James C Witte
Biographic Data
| ID | 264278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James C Witte |
| GIVEN NAMES | James C |
| FAMILY NAME | Witte |
| SIGNATURE | WITTE J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9410-4131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 247 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Immigrant Population and Entrepreneurship Development in United States Metropolitan Areas
This paper examines the relationship between the immigrant population and entrepreneurial activities in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) of the United States. Using a two‐way fixed effects model on MSA‐level aggregate data, aggregated from individual‐level microdata for five periods from the U.S. Census spanning from 2000 to 2022, we find that higher proportions of the immigrant population at the MSA‐level are significantly associated with i…
Viewing Then Doing: Problem-Solving Court Coordinators’ Perceptions of Medications for Opioid Use Disorders from a Nationally Representative Survey in the United States
Background. Overdose deaths in the United States (U.S.) surpassed 100,000 in 2021. Problem-solving courts (PSCs), which originally began as drug courts, divert people with nonviolent felonies and underlying social issues (e.g. opioid use disorders (OUDs)) from the carceral system to a community-based treatment court program. PSCs are operated by a collaborative court staff team including a judge that supervises PSC clients, local court coordinato…
Who Gets Accepted and Who Gets Rejected? Status in the Production of Social Science
This article considers science as a stratified social system that may reflect and reproduce broader social patterns of stratification. Analyses are based on a unique data archive with more than ten thousand published and unpublished manuscripts and the associated peer reviews, all submitted between 1990 and 2010 to the American Sociological Review , a leading journal in the discipline. The analysis considers how race, gender, manuscript topic, an…
Surveying Societies Mired in Conflict: Evidence of Social Desirability Bias in Palestine
Survey research is a form of social interaction with its own set of guiding principles. As in all social interactions, there are implicit cultural and political values and beliefs that can influence the way respondents choose to answer survey questions. Previous research within the United States has found that the presence of an interviewer can influence the validity of survey responses (e.g., Tourangeau, Rips, & Rasinki, 2000). Similar findings …
Is the willingness to take risks contagious? A comparison of immigrants and native-born in the United States
A number of studies have shown that immigrants are more willing to take risks than native-born populations. In this paper, we measure if the willingness to take risks is contagious and if this effect is different for immigrants and native-born individuals in the United States. We suggest that the willingness to take risks may be contagious, like emotions and generosity, i.e. an individual may be more willing to take risks if others make risky dec…
A ciência social digitalizada: Avanços, Oportunidades E Desafios
Até bem pouco tempo, os sociólogos resistiam em admitir que as mudanças econômicas e sociais produzidas pela revolução da informática são tão profundas quanto aquelas provocadas pela revolução industrial. Mas, pouco a pouco, vemos desenvolver-se uma sociologia digital. Este artigo inicia examinando, em breves linhas, como a busca e o acesso à literatura, enquanto atividade rotineira, cotidiana, das ciências sociais, transformou-se, a partir das n…
The Internet and Social Inequalities
Ideal for use as a core or secondary text in lower division social inequalities or social problems courses, this book explains how the changing nature and uses of the Internet not only mirror today’s social inequalities, but also are at the heart of how stratification is now taking place. A pioneering work, both intellectually, and pedagogically.
The internet and social inequalities
Introduction to the Special Issue on Web Surveys
Web Survey Design: Balancing Measurement, Response, and Topical Interest
Using data from Survey2001, we analyze how visual images embedded in a web-based survey can (1) reduce nonresponse in the specific case that a respondent prematurely terminates the survey and (2) preserve measurement validity. Page-by-page progression through the survey is modeled as a survival process with early termination seen as failure. While images had no apparent effect on the termination process, respondent interest in the survey topic wa…
Instrument Effects of Images in Web Surveys: A Research Note
This research note offers cautionary evidence, indicating just how little we know about how respondents react to and complete Web surveys. Researchers using or contemplating a Web-based approach need to be very clear that the line between the phenomena to be measured and the means of measurement is often quite fuzzy. This note uses data from Survey2001 to illustrate this point. Nearly 30,000 respondents completed part or all of Survey2001, which …
Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital: Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment
How does the Internet affect social capital? Do the communication possibilities of the Internet increase, decrease, or supplement interpersonal contact, participation, and community commitment? This evidence comes from a 1998 survey of 39,211 visitors to the National Geographic Society Web site, one of the first large-scale Web surveys. The authors find that people's interaction online supplements their face-to-face and telephone communication wi…
Research Methodology: Method and Representation in Internet-Based Survey ToolsŠ Mobility, Community, and Cultural Identity in Survey2000
The Survey2000 Project is the largest and most comprehensive Internet-based social science survey to date. Along with generating interesting data about geographic mobility, feelings of community, and culinary, literary, and musical tastes, the experience of operating a survey with Internet tools has set into sharp relief important methodological issues of sample size, representation, and generalization. The authors argue that Internet-based surve…
