Stephen Webster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Webster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Webster |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Silences of Science
Online Offending Behaviour and Child Victimization
Influences on the provision of drug services in England
Whilst service users' views of treatment have been explored, little research exists that has examined front line treatment workers' views on what they perceive are the facilitators and barriers to service provision. This study aimed to fill that gap using a qualitative methodology to explore the experiences of treatment workers. A purposive sample of four Drugs Action Teams or Drug and Alcohol Teams was selected and, in total, 32 front line treat…
Verifying the primacy of voice fundamental frequency in social status accommodation
Maori hapuu and their History
Current research by historians and lawyers in Maori land and fisheries claims is broaching issues of Maori kinship calling for renewed social anthropological research. In this essay I review the history of social anthropological research in Maori kinship through 1975, a lapse in this research until the late 1980s, and a recent revival. A central problem of this research has been the conceptualisation of Maori hapuu (‘subtribes’) or cognatic desce…
Influence of Perpetrators' Account on Nurses' Recognition and Reporting of Child Abuse
Maorihapuuand their History
Current research by historians and lawyers in Maori land and fisheries claims is broaching issues of Maori kinship calling for renewed social anthropological research. In this essay I review the history of social anthropological research in Maori kinship through 1975, a lapse in this research until the late 1980s, and a recent revival. A central problem of this research has been the conceptualisation of Maori hapuu (‘subtribes’) or cognatic desce…
A nonverbal signal in voices of interview partners effectively predicts communication accommodation and social status perceptions
Derivations from nonverbal communications accommodation theory are tested, and this knowledge is extended both theoretically and methodologically. Fast fourier transform and statistical analysis of a low-frequency nonverbal signal-in voices from 25 dyadic interviews between a talk show host and his guests revealed voice convergence between partners. Correlation coefficients from comparisons of partners' voice spectra and factor analysis of the co…
Gender, Marital Status and Social Support
While many studies have examined the separate effects of gender and marital status on patterns of perceived social support, none have examined the simultaneous effects of these two variables while controlling for other relevant variables in a large, random sample. This paper responds to this lacuna by investigating the relationships among these variables for six specific types of problems that may elicit social support from others. Using data dra…
Voice pitch and amplitude convergence as a metric of quality in dyadic interviews
Nurses' recognition and reporting of child abuse
According to interaction ist theory, responses of professionals to potential deviance will vary by characteristics of the event, characteristics of the biography and training of the observer, and characteristics of the organization in which the process occurs. Hypotheses concerning recognition and reporting of child abuse were tested using a factorial survey design. A probability sample of nurses (N = 1,038) judged vignettes, in which case charac…
Problems in Identifying, Reporting, and Treating Family Mistreatment
The goal of this paper is to show the relevance of applied sociology for problems related to the identification, reporting, substantiation, and treatment of mistreatment in the family. Definitional conflicts circumvent professional, agency, and community attempts to deal with abuse and neglect of children, elderly parents, wives and husbands. The role of the applied sociologist is discussed in terms of: (1) Recognizing definitional problems; (2) …
Strategic Planning in Human Service Agencies
Recent public policy initiatives including deinstitutionalization, deregulation, decentralization, and privatization have resulted in: (a) rapid growth in the number of private not-for-profit organizations; and, (b) competitive environments. These conditions have forced agencies to examine their planning processes to determine if agency goals are appropriate for meeting market demands. An exploratory study of 154 human service agencies examined i…
Enforcement or Negotiation
Limits to Bureaucratic Growth
Differentiation of family mistreatment
Definitions that emerge when people react to behaviors that can be viewed as mistreatment were compared in a research design that varied the status of the victim: child, elderly parent, husband, or wife. Vignettes developed by Giovannoni and Becerra (1979) were adopted for use in this study by varying reference to the perpetrator and the victim. Factor analysis of the seriousness ratings of the vignettes by a purposive sample of lay respondents, …
Is Bureaucratic Growth Inevitable
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
A nonverbal signal in voices of interview partners effectively predicts communication accommodation and social status perceptions
Derivations from nonverbal communications accommodation theory are tested, and this knowledge is extended both theoretically and methodologically. Fast fourier transform and statistical analysis of a low-frequency nonverbal signal-in voices from 25 dyadic interviews between a talk show host and his guests revealed voice convergence between partners. Correlation coefficients from comparisons of partners' voice spectra and factor analysis of the co…
Voice pitch and amplitude convergence as a metric of quality in dyadic interviews
Verifying the primacy of voice fundamental frequency in social status accommodation
Nurses' recognition and reporting of child abuse
According to interaction ist theory, responses of professionals to potential deviance will vary by characteristics of the event, characteristics of the biography and training of the observer, and characteristics of the organization in which the process occurs. Hypotheses concerning recognition and reporting of child abuse were tested using a factorial survey design. A probability sample of nurses (N = 1,038) judged vignettes, in which case charac…
Differentiation of family mistreatment
