Bonnie H Erickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie H Erickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie H |
| FAMILY NAME | Erickson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICKSON B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 534 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Untangling the Roots of Tolerance
Past research suggests that tolerance flows from personal characteristics, diversified networks, and participation in voluntary associations. Earlier studies have never included all of these, so researchers have not explored alternative theoretical accounts of how possible causes of tolerance connect to each other and to tolerance. For example, do association members have more tolerance because association activities meet the conditions of the co…
Social CapitalAn International Research Program
For two decades, a significant number of scholars have subscribed to a common definition of social capital (resources embedded in social networks), employed a standard measurement (the position generator methodology), and conducted original research. Their sustained efforts have demonstrated the power of the concept of social capital in diverse arenas of research and varied cultural and societal settings. Their work has contributed to the substan…
A Time-Series Analysis of War and Levels of Interpersonal Violence in an English Military Town, 1700–1781
More than 7,000 assaults were reported to the magistrates of Portsmouth, England, between 1700 and 1781. Time-series analyses were run to see (1) what effects, if any, war had on levels of aggression and (2) whether overall levels of aggression decreased over time. Aggression was measured in two ways: (1) the extent to which assailants ganged up on adversaries and (2) levels of violence in individual confrontations (whether a weapon was used, and…
Network Diversity and Vote Choice
Building on Mark Granovetter's concept of weak ties, we argue that diverse social networks can enhance the propensity of women to vote for a party of the Left. Using data from the 2000 Canadian Election Study, we test two hypotheses: First, the wider the range of women known, the more likely women are to vote for the Left, and second, the wider the range of higher-status women known, the more likely married women are to vote for the Left. We argu…
Transfer of Knowledge on Agroforestry Management Practices
Isaac, M. E., B. H. Erickson, S. Quashie-Sam, and V. R. Timmer. 2007. Transfer of knowledge on agroforestry management practices: the structure of farmer advice networks. Ecology and Society 12(2): 32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02196-120232
Social Networks
People are healthier and happier when they have intimates who care about and for them. But they also do better when they know many different people casually.
Corporate Social Capital and Liability
Introduction: CSC: The Structure of Advantage and Disadvantage S.M. Gabbay, R.Th.A.J. Leenders. Section I: Conceptual Issues - Theory, Models, and Measurement. 1. Organizational Networks and Corporate Social Capital D. Knoke. 2. Social Capital of Organization: Conceptualization, Level of Analysis, and Performance Implications J.M. Pennings, K. Lee. 3. A Relational Resource Perspective on Social Capital L. Araujo, G. Easton. 4. Social Capital by D…
Gender on a Jagged Edge
The security industry has seen an influx of women in recent decades. Although some have been resegregated into relatively poorly rewarded jobs seen as suitable for women, some have found better jobs or jobs usually seen as 'men's work.' We trace these variable outcomes to the flexibility of ideas about jobs and gender, the greater power of ideas about gender relationships, the tension between gender homophily and gender status expectations, relat…
Contact and Stereotyping in a Voluntary Association
Contact between social groups reduces prejudice and stereotyping - sometimes, depending on the nature of the contact and the setting. Voluntary association settings have been little explored. though they should often meet the contact hypothesis scope conditions. We analyze a large association in which the conditions can be checked unusually thoroughly and the conditions are met. We also use unusually refined measures of contact (derived from netw…
Social Networks and History
(1997). Social Networks and History: A Review Essay. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 149-157
Culture, Class, and Connections
Bourdieu's analysis of class and culture errs in neglecting two important aspects of social structure: social networks and class relations at work. He expects high-status culture to be useful in class because it is correlated with class, but culture used at work includes both genres related to class (used in domination) and genres unrelated to class (used in coordination). High-status culture is correlated with class but excluded, not used, in th…
