Kent P Schwirian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kent P Schwirian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kent P |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwirian |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWIRIAN K P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ecological Models of Urban Form: Concentric Zone, Sector, and Multiple Nuclei
Ecological models of urban form describe and explain the spatial patterns taken by the distribution of people, buildings, and activities across a city's terrain. This orderly set of spatial arrangements is known as the city's land use pattern or spatial form. Through the years ecological researchers have identified three major models of the geometry of city form: concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei. While the three models are conceptuall…
Confidence in government and vaccination willingness in the USA
The most recent internationally widespread disease outbreak occurred during the flu season of 2009 and 2010. On April 2009, the first cases of influenza A (H1N1) (Popularly called, Swine Flu) were confirmed in the USA and UK following a novel virus that was first identified in Mexico. As the virus spread rapidly, the risk of morbidity and mortality increased in several countries. In this paper, we rely on the social cognitive theory of risk to as…
Attention to the media and worry over becoming infected: The case of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic of 2009
This paper examines the relationship between attention to the mass media and concern about becoming infected with H1N1 in two nationwide random samples interviewed during the flu epidemic of 2009. The first sample (N = 1004) was taken at the end of the first wave of the outbreak in the US and the second sample (N = 1006) was taken as the second wave was accelerating. The data were gathered by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Ov…
Globalization, Plague and the Local Community: Healthcare Capacity, Politics, and the Microbe War
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is the first major international epidemic of the twenty-first century. In a few short months it spread to every continent, infected 8,096 people, and claimed the lives of 774. It hit older persons particularly hard; it killed 50 percent of the infected of that age category. The rate of plague's spread from one country to another has greatly increased as the globalization of the world's economy has produced…
Revisiting Norton Long's Ecology of Games: A Network Approach
Because the ecology of games (Long, 1958) is generally a qualitative perspective, it rarely has been applied as a means of empirically analyzing the management of community affairs. Here we pair the perspective's emphasis on key actors' goals with a conceptualization of local issues as reference points for the structure of local games. To illustrate, we examine the building of Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1990s using this approa…
Making a Life in Yorkville: Experience and Meaning in the Life-Course Narrative of an Urban Working-Class Man
This outstanding book provides an insightful and intimate view into the life of a working-class man in a big city neighbourhood. He traces the life-course experience of Tony Santangelo (a pseudonym), an Italian, Catholic, construction worker from New Yorks upper east side. The reviews have been uniformly excellent (This book provides much to ponder, discuss, argue, and analyze. It certainly could serve as a blueprint for other life-history analys…
Community Conflict over Arena and Stadium Funding: Competitive Framing, Social Action, and the Socio-Spatial Perspective
This is a study of community conflict over an attempt by the power elite at urban redevelopment through the construction of a stadium and an arena at public expense. The facilities would be for the use and profit of private sector hockey and soccer franchises. Our analysis of the conflict is guided by three theoretical perspectives: competitive framing analysis, social action theory, and the socio-spatial perspective. In this paper our primary fo…
Social and Economic Distress in Large Cities, 1970-1990: A Test of the Urban Crisis Thesis
The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950s
Author-Title Index
Change in Latin America' (V
The Effectiveness of Neighborhood Collective Action
The Effectiveness of Neighborhood Collective Action Get access Gustavo S. Mesch, Gustavo S. Mesch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kent P. Schwirian Kent P. Schwirian Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 43, Issue 4, 1 November 1996, Pages 467–483, https://doi.org/10.2307/3096955 Published: 31 July 2014
Modeling urbanism: Economic, social and environmental stress in cities
Neighboring, residential satisfaction, and psychological well-being in urban elders
The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the relative effects of neighboring and residential satisfaction on the psychological well-being of urban elders. It also examines these relationships within the context of the elders' personal resources —socioeconomic status, health, and mobility. The data were obtained from a random digit-dial sample of 254 noninstitutionalized urban elders living in the Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan area. Based on a str…
The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology, and Industrial Growth
Sociology PhDs in the 1990s
