John W Gartrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 334983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Gartrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Gartrell |
| SIGNATURE | GARTRELL J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Failure of a Traffic Control “Fatality” Sign to Affect Pedestrians' and Motorists' Behavior
The behavior of 643 pedestrians and 1749 motorists at two signal-controlled intersections was observed over a 2-mo. period of observation in March and November. One intersection had a coffin-shaped traffic sign with the wording "Fatality" erected during the first month of observation (March). The second intersection was identical in traffic and pedestrian volume but lacked a "Fatality" sign in either March or November. "Fatality" signs are erecte…
Positivism in sociological research
Positivism has been declared dead in sociological theory circles, yet questions remain as to its viability among researchers. The authors present diagnostic evidence about positivism in sociological practice through a content analysis of journal articles published in the late 1960s and the late 1980s in the sociological journals of the USA and Britain. Using an index based on seven elements of positivism that were characteristic of the 'theory co…
Positivism in Sociological Practice
Le positivisme n'est jamais à l'abri de la controverse, surtout en sociologie, où sa viabilité a fait l'objet de longs débate parmi les théoriciens de divers acabits. Mais il reste à savoir jusquà quel point les pratidens de la sociologie considèrent encore le positivisme comme une théorie satisfaisante. Les auteurs examinent cette question par une analyse de contenu de 176 articles choisis au hasard dans les revues des associations de sociologie…
The Social Context of Recycling
Over the last several decades, sociologists have investigated the public's increasing concern about the environment, but they have had little success explaining attitudes toward the environment or the adoption of pro-environment behaviors like recycling. We examine the role of social context in the link between individual attitudes about the environment and recycling behavior by comparing communities that vary in their access to recycling program…
Income Inequality and Homicide Rates
Previous studies have identified but failed to explain satisfactorily the positive relationship between income inequality and homicide rates. This paper proposes an explanation based on the concept of relative deprivation, but also reviews the criminological literature in a search for other theoretically relevant variables. After assessing problems of sampling and measurement, and using a considerably larger sample than used in previous studies, …
American Penetration and Canadian Development
Social Research Methods
Labour market segmentation and social mobility in a Canadian single‐industry community
Ceci est une analyse des occasions de mobilité professionnelle dans une communauté canadienne de développement de ressources à travers l'étude du statut de réalisation d'un groupe de résidents masculins de Fort McMurray en Alberta en 1979. Bien que la main d'oeuvre de cette ville, ayant une seule industrie, semble n'avoir subi qu'une mobilité légèrement plus élevée que la main d'oeuvre canadienne en général, d'importants changements socio‐économi…
Inequality Within Rural Communities of India
One of the principal controversies in development research has revolved around questions of whether and how the production of greater economic surplus in society results in greater or lesser inequality. Recent attempts to examine these issues within a world-systems context have employed secondary analysis of cross-national surveys of income inequality (Chase-Dunn, 1975; Rubinson, 1976; Bornschier et al., 1978; Weede, 1980; Stack, 1978). These eff…
The Quality of Family Life in a Resource Community
Harvey Krahn, John Gartrell, Lyle Larson, The Quality of Family Life in a Resource Community, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer, 1981), pp. 307-324
Contemporary Social Mobility
Social Factors in Psychiatric Outcome
Status, Inequality and Innovation
The manner in which status influences the trial of innovations in agriculture has important implications for agrarian development policy. Analysis of data from samples of cultivators in 84 agrarian communities in Andhra Pradesh, India, found little support for Cancian's theory that rank inhibits risk-taking, even under conditions specified as necessary for such effects. Analysis of variance results suggested that increases in status among the poo…
"Comment on "The Village Influence on Punjabi Farm Modernization
Income Inequality and Homicide Rates
Previous studies have identified but failed to explain satisfactorily the positive relationship between income inequality and homicide rates. This paper proposes an explanation based on the concept of relative deprivation, but also reviews the criminological literature in a search for other theoretically relevant variables. After assessing problems of sampling and measurement, and using a considerably larger sample than used in previous studies, …
The Social Context of Recycling
Over the last several decades, sociologists have investigated the public's increasing concern about the environment, but they have had little success explaining attitudes toward the environment or the adoption of pro-environment behaviors like recycling. We examine the role of social context in the link between individual attitudes about the environment and recycling behavior by comparing communities that vary in their access to recycling program…
Positivism in Sociological Practice
Le positivisme n'est jamais à l'abri de la controverse, surtout en sociologie, où sa viabilité a fait l'objet de longs débate parmi les théoriciens de divers acabits. Mais il reste à savoir jusquà quel point les pratidens de la sociologie considèrent encore le positivisme comme une théorie satisfaisante. Les auteurs examinent cette question par une analyse de contenu de 176 articles choisis au hasard dans les revues des associations de sociologie…
Positivism in sociological research
Positivism has been declared dead in sociological theory circles, yet questions remain as to its viability among researchers. The authors present diagnostic evidence about positivism in sociological practice through a content analysis of journal articles published in the late 1960s and the late 1980s in the sociological journals of the USA and Britain. Using an index based on seven elements of positivism that were characteristic of the 'theory co…