Exceptions Are the Rule
Understanding data
What is good taste good for
Bourdieu afflrme que le capital cultural est utile lorsque Ton veut obtenir une situation de classe supérieure, particuliérement dans certains secteurs, et n'est en fait qu'une seule chose: une culture de condition supérieure. Mais son argument, établit pour une France centralisée, est moins valable pour le Canada plus subdivisé. Cet article étudie les idées de Bourdieu sous tous leurs aspects pour un échantillon quota de Torontoniens. Les résult…
Splitting the Middle
Introduction The Middle Layers and Political Alienation Splitting the Middle Class Interests and State Actions: Profiles of the Class Layers Class-Based Changes in Political Alienation: Political Disaffection Perspectives Squeezing the Middle: Alienated Politics and the Welfare Split Class-Based Reactions to Political Alienation Some Macro-Level Consequences of Political Alienation The Recent Past and Prospects for the Future Bibliography Index
How an apolitical association politicizes
La participation politique augmente avec la participation dans les associations volontaires, même lorsque ces dernières sont très apolitisées. La théorie suggère que les membres de ces groupes sont politisés par la diversité du groupe, la grandeur du réseau, les activité de l'association, la prise d'un poste exécutif, 1'aide au travail administratif, ou les discussions politiques avec les autres membres de l'association. Cet article établit une s…
How high is up? Calibrating social comparison in the real world
Applied Network Analysis
The Allocation of Esteem and Disesteem
Goode argues that esteem is a curvilinear function of performance, while disesteem stems in part from substandard performance. Disesteem is also greater the more deviant acts one commits and the more disapproved these acts are. Further, performance and deviance may pay off (in esteem and disesteem) at different rates for people of different status. Here we test Goode's predictions in a well-bounded, well-connected subculture with a single central…
Applied network sampling
Secret Societies and Social Structure
Journal Article Secret Societies and Social Structure Get access Bonnie H. Erickson Bonnie H. Erickson University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 1, September 1981, Pages 188–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.1.188 Published: 01 September 1981
Network sampling in practice
Some Methodological and Theoretical Limits in Analyzing the 1965 Survey
Bonnie H. Erickson, Some Methodological and Theoretical Limits in Analyzing the 1965 Survey: A Reply to Johnston's Critique, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Spring, 1981), pp. 156-163
Region, Knowledge, and Class Voting in Canada
Secret Societies and Social Structure
Since Simmel's seminal essay on secret societies, little systematic work on the topic has been attempted even though the empirical basis for such work has greatly improved. The present paper uses six case studies with unusually good structural detail in analyzing one aspect of secret societies: their organizational structure. In contrast with Simmel, I argue that secret societies under risk must be differentiated from others; that societies under…
Culture, Class, and Connections
Bourdieu's analysis of class and culture errs in neglecting two important aspects of social structure: social networks and class relations at work. He expects high-status culture to be useful in class because it is correlated with class, but culture used at work includes both genres related to class (used in domination) and genres unrelated to class (used in coordination). High-status culture is correlated with class but excluded, not used, in th…
Some Problems of Inference from Chain Data
Researchers studying rumor transmission are often interested in tracing the rumor to its source by asking each person who first told him. The end product of such a tracing may be a chain of acquaintances. In another kind of chain method, the researcher could ask a respondent to name the person with most influence on him; then, in turn, ask this reported influencer to name the person with most influence on him; and so on. Whatever the details of p…
Untangling the Roots of Tolerance
Past research suggests that tolerance flows from personal characteristics, diversified networks, and participation in voluntary associations. Earlier studies have never included all of these, so researchers have not explored alternative theoretical accounts of how possible causes of tolerance connect to each other and to tolerance. For example, do association members have more tolerance because association activities meet the conditions of the co…
How an apolitical association politicizes
