcement. Over time, most horse players develop strategies that allow them to cont…
The Stooper: A Professional Thief in the Sutherland Manner
Sutherland's conceptualization of professional crime, while hailed as a milestone in criminology, has been criticized as excessively narrow, and its applicability to modern criminal activity has also been seriously questioned. Using qualitative data developed during an 18‐month investigation, this paper demonstrates that modern‐day stoopers, who retrieve discarded winning racetrack tickets, manifest criminal behavior that closely resembles Suther…
Racetrack Buddy Relations: Compartmentalized and Satisfying
Although friendship is a topic of universal interest, social scientists have not precisely defined this concept. Traditional definitions have emphasized the all-encompassing, generalized, and personalisitic quality of the relationship. On the other hand, current research has suggested that modern relationships are often compartmentalized and confined to the situational. My investigation builds upon the latter research. Using qualitative data draw…
Why Regular Gamblers Don't Quit: A Sociological Perspective
This article examines the phenomenon of persistence at gambling by relating regular participation to the social structure in which that behavior occurs. Using qualitative data developed during a study of three naturally occurring gambling groups and implicit knowledge drawn from 28 years of personal experience, I apply sociological perspectives to a subject that traditionally has been examined from either an economic or a psychological viewpoint.…
Attributions and the Origins of Problem Gambling
There is a growing concern with identifying the behavioral components of problem gambling. Using clinical data, advocates of a compulsion model indicate that a big win stimulates an unrealistic optimism that eventually leads to destructive gambling. However, drawing upon ethnographic data from a natural gambling group, I demonstrate that a bad beat (a significant monetary loss resulting from a seemingly inexplicable turn of events) often is the c…
You can't tell the players without a scorecard: A typology of horse players
Horse racing, America's number one spectator sport, attracts a loyal core of patrons who persist at gambling on horses despite the low probability of financial gain. Traditional perspectives which view gambling as a social problem and the behavior of its regular participants as deviant have narrowly restricted scientific investigation into a track milieu, and the wide range of behaviors demonstrated by these gamblers have never been placed into a…
Whistleblowing in probation departments
Professional Horse Race Gambling: Working without a Safety Net
Using a comparative framework advocated by Hughes, I describe and analyze the work activities of professional horse race gamblers. Drawing upon qualitative data, I show that this unresearched occupational grouping is involved in a difficult nondeviant task for which commitment, discipline, and the ability to deal with ambiguity are prerequisites. The bane and sustenance of the occupation is its independent character, as players work with neither …
Accommodating Negative Client Perceptions: A Process of Neutralization
Fieldwork evidence and interview data are used to demonstrate that indigent criminal defendants believe legal representation provided by public defenders is inferior to privately retained counsel. While acknowledging this pejorative image, public defenders tend to trivialize client perceptions. Techniques of neutralization are used to describe the accommodation patterns utilized by public defenders to cope with this negative image. Findings are d…
Mastery Goal Orientation and Performance Affect the Development of Leader Efficacy During Leader Development
Leader efficacy is a key outcome of leader development, but little is known about if and when developmental leader experiences, such as engaging in training, relate to gains in leader efficacy. We present a theoretical model of the effects of mastery goal orientation and performance during development as determinants of leader efficacy. We argue that a mastery goal orientation, whether dispositional (Studies 1, 2) or situationally induced (Study …
An Assessment of Ergonomics Climate and Its Association with Self-Reported Pain, Organizational Performance and Employee Well-Being
Previous studies have demonstrated that a positive ergonomics climate with an equal focus on improving operational performance and employee well-being is beneficial to both employee health and organizational performance. This study aimed to assess the ergonomics climate at two power plants and examine its association with self-reported pain, performance, and well-being. At two power plants in Iran, survey responses from 109 and 110 employees were…
Assessing the Impact of Work Activities on the Physiological Load in a Sample of Loggers in Sicily (Italy)
Occupational logging activities expose workers to a wide range of risk factors, such as lifting heavy loads, prolonged, awkward positioning of the lower back, repetitive movements, and insufficient work pauses. Body posture has an important impact on the level of physiological load. The present study involved a group of 40 loggers in the province of Enna (Sicily, Italy) with the aim of defining the impact of logging activities on the workers' phy…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Sports Analytics and Performance (4 works)