Sanford Labovitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanford Labovitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanford |
| FAMILY NAME | Labovitz |
| SIGNATURE | LABOVITZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 245 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Introduction to social research
An Introduction to Sociological Concepts
An Introduction to Sociological Concepts
Structural Changes and Suicide in Canada
The correlations partially support the rationale referring to the extent that technological efficiency, urbanization, industry structure, and occupational structure are related to the national suicide rate over time. Education, one measure of industry structure (tertiary), one measure of occupational structure (females in the labor force), and those of the demographic variables virtually are unrelated to the suicide rate at the national level. Fu…
An Introduction into Sociological Orientations
Interorganizational Power in a Canadian Community
The Perrucci and Pilisuk community power study of a medium-sized midwestern U. S. city is replicated on a small Prairie Canadian resort town. The interorganizational basis for power, derived from overlapping executive memberships, is the perspective followed in both studies. Essentially the same results are found in both places. A well-defined elite structure exists capable of mobilizing interorganizational power resources
Comment to Henkel's Paper
Some Implications of Technological Change and Territorial Differentiation for Underdeveloped Countries
Inequities in the Organizational Experiences of Women and Men
Women face consistent disadvantages in their experiences in organizations, as evidenced by inequities in interpersonal attractiveness, social isolation, job satisfaction, and work strain. The question raised is whether these disadvantages are due simply to differences in access to key organizational resources (expertise, professional rank, and authority), or to the advantages men have in realizing their vested interests in the face of competition…
A Structural-Behavioral Theory of Intergroup Antagonism
Control over Death
A replication of Phillips' “death control study” (of famous Americans) was carried out on two Canadian groups-one defined as famous and the other as non famous. It is hypothesized that at least some people can exert control over their death dates and that such control is oriented toward important social dates, in this instance, their birth dates. It is expected, therefore, that death rates decrease prior to birth dates and increase after them. Th…
Some Evidence of Canadian Ethnic, Racial, and Se Ual Antagonism
La nature de l'antagonisme ethnique, racial et sexuel dans le centre‐ouest du Canada a fait l'objet de deux études menées en 1972 et en 1973. Ces études, basées sur l'évaluation de noms‐types représentants certains groupes ethniques, révélent une configuration nette de tels antagonisnies. Les sujets n'ont pas donné la même évaluation au nom de Edward Blake (Canadien anglais), Edith Blake (Canadienne anglaise), Joseph Walking Bear (Indien), et Mar…
Implications of Power, Conflict, and Change in an Organizational Setting
Measuring Social Norms
Individual Reactions to Organizational Conflict and Change
When familiar organizational relationships are drastically changed, it is important to know what factors influence individuals in their attempts to re-establish stable work associations for themselves. In the situation described here, an organizational division (which was not administratively planned) made it necessary for individuals to decide whether to remain in their original jobs, move to a similar new organization created by a splinter grou…
Adolescent Suicide.Jerry Jacobs
Introduction to Social Research
Statistical Usage In Sociology
Some common applications of statistics in sociological inquiry are critically analyzed under two 'sacred cows': (1) the treatment of assumptions as inviolate, and (2) the use of statistics as ends in themselves. The first includes the usage of assumptions, measurement scales, and dichotomies; the second includes significance tests, complex techniques, fads, continuous data analysis, and intercorrelating all variables. It is argued that sociologis…
The Zone of Rejection
Industrialization, Urbanization and Deviant Behavior
The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry
In Defense of Assigning Numbers to Ranks
An Analysis of Suicide Rates among Occupational Categories
The correlation between the NORC prestige scale of 1947 with 1950 suicide rates is extremely low for thirty-six specific occupations. The low correlation calls into question the findings of previous studies which employed gross occupational categories and impressionistic prestige rankings. The results indicate that client dependency and two multivariate models, status inconsistency and distributive justice, deserve further exploration in predicti…
