Robert Cameron Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Cameron Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Cameron |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 84 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 256 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 84 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Smartness Mandate: Notes toward a Critique
September 01 2017 The Smartness Mandate: Notes toward a Critique Orit Halpern, Orit Halpern Orit Halpern is Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. She works on cybernetics, infrastructure, and the future of urban habitats. She is also a codirector of the Speculative Life Research Cluster, a laboratory situated at the intersection of art and the life sciences, architecture and design, and computational media (ww…
Becoming engaged. Eine praxistheoretisch-empirische Analyse von Trainingsepisoden in der Sportakrobatik und dem Taijiquan/ Becoming Engaged. A Practice Theoretical Empirical Analysis of Episodes in th…
In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir anhand zweier empirischer Fälle aus dem Bereich sportlichen Trainings, wie Neulinge Praktiken erlernen. Der Beitrag beginnt mit einer kurzen Skizzierung praxistheoretischer Grundgedanken sowie ihres Interesses daran, wie Teilnehmer von Praktiken ‚Rekrutiert‘ werden. Der Ausgangspunkt unseres Beitrags ist, dass in praxistheoretischen Zugängen, die sich einer Analytik der Rekrutierung bedienen, Praktiken zu typisierten…
Using Surveys to Value Public Goods: The Contingent Valuation Method
Economists and others have long believed that by balancing the costs of such public goods as air quality and wilderness areas against their benefits, informed policy choices can be made. But the problem of putting a dollar value on cleaner air or water and other goods not sold in the marketplace has been a major stumbling block. Mitchell and Carson, for reasons presented in this book, argue that at this time the contingent valuation (CV) method o…
Contingent Valuation and Lost Passive Use: Damages from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Economic Benefits to Foreigners Visiting Morocco Accruing from the Rehabilitation of the Fes Medina: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts
What value do we place on our cultural heritage, and to what extent should we preserve historic and culturally important sites and artefacts from the ravages of weather, pollution, development and use by the general public? This innovative book attempts to answer these important questions by exploring how non-market valuation techniques – used extensively in environmental economics – can be applied to cultural heritage. The book includes twelve c…
The Impact of “No Opinion” Response Options on Data Quality
According to many seasoned survey researchers, offering a no-opinion option should reduce the pressure to give substantive responses felt by respondents who have no true opinions. By contrast, the survey satisficing perspective suggests that no-opinion options may discourage some respondents from doing the cognitive work necessary to report the true opinions they do have. We address these arguments using data from nine experiments carried out in …
Violating Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude Questions
Referendum Design and Contingent Valuation: The Noaa Panel's No-Vote Recommendation
This paper considers the effects for offering a “would-not-vote” option in contingent valuation (CV) questions framed using the referendum format. This approach arises from a suggestion made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) panel on contingent valuation. The NOAA panel was asked to evaluate the use of this method for estimating the economic value of nonmarketed environmental resources in the context of natural resou…
Twenty years of environmental mobilization: Trends among national environmental organizations
The evolution of national environmental organizations over the past two decades is analyzed, with special attention given to the major organizations that engage in lobbying. The rapid growth experienced by the older organizations and the emergence and subsequent growth of several newer organizations are described. An overview of the activities of these national organizations (including a description of their relationships with one another) is giv…
Black Africa: A Comparative Handbook
Two types of global environmental change
Sierra Leone
The ethnic classification of Sierra Leone is done according to the same principles used in the Ivory Coast and Liberia: the groups listed within each of the three major types are identity groups. In addition to these peoples, there are the Fulani (3 percent), the Lokko (3 percent), and the Creole (2 percent). There are also European and Asian populations of 3,000 and 5,000 respectively. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.…
Cameroon
The Cameroon is a country of great ethnic heterogeneity. Our categorization of this diversity demands a rather high level of abstraction. In judging greater or lesser cultural similarity between groups, it is necessary to ignore variation on specific cultural variables and to define an acceptable range of variation at a level of relatively high generalization. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experiment…
Social Mobilization
All changes in society, whether they be social, economic, or political in nature, involve changes in the values, attitudes, or behaviors of at least some of the individuals who comprise that society. Post World War II history has seen fundamental and pervasive changes in social, political, and economic relations both between and within nations. Africa has been no exception to this phenomenon. In particular, as African nations have shed their colo…
International Relations
The greatest proportion of this book is devoted to descriptions of the geographical, social, cultural, economic and political characteristics of individual Black African states, and to discussions of the potential relevance of such aggregate attributes of national political systems to the explanation of variable patterns of development within them. It is clear, however, that national political systems, especially those Black African countries con…
