Edgar F Borgatta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edgar F Borgatta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edgar F |
| FAMILY NAME | Borgatta |
| SIGNATURE | BORGATTA E F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 121 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 598 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 123 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Jacob L. Moreno and Sociometry
Societal and Family Change in the Burden of Care
Social factors, treatment, and survival in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the importance of socioeconomic status, race, and likelihood of receiving surgery in explaining mortality among patients with stage-I non-small cell lung cancer. METHODS: Analyses focused on Black and White individuals 75 years of age and younger (n = 5189) diagnosed between 1980 and 1982 with stage-I non-small cell lung cancer in Detroit, San Francisco, and Seattle. The main outcome measure was months of survival …
Welfare Justice
The welfare state has become increasingly unfair, the author argues, and in this book he analyzes developments and failings of welfare arrangements. The text looks to policy-makers to develop programmes that balance the rights and responsibilities of citizens
Encyclopedia of Sociology, Vol. 1
Presents nearly four hundred entries in which various scholars explore concepts and themes in sociology, arranged alphabetically over five volumes from adolescence to world religions; and includes a comprehensive index
Encyclopedia of sociology
A Career That Has Helped Make Social Science Science
Moving Forward
A Note on Using Factor Analysis and other Procedures in Research
Work disability among cancer patients
A Review of the Background and History of the First Fifteen Years of Sociological Methods and Research
Critical Issues in Aging Policy
Aging Policy and Societal Values - Edgar F Borgatta and Rhonda J V Montgomery Demography - Susan de Vos A Source of Knowledge for Gerontology Conceptualization and Measurement of Well-Being - Donald E Stull Implications for Policy Evaluation The Social Relationships of Older People - M Powell Lawton and Miriam Mass Research on Men's and Women's Retirement Attitudes - Laurie Russell Hatch Implications for Retirement Policy Dependency, Family Exten…
Determinants of VA Utilization
By the end of the decade, fully one half of American males aged 65 years and over will be veterans. In anticipation of the increased demand for medical services, the Veterans Administration recently commissioned a survey of the needs of aging veterans. From a national probability sample, approximately 34,500 households were screened to yield interviews with 3,013 veterans aged 55 years and over. Using multivariate regression analyses, the present…
The Future of Sociology
A review of changes in sociology since World War II is provided from the author's perspective. Major shifts include the growth in sociology and social science in general of technical expertise, but also of challenges to sociology as a science that can do work. Some aspects have been facilitated, such as the availability of clerical help (machines) and typing (machines), but the basic problems of the science have not changed. A major limitation is…
A Cautionary Note on the Use of Principal Components Analysis
Principal components analysis and common factor analysis can provide similar results; however, to assume the results will be similar can lead to serious error. A simple example is provided to show how results can be substantially different
Mistaking Labor Market Effects for Unequal Treatment in Regression Analysis
Unequal treatment is defined as requiring a more severe test for one person to get a position or reward than for another. It is shown how a changing labor market can generate differences between the average amount of salary paid to men and women in the absence of unequal treatment. It is then demonstrated by generated models how using imperfectly measured independent variables commonly will not take account of the labor market effect in an applic…
Social Measurement
Aging and Retirement
This text is well-organized, readable, and well-documented. It offers many suggestions for research and attempts to provide a concise overview of the rather complex topics of aging and retirement as well as some insight into the future evolution of retirement prospects, planning, and policy. The contents of this text would be especially meaningful for those nurses who deal with older clients in the community setting.' -- Journal of Gerontological…
Factor Analysis and Measurement in Sociological Research
The 1980 Texts in Social Gerontology
The Small Groups Movement
Group Characteristics and Reality
Level of Measurement
The distinctions between nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio measurement were popularized by S. S. Stevens. Unfortunately, positions taken by Stevens have often been disseminated without criticism. One problem is the common assumption that 'ordinal' statistics are the best statistics to use for presumed noninterval continuous social variables, when, in fact, they use addition, subtraction, and division, which make the measurements interval by d…
