George Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6620-9427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 127 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 569 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 127 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1854 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Feeling the heat: Understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of residential-sector heating decarbonisation options in the UK
Mobility, Inequality, and Beliefs About Distribution and Redistribution
Classic theory has long been interested in mobility, but with limited attention to the implications of intergenerational movement for inequality-specific beliefs. In this article, we introduce a dynamic conception and modeling of the impact of intergenerational occupational mobility on inequality orientations generally and distributive and redistributive beliefs in particular. The diagonal models we employ using 2008–2010 General Social Survey sa…
Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay
A sufficient body of research across disciplines (Sociology, Political Science, Public Administration) now exists to address the evolving dynamics of public sector African American/White socio‐economic inequality across the post‐1965 civil rights era. This review synthesizes this research, bringing together an unprecedented amount of evidence to support two primary points: (1) Public sector inequality has been fluid, that is, it has been characte…
A comparative study of regional-language immersion education in Brittany and Wales
This article compares the immersion-education systems in Brittany and Wales. The number of Welsh speakers is growing thanks to its well-developed immersion-education system. Brittany has a much less well-developed system and the number of Breton speakers is falling dramatically. Urgent action is needed if Breton is to survive. Using an approach based loosely on ‘comparative history as a comparison of contrasts’, the paper examines differences in …
Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females
In mammals, trait variation is often reported to be greater among males than females. However, to date, mainly only morphological traits have been studied. Energy expenditure represents the metabolic costs of multiple physical, physiological, and behavioral traits. Energy expenditure could exhibit particularly high greater male variation through a cumulative effect if those traits mostly exhibit greater male variation, or a lack of greater male v…
African American access to management post‐1990: A review and critique of existing sociological research
This study reviews and critiques the growing body of sociological research that has dramatically increased our understanding of the dynamics of African American disadvantage in access to managerial positions across the post‐1990 period. This literature, first, identifies both the burdensome barriers to entry faced by African Americans (e.g., a relatively narrow and formalistic route to management which is pronounced in the private sector) and how…
Introduction from the New Editors
Particularism and racial mobility into privileged occupations
Minority Threat, Worker Power, and Discriminatory Complaints: State-level Effects on Racial Income Inequality among Men
Because U.S. states are meaningful polities with differing cultures and institutions, they are important locations for the struggles for resources. Yet there have been surprisingly few studies of how state-level cleavages and institutions shape the pattern of income inequality, especially by race. This article matches individual-level data on income and its determinants (from the Current Population Survey) to state-level measures (mostly from Cen…
An evaluation of mental health service provision in Northern Ireland
Although Northern Ireland has high levels of mental health problems, there has been a relative lack of systematic research on mental health services that can provide an evidence base for legal, policy, and service developments. This article aims to provide a review of the central issues relating to mental health service provision in Northern Ireland, and to gather the perceptions of different stakeholders of these services. The study utilised in-…
Race, ageism and the slide from privileged occupations
The horseracing industry’s perception of nutritional and weight-making practices of professional jockeys
The present paper provides a qualitative study exploring perceptions of nutritional and weight-making practices of professional jockeys, as reported by key industry stakeholders. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 26 participants, including professional jockeys (n = 10), racecourse clerks (n = 7), jockey agents (n = 2), racehorse trainers (n = 3) and jockey coaches (n = 4). Via thematic analysis, data provided an insight into the indu…
Use of Direct Payments in Providing Care and Support to Children with Disabilities: Opportunities and Concerns
During the past two decades, there has been an increasing international trend towards giving users of health and social care more choice and control in the provision of services. Whilst the policy of promoting personalised support through Direct Payments in the UK has evoked strong feelings, for and against, successive governments have remained committed to expanding such schemes. However, the effectiveness and efficiency of Direct Payments in he…
