Kevin J Delaney
Biographic Data
| ID | 281096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin J Delaney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin J |
| FAMILY NAME | Delaney |
| SIGNATURE | DELANEY K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
Economic and Sociological Approaches to Sport
Two major academic fields of study that have contributed significantly to our understanding of the sporting world are sociology and economics. This chapter examines the ways that these two fields have contributed important perspectives to more fully address and satisfactorily understand issues in sport. Economists and sociologists are both interested in understanding the size and operation of sports markets. While economists view the market for s…
Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential: Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential
Following up onZirin’s (2008)challenge that sports sociologists “get off the bench,” andKaren and Washington’s (2001) plea to make sports sociology more central to analyses of social power, this article empirically reviews and assesses the sociology of sports from 1977–2008. Using a sample of 441 articles selected from the three major sports sociology journals during that period, we conclude that sports sociology exhibits a strong and increasing …
Local Media Coverage of Sports Stadium Initiatives
This article empirically investigates media coverage of 23 publicly financed stadium projects in 16 U.S. cities. Typically, media coverage uncritically supports these initiatives but, occasionally, it offers a far more critical view. In addition, the media in many cities take a “hybrid” approach, which is neither completely critical nor uncritical of these projects. The authors contend that media approaches matter a great deal in helping or hinde…
Methodological Dilemmas and Opportunities in Interviewing Organizational Elites
This article discusses the challenges and opportunities encountered in interviewing organizational elites. Drawing on a wide range of experiences in elite interviewing, I offer suggestions for gaining access to elites, controlling the interview, obtaining the highest‐quality interview data, and writing effectively about those data. I also discuss the ‘dilemma of seduction’ that can occur in elite interviewing and suggests ways to both present and…
Urban Power Structures and Publicly Financed Stadiums
Urban elites are increasingly addressing local social problems though policies that turn their cities into tourist destinations. Often at the heart of these policies are new publicly financed sports stadiums. Ironically, this strategy is flourishing despite near‐unanimous academic criticism, and increasing public skepticism, about this approach. Our research addresses this contradiction by exploring how and why powerful decisionmakers continue su…
Local Growth Coalitions, Publicly Subsidized Sports Stadiums, and Social Inequality
Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle over Building Sports Stadiums
revealing, dead-on investigation of the modern-day sports stadium boondoggle, and its often-devastating impact on American cities, is an essential read for anyone, sports fan or not, who wants to avoid getting fleeced.-Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times columnist and former columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Time magazine Dollars, Private Stadiums helps us understand the political processes involved in using public money for new sports stadi…
A Theoretical Exploration of White Collar Organizing: Graduate Student Employees and the Future of Unions in Academia
The Devil is in the Details: Neutralizing Critical Studies of Publicly Subsidized Stadiums
This article analyzes the role of economic and sociological studies in the debate over using public subsidies to build new professional sports stadiums. We show how academic studies have been neutralized by supporters of stadium subsidies, thereby making them less effective in policy debates. We illustrate how pro-stadium elites have ignored the studies, criticized them without competing evidence, commissioned contradictory studies, or shifted th…
New Sports Stadiums, Community Self-Esteem, and Community Collective Conscience
Sports economists have created a sizable literature on the costs and benefits of publicly funded major-league sports stadiums. This research suggests a growing consensus that stadiums provide little economic advantage for local communities. In response, some stadium supporters have modified their tactics to increasingly avoid claims of tangible economic benefits. Instead, they insist that new stadiums offer communities more intangible social bene…
Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States
PART 1. THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE CORPORATE CREDIT NETWORK PART 2. RECONSTITUTING PROPERTY RIGHTS PART 3. RECONSTITUING JURISDICTIONAL RIGHTS PART 4. CONCLUSION
Talkin' Trash at Hardwick High: A Case Study of Insult Talk on a Boys' Basketball Team
Trash talking has been the subject of considerable social commentary and criticism in the past few years. Media constructions of the phenomenon claim that it has filtered down from the world of professional sport and now influences the conduct of young athletes. We use an empirical study of high-school basketball players to show that in order to be more fully understood, trash talking needs to be connected with 'insult talk', which preceded the f…
The Last Resort: A Study of Consumer Bankrupts
Consumer bankruptcy - an overview consumer bankruptcy - the previous research the last resort - a conceptual framework the research study - the design and method profile of consumer bankrupts events leading to bankruptcy pressure from creditors the experience of bankruptcy stigma and bankruptcy bankruptcy from the lender's viewpoint conclusions and recommendations
Veiled Politics: Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field