Special Issue on Measurement
In this special issue of Sociological Methods and Research, we have assembled a set of essays that illustrate the state of the measurement art within sociology. Some of the papers are theoretical and others are applied. Our aims are two: to stimulate further theoretical research in the area of sociological measurement, and to provide the researcher with some practical applications. The growth in interest in sociological measurement is relatively …
Sociological methodology, 1969
Handbook of Personality Theory and Research
Sociological Methodology, 1969
My Student, the Purist
1968). My Student, the Purist: A Lament. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 29-34
Some Findings Relevant to the Great Man Theory of Leadership
breakdowns in communication are but a few of the symptoms of faulty group structure. Evidence of these should be identified in training and either corrected through training or appropriate changes should be made in crew composition. Participation in the activities of a group under survival conditions calls for skills in individual behavior for which all members are not adequately equipped, leading to tension, ineffectiveness, panic and withdrawal…
The Exercise of Influence in Small Groups
American Cities
Small Groups
Girls at Vocational High
Interaction of Individuals in Reconstituted Groups
Social factors, treatment, and survival in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the importance of socioeconomic status, race, and likelihood of receiving surgery in explaining mortality among patients with stage-I non-small cell lung cancer. METHODS: Analyses focused on Black and White individuals 75 years of age and younger (n = 5189) diagnosed between 1980 and 1982 with stage-I non-small cell lung cancer in Detroit, San Francisco, and Seattle. The main outcome measure was months of survival …
Level of Measurement
The distinctions between nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio measurement were popularized by S. S. Stevens. Unfortunately, positions taken by Stevens have often been disseminated without criticism. One problem is the common assumption that 'ordinal' statistics are the best statistics to use for presumed noninterval continuous social variables, when, in fact, they use addition, subtraction, and division, which make the measurements interval by d…
Some Limitations On Generalizability From Social Psychological Experiments
The experimental model has severe limitations that often are ignored by experimenters. The limitations are likely to account for the low level of external validity of experiments. Placing the model in the context of requirements for measurement emphasizes the limitations and suggests alternatives for improvements in the future
Mood, Personality, and Interaction
(1961). Mood, Personality, and Interaction. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 105-137
The Decision by Unmarried Mothers To Keep or Surrender Their Babies
Journal Article The Decision by Unmarried Mothers To Keep or Surrender Their Babies Get access Henry J. Meyer, Henry J. Meyer Professor of sociology New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Wyatt Jones, Wyatt Jones Doctoral candidate New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Edgar F. Borgatta Edgar F. Borgatta Associate social psyc…
A Technique for Improving Cumulative Scales
This paper introduces what is called the H-technique for building cumulative scales with increased precision. The method simply consists of determining a given cutting point in a Guttman or Lazarsfeld latent distance scale not by means of a single response but rather by means of several responses, which are formed into a new “contrived item.” The objective is to maximize the information available from the basic data, and hence to strengthen confi…
Work disability among cancer patients
A Cautionary Note on the Use of Principal Components Analysis
Principal components analysis and common factor analysis can provide similar results; however, to assume the results will be similar can lead to serious error. A simple example is provided to show how results can be substantially different
How One Normally Constructs Good Measures
This article describes how following good measurement construction procedures result in normal variables, for which the use of nonparametric statistics would simply be inappropriate
Role Relations in the Mental Health Professions
Role Relations in the Mental Health Professions. By Alvin Zander, Arthur R. Cohen, and Ezra Stotland. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1957. Price, $4.50. Pp. 211. With the rapid growth of health facilities during and since World War II the concept of the mental health team has emerged to describe the collaborative efforts of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychiatric social work. New roles and role relationships are evolving which…