The Nonutility of Significance Tests
The Assignment of Numbers to Rank Order Categories
The Assignment of Numbers to Rank Order Categories
In Defense of Assigning Numbers to Ranks
Urbanization, Technology, and the Division of Labor
Participation in Community Associations by Occupation
social strata from which they are drawn. Apparent aggregate differences between leaders and nonleaders (in Table 4) essentially conceal the differing social compositions of the two aggregates. And to the extent that political ideologies influence the direction of other political actions-such as perceiving or not perceiving the need for rat extermination-then the political stratum is not autonomous, but is complexly intertwined with and derivative…
The Nonutility of Significance Tests
Statistical Usage In Sociology
Some common applications of statistics in sociological inquiry are critically analyzed under two 'sacred cows': (1) the treatment of assumptions as inviolate, and (2) the use of statistics as ends in themselves. The first includes the usage of assumptions, measurement scales, and dichotomies; the second includes significance tests, complex techniques, fads, continuous data analysis, and intercorrelating all variables. It is argued that sociologis…
Industrialization, Urbanization and Deviant Behavior
Inequities in the Organizational Experiences of Women and Men
Women face consistent disadvantages in their experiences in organizations, as evidenced by inequities in interpersonal attractiveness, social isolation, job satisfaction, and work strain. The question raised is whether these disadvantages are due simply to differences in access to key organizational resources (expertise, professional rank, and authority), or to the advantages men have in realizing their vested interests in the face of competition…
Measuring Social Norms
The Zone of Rejection
Reply to Champion and Morris
Journal Article Reply to Champion and Morris Get access Sanford Labovitz Sanford Labovitz University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 46, Issue 4, June 1968, Pages 543–544, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/46.4.543 Published: 01 June 1968
Interorganizational Power in a Canadian Community
The Perrucci and Pilisuk community power study of a medium-sized midwestern U. S. city is replicated on a small Prairie Canadian resort town. The interorganizational basis for power, derived from overlapping executive memberships, is the perspective followed in both studies. Essentially the same results are found in both places. A well-defined elite structure exists capable of mobilizing interorganizational power resources
Comment to Henkel's Paper
A Structural-Behavioral Theory of Intergroup Antagonism
Some Evidence of Canadian Ethnic, Racial, and Se Ual Antagonism
La nature de l'antagonisme ethnique, racial et sexuel dans le centre‐ouest du Canada a fait l'objet de deux études menées en 1972 et en 1973. Ces études, basées sur l'évaluation de noms‐types représentants certains groupes ethniques, révélent une configuration nette de tels antagonisnies. Les sujets n'ont pas donné la même évaluation au nom de Edward Blake (Canadien anglais), Edith Blake (Canadienne anglaise), Joseph Walking Bear (Indien), et Mar…
An Analysis of Suicide Rates among Occupational Categories
The correlation between the NORC prestige scale of 1947 with 1950 suicide rates is extremely low for thirty-six specific occupations. The low correlation calls into question the findings of previous studies which employed gross occupational categories and impressionistic prestige rankings. The results indicate that client dependency and two multivariate models, status inconsistency and distributive justice, deserve further exploration in predicti…
Territorial Differentiation and Societal Change
Methods for Control with Small Sample Size
Implications of Power, Conflict, and Change in an Organizational Setting
The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry
Territorial Differentiation and Societal Change in the United States and Canada
A theory based on four stages of social and cultural changes for large territorial units is presented and three hypotheses are deduced linking territorial differentiation to societal change. The stages are measured by die degree to which the territorial units of a society display similar characteristics, and whether the units are diverging or converging from one another. Hypothesis I asserts that the form of societal change among territorial unit…
An Analysis of Community and Professional Participation among Occupations
A Note on Status Integration and Suicide
A Note on Status Integration and Suicide Get access Robert Hagedorn, Robert Hagedorn Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Sanford Labovitz Sanford Labovitz Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 14, Issue 1, Summer 1966, Pages 79–84, https://doi.org/10.2307/799035 Published: 07 August …