Equatorial Guinea
The major population group (90 percent) in Rio Muni is Fang. The Bubi on the island of Bioko* are the only other group in the country with more than five percent of the population. both are identity groups. There are small groups of Kombe, Balengue, and Bujeba along the Rio Muni coast. There had been a large Nigerian population (mainly from Eastern Nigeria) working on the plantations on Bioko. They numbered at least 30,000 in 1969, but this numbe…
Kenya
The ethnic classification selected for Kenya is that used by the Kenya census (1962), which states that the groupings were made on the basis of “ethnic, linguistic, and geographical considerations” and involves “somewhat arbitrary” groupings in certain cases. Thus, the Boni and Sanye, who are said to be among the oldest hunting tribes of Kenya, have been placed in their respective groups because of linguistic and geographical considerations. None…
Djibouti
Djibouti’s population is divided between two main ethnic groups, the Issas, who are of Somali origin, and the smaller largely nomadic Afars (Danakie), who are of Ethiopian origin. The Afars comprise 32 percent of the population while the Issas, who are concentrated in the vicinity of the capital, comprise 50 percent of the population. Somalis, Arabs, Europeans, and other foreigners make up the balance of the country’s population. These keywords w…
Mali
The ethnic classification selected for Mali is fairly inclusive. It is largely based on linguistic criteria, although cultural and identity factors strongly reinforce these criteria. The Fulani, Tuareg, and Songhai are identity groups. Within the Mande family, the Dyula are probably of Senufo origin. They have been placed with the Mandé (as was done in the Ivory Coast classification), however, for reasons of language and culture (Muslim). Mali al…
Comparative Analysis of African Nations: On the Uses and Limitations of Cross-National Data
A detailed account of comparative methodology or cross-national research in the social sciences is not possible here, although such a work is needed. 1 It is important, however, to indicate the purposes of cross-national research and the possibilities and limitations of such research in Africa. The discussion here is designed primarily to speak to professional social scientists and “Africanists,” some of whom may be either dubious of the value of…
Niger
Although the ethnic groupings for Niger are widely inclusive, they correspond to functioning identity and language groups. These are also the categories recognized by the Niger government. Culturally, all of the groups are relatively similar, since they have all been Muslim for several centuries. There are important ecological differences, however, especially with regard to Fulani pastoralism and Tuareg nomadism. The Tuaregs are estimated at 3 pe…
Tanzania
The ethnic classification of Tanzania is adapted from Murdock (1959) and draws heavily on Moffett (1958). Because of the relative homogeneity in language and culture, despite the considerable number of identity groups, we have used geographical criteria more than usual in combining identity groups into clusters and types at a high level of abstraction. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and t…
Zaire
Vansinas ethnic classification for Zaire, which was the starting point for our classification, distinguishes identity groups, and clusters into broad regions. The regions, however, reflect a high degree of internal cultural variation. The identity groups which we have clustered together are judged to be culturally similar and Q-factor analytic techniques have been used in this determination (for details, see the Ethnic Unit Classification essay i…
Somalia
The Somali peoples of Somalia share a common language and a common culture although the Sab tend to be engaged in sedentary agriculture and the Samaale in nomadic herding. The Samaale and Sab are large-scale clans within the broader Somali identity group. In addition to the Somali there are about 100,000 Bantu speaking Africans who have come to be culturally similar to the Somali, about 42,000 Arabs and Asians, and 6,000 Europeans were counted in…
Uganda
The ethnic classification for Uganda is at a high level of abstraction and does not represent identity groups. In the case of the Eastern and Western Lacustrine clusters, geography is the basic differentiating criterion: it would be possible to combine the groups into the Interlacustrine Bantu. Likewise a Nilotic cluster could be devised at an even higher level of abstraction which would include the Nilote Type, Karamajong Cluster, Gisu Cluster, …
The Impact of “No Opinion” Response Options on Data Quality
According to many seasoned survey researchers, offering a no-opinion option should reduce the pressure to give substantive responses felt by respondents who have no true opinions. By contrast, the survey satisficing perspective suggests that no-opinion options may discourage some respondents from doing the cognitive work necessary to report the true opinions they do have. We address these arguments using data from nine experiments carried out in …
Two types of global environmental change
The Smartness Mandate: Notes toward a Critique
September 01 2017 The Smartness Mandate: Notes toward a Critique Orit Halpern, Orit Halpern Orit Halpern is Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. She works on cybernetics, infrastructure, and the future of urban habitats. She is also a codirector of the Speculative Life Research Cluster, a laboratory situated at the intersection of art and the life sciences, architecture and design, and computational media (ww…
Twenty years of environmental mobilization: Trends among national environmental organizations
The evolution of national environmental organizations over the past two decades is analyzed, with special attention given to the major organizations that engage in lobbying. The rapid growth experienced by the older organizations and the emergence and subsequent growth of several newer organizations are described. An overview of the activities of these national organizations (including a description of their relationships with one another) is giv…
