Frank J Weed
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank J Weed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank J |
| FAMILY NAME | Weed |
| SIGNATURE | WEED F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The position of the victim-activist in crime victim service organizations
The emergence of community-based service organizations for victims of violent crime, rape, domestic violence, child abuse and murder have become a part of the organizational underpinnings of the crime victim movement. Prominent figures in this movement are the victim-activists who speak for victims because they have the experiential expertise that comes from being a victim (survivor). This study examines the organizational positions of two types …
The Sociological Department at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1901 to 1907: Scientific paternalism and industrial control
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's Sociological Department represented an industrial welfare plan based on an early understanding of applied sociology. The Department was created as a response to the demands of integrating coal and coke production with steel manufacturing, and the necessity of combating strikes among the immigrant workers. The "settlement house model" used by the Sociological Department was intended to foster labor stability by…
The Framing of Political Advocacy and Service Responses in the Crime Victim Rights Movement
This paper analyses two major aspects of the mobilizing frames found among local organizations in the crime victim rights movement. A national survey of 301 organizations demonstrated that organizations shape their service/action responses in terms of three conceptualizations of the "victim problem." These conceptualizations clearly influence the pattern of service programs found in different types of organizations. In addition it is shown that s…
Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk
Certainty of Justice: Reform in the Crime Victim Movement
The Madd queen: Charisma and the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Organizational Mortality in the Anti-Drunk-Driving Movement: Failure among Local Madd Chapters
Organizational mortality among chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was studied following the initial data collection. Results show that performance in attaining program goals was not related to subsequent failure. However, the chapter officer's dependence on the central office for direction and the inability to engage successfully in cooperative action programs were related to failure. Chapters also demonstrated the need to attract a…
The Victim-Activist Role in the Anti-Drunk Driving Movement
Three statuses—individually harmed victim, bereaved victim, and general community activist (non-victim)—found among local chapter officers of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) are analysed in terms of their impact on chapter leadership and operations. Victim and non-victim activists have the same general social background characteristics and level of community involvement, suggesting that they all come from a similar social base of potential a…
The Impact of Support Resources on Local Chapter Operations in the Antidrunk-Driving Movement
Resource mobilization is critical for the development of social movement organizations. This study evaluates the differential impact of membership support and community organization support on the goals and operations of local chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). It was found that membership support is associated with the programming goals of local chapters, that is, public awareness, victim assistance, and promoting antidrunk-drivin…
Grass‐Roots Activism and the Drunk Driving Issue: A Survey of Madd Chapters
A survey of the local grass roots chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) revealed that local chapter officers are primarily married, moderately educated, women who are active participants in other community organizations, and are often victims or have had family members killed in auto crashes. The chapter officers of MADD come from the traditional social base of community grass‐roots activism and believe they have the support of other c…
Interorganizational relations in welfare agencies as rituals of Co-optation
Interorganizational relations among community welfare agencies are analyzed as an outgrowth of a legitimacy problem created by the funding of welfare agencies. Research in this area is reviewed and shows the importance of consensus among agencies, and a pattern of asymmetric relationships between agencies, with the smaller, weaker agencies being more involved in interagency relations than the larger agencies with more secure funding. It is argued…
Patterns of Growth in Welfare Bureaucracies
This longitudinal study of the growth of forty-six state welfare departments takes as a point of departure a closed system model of organizational growth. The various components (central office size, managerial components, caseworker component, clerical component) are analyzed in terms of (1) the relationship between the initial size of a component and its growth rate; (2) a comparison of different rates of growth for different components; and (3…
Interpreting Institutions' in Veblen's Evolutionary Theory
The form and basic properties of Thorstein Veblen's evolutionary theory are analyzed as an interpretative strategy for understanding the social institutions of modern industrial society. By formulating hypothetical historical reconstructions based on his principles of social action and institutional transformation, Veblen creates an heuristic construction that serves as a formula for observation and analysis of what he finds to be the essential m…
The Social Position of the Welfare Class in Urban Industrial States
Previous efforts to study the relative social position of AFDC recipients, as a welfare class, have produced conflicting interpretations of their social position. A comparison of the fifty states over a fifteen-year period indicates that the income position of AFDC recipients, as a welfare class, continued to recede from the income position of the middle class. But the relative status distance between the welfare class and the middle class has in…
Industrialization and Welfare Systems: A Critical Evaluation of the Convergence Hypothesis
The Vanishing Sociology-Social Work Alliance: A Study in the Politics of Professionalism
The undergraduate sociology-social work alliance in sociology departments has a long tradition in American colleges despite ideological differences between the two disciplines. Recently this old alliance shows signs of disintegration. This paper argues that the recent emphasis on professionalization of undergraduate social work through the use of accrediting standards coupled with the control of Federal social work training grants have placed new…