This article explores the connection between bankruptcy and organizational failure, arguing that the two have grown increasingly distinct in the world of large corporate bankruptcy. In some bankruptcy cases, the filing of a Chapter 11 petition has very little to do with organizational failure in the strictest sense but instead signals a change in organizational strategy by corporate management or institutional creditors. This article suggests vie…
The Voice of Sociology: Obstacles to Teaching and Learning the Sociological Imagination
Many sociologists seek to develop students' imaginations, especially in their introductory classes. This paper has two different but related purposes, one pedagogical and the other empirical. First, we try to create some unity about what sociologists mean by 'The sociological imagination, and how they implement this concept. We argue that sociologists, like academics in other disciplines, try to speak in a certain 'Voice which provides a unique a…
Dead Laws for Dead Men: The Politics of Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Legislation
Banking on Fraud: Drexel, Junk Bonds, and Buyouts.Mary Zey
Strategic Bankruptcy: How Corporations and Creditors Use Chapter 11 to Their Advantage
Institutional Investment Patterns in Troubled Corporations: A Sociological analysis
Classical or neo-classical economic theories do not adequately explain institutional investment patterns in troubled corporations. Macroeconomic perspectives contend that abstract market forces direct investment capital away from troubled companies, and that bankruptcy weeds weak firms out of the economy for the general good. Microeconomic perspectives focus on the seemingly autonomous decisions of firms and their managers, where bad management l…
"Power, Intercorporate Networks, and "Strategic Bankruptcy
Strands of scholarly writing on corporate bankruptcy are scattered across the fields of economics, jurisprudence, political science, and policy analysis. These varied perspectives tend to share common weaknesses that point directly to adding a sociological voice to the debate. An analytic framework that emphasizes power, interorganizational ties, and the embeddedness of organizational action in a larger social structure yields new insights into "…
Control During Corporate Crisis: Asbestos and the Manville Bankruptcy
Chapter 11 bankruptcy provides an opportunity for addressing issues of power and control during corporate crisis. A broad notion of power is essential in understanding the complex events that led to the Chapter 11 filing of the Manville Corporation, formerly the nation's leading asbestos manufacturer. The theory of finance hegemony places this case in an entirely new light by taking into account the power of the financial community. The Manville …
A Theoretical Exploration of White Collar Organizing: Graduate Student Employees and the Future of Unions in Academia
The Factorial Invariance of the Nurses' Observation Scale for Evaluation of Inpatients
The stability of the factor pattern of the NOSIE across 3 psychiatric center populations ( N = 3,027) was investigated. The 5 significant factors that emerged from the principal factor analyses were tested for invariance using the coefficient of congruence, root mean square, zero-order correlation, and the similarity index. The convergence of all the measures indicated that the Irritability, Personal Neatness, Social Interest, Social Competence, …
New Sports Stadiums, Community Self-Esteem, and Community Collective Conscience
Sports economists have created a sizable literature on the costs and benefits of publicly funded major-league sports stadiums. This research suggests a growing consensus that stadiums provide little economic advantage for local communities. In response, some stadium supporters have modified their tactics to increasingly avoid claims of tangible economic benefits. Instead, they insist that new stadiums offer communities more intangible social bene…
Methodological Dilemmas and Opportunities in Interviewing Organizational Elites
This article discusses the challenges and opportunities encountered in interviewing organizational elites. Drawing on a wide range of experiences in elite interviewing, I offer suggestions for gaining access to elites, controlling the interview, obtaining the highest‐quality interview data, and writing effectively about those data. I also discuss the ‘dilemma of seduction’ that can occur in elite interviewing and suggests ways to both present and…
Local Media Coverage of Sports Stadium Initiatives
This article empirically investigates media coverage of 23 publicly financed stadium projects in 16 U.S. cities. Typically, media coverage uncritically supports these initiatives but, occasionally, it offers a far more critical view. In addition, the media in many cities take a “hybrid” approach, which is neither completely critical nor uncritical of these projects. The authors contend that media approaches matter a great deal in helping or hinde…
Urban Power Structures and Publicly Financed Stadiums
Urban elites are increasingly addressing local social problems though policies that turn their cities into tourist destinations. Often at the heart of these policies are new publicly financed sports stadiums. Ironically, this strategy is flourishing despite near‐unanimous academic criticism, and increasing public skepticism, about this approach. Our research addresses this contradiction by exploring how and why powerful decisionmakers continue su…
The Voice of Sociology: Obstacles to Teaching and Learning the Sociological Imagination
Many sociologists seek to develop students' imaginations, especially in their introductory classes. This paper has two different but related purposes, one pedagogical and the other empirical. First, we try to create some unity about what sociologists mean by 'The sociological imagination, and how they implement this concept. We argue that sociologists, like academics in other disciplines, try to speak in a certain 'Voice which provides a unique a…
Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential: Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential
