Scott Greer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Greer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Greer |
| SIGNATURE | GREER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe
The Concept of Community: Readings with Interpretations
"Community" is a basic concept, perhaps the basic concept, in social science and in social philosophy. Its meanings are many and varied, yet it is pre-eminent in discussions of man and his world. The editors of this book have selected material from many sources in an attempt to explore the meaning and relevance of the idea of community as it is used in social science, political commentary, and general literature.The book is organized around four …
The history specialist in psychology: From avocation to professionalization
This article focuses on the history of psychology as a core area in the field of psychology. Does the discipline recognize the contributions of historical research, or does the history of psychology only serve a pedagogical function in the discipline? Our concerns center on the relationship (or lack thereof) between pedagogy and research in the academy. This stems from the fact that historical research is not viewed as contributing to the advance…
Differences That Matter: Overcoming Methodological Nationalism in Comparative Social Policy Research
Welfare states are often discussed as if they were territorially homogeneous state-wide institutions measurable by state-wide expenditure averages and explained by country-level variables. It is rare in comparative policy studies to investigate the role of territorial politics in the outcomes of even federal countries. This article argues, using social policy examples in the UK and US, that the impact of intergovernmental finance and division of …
Structural adjustment comes to Europe: Lessons for the Eurozone from the conditionality debates
This article argues that the Economic Adjustment Programmes (EAPs) that came with loans to peripheral Eurozone members Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and now Cyprus, are very similar to the loans with conditionality, also known as Structural Adjustment Programs, that international financial institutions used as a policy tool in the 1980s and 1990s. It defines structural adjustment programs and then shows how Eurozone rules plus the EAPs resemble them…
Does the future have a history of psychology? A report on teaching, research, and faculty positions in Canadian universities
Polity-making without Policy-making: European Union Healthcare Services Policy
European Union health care policy looks like an important and growing field from the perspective of Brussels: case law, legislation, lobbyists, intra-Commission disputes and all of the other signs of a European Union policy sector. From the perspective of health systems, it seems rather less dramatic: considerable worries, but very little practical effect. This chapter resolves the paradox of impact in Brussels and limited consequences by arguing…
Being Spain in Brussels: Policy bureaucracy, agenda setting and negotiation in the EU policy process
Spanish bureaucracy is often said to be marked by poor coordination, poor information and inability to shape political agendas - but analyses of Spanish EU policy regularly present a list of its achievements. We focus on the 'policy bureaucracy' that monitors and acts on dossiers regardless of their political priority, using one EU policy area: health care services policy. For almost the entire EU health care debate, Spain was uncoordinated and i…
Managing risks in EU health services policy: Spot markets, legal certainty and bureaucratic resistance
European Union (EU) healthcare services policy has been largely driven by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) applying the law of the internal market to the previously separate area of healthcare systems. We argue that it opened up two major risks: that health service planning would be disrupted by cross-border flows of patients and professionals, including ostensibly interchangeable professionals or procedures that actually vary in quality; and …
That Day on River Valley and the Discovery of Presence
This article serves as an introduction to the notion of “presence,” as described by Runia, and applies this concept to our understandings of memory, particularly involuntary memory, and personal experience. Presence is understood as the way the past resides in the present, but is unrepresented, outside of the usual venues of textual or visual representation. The discovery of presence—such as in the experience of involuntary memories—leads us to a…
Devolution and Social Citizenship in the UK
Making War Criminal
Turk's conflict theory of political criminality is used to account for the virtual cessation of international criminal law enforcement following the Nuremberg Tribunal and its revival through the establishment of The Hague Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Turk's theory further helps to contextualize the little known contribution of Sheldon Glueck to the development of the Nuremberg Trials. Glueck helped overcome Soviet wishes to tur…
"Freud's "bad conscience: The case of Nietzsche's Genealogy
This article develops the argument that Friedrich Nietzsche influenced several aspects of Freud's later writings by illustrating, in particular, the impact of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals on Freud's Civilization and its Discontents. The theoretical and conceptual schemes represented in Freud's Discontents are found to bear a remarkable similarity to Nietzsche's Genealogy on a number of highly specific points. It is suggested that "das E…
Falling off the edge of the modern world
Falling off the edge of the modern world
The social construction of what
Nietzsche and Social Construction: Directions for a Postmodern Historiography
This paper argues for a social constructionist understanding of psychology, morality and historiography. It also attempts to show that the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is especially pertinent to, and in some ways an anticipation of, the modern social constructionist movement. It is argued that Nietzsche offers a valuable contribution to the developing postmodern conception of historiography, and, using Nietzsche, the paper distinguishes betw…
Urbanism and Urbanity: Cities in an Urban-Dominated Society