The 1980s were a decade of change and challenge for graduate sociology departments. On the negative side was the disestablishment of long-standing programs at Rochester in 1985 and at Washington (St.Louis) in 1987, although the department at Duke had been successful earlier against those attempting to disestablish sociology at that institution. Good news for sociology came in several forms in the 1980s. The number of students
The Residential Decentralization of Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950-1980
Journal Article The Residential Decentralization of Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950–1980 Get access Kent P. Schwirian, Kent P. Schwirian The Ohio State University Address correspondence and requests to Kent P. Schwirian, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, Columbus, OH 43210 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F. Martin Hankins, F. Martin Hankin…
Urban Evolution: Studies in the Mathematical Ecology of Cities
Urban Political Economy
Families in an Urban Mold
The Residential Patterning of Latin American and Other Ethnic Populations in Metropolitan Miami
Past studies of urban ethnic residential patterns have focused mainly on European immigrant populations of our large, old, northern industrial centers. These studies have shown in general that (1) residential dissimilarity is a pervasive feature of ethnic settlement; (2) residential dissimilarity among ethnic groups, according to various indicators, denotes the social distance among groups; (3) social status differences only partly explain reside…
Contemporary Topics in Urban Sociology
A Longitudinal Study of Metropolitan Density Patterns in a Developing Country: Puerto Rico, 1899-1970
One approach to the study of the growth and development of human settlements is through the analysis of changing residential patterns. The focus of this paper is upon the changing density patterns for Puerto Rico's three principal metropolitan areas from 1899-1970. The data show that San Juan's long-run residential deconcentration is consistent with the pattern usually displayed by cities in developed societies. The increasing congestion and stab…
Madras: An Analysis of Urban Ecological Structure in India
Spatial and Temporal Aspects of the Density-Distance Relationship
Numerous studies of the relationship between urban population density and distance from the city's center have shown that: (1) Cross-sectionally, the relationship between density and distance is negative, such that density crests in the interior of the city and declines toward the periphery. (2) Longitudinally, the slope of the density-distance relationship becomes flatter as central densities decline as neighborhoods age and thin and as fringe a…
Comparative Urban Structure: Studies in the Ecology of Cities
The Effectiveness of Neighborhood Collective Action
The Effectiveness of Neighborhood Collective Action Get access Gustavo S. Mesch, Gustavo S. Mesch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kent P. Schwirian Kent P. Schwirian Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 43, Issue 4, 1 November 1996, Pages 467–483, https://doi.org/10.2307/3096955 Published: 31 July 2014
Confidence in government and vaccination willingness in the USA
The most recent internationally widespread disease outbreak occurred during the flu season of 2009 and 2010. On April 2009, the first cases of influenza A (H1N1) (Popularly called, Swine Flu) were confirmed in the USA and UK following a novel virus that was first identified in Mexico. As the virus spread rapidly, the risk of morbidity and mortality increased in several countries. In this paper, we rely on the social cognitive theory of risk to as…
Revisiting Norton Long's Ecology of Games: A Network Approach
Because the ecology of games (Long, 1958) is generally a qualitative perspective, it rarely has been applied as a means of empirically analyzing the management of community affairs. Here we pair the perspective's emphasis on key actors' goals with a conceptualization of local issues as reference points for the structure of local games. To illustrate, we examine the building of Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1990s using this approa…
Community Conflict over Arena and Stadium Funding: Competitive Framing, Social Action, and the Socio-Spatial Perspective
This is a study of community conflict over an attempt by the power elite at urban redevelopment through the construction of a stadium and an arena at public expense. The facilities would be for the use and profit of private sector hockey and soccer franchises. Our analysis of the conflict is guided by three theoretical perspectives: competitive framing analysis, social action theory, and the socio-spatial perspective. In this paper our primary fo…
Modeling urbanism: Economic, social and environmental stress in cities
The residential distribution of status groups in Puerto Rico’s metropolitan areas
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pattern of residential segregation of status groups in Puerto Rico’s three metropolitan areas. The findings showed that in all three areas: (1) as the social status distance between groups increases so too does the degree of dissimilarity of their residential distributions; (2) the status groups most residentially segregated are those at the top and at the bottom of the status pyramid; (3) the patte…
Questionnaire-Return Bias in the Study of Blue-Collar Workers
Journal Article QUESTIONNAIRE-RETURN BIAS IN THE STUDY OF BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS Get access KENT P. SCHWIRIAN, KENT P. SCHWIRIAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar HARRY R. BLAINE HARRY R. BLAINE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 4, WINTER 1966, Pages 656–663, https://doi.org/10.1086/267463 Published: 01 January 1966