Definitions that emerge when people react to behaviors that can be viewed as mistreatment were compared in a research design that varied the status of the victim: child, elderly parent, husband, or wife. Vignettes developed by Giovannoni and Becerra (1979) were adopted for use in this study by varying reference to the perpetrator and the victim. Factor analysis of the seriousness ratings of the vignettes by a purposive sample of lay respondents, …
Gender, Marital Status and Social Support
While many studies have examined the separate effects of gender and marital status on patterns of perceived social support, none have examined the simultaneous effects of these two variables while controlling for other relevant variables in a large, random sample. This paper responds to this lacuna by investigating the relationships among these variables for six specific types of problems that may elicit social support from others. Using data dra…
Problems in Identifying, Reporting, and Treating Family Mistreatment
The goal of this paper is to show the relevance of applied sociology for problems related to the identification, reporting, substantiation, and treatment of mistreatment in the family. Definitional conflicts circumvent professional, agency, and community attempts to deal with abuse and neglect of children, elderly parents, wives and husbands. The role of the applied sociologist is discussed in terms of: (1) Recognizing definitional problems; (2) …
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
Is Bureaucratic Growth Inevitable
Strategic Planning in Human Service Agencies
Recent public policy initiatives including deinstitutionalization, deregulation, decentralization, and privatization have resulted in: (a) rapid growth in the number of private not-for-profit organizations; and, (b) competitive environments. These conditions have forced agencies to examine their planning processes to determine if agency goals are appropriate for meeting market demands. An exploratory study of 154 human service agencies examined i…
Enforcement or Negotiation
Limits to Bureaucratic Growth
Differentiation of family mistreatment
Definitions that emerge when people react to behaviors that can be viewed as mistreatment were compared in a research design that varied the status of the victim: child, elderly parent, husband, or wife. Vignettes developed by Giovannoni and Becerra (1979) were adopted for use in this study by varying reference to the perpetrator and the victim. Factor analysis of the seriousness ratings of the vignettes by a purposive sample of lay respondents, …
Problems in Identifying, Reporting, and Treating Family Mistreatment
The goal of this paper is to show the relevance of applied sociology for problems related to the identification, reporting, substantiation, and treatment of mistreatment in the family. Definitional conflicts circumvent professional, agency, and community attempts to deal with abuse and neglect of children, elderly parents, wives and husbands. The role of the applied sociologist is discussed in terms of: (1) Recognizing definitional problems; (2) …
Voice pitch and amplitude convergence as a metric of quality in dyadic interviews
Nurses' recognition and reporting of child abuse
According to interaction ist theory, responses of professionals to potential deviance will vary by characteristics of the event, characteristics of the biography and training of the observer, and characteristics of the organization in which the process occurs. Hypotheses concerning recognition and reporting of child abuse were tested using a factorial survey design. A probability sample of nurses (N = 1,038) judged vignettes, in which case charac…
Gender, Marital Status and Social Support
While many studies have examined the separate effects of gender and marital status on patterns of perceived social support, none have examined the simultaneous effects of these two variables while controlling for other relevant variables in a large, random sample. This paper responds to this lacuna by investigating the relationships among these variables for six specific types of problems that may elicit social support from others. Using data dra…
A nonverbal signal in voices of interview partners effectively predicts communication accommodation and social status perceptions
Derivations from nonverbal communications accommodation theory are tested, and this knowledge is extended both theoretically and methodologically. Fast fourier transform and statistical analysis of a low-frequency nonverbal signal-in voices from 25 dyadic interviews between a talk show host and his guests revealed voice convergence between partners. Correlation coefficients from comparisons of partners' voice spectra and factor analysis of the co…
Maori hapuu and their History
Current research by historians and lawyers in Maori land and fisheries claims is broaching issues of Maori kinship calling for renewed social anthropological research. In this essay I review the history of social anthropological research in Maori kinship through 1975, a lapse in this research until the late 1980s, and a recent revival. A central problem of this research has been the conceptualisation of Maori hapuu (‘subtribes’) or cognatic desce…
Influence of Perpetrators' Account on Nurses' Recognition and Reporting of Child Abuse
Maorihapuuand their History
Current research by historians and lawyers in Maori land and fisheries claims is broaching issues of Maori kinship calling for renewed social anthropological research. In this essay I review the history of social anthropological research in Maori kinship through 1975, a lapse in this research until the late 1980s, and a recent revival. A central problem of this research has been the conceptualisation of Maori hapuu (‘subtribes’) or cognatic desce…
Verifying the primacy of voice fundamental frequency in social status accommodation
Influences on the provision of drug services in England
Whilst service users' views of treatment have been explored, little research exists that has examined front line treatment workers' views on what they perceive are the facilitators and barriers to service provision. This study aimed to fill that gap using a qualitative methodology to explore the experiences of treatment workers. A purposive sample of four Drugs Action Teams or Drug and Alcohol Teams was selected and, in total, 32 front line treat…
Online Offending Behaviour and Child Victimization
The Silences of Science
Psychology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Bureaucracy (3 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works)