Race and the Dynamics of Men's Mobility into Management from Working Class Jobs
Within the context of the “particularistic mobility thesis” we examine African American/White differences in the incidence, determinants and timing of mobility into management at a refined level, namely, when groups share similar “rank and file” and “elite blue collar” working class jobs. Findings from a Panel Study of Income Dynamics sample of men support theory and indicate that from both job categories, African Americans, relative to Whites, h…
Job Authority and Emerging Racial Income Inequalities in the Public Sector
Has the adoption of "new governance" reforms over the last two decades eroded the public sector as a long-standing occupational niche for African Americans? Utilizing data from the General Social Survey, we address this issue in the context of earnings "returns" to three levels of job authority for African American men and women relative to their White counterparts. Findings, derived from analyses of three waves of the General Social Survey, indi…
Neo‐liberal reform, the public sector and Black–White inequality
In this article, we offer an overview and critical assessment of recent changes wrought by “new governance” reforms within public sector work, highlighting the implications specifically for Black–White inequality, and denote where further sociological analyses are warranted. These foci are important given the widely accepted—though hardly comprehensively examined—assumption that public sector employment remains a favorable “economic niche” for Af…
Downward Mobility
Trends and causes of downward mobility in the United States are discussed in general terms and along race and gender lines. Rates have been rising in the post‐2000 period, and structural causes such as deindustrialization and globalization, as well as dynamics associated with healthcare costs, marital status, and evolving human capital requirements, are identified as the culprits. Relatively high rates of downward mobility based on minority and g…
Job Authority and Support for Income Redistributive Policy
Building on substantive yet neglected foundations provided by classical sociological theorists-theorists who emphasized the experiential conditions of work in structuring ideology-we examine in this article the impact of job authority tasks on levels of support for policy to redistribute income. Such a focus contributes to a broader sociological understanding of the links between status, ideology, and political action. With data drawn from the 20…
Public Sector Reform and Racial Occupational Mobility
Whether the public sector continues to offer African Americans an upwardly mobile 'occupational niche' is unclear, especially in the face of contemporary reforms that run counter to workplace protections. In this article, and drawing on overtime data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we explore this question with a specific focus on the upward mobility of men into white-collar occupations. Findings suggest that the reform period of 2005-2010, …
Ethnic Allocation of Rewards in Organizations
Organizations are proximate and powerful determinants of rewards by ethnicity: they constitute inequality regimes composed of status‐based interactions that combine with culture and normative practices that structure rewards (e.g., hiring and firing, promotion, wages) by ethnicity. This entry provides—based on research findings—an overview of key organizational sources that explain the allocation of rewards in the workplace by ethnicity.
American Indian Poverty in the Contemporary United States
Little sociological attention over the last two decades has focused on the deprivation experienced by indigenous people. Fusing insights from American Indian history and the race and labor market inequality literatures, we address this gap in this article through a historically informed labor market analysis of poverty—an analysis that considers the pervasiveness of contemporary Native poverty, its potential basis in labor market opportunities, a…
Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room
Determinants of Declining Wage Mobility in the New Economy
This study draws from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey to compare patterns of wage mobility among the late boomer and millennial cohorts of young men. Estimating group-based trajectory models, the authors find that fewer men enjoyed rapid wage growth and more men fell into the steady and stagnant wage-trajectory groups. Furthermore, employment patterns in the new economy (e.g., changing employers, more part-time employment, and empl…
Racial Income Inequality and Public Sector Privatization
Social science accounts have only recently begun to recognize “new governance” shifts, including, but not limited to, privatization occurring in public sector institutions (e.g., education, prisons, the military) and in the functioning of federal and state sector jobs. This article, which presents unique analyses of wages across time using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and retested on similarly representative data from the Integrated …
Towards a proper interpretation of the declining significance of race thesis
