James A Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russell Sage Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8005-7853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Were timbers transported to Chaco using tumplines? A feasibility study
Transporting Timbers to Chaco Canyon: How Heavy, How Many Carriers and How Far/Fast
A total of 200,000+ large timbers were transported >75 km to Chaco Canyon, a political and religious center in the precontact U.S. Southwest, using only human power. Previous researchers reported that typical primary roof beams (vigas) of Chacoan Great Houses averaged 0.22 m in diameter and 5 m in length with a mass of 275 kg. However, the 275 kg mass appears to be a miscalculation. Here, we calculate that a ponderosa pine timber of the stated di…
An Economic View of the Tragedy of the Commons
Offending Patterns, Control Balance, and Affective Rewards among Convicted Sex Offenders
We present results from a survey of 125 incarcerated sex offenders enrolled in a residential sex offender treatment program that reveal their offending behaviors, reasons for offending, and the affective states they say they experienced while committing their crimes. We supplement this survey information with qualitative data from audio-taped focus groups with these same offenders. Results provide a unique glimpse of the self-reported offending p…
Dissecting the relationship between mental illness and return to incarceration
The cost of useful knowledge and collective action in three fisheries
Social-Ecological Scale Mismatches and the Collapse of the Sea Urchin Fishery in Maine, USA
Johnson, T. R., J. A. Wilson, C. Cleaver, and R. L. Vadas 2012. Social-ecological scale mismatches and the collapse of the sea urchin fishery in Maine, USA. Ecology and Society 17(2): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04767-170215
Age, period, cohort and educational attainment: The importance of considering gender
Political Songs, Collective Memories and Kikuyu Indi Schools
Korwo nĩNdemi Mathaathi Baba ndagwĩtia kĩrugũ Njoke ngwĩtie itimũ na ngo, Riu baba ngũgwĩtia gĩthoomo. Ndegwa rĩu gũititũire, Thenge no iranyihanyiha, Ndiri kĩrugũ ngagwitia, Riu baba ngugwitia gĩthoomo. Maitũ nĩakwĩrĩte kaing, Ona niĩ nĩngũmenyithl ̃tie, Ndirĩ kĩrugũ ngagwĩtia, Rĩu baba ngũgwĩtia gĩthoomo. Njamba ĩrĩa nene Kĩnyatta, Rĩu rĩoimĩte Rũraaya, Jomo nĩoimĩte na thoome, Ningĩ Jomo mũthigaani witũ. Njamba ya bata hĩndĩ ĩno, Kaarĩkayo no …
Matching Social and Ecological Systems in Complex Ocean Fisheries
This paper considers ocean fisheries as complex adaptive systems and addresses the question of how human institutions might be best matched to their structure and function. Ocean ecosystems operate at multiple scales, but the management of fisheries tends to be aimed at a single species considered at a single broad scale. The paper argues that this mismatch of ecological and management scale makes it difficult to address the fine-scale aspects of…
America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels
The Age-Period-Cohort Conundrum and Verbal Ability: Empirical Relationships and Their Interpretation: Reply to Glenn and to Alwin and McCammon
Les AA. examinent de facon critique l'article de Norval D. Glenn : «Further Discussion of the Evidence for an Intercohort Decline in Education-Adjusted Vocabulary» et l'article de Duane F. Alwin et Ryan J. McCammon : «Aging versus Cohort Interpretations of Intercohort Differences in GSS Vocabulary Scores», publies tous deux en 1999. Les AA. rappellent que l'enquete par cohortes menees, aux Etats-Unis, entre 1974 et 1990 dans le cadre de la Genera…
The Intercohort Decline in Verbal Ability: Does it Exist
Has there been a long-term intercohort decline in verbal ability beginning in the early part of this century? Recent analyses by Alwin and Glenn using data from the General Social Survey (GSS) strongly support such a trend. This decline, however, is not consistent with a substantial literature on adult cognitive development. We argue that Alwin's and Glenn's analyses confuse cohort effects with aging effects, apparently because of (1) a reliance …
The Age-Period-Cohort Conundrum and Verbal Ability: Empirical Relationships and Their Interpretation
Nonsocial Reinforcement and Habitual Criminal Conduct: An Extension of Learning Theory
Drawing on a diverse literature, we explain how criminal behavior is maintained through a process of nonsocial reinforcement, and show that some persons find criminal behavior particularly rewarding. We test our assumptions using surveys of 295 incarcerated adult felons and 150 male college students and intensive focus groups with 40 habitual offenders currently serving time. Results suggest that the experience of committing nonviolent and, parti…
Order out of Chaos: The Case for Parametric Fisheries Management
SThe current crisis in the world's fisheries indicates the need for a different management method than that now used by Western scientists, which regulates the quantity of fish taken. The authors propose a method called parametric management, which takes into account the complex, chaotic nature offish stocks and emphasizes preserving regular biological processes in the life cycle of fish by controlling how people fish. Supporting data come from 2…
