Howard S Erlanger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard S Erlanger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard S |
| FAMILY NAME | Erlanger |
| SIGNATURE | ERLANGER H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 529 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Organizations, Institutions, and the Story of Shmuel: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Law and Society Association
Today I would like to speak to you about Organizations, Institutions, and the Story of Shmuel.Now, I figure everyone here knows what an organization is, and pretty much everyone at least thinks they know what an institution is. But I'm pretty sure you all are wondering, "Who's Shmuel
The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth
Most accounts of organizations and law treat law as largely exogenous and emphasize organizations' responses to law. This study proposes a model of endogeneity among organizations, the professions, and legal institutions. It suggests that organizations and the professions strive to construct rational responses to law, enabled by "rational myths" or stories about appropriate solutions that are themselves modeled after the public legal order. Court…
Law Student Idealism and Job Choice: Some New Data on an Old Question
Numerous commentaries and empirical studies have suggested that while a substantial proportion of incoming law students are interested in careers in "public interest law," by the time they graduate only a small minority take jobs in that sector. However, none of these studies have been based on a panel study having data on both job preference before students began their studies and information about the actual first job taken. This Research Note …
Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace
Many employers create internal procedures for the resolution of discrimination complaints. We examine internal complaint handlers' conceptions of civil rights law and the implications of those conceptions for their approach to dispute resolution. Drawing on interview data, we find that complaint handlers tend to subsume legal rights under managerial interests. They construct civil rights law as a diffuse standard of fairness, consistent with gene…
Professional Construction of Law: The Inflated Threat of Wrongful Discharge
Institutional theories of organizational behavior consistently implicate the professions in explaining the diffusion of new organizational practices; yet there has been little empirical study of precisely what role the professions play. We address that issue by exploring the role of the personnel and legal professions in shaping employers' understandings of law and the threat posed by law. We focus on the implied contract theory of wrongful disch…
Legal Ambiguity and the Politics of Compliance: Affirmative Action Officers' Dilemma
Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action mandates, like many other laws regulating organizations, do not clearly define what constitutes compliance. Thus compliance depends largely on the initiative and agenda of those persons within organizations who are charged with managing the compliance effort: in the case of civil rights, “affirmative action officers.” This paper draws on case studies of affirmative action officers to suggest tha…
Making It and Breaking It: The Fate of Public Interest Commitment during Law School
Participation and Flexibility in Informal Processes: Cautions from the Divorce Context
Based on open-ended interviews with the parties and lawyers in twenty-five informally settled divorce cases, this study finds that the informal process is often contentious, adversarial, and beyond the perceived control of one or both parties. Although settlement in some cases reflects flexibility, party participation, and true agreement, in most cases it reflects unequal financial resources, procedural support, or emotional stamina. Parties repo…
Disability Policy: The Parts and the Whole
Jury Trials.John Baldwin , Michael McConville
The Allocation of Status within Occupations: The Case of the Legal Profession
This paper analyzes correlates of status in the legal profession, arguing that the study of intraoccupational status attainment not only is important in its own right but can also illuminate the processes of interoccupational status attainment. Data on a national sample of lawyers indicate that while entry into the profession is strongly correlated with characteristics of family of origin, within the profession these characteristics do not have s…
Childhood punishment experience and adult violence
Lawyers and the Pursuit of Legal Rights
Legal Orders and the Dynamics of Change
Lawyers and Neighborhood Legal Services: Social Background and the Impetus for Reform
Many commentators have explained the shift in policy from the quietude of Legal Aid to the aggressive advocacy of Legal Services by pointing to a change in personnel. This paper presents data on the background of a national sample of Legal Services lawyers in 1967, and through a variety of analyses argues that, though Legal Services differed from Legal Aid, neither the organization as a whole, its reformist elements, nor its local administrators …
Socialization Effects of Professional School: The Law School Experience and Student Orientations to Public Interest Concerns
While undergoing training in professional school, students are assumed to experience attitude change, internalizing the norms of their future profession. In law school this change is thought to be particularly conservative, reflecting a business orientation and a minimal concern with pro bono and social reform work. This paper examines these assumptions by presenting data from a panel study of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law S…
Social Reform Organizations and Subsequent Careers of Participants: A Follow-Up Study of Early Participants in the OEO Legal Services Program