Social Factors in Psychiatric Outcome
American Penetration and Canadian Development
Labour market segmentation and social mobility in a Canadian single‐industry community
Ceci est une analyse des occasions de mobilité professionnelle dans une communauté canadienne de développement de ressources à travers l'étude du statut de réalisation d'un groupe de résidents masculins de Fort McMurray en Alberta en 1979. Bien que la main d'oeuvre de cette ville, ayant une seule industrie, semble n'avoir subi qu'une mobilité légèrement plus élevée que la main d'oeuvre canadienne en général, d'importants changements socio‐économi…
Status, Inequality and Innovation
The manner in which status influences the trial of innovations in agriculture has important implications for agrarian development policy. Analysis of data from samples of cultivators in 84 agrarian communities in Andhra Pradesh, India, found little support for Cancian's theory that rank inhibits risk-taking, even under conditions specified as necessary for such effects. Analysis of variance results suggested that increases in status among the poo…
Inequality Within Rural Communities of India
One of the principal controversies in development research has revolved around questions of whether and how the production of greater economic surplus in society results in greater or lesser inequality. Recent attempts to examine these issues within a world-systems context have employed secondary analysis of cross-national surveys of income inequality (Chase-Dunn, 1975; Rubinson, 1976; Bornschier et al., 1978; Weede, 1980; Stack, 1978). These eff…
The Quality of Family Life in a Resource Community
Harvey Krahn, John Gartrell, Lyle Larson, The Quality of Family Life in a Resource Community, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer, 1981), pp. 307-324
Contemporary Social Mobility
"Comment on "The Village Influence on Punjabi Farm Modernization
Status, Inequality and Innovation
The manner in which status influences the trial of innovations in agriculture has important implications for agrarian development policy. Analysis of data from samples of cultivators in 84 agrarian communities in Andhra Pradesh, India, found little support for Cancian's theory that rank inhibits risk-taking, even under conditions specified as necessary for such effects. Analysis of variance results suggested that increases in status among the poo…
Social Factors in Psychiatric Outcome
Contemporary Social Mobility
Inequality Within Rural Communities of India
One of the principal controversies in development research has revolved around questions of whether and how the production of greater economic surplus in society results in greater or lesser inequality. Recent attempts to examine these issues within a world-systems context have employed secondary analysis of cross-national surveys of income inequality (Chase-Dunn, 1975; Rubinson, 1976; Bornschier et al., 1978; Weede, 1980; Stack, 1978). These eff…
The Quality of Family Life in a Resource Community
Harvey Krahn, John Gartrell, Lyle Larson, The Quality of Family Life in a Resource Community, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer, 1981), pp. 307-324
Labour market segmentation and social mobility in a Canadian single‐industry community
Ceci est une analyse des occasions de mobilité professionnelle dans une communauté canadienne de développement de ressources à travers l'étude du statut de réalisation d'un groupe de résidents masculins de Fort McMurray en Alberta en 1979. Bien que la main d'oeuvre de cette ville, ayant une seule industrie, semble n'avoir subi qu'une mobilité légèrement plus élevée que la main d'oeuvre canadienne en général, d'importants changements socio‐économi…
Social Research Methods
Income Inequality and Homicide Rates
Previous studies have identified but failed to explain satisfactorily the positive relationship between income inequality and homicide rates. This paper proposes an explanation based on the concept of relative deprivation, but also reviews the criminological literature in a search for other theoretically relevant variables. After assessing problems of sampling and measurement, and using a considerably larger sample than used in previous studies, …
American Penetration and Canadian Development
The Social Context of Recycling
Over the last several decades, sociologists have investigated the public's increasing concern about the environment, but they have had little success explaining attitudes toward the environment or the adoption of pro-environment behaviors like recycling. We examine the role of social context in the link between individual attitudes about the environment and recycling behavior by comparing communities that vary in their access to recycling program…
Positivism in Sociological Practice
Le positivisme n'est jamais à l'abri de la controverse, surtout en sociologie, où sa viabilité a fait l'objet de longs débate parmi les théoriciens de divers acabits. Mais il reste à savoir jusquà quel point les pratidens de la sociologie considèrent encore le positivisme comme une théorie satisfaisante. Les auteurs examinent cette question par une analyse de contenu de 176 articles choisis au hasard dans les revues des associations de sociologie…
Positivism in sociological research
Positivism has been declared dead in sociological theory circles, yet questions remain as to its viability among researchers. The authors present diagnostic evidence about positivism in sociological practice through a content analysis of journal articles published in the late 1960s and the late 1980s in the sociological journals of the USA and Britain. Using an index based on seven elements of positivism that were characteristic of the 'theory co…
Failure of a Traffic Control “Fatality” Sign to Affect Pedestrians' and Motorists' Behavior
The behavior of 643 pedestrians and 1749 motorists at two signal-controlled intersections was observed over a 2-mo. period of observation in March and November. One intersection had a coffin-shaped traffic sign with the wording "Fatality" erected during the first month of observation (March). The second intersection was identical in traffic and pedestrian volume but lacked a "Fatality" sign in either March or November. "Fatality" signs are erecte…
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