Black Africa: A Comparative Handbook
Black Africa presents political, economic and social data for 41 black African nations. The first edition was published in 1972 and included only data on 32 countries - which was the total number of i
Rational Models, Collective Goods and Nonelectoral Political Behavior
Violating Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude Questions
Black Africa: A Comparative Handbook
Economic Benefits to Foreigners Visiting Morocco Accruing from the Rehabilitation of the Fes Medina: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts
What value do we place on our cultural heritage, and to what extent should we preserve historic and culturally important sites and artefacts from the ravages of weather, pollution, development and use by the general public? This innovative book attempts to answer these important questions by exploring how non-market valuation techniques – used extensively in environmental economics – can be applied to cultural heritage. The book includes twelve c…
From elite quarrel to mass movement
Information on African political systems: The African National Integration Project data bank
The City of Ibadan
Book Notes
Journal Article BOOK NOTES Get access Social Scientific Studies of Religion: A Bibliography. By MORRIS I. BERKOWITZ and J. EDMUND JOHNSON. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967. xvii + 258 pages. $7.95. ROBERT CAMERON MITCHELL ROBERT CAMERON MITCHELL Swarthmore College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, September 1968, Pages 291–29…
Messianische Kirchen, Sekten und Bewegungen im Heutigen Afrika
Social Scientific Studies of Religion: A Bibliography
African Independent Church
Schism and Renewal in Africa: An Analysis of Six Thousand Contemporary Religious Movements
On Christianity and Sociopolitical Change
Journal Article On Christianity and Sociopolitical Change Get access Robert Cameron Mitchell, Robert Cameron Mitchell Swarthmore College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Donald George Morrison Donald George Morrison Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 48, Issue 3, March 1970, Pages 397–408, https://doi.org/10.2307/2574659 Pub…
Towards the Sociology of Religious Independency
TOWARDS THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS INDEPENDENCY BY ROBERT CAMERON MITCHELL (Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Swarthmore College, Pa., U.S.A.) In 1957, David Barrett, as a missionary in Kenya, became acquainted intimately with a massive secession from the Anglican Church. Several years later as a graduate student at Union Theological Seminary in New York he began to see the widespread nature of African inde- pendency. 1 ) What particularly st…
Katsina. Profile of a Nigerian City
The Sociology of the Yoruba
Information on African political systems: The African National Integration Project data bank
The Validity of Survey Research in Africa: Some Propositions
Black Africa: A Contemporary Handbook
The Discovery of the Conservation of Energy
Grass Roots in an African City: Political Behavior in Nairobi
From elite quarrel to mass movement
Rational Models, Original Objectives: A Rejoinder
Rational Models, Collective Goods and Nonelectoral Political Behavior
The Religious Revolution in the Ivory Coast: The Prophet Harris and the Harrist Church
Walker's impressive study is the first to link Harris's background to the nature of his teachings and to discuss the dynamics of his movement's development. Harris not only articulated the confusion and desires of his followers but also created new aspirations by helping them see what they could achieve in their own society and in their relations with Europeans. Harris is the only evangelist in the history of the African continent to bring such n…
Waiting for Disaster: Earthquake Watch in California. Ralph H. Turner , Joanne M. Nigg , Denise Heller Paz
Sierra Leone
The ethnic classification of Sierra Leone is done according to the same principles used in the Ivory Coast and Liberia: the groups listed within each of the three major types are identity groups. In addition to these peoples, there are the Fulani (3 percent), the Lokko (3 percent), and the Creole (2 percent). There are also European and Asian populations of 3,000 and 5,000 respectively. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.…
Cameroon
The Cameroon is a country of great ethnic heterogeneity. Our categorization of this diversity demands a rather high level of abstraction. In judging greater or lesser cultural similarity between groups, it is necessary to ignore variation on specific cultural variables and to define an acceptable range of variation at a level of relatively high generalization. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experiment…
Social Mobilization
All changes in society, whether they be social, economic, or political in nature, involve changes in the values, attitudes, or behaviors of at least some of the individuals who comprise that society. Post World War II history has seen fundamental and pervasive changes in social, political, and economic relations both between and within nations. Africa has been no exception to this phenomenon. In particular, as African nations have shed their colo…
International Relations
The greatest proportion of this book is devoted to descriptions of the geographical, social, cultural, economic and political characteristics of individual Black African states, and to discussions of the potential relevance of such aggregate attributes of national political systems to the explanation of variable patterns of development within them. It is clear, however, that national political systems, especially those Black African countries con…
Equatorial Guinea
The major population group (90 percent) in Rio Muni is Fang. The Bubi on the island of Bioko* are the only other group in the country with more than five percent of the population. both are identity groups. There are small groups of Kombe, Balengue, and Bujeba along the Rio Muni coast. There had been a large Nigerian population (mainly from Eastern Nigeria) working on the plantations on Bioko. They numbered at least 30,000 in 1969, but this numbe…
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