The functions of cities in societies are discussed in this essay, the specialized functions performed and the integration of functions. The cities are seen as marketplaces of ideas, attitudes, artifacts, and consequently, innovation; they are driving wheels of great cultures. Then the modem city is considered—as it emerges as a vast collection of "small towns" around a small urban center deserted by night with various islands of intense cultural …
Self-Respect and Civic Culture: Towards Indicators
In this essay the concept of self-respect is defined as “deference among equals.” In exploring the application of the concept in modern cities, it is considered in the light of differentiation and inequalities, as well as the process of maintaining social order. From this ensues an examination of the situations in which respect is tendered or denied, by what are predictably public actions; from another point of view, they are Everyman’s engagemen…
The Moral Order: An Introduction to the Human Situation
The continuity of moral reform: Community mental health centers
Citizens' voluntary governing boards: Waiting for the quorum
The Sociology of Usefulness and the Usefulness of Sociology
(1980). The Sociology of Usefulness and the Usefulness of Sociology. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 287-293
The Suburban Environment: Sweden and the United States.David Popenoe
In Brief
has announced two new programs: a Master of Arts in History with a special emphasis in historic preservation, and a
Urbanism Reconsidered: A Comparative Study of Local Areas in a Metropolis
THE investigation of the internal differentiation of urban population has been concerned chiefly with economic rank and ethnic diversity, and with the differences which accompany variations in these factors. Such studies throw little light upon the broad, non-ethnic, cultural differences generated in the metropolitan environment, i.e., upon as a way of life. While there has been much concern, theoretically, with the effects of the metropolitan am…
Suburbia: Its People and Their Politics
Making War Criminal
Turk's conflict theory of political criminality is used to account for the virtual cessation of international criminal law enforcement following the Nuremberg Tribunal and its revival through the establishment of The Hague Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Turk's theory further helps to contextualize the little known contribution of Sheldon Glueck to the development of the Nuremberg Trials. Glueck helped overcome Soviet wishes to tur…
The Logic of Social Inquiry
The Emerging City: Myth and Reality
The Emerging City was written at a time when the great transformation from urban to suburban lifestyle was under way. It is a tribute to Scott Greer that his work understood the new contours of the city, and also well appreciated that far from spelling the end of urban life, the new developments in communication and transportation only served to change the social and political structure of modern societies. Greer established the principle that in…
Structural adjustment comes to Europe: Lessons for the Eurozone from the conditionality debates
This article argues that the Economic Adjustment Programmes (EAPs) that came with loans to peripheral Eurozone members Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and now Cyprus, are very similar to the loans with conditionality, also known as Structural Adjustment Programs, that international financial institutions used as a policy tool in the 1980s and 1990s. It defines structural adjustment programs and then shows how Eurozone rules plus the EAPs resemble them…
The Social Structure and Political Process of Suburbia
The basic characteristics differentiating suburban areas from the central city, as developed in current literature, are related through a theory of social organization. This approach derives spatially-based social organization from population type and the social consequences of spatial aggregation. The social-political structure of suburbia is conceptualized at three organizational levels, concentric in scope: the neighborhood, the residential co…
Catholic Voters and the Democratic Party
The last presidential election stimulated renewed interest in the religious factors in American politics. Here is a concrete study of the relationship between the Democratic Party and the Catholic electorate in St. Louis
Urban Renewal and American Cities
The Mass Society and the Parapolitical Structure
The hypothesis that the urban milieu leads inescapably toward a state of the political masses is re-examined in an analysis, in one major metropolitan community, of the effect on political participation of the parapolitical organizational structure (consisting of ostensibly nonpolitical organizations which can represent, in political terms if necessary, an area of autonomous social value). Variations in population type are related to a theory of …
Cities and Society: Revised Reader in Urban Sociology
Differences That Matter: Overcoming Methodological Nationalism in Comparative Social Policy Research
Welfare states are often discussed as if they were territorially homogeneous state-wide institutions measurable by state-wide expenditure averages and explained by country-level variables. It is rare in comparative policy studies to investigate the role of territorial politics in the outcomes of even federal countries. This article argues, using social policy examples in the UK and US, that the impact of intergovernmental finance and division of …
The New Urbanization
Some years ago when the first post-war population censuses began to trickle in from all over the world, it became evi dent that the fastest rates of urbanization were appearing in the developing and new nations. While many of these coun tries as a whole were experiencing a rapid population growth, their cities were growing at an even more rapid pace. Urban populations in many instances were more than doubling and tripling within a single decade, …
Ethnicity and Extended Familism in an Upper-Middle-Class Suburb
Previous research has shown that, in an upper-middle-class suburb in a North Central state, Jewish families report more extended familism than do Christian families. The present paper shows more clearly the association between ethnicity and familism by using three further indices of extended familism and by dividing the Christian respondents into Catholics and Protestants. The three new indices-extensity of kin households present in the metropoli…
The Concept of Community: Readings with Interpretations
The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics
The Urban Process: Cities in Industrial Societies