Luckmann, Thomas 1967 Invisible Religion. New York: Macmillan. MacFarquar, Roderick 1960 Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals. New York: Praeger. Parsons, Talcott 1955 strains in America. Pp. 209-38 in Daniel Bell (ed.), Radical Right. Garden City: Anchor. Robinson, W. S. 1957 The statistical measurement of agreement. American Sociological Review 22: 17-25. Schwartz, Benjamin I. 1968 The reign of virtue: some broad perspectives …
The Subculture of Violence Thesis: An Example of a Simultaneous Equation Model in Sociology
This paper examines the subculture of violence thesis (Wolfgang, 1958) as an example of a sociological theory with a feedback process. The thesis is operationalized in a simultaneous equation model, which is solved through a technique which uses only a 'canned' ordinary least squares computer program. The findings do not support the subculture of violence thesis
Social Class and Corporal Punishment in Childrearing: A Reassessment
In 1958, in his review of available literature on socialization and social class, Bronfenbrenner concluded that working class parents more often use physical punishment, while the middle class resorts to psychological techniques of punishment. The present paper updates this analysis drawing on more recent published studies and on secondary analysis of a national survey; it also examines the magnitude of class differences rather than only their st…
The Empirical Status of the Subculture of Violence Thesis
Journal Article The Empirical Status of the Subculture of Violence Thesis Get access Howard S. Erlanger Howard S. Erlanger The University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 22, Issue 2, 1 December 1974, Pages 280–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/799764 Published: 02 August 2014
Violence against Children: Physical Child Abuse in the United States . David G. Gil
Jury Research in America: Its Past and Future
This paper is an attempt to review the body of social science writings of the last four and one-half decades on the petit jury. The major portion of this presentation will be limited to organizing the findings on the jury around the two major themes-competence and representation-which are most often discussed in empirical literature. A concluding section will offer some evaluative comments and present some tentative proposals for a new perspectiv…
The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth
Most accounts of organizations and law treat law as largely exogenous and emphasize organizations' responses to law. This study proposes a model of endogeneity among organizations, the professions, and legal institutions. It suggests that organizations and the professions strive to construct rational responses to law, enabled by "rational myths" or stories about appropriate solutions that are themselves modeled after the public legal order. Court…
Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace
Many employers create internal procedures for the resolution of discrimination complaints. We examine internal complaint handlers' conceptions of civil rights law and the implications of those conceptions for their approach to dispute resolution. Drawing on interview data, we find that complaint handlers tend to subsume legal rights under managerial interests. They construct civil rights law as a diffuse standard of fairness, consistent with gene…
Professional Construction of Law: The Inflated Threat of Wrongful Discharge
Institutional theories of organizational behavior consistently implicate the professions in explaining the diffusion of new organizational practices; yet there has been little empirical study of precisely what role the professions play. We address that issue by exploring the role of the personnel and legal professions in shaping employers' understandings of law and the threat posed by law. We focus on the implied contract theory of wrongful disch…
The Empirical Status of the Subculture of Violence Thesis
Journal Article The Empirical Status of the Subculture of Violence Thesis Get access Howard S. Erlanger Howard S. Erlanger The University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 22, Issue 2, 1 December 1974, Pages 280–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/799764 Published: 02 August 2014
Legal Ambiguity and the Politics of Compliance: Affirmative Action Officers' Dilemma
Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action mandates, like many other laws regulating organizations, do not clearly define what constitutes compliance. Thus compliance depends largely on the initiative and agenda of those persons within organizations who are charged with managing the compliance effort: in the case of civil rights, “affirmative action officers.” This paper draws on case studies of affirmative action officers to suggest tha…
Socialization Effects of Professional School: The Law School Experience and Student Orientations to Public Interest Concerns
While undergoing training in professional school, students are assumed to experience attitude change, internalizing the norms of their future profession. In law school this change is thought to be particularly conservative, reflecting a business orientation and a minimal concern with pro bono and social reform work. This paper examines these assumptions by presenting data from a panel study of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law S…
Social Class and Corporal Punishment in Childrearing: A Reassessment
In 1958, in his review of available literature on socialization and social class, Bronfenbrenner concluded that working class parents more often use physical punishment, while the middle class resorts to psychological techniques of punishment. The present paper updates this analysis drawing on more recent published studies and on secondary analysis of a national survey; it also examines the magnitude of class differences rather than only their st…
Jury Research in America: Its Past and Future