With Their Own Blood: A Saga of South-western Pioneers
Journal Article With Their Own Blood: A Saga of Southwestern Pioneers. By Virginia Culin Roberts. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1992. xvi + 286 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-87565090-2.) Get access James A. Wilson James A. Wilson Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Page 274, https://doi.org/10.…
Leisure Patterns Among Four-Day Workers
The four-day work week and other forms of rearranged and flexible schedules change the flow and pattern of a person's work and leisure. This reshaping of the experience of leisure time was investigated for people who are currently working on a four-day, forty hour schedule by asking them how they used their time. Five dimensions of leisure time usage emerged from a factor-analytic technique and were analyzed to determine how individual difference…
Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant
Journal Article Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant. By Max Amadeus Paulus Krueger. Ed. by Marilyn McAdams Sibley. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976. xix + 161 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, and index. $10.00.) Get access James A. Wilson James A. Wilson Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue …
Early Arizona: Prehistory to Civil War
Journal Article Early Arizona: Prehistory to Civil War. By Jay J. Wagoner. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975. xvi + 547 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95.) Get access James A. Wilson James A. Wilson Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 4, March 1976, Pages 961–962, https://doi.org/10.2307/190385…
Reflux from the “brain drain”
The Espuela Land and Cattle Company: A Study of a Foreign-Owned Ranch in Texas
Journal Article The Espuela Land and Cattle Company: A Study of a Foreign-Owned Ranch in Texas Get access The Espuela Land and Cattle Company: A Study of a Foreign-Owned Ranch in Texas. By Holden William Curry. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1970. xv, 268 p. Illustrations, photographs, maps, appendixes, bibliography, index. $9.00.) James A. Wilson James A. Wilson Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author…
Emigrating British physicians
The emigration of british scientists
Order out of Chaos: The Case for Parametric Fisheries Management
SThe current crisis in the world's fisheries indicates the need for a different management method than that now used by Western scientists, which regulates the quantity of fish taken. The authors propose a method called parametric management, which takes into account the complex, chaotic nature offish stocks and emphasizes preserving regular biological processes in the life cycle of fish by controlling how people fish. Supporting data come from 2…
The Intercohort Decline in Verbal Ability: Does it Exist
Has there been a long-term intercohort decline in verbal ability beginning in the early part of this century? Recent analyses by Alwin and Glenn using data from the General Social Survey (GSS) strongly support such a trend. This decline, however, is not consistent with a substantial literature on adult cognitive development. We argue that Alwin's and Glenn's analyses confuse cohort effects with aging effects, apparently because of (1) a reliance …
Nonsocial Reinforcement and Habitual Criminal Conduct: An Extension of Learning Theory
Drawing on a diverse literature, we explain how criminal behavior is maintained through a process of nonsocial reinforcement, and show that some persons find criminal behavior particularly rewarding. We test our assumptions using surveys of 295 incarcerated adult felons and 150 male college students and intensive focus groups with 40 habitual offenders currently serving time. Results suggest that the experience of committing nonviolent and, parti…
The Age-Period-Cohort Conundrum and Verbal Ability: Empirical Relationships and Their Interpretation: Reply to Glenn and to Alwin and McCammon
Les AA. examinent de facon critique l'article de Norval D. Glenn : «Further Discussion of the Evidence for an Intercohort Decline in Education-Adjusted Vocabulary» et l'article de Duane F. Alwin et Ryan J. McCammon : «Aging versus Cohort Interpretations of Intercohort Differences in GSS Vocabulary Scores», publies tous deux en 1999. Les AA. rappellent que l'enquete par cohortes menees, aux Etats-Unis, entre 1974 et 1990 dans le cadre de la Genera…
Age, period, cohort and educational attainment: The importance of considering gender
Matching Social and Ecological Systems in Complex Ocean Fisheries
This paper considers ocean fisheries as complex adaptive systems and addresses the question of how human institutions might be best matched to their structure and function. Ocean ecosystems operate at multiple scales, but the management of fisheries tends to be aimed at a single species considered at a single broad scale. The paper argues that this mismatch of ecological and management scale makes it difficult to address the fine-scale aspects of…