This essay takes a step towards establishing a more informed dialogue about race/class dynamics in structuring the life chances of blacks in contemporary America by revisiting William Wilson's declining significance of race thesis, the most important sociological theory that addresses this issue. Specifically, it explicates the thesis and critiques labour market analyses that purport to examine it. Too often mis-specifications of the parameters o…
Pathways to Power: Racial Differences in the Determinants of Job Authority
This study uses data from the 1985 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to assess predictions from the particularistic mobility thesis concerning how African-American and white males reach different hierarchical levels of job authority. Relative to whites, African Americans move into different hierarchical levels of the authority structure by a narrow and circumscribed route. For African Americans, the acquisition of significant huma…
Reaching the Top: Racial Differences in Mobility Paths to Upper-Tier Occupations
This study uses data from the 1988 to 1992 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to assess predictions from the particularistic mobility thesis concerning how African American and White males reach the Managers-Administrators and Professional-Technical census-based occupational categories. The findings provide support for the particularistic mobility thesis. In particular, African Americans, relative to Whites, attain both occupation…
Race and Loss of Privilege: African American/White Differences in the Determinants of Job Layoffs From Upper-Tier Occupations
Going Down: Race and Downward Occupational Mobility for White-Collar Workers in the 1990s
In the 1990s 'new' economy, was downward mobility from high-level white-collar occupations related to race, and if so, what factors explain this relationship? We use Panel Study of Income Dynamics data to explore the effect of race on the incidence and process of downward occupational mobility during the 1990s. Findings indicate that, relative to White workers, African Americans suffered a higher incidence of downward occupational mobility, espec…
Toward A Revised Framework for Examining Beliefs About the Causes of Poverty
This study uses survey data from Baltimore, Maryland to assess predictions from the dominant ideology thesis and the public arenas theory concerning causal beliefs about three specific types of poverty—welfare dependency, homelessness and impoverished migrant laborers. Findings indicate that the incidence and determinants of causal beliefs are more complex than has been reached in prior “generic” poverty research and the findings provide greater …
Racial Income Inequality and Public Sector Privatization
Social science accounts have only recently begun to recognize “new governance” shifts, including, but not limited to, privatization occurring in public sector institutions (e.g., education, prisons, the military) and in the functioning of federal and state sector jobs. This article, which presents unique analyses of wages across time using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and retested on similarly representative data from the Integrated …
Race and downward mobility from privileged occupations: African American/White dynamics across the early work-career
Racialized Life-Chance Opportunities across the Class Structure: The Case of African Americans
Considerations of how socioeconomic outcomes are racialized within discrete class categories have been neglected in assessing the race/class determinants of life-chance opportunities of African Americans. This article addresses this shortcoming. Specifically, it synthesizes findings from recent sociological research concerning how segregation in two institutional spheres, residence and employment, produce racialization at two class levels— among …
American Indian Poverty in the Contemporary United States
Little sociological attention over the last two decades has focused on the deprivation experienced by indigenous people. Fusing insights from American Indian history and the race and labor market inequality literatures, we address this gap in this article through a historically informed labor market analysis of poverty—an analysis that considers the pervasiveness of contemporary Native poverty, its potential basis in labor market opportunities, a…
Incarceration and Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Neighborhood Perspective
Payoffs to Power Among Males in the Middle Class: Has Race Declined in its Significance
This article specifies the parameters of William Wilson's "declining significance of race" thesis and within the context of the debate about it uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine racial differences among a cohort of males in the earnings returns to two separate dimensions of job authority in middle-class jobs between 1976 and 1985. Findings do not support the Wilson thesis. Specifically, the gap in returns has increased …
Support for redistributive policies among the African American middle class: Race and class effects
The Relational Foundations of Inequality at Work I: Status, Interaction, and Culture
Public Sector Reform and Racial Occupational Mobility
Whether the public sector continues to offer African Americans an upwardly mobile 'occupational niche' is unclear, especially in the face of contemporary reforms that run counter to workplace protections. In this article, and drawing on overtime data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we explore this question with a specific focus on the upward mobility of men into white-collar occupations. Findings suggest that the reform period of 2005-2010, …