Declining Fertility in East Germany After Unification: A Demographic Response to Socioeconomic Change
This investigation draws on detailed, longitudinal sample survey data to examine declining fertility in East Germany. Since the unification of Germany in 1990, the fertility rate in East Germany has been halved-falling well below that of West Germany, which was already among the lowest in the world. The authors assess the manner in which these changes in individual behavior can best be understood as responses to socioeconomic change. They advocat…
Matching Training and Jobs: The Fit Between Vocational Education and Employment in the German Labour Market
Journal Article Matching Training and Jobs: The Fit Between Vocational Education and Employment in the German Labour Market Get access JAMES C. WITTE, JAMES C. WITTE Professor Department of Sociology, Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL, 60208–1330, USA. Tel: (708) 491–5176; Fax: (708) 491–9907. E-mail:[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ARNE L. KALLEBERG ARNE L. KALLEBERG Department …
Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital: Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment
How does the Internet affect social capital? Do the communication possibilities of the Internet increase, decrease, or supplement interpersonal contact, participation, and community commitment? This evidence comes from a 1998 survey of 39,211 visitors to the National Geographic Society Web site, one of the first large-scale Web surveys. The authors find that people's interaction online supplements their face-to-face and telephone communication wi…
Declining Fertility in East Germany After Unification: A Demographic Response to Socioeconomic Change
This investigation draws on detailed, longitudinal sample survey data to examine declining fertility in East Germany. Since the unification of Germany in 1990, the fertility rate in East Germany has been halved-falling well below that of West Germany, which was already among the lowest in the world. The authors assess the manner in which these changes in individual behavior can best be understood as responses to socioeconomic change. They advocat…
Research Methodology: Method and Representation in Internet-Based Survey ToolsŠ Mobility, Community, and Cultural Identity in Survey2000
The Survey2000 Project is the largest and most comprehensive Internet-based social science survey to date. Along with generating interesting data about geographic mobility, feelings of community, and culinary, literary, and musical tastes, the experience of operating a survey with Internet tools has set into sharp relief important methodological issues of sample size, representation, and generalization. The authors argue that Internet-based surve…
Matching Training and Jobs: The Fit Between Vocational Education and Employment in the German Labour Market
Journal Article Matching Training and Jobs: The Fit Between Vocational Education and Employment in the German Labour Market Get access JAMES C. WITTE, JAMES C. WITTE Professor Department of Sociology, Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL, 60208–1330, USA. Tel: (708) 491–5176; Fax: (708) 491–9907. E-mail:[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ARNE L. KALLEBERG ARNE L. KALLEBERG Department …
Instrument Effects of Images in Web Surveys: A Research Note
This research note offers cautionary evidence, indicating just how little we know about how respondents react to and complete Web surveys. Researchers using or contemplating a Web-based approach need to be very clear that the line between the phenomena to be measured and the means of measurement is often quite fuzzy. This note uses data from Survey2001 to illustrate this point. Nearly 30,000 respondents completed part or all of Survey2001, which …
Web Survey Design: Balancing Measurement, Response, and Topical Interest
Using data from Survey2001, we analyze how visual images embedded in a web-based survey can (1) reduce nonresponse in the specific case that a respondent prematurely terminates the survey and (2) preserve measurement validity. Page-by-page progression through the survey is modeled as a survival process with early termination seen as failure. While images had no apparent effect on the termination process, respondent interest in the survey topic wa…
A ciência social digitalizada: Avanços, Oportunidades E Desafios
Até bem pouco tempo, os sociólogos resistiam em admitir que as mudanças econômicas e sociais produzidas pela revolução da informática são tão profundas quanto aquelas provocadas pela revolução industrial. Mas, pouco a pouco, vemos desenvolver-se uma sociologia digital. Este artigo inicia examinando, em breves linhas, como a busca e o acesso à literatura, enquanto atividade rotineira, cotidiana, das ciências sociais, transformou-se, a partir das n…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Web Surveys
Surveying Societies Mired in Conflict: Evidence of Social Desirability Bias in Palestine
Survey research is a form of social interaction with its own set of guiding principles. As in all social interactions, there are implicit cultural and political values and beliefs that can influence the way respondents choose to answer survey questions. Previous research within the United States has found that the presence of an interviewer can influence the validity of survey responses (e.g., Tourangeau, Rips, & Rasinki, 2000). Similar findings …
Declining Fertility in East Germany After Unification: A Demographic Response to Socioeconomic Change
This investigation draws on detailed, longitudinal sample survey data to examine declining fertility in East Germany. Since the unification of Germany in 1990, the fertility rate in East Germany has been halved-falling well below that of West Germany, which was already among the lowest in the world. The authors assess the manner in which these changes in individual behavior can best be understood as responses to socioeconomic change. They advocat…
Matching Training and Jobs: The Fit Between Vocational Education and Employment in the German Labour Market
Journal Article Matching Training and Jobs: The Fit Between Vocational Education and Employment in the German Labour Market Get access JAMES C. WITTE, JAMES C. WITTE Professor Department of Sociology, Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL, 60208–1330, USA. Tel: (708) 491–5176; Fax: (708) 491–9907. E-mail:[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ARNE L. KALLEBERG ARNE L. KALLEBERG Department …