Following up onZirin’s (2008)challenge that sports sociologists “get off the bench,” andKaren and Washington’s (2001) plea to make sports sociology more central to analyses of social power, this article empirically reviews and assesses the sociology of sports from 1977–2008. Using a sample of 441 articles selected from the three major sports sociology journals during that period, we conclude that sports sociology exhibits a strong and increasing …
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
"Power, Intercorporate Networks, and "Strategic Bankruptcy
Strands of scholarly writing on corporate bankruptcy are scattered across the fields of economics, jurisprudence, political science, and policy analysis. These varied perspectives tend to share common weaknesses that point directly to adding a sociological voice to the debate. An analytic framework that emphasizes power, interorganizational ties, and the embeddedness of organizational action in a larger social structure yields new insights into "…
The Devil is in the Details: Neutralizing Critical Studies of Publicly Subsidized Stadiums
This article analyzes the role of economic and sociological studies in the debate over using public subsidies to build new professional sports stadiums. We show how academic studies have been neutralized by supporters of stadium subsidies, thereby making them less effective in policy debates. We illustrate how pro-stadium elites have ignored the studies, criticized them without competing evidence, commissioned contradictory studies, or shifted th…
Local Growth Coalitions, Publicly Subsidized Sports Stadiums, and Social Inequality
Talkin' Trash at Hardwick High: A Case Study of Insult Talk on a Boys' Basketball Team
Trash talking has been the subject of considerable social commentary and criticism in the past few years. Media constructions of the phenomenon claim that it has filtered down from the world of professional sport and now influences the conduct of young athletes. We use an empirical study of high-school basketball players to show that in order to be more fully understood, trash talking needs to be connected with 'insult talk', which preceded the f…
Veiled Politics: Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field
This article explores the connection between bankruptcy and organizational failure, arguing that the two have grown increasingly distinct in the world of large corporate bankruptcy. In some bankruptcy cases, the filing of a Chapter 11 petition has very little to do with organizational failure in the strictest sense but instead signals a change in organizational strategy by corporate management or institutional creditors. This article suggests vie…
Institutional Investment Patterns in Troubled Corporations: A Sociological analysis
Classical or neo-classical economic theories do not adequately explain institutional investment patterns in troubled corporations. Macroeconomic perspectives contend that abstract market forces direct investment capital away from troubled companies, and that bankruptcy weeds weak firms out of the economy for the general good. Microeconomic perspectives focus on the seemingly autonomous decisions of firms and their managers, where bad management l…
The Factorial Invariance of the Nurses' Observation Scale for Evaluation of Inpatients
The stability of the factor pattern of the NOSIE across 3 psychiatric center populations ( N = 3,027) was investigated. The 5 significant factors that emerged from the principal factor analyses were tested for invariance using the coefficient of congruence, root mean square, zero-order correlation, and the similarity index. The convergence of all the measures indicated that the Irritability, Personal Neatness, Social Interest, Social Competence, …
A Theoretical Exploration of White Collar Organizing: Graduate Student Employees and the Future of Unions in Academia
"Power, Intercorporate Networks, and "Strategic Bankruptcy
Strands of scholarly writing on corporate bankruptcy are scattered across the fields of economics, jurisprudence, political science, and policy analysis. These varied perspectives tend to share common weaknesses that point directly to adding a sociological voice to the debate. An analytic framework that emphasizes power, interorganizational ties, and the embeddedness of organizational action in a larger social structure yields new insights into "…
Control During Corporate Crisis: Asbestos and the Manville Bankruptcy
Chapter 11 bankruptcy provides an opportunity for addressing issues of power and control during corporate crisis. A broad notion of power is essential in understanding the complex events that led to the Chapter 11 filing of the Manville Corporation, formerly the nation's leading asbestos manufacturer. The theory of finance hegemony places this case in an entirely new light by taking into account the power of the financial community. The Manville …
Strategic Bankruptcy: How Corporations and Creditors Use Chapter 11 to Their Advantage
Institutional Investment Patterns in Troubled Corporations: A Sociological analysis
Classical or neo-classical economic theories do not adequately explain institutional investment patterns in troubled corporations. Macroeconomic perspectives contend that abstract market forces direct investment capital away from troubled companies, and that bankruptcy weeds weak firms out of the economy for the general good. Microeconomic perspectives focus on the seemingly autonomous decisions of firms and their managers, where bad management l…
Dead Laws for Dead Men: The Politics of Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Legislation
Banking on Fraud: Drexel, Junk Bonds, and Buyouts.Mary Zey
The Voice of Sociology: Obstacles to Teaching and Learning the Sociological Imagination
Many sociologists seek to develop students' imaginations, especially in their introductory classes. This paper has two different but related purposes, one pedagogical and the other empirical. First, we try to create some unity about what sociologists mean by 'The sociological imagination, and how they implement this concept. We argue that sociologists, like academics in other disciplines, try to speak in a certain 'Voice which provides a unique a…
The Last Resort: A Study of Consumer Bankrupts