Urbanization, Technology, and the Division of Labor
Territorial Differentiation and Societal Change
Methods for Control with Small Sample Size
A Note on Status Integration and Suicide
A Note on Status Integration and Suicide Get access Robert Hagedorn, Robert Hagedorn Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Sanford Labovitz Sanford Labovitz Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 14, Issue 1, Summer 1966, Pages 79–84, https://doi.org/10.2307/799035 Published: 07 August …
Sociology
Some Observations on Measurement and Statistics
Several arguments are presented supporting the more extensive use of parametric statistics. These arguments are concerned with (1) the insensitivity of ordinal and other nonparametric techniques, (2) the small error that results from assigning numbers to ordinal data and then treating the categories as if they conform to an interval scale, (3) tests of statistical robustness, and (4) the power-efficiency of tests. The utility of assigning numbers…
The Territorial Basis of the Division of Labor
The study considers both the theoretical significance and operational measurement of the territorial basis of the division of labor. Two such measurements, the index of dissimilarity and the standardized index of dissimilarity, are discussed in detail with regard to their adequacy and applicability. In addition, a theory linking the territorial basis to technological efficiency and urbanization is presented and tests performed with data for the U…
An Analysis of Community and Professional Participation among Occupations
Interaction Effects and Research Design
Occupational Characteristics and Participation in Voluntary Associations
The study analyzes the nature of the relations between participation in, and joining, voluntary associations and seven independent variables measuring dimensions of occupational tasks, organizational structure, and attitudinal importance of contacts. The three dependent variables, i.e., participation, joining one or more associations, and joining three or more associations vary, to some degree, independently of one another and, therefore, are tre…
A Reply to Gibbs and Martin, and Tennant
A Reply to Gibbs and Martin, and Tennant
Reply to Champion and Morris
Journal Article Reply to Champion and Morris Get access Sanford Labovitz Sanford Labovitz University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 46, Issue 4, June 1968, Pages 543–544, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/46.4.543 Published: 01 June 1968
Participation in Community Associations by Occupation
social strata from which they are drawn. Apparent aggregate differences between leaders and nonleaders (in Table 4) essentially conceal the differing social compositions of the two aggregates. And to the extent that political ideologies influence the direction of other political actions-such as perceiving or not perceiving the need for rat extermination-then the political stratum is not autonomous, but is complexly intertwined with and derivative…
The Nonutility of Significance Tests
The Assignment of Numbers to Rank Order Categories
Territorial Differentiation and Societal Change in the United States and Canada
A theory based on four stages of social and cultural changes for large territorial units is presented and three hypotheses are deduced linking territorial differentiation to societal change. The stages are measured by die degree to which the territorial units of a society display similar characteristics, and whether the units are diverging or converging from one another. Hypothesis I asserts that the form of societal change among territorial unit…
The Zone of Rejection
Industrialization, Urbanization and Deviant Behavior
The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry
In Defense of Assigning Numbers to Ranks
An Analysis of Suicide Rates among Occupational Categories
The correlation between the NORC prestige scale of 1947 with 1950 suicide rates is extremely low for thirty-six specific occupations. The low correlation calls into question the findings of previous studies which employed gross occupational categories and impressionistic prestige rankings. The results indicate that client dependency and two multivariate models, status inconsistency and distributive justice, deserve further exploration in predicti…
Introduction to Social Research
Statistical Usage In Sociology
Some common applications of statistics in sociological inquiry are critically analyzed under two 'sacred cows': (1) the treatment of assumptions as inviolate, and (2) the use of statistics as ends in themselves. The first includes the usage of assumptions, measurement scales, and dichotomies; the second includes significance tests, complex techniques, fads, continuous data analysis, and intercorrelating all variables. It is argued that sociologis…
Measuring Social Norms
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