La participation politique augmente avec la participation dans les associations volontaires, même lorsque ces dernières sont très apolitisées. La théorie suggère que les membres de ces groupes sont politisés par la diversité du groupe, la grandeur du réseau, les activité de l'association, la prise d'un poste exécutif, 1'aide au travail administratif, ou les discussions politiques avec les autres membres de l'association. Cet article établit une s…
Exploratory Data Analysis
What is good taste good for
Bourdieu afflrme que le capital cultural est utile lorsque Ton veut obtenir une situation de classe supérieure, particuliérement dans certains secteurs, et n'est en fait qu'une seule chose: une culture de condition supérieure. Mais son argument, établit pour une France centralisée, est moins valable pour le Canada plus subdivisé. Cet article étudie les idées de Bourdieu sous tous leurs aspects pour un échantillon quota de Torontoniens. Les résult…
Gender on a Jagged Edge
The security industry has seen an influx of women in recent decades. Although some have been resegregated into relatively poorly rewarded jobs seen as suitable for women, some have found better jobs or jobs usually seen as 'men's work.' We trace these variable outcomes to the flexibility of ideas about jobs and gender, the greater power of ideas about gender relationships, the tension between gender homophily and gender status expectations, relat…
How high is up? Calibrating social comparison in the real world
The Allocation of Esteem and Disesteem
Goode argues that esteem is a curvilinear function of performance, while disesteem stems in part from substandard performance. Disesteem is also greater the more deviant acts one commits and the more disapproved these acts are. Further, performance and deviance may pay off (in esteem and disesteem) at different rates for people of different status. Here we test Goode's predictions in a well-bounded, well-connected subculture with a single central…
Affect, facial regard, and reactions to crowding
Network Diversity and Vote Choice
Building on Mark Granovetter's concept of weak ties, we argue that diverse social networks can enhance the propensity of women to vote for a party of the Left. Using data from the 2000 Canadian Election Study, we test two hypotheses: First, the wider the range of women known, the more likely women are to vote for the Left, and second, the wider the range of higher-status women known, the more likely married women are to vote for the Left. We argu…
Transfer of Knowledge on Agroforestry Management Practices
Isaac, M. E., B. H. Erickson, S. Quashie-Sam, and V. R. Timmer. 2007. Transfer of knowledge on agroforestry management practices: the structure of farmer advice networks. Ecology and Society 12(2): 32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02196-120232
Community Size, Network Structure, and the Flow of Information
The Small World of Politics Or, Seeking Elites From the Bottom Up
Les relations interpersonnelles jouent un rôle important en politique. En guise d'exploration et dans le but de formuler des hypothèses sur les structures de relations et la politique, nous avons établi la distance sociale entre certains électeurs et leurs représentants à Ottawa et nous avons examiné plusieurs variables qui y étaient possiblement reliées. La location stratégique d'une personne dans un réseau de relations dépend principalement de …
The Flow of Crisis Information as a Probe of Work Relations
Bonnie H. Erickson, T. A. Nosanchuk, Liviana Mostacci, Christina Ford Dalrymple, The Flow of Crisis Information as a Probe of Work Relations, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Winter, 1978), pp. 71-87
Contact and Stereotyping in a Voluntary Association
Contact between social groups reduces prejudice and stereotyping - sometimes, depending on the nature of the contact and the setting. Voluntary association settings have been little explored. though they should often meet the contact hypothesis scope conditions. We analyze a large association in which the conditions can be checked unusually thoroughly and the conditions are met. We also use unusually refined measures of contact (derived from netw…
Region, Knowledge, and Class Voting in Canada
Affect, facial regard, and reactions to crowding
The Small World of Politics Or, Seeking Elites From the Bottom Up
Les relations interpersonnelles jouent un rôle important en politique. En guise d'exploration et dans le but de formuler des hypothèses sur les structures de relations et la politique, nous avons établi la distance sociale entre certains électeurs et leurs représentants à Ottawa et nous avons examiné plusieurs variables qui y étaient possiblement reliées. La location stratégique d'une personne dans un réseau de relations dépend principalement de …
Tautological Findings
Exploratory Data Analysis
Understanding Data
The Flow of Crisis Information as a Probe of Work Relations
Bonnie H. Erickson, T. A. Nosanchuk, Liviana Mostacci, Christina Ford Dalrymple, The Flow of Crisis Information as a Probe of Work Relations, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Winter, 1978), pp. 71-87