This paper is an attempt to review the body of social science writings of the last four and one-half decades on the petit jury. The major portion of this presentation will be limited to organizing the findings on the jury around the two major themes-competence and representation-which are most often discussed in empirical literature. A concluding section will offer some evaluative comments and present some tentative proposals for a new perspectiv…
Participation and Flexibility in Informal Processes: Cautions from the Divorce Context
Based on open-ended interviews with the parties and lawyers in twenty-five informally settled divorce cases, this study finds that the informal process is often contentious, adversarial, and beyond the perceived control of one or both parties. Although settlement in some cases reflects flexibility, party participation, and true agreement, in most cases it reflects unequal financial resources, procedural support, or emotional stamina. Parties repo…
The Subculture of Violence Thesis: An Example of a Simultaneous Equation Model in Sociology
This paper examines the subculture of violence thesis (Wolfgang, 1958) as an example of a sociological theory with a feedback process. The thesis is operationalized in a simultaneous equation model, which is solved through a technique which uses only a 'canned' ordinary least squares computer program. The findings do not support the subculture of violence thesis
Organizations, Institutions, and the Story of Shmuel: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Law and Society Association
Today I would like to speak to you about Organizations, Institutions, and the Story of Shmuel.Now, I figure everyone here knows what an organization is, and pretty much everyone at least thinks they know what an institution is. But I'm pretty sure you all are wondering, "Who's Shmuel
Social Reform Organizations and Subsequent Careers of Participants: A Follow-Up Study of Early Participants in the OEO Legal Services Program
Luckmann, Thomas 1967 Invisible Religion. New York: Macmillan. MacFarquar, Roderick 1960 Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals. New York: Praeger. Parsons, Talcott 1955 strains in America. Pp. 209-38 in Daniel Bell (ed.), Radical Right. Garden City: Anchor. Robinson, W. S. 1957 The statistical measurement of agreement. American Sociological Review 22: 17-25. Schwartz, Benjamin I. 1968 The reign of virtue: some broad perspectives …
The Allocation of Status within Occupations: The Case of the Legal Profession
This paper analyzes correlates of status in the legal profession, arguing that the study of intraoccupational status attainment not only is important in its own right but can also illuminate the processes of interoccupational status attainment. Data on a national sample of lawyers indicate that while entry into the profession is strongly correlated with characteristics of family of origin, within the profession these characteristics do not have s…
Lawyers and Neighborhood Legal Services: Social Background and the Impetus for Reform
Many commentators have explained the shift in policy from the quietude of Legal Aid to the aggressive advocacy of Legal Services by pointing to a change in personnel. This paper presents data on the background of a national sample of Legal Services lawyers in 1967, and through a variety of analyses argues that, though Legal Services differed from Legal Aid, neither the organization as a whole, its reformist elements, nor its local administrators …
Disability Policy: The Parts and the Whole
Law Student Idealism and Job Choice: Some New Data on an Old Question
Numerous commentaries and empirical studies have suggested that while a substantial proportion of incoming law students are interested in careers in "public interest law," by the time they graduate only a small minority take jobs in that sector. However, none of these studies have been based on a panel study having data on both job preference before students began their studies and information about the actual first job taken. This Research Note …
Childhood punishment experience and adult violence
Jury Research in America: Its Past and Future
This paper is an attempt to review the body of social science writings of the last four and one-half decades on the petit jury. The major portion of this presentation will be limited to organizing the findings on the jury around the two major themes-competence and representation-which are most often discussed in empirical literature. A concluding section will offer some evaluative comments and present some tentative proposals for a new perspectiv…
Violence against Children: Physical Child Abuse in the United States . David G. Gil
Social Class and Corporal Punishment in Childrearing: A Reassessment
In 1958, in his review of available literature on socialization and social class, Bronfenbrenner concluded that working class parents more often use physical punishment, while the middle class resorts to psychological techniques of punishment. The present paper updates this analysis drawing on more recent published studies and on secondary analysis of a national survey; it also examines the magnitude of class differences rather than only their st…
The Empirical Status of the Subculture of Violence Thesis
Journal Article The Empirical Status of the Subculture of Violence Thesis Get access Howard S. Erlanger Howard S. Erlanger The University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 22, Issue 2, 1 December 1974, Pages 280–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/799764 Published: 02 August 2014
The Subculture of Violence Thesis: An Example of a Simultaneous Equation Model in Sociology
This paper examines the subculture of violence thesis (Wolfgang, 1958) as an example of a sociological theory with a feedback process. The thesis is operationalized in a simultaneous equation model, which is solved through a technique which uses only a 'canned' ordinary least squares computer program. The findings do not support the subculture of violence thesis
Social Reform Organizations and Subsequent Careers of Participants: A Follow-Up Study of Early Participants in the OEO Legal Services Program