Downward Mobility of Women from White‐Collar Employment: Determinants and Timing by Race
This study uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assess the minority vulnerability thesis, which maintains there are racial differences among women in the determinants of, and timing to, downward mobility from white‐collar employment. In accord with the theory, a racialized continuum emerges along both issues. The route to downward mobility for African Americans is relatively broad based and unstructured by traditional stratificati…
Race, Within-Family Social Capital, and School Dropout: An Analysis of Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians
This study uses data from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey to assess whether the dynamics of social capital, namely, their sources in class background and consequences for dropout operate uniformly among Whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian adolescents. Findings indicate that varying levels of social capital across groups are explained largely by their respective standing in the class structure. However, the effects of soci…
Socioeconomic Status and Racial Group Interests Among Black Americans
This study assesses predictions from the dominant ideology thesis and theory of group interest concerning the relationship between socioeconomic status and racial solidarity across three domains of racial ideology. Findings from a local area sample (N = 184) in Cleveland, Ohio, provide considerable support for the theory of group interest. Racial solidarity indicators, such as the perception of discrimination, transcend individual socioeconomic s…
"Color Coding" and Support for Social Policy Spending: Assessing the Parameters among Whites
This study uses data from the 1996 through 2002 General Social Survey to examine whether one variant of modern racial prejudice-"color coding"-explains support for several ostensibly nonracial government spending policies regarding crime, urban problems, and drug addiction (welfare and race spending are used as baseline measures). Findings indicate that color coding does not extend appreciably beyond its established focus of welfare and race and …
Racial Prejudice and Spending on Drug Rehabilitation: The Role of Attitudes Toward Blacks and Latinos
Fear of Job Loss: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Privileged Occupations
Sociologists have not attempted to explain the causes of higher levels of perceived job insecurity among racial/ethnic minorities than those of Whites in privileged occupations. This study examines two possible explanations for this finding among White, African American, and Latino professionals and managers. The first emphasizes the discrimination-induced, structural marginality experienced by minorities in the workplace (the marginalized-worker…
Race and Job Dismissal: African American/White Differences in Their Sources During the Early Work Career
This study combines data from 8 years (1991 to 1997 and 1999) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assess predictions from the compositional and particularistic perspectives concerning the determinants of job dismissal among African American and White males during 3 years of the early work career. The findings from logistic regression analyses provide most support for the particularistic perspective. Specifically, dismissal for African Americ…
Prejudice in Police Profiling: Assessing an Overlooked Aspect in Prior Research
Social science analyses of racial profiling in the context of discretionary police stops and subsequent interrogations have tended to rely on a framework dictated by federal case law, namely, they have focused on disparate impact by race as the basis for deeming profiling discriminatory. Significantly, neglected in profiling studies have been considerations of the role of prejudice. Analogizing to profiling about the sources of prejudice, activat…
Race, ageism and the slide from privileged occupations
Men's mobility into management from blue collar and white collar jobs: Race differences across the early work-career
Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage
Account of the examination of the contents of an ancient hermetically-sealed glass vessel
The Council of the Society asked Dr Wilson to examine the contents of a glass vessel that was gifted to the Society after it was removed from Pompeii. The article begins with a description of the vessel and its construction. He proposes that the glass was fused closed after the liquid contents were introduced and suggests that this vessel may have formed the stem of a larger vessel. The article goes on to describe the liquid itself and the variou…
Notes of Two Stone Cists at Carsecreugh, in the Parish of Old Luce, Wigtownshire
Notes on the Crannogs and Lake Dwellings of Wigtownshire
Machermore is one of the many glacial lakes in Wigtownshire. It lies rather less than 3 miles south-east from Glenluce, to the east of the Portwilliam Road, about 1^ mile from the sea-shore, at an elevation of nearly 200 feet above the sea
Notice of Sculptured Stones at Laggangarn, Mull of Sunnoness, Airrelich and Cassendeoch, Wigtownshire
The author describes several standing stones in Wigtownshire. Some of the features he discusses are the location of the stones, their dimensions, any decorative elements they may have and the ways in which some of these stones were used as building materials