Attention to the media and worry over becoming infected: The case of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic of 2009
This paper examines the relationship between attention to the mass media and concern about becoming infected with H1N1 in two nationwide random samples interviewed during the flu epidemic of 2009. The first sample (N = 1004) was taken at the end of the first wave of the outbreak in the US and the second sample (N = 1006) was taken as the second wave was accelerating. The data were gathered by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Ov…
Social and Economic Distress in Large Cities, 1970-1990: A Test of the Urban Crisis Thesis
Spatial and Temporal Aspects of the Density-Distance Relationship
Numerous studies of the relationship between urban population density and distance from the city's center have shown that: (1) Cross-sectionally, the relationship between density and distance is negative, such that density crests in the interior of the city and declines toward the periphery. (2) Longitudinally, the slope of the density-distance relationship becomes flatter as central densities decline as neighborhoods age and thin and as fringe a…
Ecological Position, Urban Central Place Function, and Community Population Growth
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between urban central place function and community population growth in a rural region with a rapidly improving transportation system. The data show that, while certain ecological classes of towns have advantageous positions for population growth and trade expansion, no longer is central-place function expansion per se a principal community-building activity. Population growth resulted from…
An Axiomatic Theory of Urbanization
A demographic theory of urbanization is formulated through the use of an axiomatic model. Nine variables are initially included within the theoretically closed system. The basic hypotheses of the theory serve to specify relationships between certain pairs of the variables. The basic hypotheses are based upon valid, empirically established findings or the conceptualization of urbanization. Through the syllogistic technique the remaining hypotheses…
The Residential Decentralization of Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950-1980
Journal Article The Residential Decentralization of Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950–1980 Get access Kent P. Schwirian, Kent P. Schwirian The Ohio State University Address correspondence and requests to Kent P. Schwirian, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, Columbus, OH 43210 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F. Martin Hankins, F. Martin Hankin…
Population and People
Economic Role and Community Involvement of Business Executives
mining their degree of involvement in local community affairs? Studies of social class and social participation, of community decision-making processes, and more general analyses of the economic institution in modem society all have suggested that as one ascends the pyramid he becomes more involved in the organizational life of the local community.' Explanations for this association between economic position and community involvement have been of…
Ecological Models of Urban Form: Concentric Zone, Sector, and Multiple Nuclei
Ecological models of urban form describe and explain the spatial patterns taken by the distribution of people, buildings, and activities across a city's terrain. This orderly set of spatial arrangements is known as the city's land use pattern or spatial form. Through the years ecological researchers have identified three major models of the geometry of city form: concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei. While the three models are conceptuall…
Globalization, Plague and the Local Community: Healthcare Capacity, Politics, and the Microbe War
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is the first major international epidemic of the twenty-first century. In a few short months it spread to every continent, infected 8,096 people, and claimed the lives of 774. It hit older persons particularly hard; it killed 50 percent of the infected of that age category. The rate of plague's spread from one country to another has greatly increased as the globalization of the world's economy has produced…
Author-Title Index
Change in Latin America' (V
Variation in Structure of the Kuhn-McPartland Twenty Statements Test and Related Response Differences
(1964). Variation in Structure of the Kuhn-McPartland Twenty Statements Test and Related Response Differences. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 47-59
An Axiomatic Theory of Urbanization
A demographic theory of urbanization is formulated through the use of an axiomatic model. Nine variables are initially included within the theoretically closed system. The basic hypotheses of the theory serve to specify relationships between certain pairs of the variables. The basic hypotheses are based upon valid, empirically established findings or the conceptualization of urbanization. Through the syllogistic technique the remaining hypotheses…
Testing at issue: A case study of school and community conflict
The testing program in a midwest suburban community recently was subjected to serious attack. The author of this paper, assistant professor of sociology at The Ohio State University, details the sequence of events that occurred during the course of the controversy
Variation in Structure of the Kuhn-McPartland Twenty Statements Test and Related Response Differences
