Lauren H Seiler

Biographic Data

ID279475
NAMELauren H Seiler
GIVEN NAMESLauren H
FAMILY NAMESeiler
SIGNATURESEILER L H
AFFILIATIONSQueens College, CUNY
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX3

  • What Are We? The Social Construction of the Human Biological Self

    Open AccessLauren H SeilerARTICLEJournal for the Theory of Social…2007Cited by: 1References: 44

    This essay explores how the human biological self is socially constructed, and rejects various truisms that define our character. Rather than being stand‐alone entities, the human biological self forms what biologists call “superorganisms” and what I call “poly‐super‐organisms.” Thus, along with prokaryotes (bacteria), viruses, and other entities, we are combined in an inseparable menagerie of species that is spread across multiple bodies. Biolog…

  • Social Science Research Regulations

    Lauren H Seiler, Robert VeatchARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1982

  • A Paradox in Ethical Review of Social Experiments

    Lauren H SeilerARTICLEIRB Ethics and Human Research1981

  • The electronic journal

    Open AccessLauren H Seiler, Joseph RabenARTICLESociety1981

  • Government regulation of research

    Open AccessLauren H Seiler, James M MurthaARTICLESociety1980References: 1

  • Corporate Involvement in Community Affairs

    Open AccessLauren H Seiler, Gene F SummersARTICLESociological Quarterly1979Cited by: 1References: 6

    An extensive monitoring of the Jones and Laughlin (J&L) steel mill in Hennepin, Illinois suggests that absentee-owned corporations have the ability to involve themselves in local community affairs while maintaining an illusion of non-involvement. Three techniques J&L employed to exert influence are described: unilateral actions, cooptation, and intervention. The failure of reputational leadership data to identify corporate influentials is used to…

  • Response Rates and Quality of Data: A Re‐examination of the Mail Questionnaire

    Open AccessDaniel J Koenig, Gary Martin et al.ARTICLECanadian Review of Sociology/Revue…1977Cited by: 2References: 10

    Traditionnellement, dans les sciences sociales on a été préoccupé par les techniques destinées à accoître les taux de réponse aux questionnaires distribués par la poste. Ce n'est que rarement qu'on a essayé de déterminer si des taux de réponse élevés avait une relation avec la qualité des données obtenues. Si on considère les taux de réponse d'envinon 60 pour cent obtenus dans les enquêtes faites par entrevues par les centres de recherche commerc…

  • Sex Differences in Mental Illness: Comment on Clancy and Gove's Interpretations

    Lauren H SeilerARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1976

  • Community Power Structures and Methods' Artifacts: A Reinterpretation

    Open AccessLauren H SeilerARTICLESociological Quarterly1975References: 7

    Four previously published data sets are used to reconsider whether the reputational method identifies pyramidal community power structures while non-reputational methods identify non-pyramidal power structures. Further considered is whether results are methodological artifacts. The reanalysis suggests that the reputational method tends to locate pyramidal and non-pyramidal power structures. The data do not indicate methods' artifacts

  • Toward an interpretation of items used in field studies of mental illness

    Open AccessLauren H Seiler, Gene F SummersARTICLESocial Science & Medicine (19671974Cited by: 7References: 20

  • Locating Community Boundaries: An Integration of Theory and Empirical Techniques

    Open AccessLauren H Seiler, Gene F SummersARTICLESociological Methods & Research1974Cited by: 5References: 9

    Utilizing the Kaufman (1959) and Sutton-Kolaja (1960a, 1960b) conceptualization of community, empirical techniques are developed to identify community boundaries. These techniques are unique because they allow simultaneous consideration of boundary and interaction aggregation problems. A sociological conceptualization of community is coordinated with layman respondent's perceptions so empirical data, faithful to both perspectives, may be gathered…

  • The 22-Item Scale Used In Field Studies of Mental Illness: A Question of Method, a Question of Substance, and a Question of Theory

    Lauren H SeilerARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…1973Cited by: 23

    Lauren H. Seiler, The 22-Item Scale Used In Field Studies of Mental Illness: A Question of Method, a Question of Substance, and a Question of Theory, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 252-264

  • Validation of Reputational Leadership by the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix

    Gene F Summers, Lauren H Seiler et al.ARTICLESociological Methodology1970Cited by: 1

    The preparation of this paper was supported by PHS Research Grant 1Rl1 MH-02592-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health and Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) Project 05-396, contributing to NC-80. Lauren Seiler's participation was supported (in part) by National Institutes of Health Fellowship 1-F1-MH-41983-01 BEH from the National Institute of Mental Health. We wish to express appreciation to the editors for making available