Analysis of Social Interaction and Sociometric Perception
Explaining Premarital Sexual Intercourse among College Students
Journal Article Explaining Premarital Sexual Intercourse among College Students: A Causal Model Get access Barbara Schulz, Barbara Schulz Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar George W. Bohrnstedt, George W. Bohrnstedt Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Edgar F. Borgatta, Edgar F. Borgatta Queens College, City University of NewYork Searc…
An Experiment in Smoking Dissuasion Among University Freshmen
Small Groups
Toward a Methodological Codification
An Experiment in Mental Patient Rehabilitation
The Use of Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Related Techniques in Social Psychological Research
An Analysis of Three Levels of Response
An Experiment with Sociodrama and Sociometry in Industry
Some Limitations on the Arbitrary Classification of Non-Scale Response Patterns in a Guttman Scale
Journal Article Some Limitations on the Arbitrary Classification of Non-Scale Response Patterns in a Guttman Scale Get access EDGAR F. BORGATTA, EDGAR F. BORGATTA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID G. HAYS DAVID G. HAYS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 3, FALL 1952, Pages 410–416, https://doi.org/10.1086/266402 Published:…
A Technique for Improving Cumulative Scales
This paper introduces what is called the H-technique for building cumulative scales with increased precision. The method simply consists of determining a given cutting point in a Guttman or Lazarsfeld latent distance scale not by means of a single response but rather by means of several responses, which are formed into a new “contrived item.” The objective is to maximize the information available from the basic data, and hence to strengthen confi…
Task and Accumulation of Experience as Factors in the Interaction of Small Groups
Interaction of Individuals in Reconstituted Groups
A Camparison of Attitudes of Enlisted and Commissioned Air Force Personnel
The Consistency of Subject Behavior and the Reliability of Scoring in Interaction Process Analysis
Analysis of Social Interaction and Sociometric Perception
Who Shall Survive
Some Findings Relevant to the Great Man Theory of Leadership
breakdowns in communication are but a few of the symptoms of faulty group structure. Evidence of these should be identified in training and either corrected through training or appropriate changes should be made in crew composition. Participation in the activities of a group under survival conditions calls for skills in individual behavior for which all members are not adequately equipped, leading to tension, ineffectiveness, panic and withdrawal…
Attitudinal Concomitants to Military Statuses
Journal Article Attitudinal Concomitants to Military Statuses Get access Edgar F. Borgatta Edgar F. Borgatta Russell Sage Foundation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 33, Issue 4, May 1955, Pages 342–347, https://doi.org/10.2307/2573004 Published: 01 May 1955
Factor Analysis of Rorschach Variables and Behavioral Observation
Factor Analysis of Rorschach Variables and Behavioral Observation
On the Classification of Groups
An Error Ratio for Scalogram Analysis
Journal Article An Error Ratio for Scalogram Analysis Get access EDGAR F. BORGATTA EDGAR F. BORGATTA Russell Sage Foundation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 1955, Pages 96–100, https://doi.org/10.1086/266547 Published: 01 January 1955
Analysis of social interaction
Small Groups
On the Dimensions of Group Behavior
The Decision by Unmarried Mothers To Keep or Surrender Their Babies
Journal Article The Decision by Unmarried Mothers To Keep or Surrender Their Babies Get access Henry J. Meyer, Henry J. Meyer Professor of sociology New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Wyatt Jones, Wyatt Jones Doctoral candidate New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Edgar F. Borgatta Edgar F. Borgatta Associate social psyc…
A Reanalysis of Some Data from Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties
The original analysis of the data collected for Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties volume was based on a cross tabulation approach. The authors here present the results of their renalysis of the data using correlations and factor analysis
A Consideration of Some Problems of Content Identification in Scaling
Journal Article A Consideration of Some Problems of Content Identification in Scaling Get access ANDREW F. HENRY, ANDREW F. HENRY Andrew F. Hendry is Associate Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt Unviersity and Edgar F. Borgatta is Professor of Sociology at New York University and Associate Social Psychologist at the Russell Sage Foundation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar EDGAR F. BORGATTA EDGAR F. BORGAT…
Small Groups
Sociological Theory
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