The Age-Period-Cohort Conundrum and Verbal Ability: Empirical Relationships and Their Interpretation
Dissecting the relationship between mental illness and return to incarceration
Social-Ecological Scale Mismatches and the Collapse of the Sea Urchin Fishery in Maine, USA
Johnson, T. R., J. A. Wilson, C. Cleaver, and R. L. Vadas 2012. Social-ecological scale mismatches and the collapse of the sea urchin fishery in Maine, USA. Ecology and Society 17(2): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04767-170215
Leisure Patterns Among Four-Day Workers
The four-day work week and other forms of rearranged and flexible schedules change the flow and pattern of a person's work and leisure. This reshaping of the experience of leisure time was investigated for people who are currently working on a four-day, forty hour schedule by asking them how they used their time. Five dimensions of leisure time usage emerged from a factor-analytic technique and were analyzed to determine how individual difference…
Transporting Timbers to Chaco Canyon: How Heavy, How Many Carriers and How Far/Fast
A total of 200,000+ large timbers were transported >75 km to Chaco Canyon, a political and religious center in the precontact U.S. Southwest, using only human power. Previous researchers reported that typical primary roof beams (vigas) of Chacoan Great Houses averaged 0.22 m in diameter and 5 m in length with a mass of 275 kg. However, the 275 kg mass appears to be a miscalculation. Here, we calculate that a ponderosa pine timber of the stated di…
Offending Patterns, Control Balance, and Affective Rewards among Convicted Sex Offenders
We present results from a survey of 125 incarcerated sex offenders enrolled in a residential sex offender treatment program that reveal their offending behaviors, reasons for offending, and the affective states they say they experienced while committing their crimes. We supplement this survey information with qualitative data from audio-taped focus groups with these same offenders. Results provide a unique glimpse of the self-reported offending p…
Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant
Journal Article Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant. By Max Amadeus Paulus Krueger. Ed. by Marilyn McAdams Sibley. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976. xix + 161 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, and index. $10.00.) Get access James A. Wilson James A. Wilson Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue …
The emigration of british scientists
The emigration of british scientists
Emigrating British physicians
The Espuela Land and Cattle Company: A Study of a Foreign-Owned Ranch in Texas
Journal Article The Espuela Land and Cattle Company: A Study of a Foreign-Owned Ranch in Texas Get access The Espuela Land and Cattle Company: A Study of a Foreign-Owned Ranch in Texas. By Holden William Curry. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1970. xv, 268 p. Illustrations, photographs, maps, appendixes, bibliography, index. $9.00.) James A. Wilson James A. Wilson Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author…
Reflux from the “brain drain”
Early Arizona: Prehistory to Civil War
Journal Article Early Arizona: Prehistory to Civil War. By Jay J. Wagoner. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975. xvi + 547 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95.) Get access James A. Wilson James A. Wilson Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 4, March 1976, Pages 961–962, https://doi.org/10.2307/190385…
Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant
Journal Article Second Fatherland: The Life and Fortunes of a German Immigrant. By Max Amadeus Paulus Krueger. Ed. by Marilyn McAdams Sibley. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1976. xix + 161 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, and index. $10.00.) Get access James A. Wilson James A. Wilson Southwest Texas State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue …
Leisure Patterns Among Four-Day Workers
The four-day work week and other forms of rearranged and flexible schedules change the flow and pattern of a person's work and leisure. This reshaping of the experience of leisure time was investigated for people who are currently working on a four-day, forty hour schedule by asking them how they used their time. Five dimensions of leisure time usage emerged from a factor-analytic technique and were analyzed to determine how individual difference…
With Their Own Blood: A Saga of South-western Pioneers
Journal Article With Their Own Blood: A Saga of Southwestern Pioneers. By Virginia Culin Roberts. (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1992. xvi + 286 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-87565090-2.) Get access James A. Wilson James A. Wilson Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Page 274, https://doi.org/10.…
