Richard P Boyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 281302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard P Boyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard P |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyle |
| SIGNATURE | BOYLE R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Detecting Discrimination: Analyzing Racial Disparities in Public Contracting
Path Analysis and Ordinal Data
While path analysis has great advantages for bridging the gap between sociological theory and statistical analysis, a major obstacle is the requirement that interval scales be assumed for the data. This problem is attacked, first by investigating what theoretically can go wrong when interval scales are assumed, second by presenting a technique (the use of dummy variables) for checking on the results of assuming equal intervals, and finally by app…
Algebraic Systems for Normal and Hierarchical Sociograms
Sociometric techniques have proved very fruitful for questions directed within the parts of a social structure, but the potential of sociometry for studying total social structures has been neglected. Since this neglect seems in large part due to the conceptual difficulties involved in describing total social structures, it is proposed that relational algebras can facilitate progress in this direction. The first two sections develop an algebra, a…
Functional Dilemmas in the Development of Learning
The requirement that the educational system not only produce learning in its students, but also select and certify students for different output levels, creates a functional dilemma for the educational system. Grades are the major technique wsed to carry out selection and certification, but as measures of learning they are only partially accurate. To the extent that selection and certification have strong motivational consequences, and to the ext…
Society's Children: A Study of Resentiment in the Secondary School
Causal Theory and Statistical Measures of Effect: A Convergence
Many theoretical questions investigated by sociologists hypothesize that one or more independent variables produce certain effects on a dependent variable. For substantive theories with this kind of structure, an explicit translation into mathematical model form is provided by Coleman's work with continuous-time, discrete-space stochastic processes. The statistical technique most appropriate for estimating the parameters of such a model is exactl…
The Effect of the High School on Students' Aspirations
Four independent studies have found that the aspirations of students are influenced by the kind of high school they attent (predominately middle class or prodominately workin class). Examination of these studies reveals several inconsistencies which, it is suggested, can be accounted for by distinguishing between high schools in large metropolitan areas and those in smaller communities. Two major explanatory mechanism, are also identified: (1) va…
Path Analysis and Ordinal Data
While path analysis has great advantages for bridging the gap between sociological theory and statistical analysis, a major obstacle is the requirement that interval scales be assumed for the data. This problem is attacked, first by investigating what theoretically can go wrong when interval scales are assumed, second by presenting a technique (the use of dummy variables) for checking on the results of assuming equal intervals, and finally by app…
The Effect of the High School on Students' Aspirations
Four independent studies have found that the aspirations of students are influenced by the kind of high school they attent (predominately middle class or prodominately workin class). Examination of these studies reveals several inconsistencies which, it is suggested, can be accounted for by distinguishing between high schools in large metropolitan areas and those in smaller communities. Two major explanatory mechanism, are also identified: (1) va…
Algebraic Systems for Normal and Hierarchical Sociograms
Sociometric techniques have proved very fruitful for questions directed within the parts of a social structure, but the potential of sociometry for studying total social structures has been neglected. Since this neglect seems in large part due to the conceptual difficulties involved in describing total social structures, it is proposed that relational algebras can facilitate progress in this direction. The first two sections develop an algebra, a…
Causal Theory and Statistical Measures of Effect: A Convergence
Many theoretical questions investigated by sociologists hypothesize that one or more independent variables produce certain effects on a dependent variable. For substantive theories with this kind of structure, an explicit translation into mathematical model form is provided by Coleman's work with continuous-time, discrete-space stochastic processes. The statistical technique most appropriate for estimating the parameters of such a model is exactl…
Detecting Discrimination: Analyzing Racial Disparities in Public Contracting
Causal Theory and Statistical Measures of Effect: A Convergence
Many theoretical questions investigated by sociologists hypothesize that one or more independent variables produce certain effects on a dependent variable. For substantive theories with this kind of structure, an explicit translation into mathematical model form is provided by Coleman's work with continuous-time, discrete-space stochastic processes. The statistical technique most appropriate for estimating the parameters of such a model is exactl…
The Effect of the High School on Students' Aspirations
Four independent studies have found that the aspirations of students are influenced by the kind of high school they attent (predominately middle class or prodominately workin class). Examination of these studies reveals several inconsistencies which, it is suggested, can be accounted for by distinguishing between high schools in large metropolitan areas and those in smaller communities. Two major explanatory mechanism, are also identified: (1) va…
Society's Children: A Study of Resentiment in the Secondary School
Algebraic Systems for Normal and Hierarchical Sociograms
Sociometric techniques have proved very fruitful for questions directed within the parts of a social structure, but the potential of sociometry for studying total social structures has been neglected. Since this neglect seems in large part due to the conceptual difficulties involved in describing total social structures, it is proposed that relational algebras can facilitate progress in this direction. The first two sections develop an algebra, a…
Functional Dilemmas in the Development of Learning
The requirement that the educational system not only produce learning in its students, but also select and certify students for different output levels, creates a functional dilemma for the educational system. Grades are the major technique wsed to carry out selection and certification, but as measures of learning they are only partially accurate. To the extent that selection and certification have strong motivational consequences, and to the ext…
Path Analysis and Ordinal Data
While path analysis has great advantages for bridging the gap between sociological theory and statistical analysis, a major obstacle is the requirement that interval scales be assumed for the data. This problem is attacked, first by investigating what theoretically can go wrong when interval scales are assumed, second by presenting a technique (the use of dummy variables) for checking on the results of assuming equal intervals, and finally by app…
Detecting Discrimination: Analyzing Racial Disparities in Public Contracting
Mathematics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (2 works) · Mathematical analysis (2 works) · Political science (2 works)