Notes on the Lake-Dwellings of Wigtonshire
Notes of a Collection of Stone Implements and Other Antiquities from Glenluce, Wigtonshire, now presented to the Museum
Note on Lignite Beads found in an Urn near Stranraer, in 1859-60
The locality" of this find is a little to the east of the signal-box at the railway station, Stranraer, where a cutting runs through the jnarch-fence of Little Airds farm.The Rev. Daniel Conway, of St John's Chapel, Port-Glasgow, wrote me on December 4, 1877:-"Some navvies came upon a number of clay urns about the size of coffee cups, and having the herring-bone design marked on them near the rim on the outside.I had one of them in my hands, in w…
Notice of a Collection of Implements of Stone and Bronze, now presented to the Museum, and exhibited to the Meeting, and other Antiquities from Wigtownshire
Notes on a Collection of Implements and Ornaments of Stone, Bronze, &c., from Glenluce, Wigtownshire
Note on a Collection of Stone Implements from the Rhins of Galloway. Exhibited by Mr John McMeeken, Knockneen, Kirkolm
Notice of Urns in Wigtownshire, with Notes on Implements
I have much pleasure in .reporting an addition of eight hand-made clay urns to the very large and valuable collection already in the Museum. There are also fragments of many others, chiefly from Glenluce, marked with various patterns. I add an account of two urns already in the Museum, hitherto undescribed, and of another figured in the Collodions of the Ayrshire and Galloway Archaeological Association, with a note of others found in the district…
Additional Notes on Funereal Urns, from Glenluce, Wigtownshire
In January 1887 I described eleven clay urns of the Bronze Age, five of them being from Glenluce.I now describe a few more from Glenluce, which have been placed in the Museum.The great storms of wind in 1884 broke up many new places in the sand-hills, and since that time several urns have come to light.On November 11, 1887, I received the fragments of two urns, with various contents, found that day.On the 15th, I visited the site of the interment…
The Most Reliable Values of the Heights of the Central African Lakes and Mountains: Discussion
The Progress of Uganda
Journal Article THE PROGRESS OF UGANDA Get access GEORGE WILSON GEORGE WILSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume VI, Issue XXII, January 1907, Pages 113–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a099122 Published: 01 January 1907
Self-Realization. An Outline of Ethics
Secretary Bryan’s Peace Plan
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Philosophy Over Against Science
Chaucer and Oral Reading
Research Article| July 01 1926 Chaucer and Oral Reading George P. Wilson George P. Wilson Guilford College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1926) 25 (3): 283–299. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-25-3-283 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation George P. Wilson; Chaucer and Oral Reading. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1926; 25 (3): 283–2…
An American Phonetic Dictionary
N this paper I shall attempt to discuss the need for an American phonetic dictionary; the general nature of the proposed dictionary; its value; and the ripeness of the times for such a work. A person who travels much in America does not have to be a scholar to realize that there are three large speech zones, or belts, each pretty definitely marked in differences of pronunciation. Most phoneticians designate these different sections as East, South…
Some Unrecorded Southern Vowels
Eastern or the Western, both geographically and as between the various classes of society,92 he is in accord with other phonologists who are personally acquainted with the different types of American speech. The pronunciation may vary according to the geography of the state. In both Virginia and North Carolina occur three distinct types of speech-eastern, central, and western (not to mention minor variations here and there). In South Carolina the…
Three North Carolina Letters Showing Occasional Spelling
THOSE students of modern language who possess sound scholarship and a bridled imagination have contributed much to our knowledge of the pronunciation of earlier periods, through their researches in occasional spelling. Scholars in this field are faced by a problem like that of Plato's charioteer who had to control the two erratic steeds. Henry Cecil Wyld is a good example of the man who controls his imagination.' But not all those who delve into …
Standards of correct pronunciation 1
(1937). Standards of correct pronunciation. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 568-576
American Dictionaries and Pronunciation
Should College Teachers Be Professionally Trained
(1941). Should College Teachers Be Professionally Trained? The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 296-300
Scholarship and the College
When this statement is analyzed it is apparent that instead of one type of scholar there are really three distinct types of scholars: First, the scholar who makes a circuit of knowledge; that is, the type of scholarship in which the individual masters facts and the thought products of others. Second, the scholar who maps out desert tracts; that is, the type of scholarship in which the individual does creative thinking, extending the borders of ph…
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