Order out of Chaos: The Case for Parametric Fisheries Management
SThe current crisis in the world's fisheries indicates the need for a different management method than that now used by Western scientists, which regulates the quantity of fish taken. The authors propose a method called parametric management, which takes into account the complex, chaotic nature offish stocks and emphasizes preserving regular biological processes in the life cycle of fish by controlling how people fish. Supporting data come from 2…
Nonsocial Reinforcement and Habitual Criminal Conduct: An Extension of Learning Theory
Drawing on a diverse literature, we explain how criminal behavior is maintained through a process of nonsocial reinforcement, and show that some persons find criminal behavior particularly rewarding. We test our assumptions using surveys of 295 incarcerated adult felons and 150 male college students and intensive focus groups with 40 habitual offenders currently serving time. Results suggest that the experience of committing nonviolent and, parti…
The Age-Period-Cohort Conundrum and Verbal Ability: Empirical Relationships and Their Interpretation: Reply to Glenn and to Alwin and McCammon
Les AA. examinent de facon critique l'article de Norval D. Glenn : «Further Discussion of the Evidence for an Intercohort Decline in Education-Adjusted Vocabulary» et l'article de Duane F. Alwin et Ryan J. McCammon : «Aging versus Cohort Interpretations of Intercohort Differences in GSS Vocabulary Scores», publies tous deux en 1999. Les AA. rappellent que l'enquete par cohortes menees, aux Etats-Unis, entre 1974 et 1990 dans le cadre de la Genera…
The Intercohort Decline in Verbal Ability: Does it Exist
Has there been a long-term intercohort decline in verbal ability beginning in the early part of this century? Recent analyses by Alwin and Glenn using data from the General Social Survey (GSS) strongly support such a trend. This decline, however, is not consistent with a substantial literature on adult cognitive development. We argue that Alwin's and Glenn's analyses confuse cohort effects with aging effects, apparently because of (1) a reliance …
The Age-Period-Cohort Conundrum and Verbal Ability: Empirical Relationships and Their Interpretation
Political Songs, Collective Memories and Kikuyu Indi Schools
Korwo nĩNdemi Mathaathi Baba ndagwĩtia kĩrugũ Njoke ngwĩtie itimũ na ngo, Riu baba ngũgwĩtia gĩthoomo. Ndegwa rĩu gũititũire, Thenge no iranyihanyiha, Ndiri kĩrugũ ngagwitia, Riu baba ngugwitia gĩthoomo. Maitũ nĩakwĩrĩte kaing, Ona niĩ nĩngũmenyithl ̃tie, Ndirĩ kĩrugũ ngagwĩtia, Rĩu baba ngũgwĩtia gĩthoomo. Njamba ĩrĩa nene Kĩnyatta, Rĩu rĩoimĩte Rũraaya, Jomo nĩoimĩte na thoome, Ningĩ Jomo mũthigaani witũ. Njamba ya bata hĩndĩ ĩno, Kaarĩkayo no …
Matching Social and Ecological Systems in Complex Ocean Fisheries
This paper considers ocean fisheries as complex adaptive systems and addresses the question of how human institutions might be best matched to their structure and function. Ocean ecosystems operate at multiple scales, but the management of fisheries tends to be aimed at a single species considered at a single broad scale. The paper argues that this mismatch of ecological and management scale makes it difficult to address the fine-scale aspects of…
America's Historic Stockyards: Livestock Hotels
Age, period, cohort and educational attainment: The importance of considering gender
Social-Ecological Scale Mismatches and the Collapse of the Sea Urchin Fishery in Maine, USA
Johnson, T. R., J. A. Wilson, C. Cleaver, and R. L. Vadas 2012. Social-ecological scale mismatches and the collapse of the sea urchin fishery in Maine, USA. Ecology and Society 17(2): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04767-170215
The cost of useful knowledge and collective action in three fisheries
Dissecting the relationship between mental illness and return to incarceration
Offending Patterns, Control Balance, and Affective Rewards among Convicted Sex Offenders
We present results from a survey of 125 incarcerated sex offenders enrolled in a residential sex offender treatment program that reveal their offending behaviors, reasons for offending, and the affective states they say they experienced while committing their crimes. We supplement this survey information with qualitative data from audio-taped focus groups with these same offenders. Results provide a unique glimpse of the self-reported offending p…
An Economic View of the Tragedy of the Commons
Were timbers transported to Chaco using tumplines? A feasibility study
Transporting Timbers to Chaco Canyon: How Heavy, How Many Carriers and How Far/Fast
A total of 200,000+ large timbers were transported >75 km to Chaco Canyon, a political and religious center in the precontact U.S. Southwest, using only human power. Previous researchers reported that typical primary roof beams (vigas) of Chacoan Great Houses averaged 0.22 m in diameter and 5 m in length with a mass of 275 kg. However, the 275 kg mass appears to be a miscalculation. Here, we calculate that a ponderosa pine timber of the stated di…
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