Managing risks in EU health services policy: Spot markets, legal certainty and bureaucratic resistance
European Union (EU) healthcare services policy has been largely driven by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) applying the law of the internal market to the previously separate area of healthcare systems. We argue that it opened up two major risks: that health service planning would be disrupted by cross-border flows of patients and professionals, including ostensibly interchangeable professionals or procedures that actually vary in quality; and …
The history specialist in psychology: From avocation to professionalization
This article focuses on the history of psychology as a core area in the field of psychology. Does the discipline recognize the contributions of historical research, or does the history of psychology only serve a pedagogical function in the discipline? Our concerns center on the relationship (or lack thereof) between pedagogy and research in the academy. This stems from the fact that historical research is not viewed as contributing to the advance…
Does the future have a history of psychology? A report on teaching, research, and faculty positions in Canadian universities
The Political Side of Urban Development and Redevelopment
The fate of planned urban development and redevelopment largely depends on the political system. In the United States, political and governmental fragmentation has crucial consequences for development in physical, social, and political ways. The federal system, whatever its virtues, raises barriers which impede accommodation. The multiplicity of local units of government, not rationally determined, under mines co-ordination, power, and responsibi…
Social Area Analysis and Its Critics
"Freud's "bad conscience: The case of Nietzsche's Genealogy
This article develops the argument that Friedrich Nietzsche influenced several aspects of Freud's later writings by illustrating, in particular, the impact of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals on Freud's Civilization and its Discontents. The theoretical and conceptual schemes represented in Freud's Discontents are found to bear a remarkable similarity to Nietzsche's Genealogy on a number of highly specific points. It is suggested that "das E…
Land-Use Controls in the United States
Last Man In: Racial Access to Union Power
Urbanism Reconsidered: A Comparative Study of Local Areas in a Metropolis
THE investigation of the internal differentiation of urban population has been concerned chiefly with economic rank and ethnic diversity, and with the differences which accompany variations in these factors. Such studies throw little light upon the broad, non-ethnic, cultural differences generated in the metropolitan environment, i.e., upon as a way of life. While there has been much concern, theoretically, with the effects of the metropolitan am…
Cities and Society: Revised Reader in Urban Sociology
Last Man in: Racial Access to Union Power
Man Made Plain: The Poet in Contemporary Society
Last Man In: Racial Access to Union Power
Suburbia: Its People and Their Politics
Last Man In: Racial Access to Union Power
The Social Structure and Political Process of Suburbia
The basic characteristics differentiating suburban areas from the central city, as developed in current literature, are related through a theory of social organization. This approach derives spatially-based social organization from population type and the social consequences of spatial aggregation. The social-political structure of suburbia is conceptualized at three organizational levels, concentric in scope: the neighborhood, the residential co…
Catholic Voters and the Democratic Party
The last presidential election stimulated renewed interest in the religious factors in American politics. Here is a concrete study of the relationship between the Democratic Party and the Catholic electorate in St. Louis
The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935-1941.Walter Galenson
Social Area Analysis and Its Critics
The Mass Society and the Parapolitical Structure
The hypothesis that the urban milieu leads inescapably toward a state of the political masses is re-examined in an analysis, in one major metropolitan community, of the effect on political participation of the parapolitical organizational structure (consisting of ostensibly nonpolitical organizations which can represent, in political terms if necessary, an area of autonomous social value). Variations in population type are related to a theory of …
The Emerging City: Myth and Reality
The Emerging City was written at a time when the great transformation from urban to suburban lifestyle was under way. It is a tribute to Scott Greer that his work understood the new contours of the city, and also well appreciated that far from spelling the end of urban life, the new developments in communication and transportation only served to change the social and political structure of modern societies. Greer established the principle that in…
The Rational Model, the Sociological Model, and Metropolitan Reform
In these days, the political and economic problem of newly emerging nations abroad divert attention from the chronic political and economic problems of urban areas here at home. Yet there are many similarities between new nations and old cities in the difficulty of achieving comprehensive and effective government action to solve the more pressing problems that beset the people resident in the area. Here is a sobering report of an attempt to refor…
Land-Use Controls in the United States
Societies in the Making: A Study of Development and Redevelopment Within a County Borough
Governing the Metropolis
The Emerging City. Myth and Reality
Metropolitics: A Study of Political Culture
Political Form and Metropolitan Reform
The Political Side of Urban Development and Redevelopment
The fate of planned urban development and redevelopment largely depends on the political system. In the United States, political and governmental fragmentation has crucial consequences for development in physical, social, and political ways. The federal system, whatever its virtues, raises barriers which impede accommodation. The multiplicity of local units of government, not rationally determined, under mines co-ordination, power, and responsibi…
The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics
The Twilight of Cities
City Politics
Metropolitics: A Study of Political Culture
Sociology (45 works) · Political science (34 works) · Law (26 works) · Politics (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works)