(1964). Variation in Structure of the Kuhn-McPartland Twenty Statements Test and Related Response Differences. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 47-59
Questionnaire-Return Bias in the Study of Blue-Collar Workers
Journal Article QUESTIONNAIRE-RETURN BIAS IN THE STUDY OF BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS Get access KENT P. SCHWIRIAN, KENT P. SCHWIRIAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar HARRY R. BLAINE HARRY R. BLAINE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 4, WINTER 1966, Pages 656–663, https://doi.org/10.1086/267463 Published: 01 January 1966
The Control of Human Fertility in Jamaica. J
The Third Child, a Study in the Prediction of Fertility
Ecological Position, Urban Central Place Function, and Community Population Growth
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between urban central place function and community population growth in a rural region with a rapidly improving transportation system. The data show that, while certain ecological classes of towns have advantageous positions for population growth and trade expansion, no longer is central-place function expansion per se a principal community-building activity. Population growth resulted from…
Occupational Situs, Community Structure, and Local Political Participation
(1968). Occupational Situs, Community Structure, and Local Political Participation. Sociological Focus: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 17-30
Economic Role and Community Involvement of Business Executives
mining their degree of involvement in local community affairs? Studies of social class and social participation, of community decision-making processes, and more general analyses of the economic institution in modem society all have suggested that as one ascends the pyramid he becomes more involved in the organizational life of the local community.' Explanations for this association between economic position and community involvement have been of…
The Authors Reply
Population and People
The residential distribution of status groups in Puerto Rico’s metropolitan areas
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pattern of residential segregation of status groups in Puerto Rico’s three metropolitan areas. The findings showed that in all three areas: (1) as the social status distance between groups increases so too does the degree of dissimilarity of their residential distributions; (2) the status groups most residentially segregated are those at the top and at the bottom of the status pyramid; (3) the patte…
Comparative Urban Structure: Studies in the Ecology of Cities
The Drug Arres: A Research Note
Spatial and Temporal Aspects of the Density-Distance Relationship
Numerous studies of the relationship between urban population density and distance from the city's center have shown that: (1) Cross-sectionally, the relationship between density and distance is negative, such that density crests in the interior of the city and declines toward the periphery. (2) Longitudinally, the slope of the density-distance relationship becomes flatter as central densities decline as neighborhoods age and thin and as fringe a…
Madras: An Analysis of Urban Ecological Structure in India
A Longitudinal Study of Metropolitan Density Patterns in a Developing Country: Puerto Rico, 1899-1970
One approach to the study of the growth and development of human settlements is through the analysis of changing residential patterns. The focus of this paper is upon the changing density patterns for Puerto Rico's three principal metropolitan areas from 1899-1970. The data show that San Juan's long-run residential deconcentration is consistent with the pattern usually displayed by cities in developed societies. The increasing congestion and stab…
The Residential Patterning of Latin American and Other Ethnic Populations in Metropolitan Miami
Past studies of urban ethnic residential patterns have focused mainly on European immigrant populations of our large, old, northern industrial centers. These studies have shown in general that (1) residential dissimilarity is a pervasive feature of ethnic settlement; (2) residential dissimilarity among ethnic groups, according to various indicators, denotes the social distance among groups; (3) social status differences only partly explain reside…
Contemporary Topics in Urban Sociology
Families in an Urban Mold
Urban Political Economy
Urban Evolution: Studies in the Mathematical Ecology of Cities
The Residential Decentralization of Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950-1980
Journal Article The Residential Decentralization of Social Status Groups in American Metropolitan Communities, 1950–1980 Get access Kent P. Schwirian, Kent P. Schwirian The Ohio State University Address correspondence and requests to Kent P. Schwirian, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, Columbus, OH 43210 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F. Martin Hankins, F. Martin Hankin…
The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology, and Industrial Growth
Sociology PhDs in the 1990s
The 1980s were a decade of change and challenge for graduate sociology departments. On the negative side was the disestablishment of long-standing programs at Rochester in 1985 and at Washington (St.Louis) in 1987, although the department at Duke had been successful earlier against those attempting to disestablish sociology at that institution. Good news for sociology came in several forms in the 1980s. The number of students
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