Some Problems of Inference from Chain Data
Researchers studying rumor transmission are often interested in tracing the rumor to its source by asking each person who first told him. The end product of such a tracing may be a chain of acquaintances. In another kind of chain method, the researcher could ask a respondent to name the person with most influence on him; then, in turn, ask this reported influencer to name the person with most influence on him; and so on. Whatever the details of p…
Community Size, Network Structure, and the Flow of Information
Secret Societies and Social Structure
Journal Article Secret Societies and Social Structure Get access Bonnie H. Erickson Bonnie H. Erickson University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 1, September 1981, Pages 188–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.1.188 Published: 01 September 1981
Network sampling in practice
Some Methodological and Theoretical Limits in Analyzing the 1965 Survey
Bonnie H. Erickson, Some Methodological and Theoretical Limits in Analyzing the 1965 Survey: A Reply to Johnston's Critique, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Spring, 1981), pp. 156-163
Region, Knowledge, and Class Voting in Canada
Applied network sampling
The Allocation of Esteem and Disesteem
Goode argues that esteem is a curvilinear function of performance, while disesteem stems in part from substandard performance. Disesteem is also greater the more deviant acts one commits and the more disapproved these acts are. Further, performance and deviance may pay off (in esteem and disesteem) at different rates for people of different status. Here we test Goode's predictions in a well-bounded, well-connected subculture with a single central…
How high is up? Calibrating social comparison in the real world
Applied Network Analysis
How an apolitical association politicizes
La participation politique augmente avec la participation dans les associations volontaires, même lorsque ces dernières sont très apolitisées. La théorie suggère que les membres de ces groupes sont politisés par la diversité du groupe, la grandeur du réseau, les activité de l'association, la prise d'un poste exécutif, 1'aide au travail administratif, ou les discussions politiques avec les autres membres de l'association. Cet article établit une s…
What is good taste good for
Bourdieu afflrme que le capital cultural est utile lorsque Ton veut obtenir une situation de classe supérieure, particuliérement dans certains secteurs, et n'est en fait qu'une seule chose: une culture de condition supérieure. Mais son argument, établit pour une France centralisée, est moins valable pour le Canada plus subdivisé. Cet article étudie les idées de Bourdieu sous tous leurs aspects pour un échantillon quota de Torontoniens. Les résult…
Splitting the Middle
Introduction The Middle Layers and Political Alienation Splitting the Middle Class Interests and State Actions: Profiles of the Class Layers Class-Based Changes in Political Alienation: Political Disaffection Perspectives Squeezing the Middle: Alienated Politics and the Welfare Split Class-Based Reactions to Political Alienation Some Macro-Level Consequences of Political Alienation The Recent Past and Prospects for the Future Bibliography Index
Understanding data
Exceptions Are the Rule
Culture, Class, and Connections
Bourdieu's analysis of class and culture errs in neglecting two important aspects of social structure: social networks and class relations at work. He expects high-status culture to be useful in class because it is correlated with class, but culture used at work includes both genres related to class (used in domination) and genres unrelated to class (used in coordination). High-status culture is correlated with class but excluded, not used, in th…
Social Networks and History
(1997). Social Networks and History: A Review Essay. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 149-157
Contact and Stereotyping in a Voluntary Association
Contact between social groups reduces prejudice and stereotyping - sometimes, depending on the nature of the contact and the setting. Voluntary association settings have been little explored. though they should often meet the contact hypothesis scope conditions. We analyze a large association in which the conditions can be checked unusually thoroughly and the conditions are met. We also use unusually refined measures of contact (derived from netw…
Gender on a Jagged Edge
The security industry has seen an influx of women in recent decades. Although some have been resegregated into relatively poorly rewarded jobs seen as suitable for women, some have found better jobs or jobs usually seen as 'men's work.' We trace these variable outcomes to the flexibility of ideas about jobs and gender, the greater power of ideas about gender relationships, the tension between gender homophily and gender status expectations, relat…
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