Research Methodology: Method and Representation in Internet-Based Survey ToolsŠ Mobility, Community, and Cultural Identity in Survey2000
The Survey2000 Project is the largest and most comprehensive Internet-based social science survey to date. Along with generating interesting data about geographic mobility, feelings of community, and culinary, literary, and musical tastes, the experience of operating a survey with Internet tools has set into sharp relief important methodological issues of sample size, representation, and generalization. The authors argue that Internet-based surve…
Does the Internet Increase, Decrease, or Supplement Social Capital: Social Networks, Participation, and Community Commitment
How does the Internet affect social capital? Do the communication possibilities of the Internet increase, decrease, or supplement interpersonal contact, participation, and community commitment? This evidence comes from a 1998 survey of 39,211 visitors to the National Geographic Society Web site, one of the first large-scale Web surveys. The authors find that people's interaction online supplements their face-to-face and telephone communication wi…
Instrument Effects of Images in Web Surveys: A Research Note
This research note offers cautionary evidence, indicating just how little we know about how respondents react to and complete Web surveys. Researchers using or contemplating a Web-based approach need to be very clear that the line between the phenomena to be measured and the means of measurement is often quite fuzzy. This note uses data from Survey2001 to illustrate this point. Nearly 30,000 respondents completed part or all of Survey2001, which …
Introduction to the Special Issue on Web Surveys
Web Survey Design: Balancing Measurement, Response, and Topical Interest
Using data from Survey2001, we analyze how visual images embedded in a web-based survey can (1) reduce nonresponse in the specific case that a respondent prematurely terminates the survey and (2) preserve measurement validity. Page-by-page progression through the survey is modeled as a survival process with early termination seen as failure. While images had no apparent effect on the termination process, respondent interest in the survey topic wa…
The Internet and Social Inequalities
Ideal for use as a core or secondary text in lower division social inequalities or social problems courses, this book explains how the changing nature and uses of the Internet not only mirror today’s social inequalities, but also are at the heart of how stratification is now taking place. A pioneering work, both intellectually, and pedagogically.
The internet and social inequalities
A ciência social digitalizada: Avanços, Oportunidades E Desafios
Até bem pouco tempo, os sociólogos resistiam em admitir que as mudanças econômicas e sociais produzidas pela revolução da informática são tão profundas quanto aquelas provocadas pela revolução industrial. Mas, pouco a pouco, vemos desenvolver-se uma sociologia digital. Este artigo inicia examinando, em breves linhas, como a busca e o acesso à literatura, enquanto atividade rotineira, cotidiana, das ciências sociais, transformou-se, a partir das n…
Is the willingness to take risks contagious? A comparison of immigrants and native-born in the United States
A number of studies have shown that immigrants are more willing to take risks than native-born populations. In this paper, we measure if the willingness to take risks is contagious and if this effect is different for immigrants and native-born individuals in the United States. We suggest that the willingness to take risks may be contagious, like emotions and generosity, i.e. an individual may be more willing to take risks if others make risky dec…
Surveying Societies Mired in Conflict: Evidence of Social Desirability Bias in Palestine
Survey research is a form of social interaction with its own set of guiding principles. As in all social interactions, there are implicit cultural and political values and beliefs that can influence the way respondents choose to answer survey questions. Previous research within the United States has found that the presence of an interviewer can influence the validity of survey responses (e.g., Tourangeau, Rips, & Rasinki, 2000). Similar findings …
Who Gets Accepted and Who Gets Rejected? Status in the Production of Social Science
This article considers science as a stratified social system that may reflect and reproduce broader social patterns of stratification. Analyses are based on a unique data archive with more than ten thousand published and unpublished manuscripts and the associated peer reviews, all submitted between 1990 and 2010 to the American Sociological Review , a leading journal in the discipline. The analysis considers how race, gender, manuscript topic, an…
Viewing Then Doing: Problem-Solving Court Coordinators’ Perceptions of Medications for Opioid Use Disorders from a Nationally Representative Survey in the United States
Background. Overdose deaths in the United States (U.S.) surpassed 100,000 in 2021. Problem-solving courts (PSCs), which originally began as drug courts, divert people with nonviolent felonies and underlying social issues (e.g. opioid use disorders (OUDs)) from the carceral system to a community-based treatment court program. PSCs are operated by a collaborative court staff team including a judge that supervises PSC clients, local court coordinato…
Immigrant Population and Entrepreneurship Development in United States Metropolitan Areas
This paper examines the relationship between the immigrant population and entrepreneurial activities in metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) of the United States. Using a two‐way fixed effects model on MSA‐level aggregate data, aggregated from individual‐level microdata for five periods from the U.S. Census spanning from 2000 to 2022, we find that higher proportions of the immigrant population at the MSA‐level are significantly associated with i…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · World Wide Web (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Data science (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · The Internet (4 works)