Consumer bankruptcy - an overview consumer bankruptcy - the previous research the last resort - a conceptual framework the research study - the design and method profile of consumer bankrupts events leading to bankruptcy pressure from creditors the experience of bankruptcy stigma and bankruptcy bankruptcy from the lender's viewpoint conclusions and recommendations
Veiled Politics: Bankruptcy as a Structured Organizational Field
This article explores the connection between bankruptcy and organizational failure, arguing that the two have grown increasingly distinct in the world of large corporate bankruptcy. In some bankruptcy cases, the filing of a Chapter 11 petition has very little to do with organizational failure in the strictest sense but instead signals a change in organizational strategy by corporate management or institutional creditors. This article suggests vie…
Talkin' Trash at Hardwick High: A Case Study of Insult Talk on a Boys' Basketball Team
Trash talking has been the subject of considerable social commentary and criticism in the past few years. Media constructions of the phenomenon claim that it has filtered down from the world of professional sport and now influences the conduct of young athletes. We use an empirical study of high-school basketball players to show that in order to be more fully understood, trash talking needs to be connected with 'insult talk', which preceded the f…
Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States
PART 1. THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE CORPORATE CREDIT NETWORK PART 2. RECONSTITUTING PROPERTY RIGHTS PART 3. RECONSTITUING JURISDICTIONAL RIGHTS PART 4. CONCLUSION
New Sports Stadiums, Community Self-Esteem, and Community Collective Conscience
Sports economists have created a sizable literature on the costs and benefits of publicly funded major-league sports stadiums. This research suggests a growing consensus that stadiums provide little economic advantage for local communities. In response, some stadium supporters have modified their tactics to increasingly avoid claims of tangible economic benefits. Instead, they insist that new stadiums offer communities more intangible social bene…
Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle over Building Sports Stadiums
revealing, dead-on investigation of the modern-day sports stadium boondoggle, and its often-devastating impact on American cities, is an essential read for anyone, sports fan or not, who wants to avoid getting fleeced.-Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times columnist and former columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Time magazine Dollars, Private Stadiums helps us understand the political processes involved in using public money for new sports stadi…
A Theoretical Exploration of White Collar Organizing: Graduate Student Employees and the Future of Unions in Academia
The Devil is in the Details: Neutralizing Critical Studies of Publicly Subsidized Stadiums
This article analyzes the role of economic and sociological studies in the debate over using public subsidies to build new professional sports stadiums. We show how academic studies have been neutralized by supporters of stadium subsidies, thereby making them less effective in policy debates. We illustrate how pro-stadium elites have ignored the studies, criticized them without competing evidence, commissioned contradictory studies, or shifted th…
Local Growth Coalitions, Publicly Subsidized Sports Stadiums, and Social Inequality
Methodological Dilemmas and Opportunities in Interviewing Organizational Elites
This article discusses the challenges and opportunities encountered in interviewing organizational elites. Drawing on a wide range of experiences in elite interviewing, I offer suggestions for gaining access to elites, controlling the interview, obtaining the highest‐quality interview data, and writing effectively about those data. I also discuss the ‘dilemma of seduction’ that can occur in elite interviewing and suggests ways to both present and…
Urban Power Structures and Publicly Financed Stadiums
Urban elites are increasingly addressing local social problems though policies that turn their cities into tourist destinations. Often at the heart of these policies are new publicly financed sports stadiums. Ironically, this strategy is flourishing despite near‐unanimous academic criticism, and increasing public skepticism, about this approach. Our research addresses this contradiction by exploring how and why powerful decisionmakers continue su…
Local Media Coverage of Sports Stadium Initiatives
This article empirically investigates media coverage of 23 publicly financed stadium projects in 16 U.S. cities. Typically, media coverage uncritically supports these initiatives but, occasionally, it offers a far more critical view. In addition, the media in many cities take a “hybrid” approach, which is neither completely critical nor uncritical of these projects. The authors contend that media approaches matter a great deal in helping or hinde…
Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential: Sports Sociology’s Still Untapped Potential
Following up onZirin’s (2008)challenge that sports sociologists “get off the bench,” andKaren and Washington’s (2001) plea to make sports sociology more central to analyses of social power, this article empirically reviews and assesses the sociology of sports from 1977–2008. Using a sample of 441 articles selected from the three major sports sociology journals during that period, we conclude that sports sociology exhibits a strong and increasing …
Economic and Sociological Approaches to Sport
Two major academic fields of study that have contributed significantly to our understanding of the sporting world are sociology and economics. This chapter examines the ways that these two fields have contributed important perspectives to more fully address and satisfactorily understand issues in sport. Economists and sociologists are both interested in understanding the size and operation of sports markets. While economists view the market for s…
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Economics (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works)