Luckmann, Thomas 1967 Invisible Religion. New York: Macmillan. MacFarquar, Roderick 1960 Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals. New York: Praeger. Parsons, Talcott 1955 strains in America. Pp. 209-38 in Daniel Bell (ed.), Radical Right. Garden City: Anchor. Robinson, W. S. 1957 The statistical measurement of agreement. American Sociological Review 22: 17-25. Schwartz, Benjamin I. 1968 The reign of virtue: some broad perspectives …
Lawyers and Neighborhood Legal Services: Social Background and the Impetus for Reform
Many commentators have explained the shift in policy from the quietude of Legal Aid to the aggressive advocacy of Legal Services by pointing to a change in personnel. This paper presents data on the background of a national sample of Legal Services lawyers in 1967, and through a variety of analyses argues that, though Legal Services differed from Legal Aid, neither the organization as a whole, its reformist elements, nor its local administrators …
Socialization Effects of Professional School: The Law School Experience and Student Orientations to Public Interest Concerns
While undergoing training in professional school, students are assumed to experience attitude change, internalizing the norms of their future profession. In law school this change is thought to be particularly conservative, reflecting a business orientation and a minimal concern with pro bono and social reform work. This paper examines these assumptions by presenting data from a panel study of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law S…
Childhood punishment experience and adult violence
Lawyers and the Pursuit of Legal Rights
Legal Orders and the Dynamics of Change
The Allocation of Status within Occupations: The Case of the Legal Profession
This paper analyzes correlates of status in the legal profession, arguing that the study of intraoccupational status attainment not only is important in its own right but can also illuminate the processes of interoccupational status attainment. Data on a national sample of lawyers indicate that while entry into the profession is strongly correlated with characteristics of family of origin, within the profession these characteristics do not have s…
Jury Trials.John Baldwin , Michael McConville
Disability Policy: The Parts and the Whole
Participation and Flexibility in Informal Processes: Cautions from the Divorce Context
Based on open-ended interviews with the parties and lawyers in twenty-five informally settled divorce cases, this study finds that the informal process is often contentious, adversarial, and beyond the perceived control of one or both parties. Although settlement in some cases reflects flexibility, party participation, and true agreement, in most cases it reflects unequal financial resources, procedural support, or emotional stamina. Parties repo…
Making It and Breaking It: The Fate of Public Interest Commitment during Law School
Legal Ambiguity and the Politics of Compliance: Affirmative Action Officers' Dilemma
Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action mandates, like many other laws regulating organizations, do not clearly define what constitutes compliance. Thus compliance depends largely on the initiative and agenda of those persons within organizations who are charged with managing the compliance effort: in the case of civil rights, “affirmative action officers.” This paper draws on case studies of affirmative action officers to suggest tha…
Professional Construction of Law: The Inflated Threat of Wrongful Discharge
Institutional theories of organizational behavior consistently implicate the professions in explaining the diffusion of new organizational practices; yet there has been little empirical study of precisely what role the professions play. We address that issue by exploring the role of the personnel and legal professions in shaping employers' understandings of law and the threat posed by law. We focus on the implied contract theory of wrongful disch…
Internal Dispute Resolution: The Transformation of Civil Rights in the Workplace
Many employers create internal procedures for the resolution of discrimination complaints. We examine internal complaint handlers' conceptions of civil rights law and the implications of those conceptions for their approach to dispute resolution. Drawing on interview data, we find that complaint handlers tend to subsume legal rights under managerial interests. They construct civil rights law as a diffuse standard of fairness, consistent with gene…
Law Student Idealism and Job Choice: Some New Data on an Old Question
Numerous commentaries and empirical studies have suggested that while a substantial proportion of incoming law students are interested in careers in "public interest law," by the time they graduate only a small minority take jobs in that sector. However, none of these studies have been based on a panel study having data on both job preference before students began their studies and information about the actual first job taken. This Research Note …
The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth
Most accounts of organizations and law treat law as largely exogenous and emphasize organizations' responses to law. This study proposes a model of endogeneity among organizations, the professions, and legal institutions. It suggests that organizations and the professions strive to construct rational responses to law, enabled by "rational myths" or stories about appropriate solutions that are themselves modeled after the public legal order. Court…
Organizations, Institutions, and the Story of Shmuel: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Law and Society Association
Today I would like to speak to you about Organizations, Institutions, and the Story of Shmuel.Now, I figure everyone here knows what an organization is, and pretty much everyone at least thinks they know what an institution is. But I'm pretty sure you all are wondering, "Who's Shmuel
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