Centralized and Pluralistic Organizational Structures in Public Welfare
Researchers have speculated for some time that organizations are strongly influenced by ideological and social forces present at the forntative period of their history. This study shows that two types of organizational structure-centralized and pluralistic-found in 48 states' public assistance organizations can be partly accounted for by the administrative ideology that was dominant at the formative stage. In addition, the effects of pluralistic …
Role Consensus and Supervisor Involvement in Small Welfare Agencies
In this study it is hypothesized that the greatest role consensus between supervisors and subordinates will be found in offices where the role specializations of the supervisor's position is low and where his involvement with the subordinates is high. In addition, it is hypothesized that in offices where the supervisor's span-of-control is small, the supervisor involvement will be high, and where the supervisor's involvement is high the group coh…
Grass‐Roots Activism and the Drunk Driving Issue: A Survey of Madd Chapters
A survey of the local grass roots chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) revealed that local chapter officers are primarily married, moderately educated, women who are active participants in other community organizations, and are often victims or have had family members killed in auto crashes. The chapter officers of MADD come from the traditional social base of community grass‐roots activism and believe they have the support of other c…
The Victim-Activist Role in the Anti-Drunk Driving Movement
Three statuses—individually harmed victim, bereaved victim, and general community activist (non-victim)—found among local chapter officers of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) are analysed in terms of their impact on chapter leadership and operations. Victim and non-victim activists have the same general social background characteristics and level of community involvement, suggesting that they all come from a similar social base of potential a…
The Impact of Support Resources on Local Chapter Operations in the Antidrunk-Driving Movement
Resource mobilization is critical for the development of social movement organizations. This study evaluates the differential impact of membership support and community organization support on the goals and operations of local chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). It was found that membership support is associated with the programming goals of local chapters, that is, public awareness, victim assistance, and promoting antidrunk-drivin…
Organizational Mortality in the Anti-Drunk-Driving Movement: Failure among Local Madd Chapters
Organizational mortality among chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was studied following the initial data collection. Results show that performance in attaining program goals was not related to subsequent failure. However, the chapter officer's dependence on the central office for direction and the inability to engage successfully in cooperative action programs were related to failure. Chapters also demonstrated the need to attract a…
The Sociological Department at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1901 to 1907: Scientific paternalism and industrial control
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's Sociological Department represented an industrial welfare plan based on an early understanding of applied sociology. The Department was created as a response to the demands of integrating coal and coke production with steel manufacturing, and the necessity of combating strikes among the immigrant workers. The "settlement house model" used by the Sociological Department was intended to foster labor stability by…
The position of the victim-activist in crime victim service organizations
The emergence of community-based service organizations for victims of violent crime, rape, domestic violence, child abuse and murder have become a part of the organizational underpinnings of the crime victim movement. Prominent figures in this movement are the victim-activists who speak for victims because they have the experiential expertise that comes from being a victim (survivor). This study examines the organizational positions of two types …
Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk
Interorganizational relations in welfare agencies as rituals of Co-optation
Interorganizational relations among community welfare agencies are analyzed as an outgrowth of a legitimacy problem created by the funding of welfare agencies. Research in this area is reviewed and shows the importance of consensus among agencies, and a pattern of asymmetric relationships between agencies, with the smaller, weaker agencies being more involved in interagency relations than the larger agencies with more secure funding. It is argued…
Interpreting Institutions' in Veblen's Evolutionary Theory
The form and basic properties of Thorstein Veblen's evolutionary theory are analyzed as an interpretative strategy for understanding the social institutions of modern industrial society. By formulating hypothetical historical reconstructions based on his principles of social action and institutional transformation, Veblen creates an heuristic construction that serves as a formula for observation and analysis of what he finds to be the essential m…
Centralized and Pluralistic Organizational Structures in Public Welfare
Researchers have speculated for some time that organizations are strongly influenced by ideological and social forces present at the forntative period of their history. This study shows that two types of organizational structure-centralized and pluralistic-found in 48 states' public assistance organizations can be partly accounted for by the administrative ideology that was dominant at the formative stage. In addition, the effects of pluralistic …
Role Consensus and Supervisor Involvement in Small Welfare Agencies
In this study it is hypothesized that the greatest role consensus between supervisors and subordinates will be found in offices where the role specializations of the supervisor's position is low and where his involvement with the subordinates is high. In addition, it is hypothesized that in offices where the supervisor's span-of-control is small, the supervisor involvement will be high, and where the supervisor's involvement is high the group coh…
Centralized and Pluralistic Organizational Structures in Public Welfare
Researchers have speculated for some time that organizations are strongly influenced by ideological and social forces present at the forntative period of their history. This study shows that two types of organizational structure-centralized and pluralistic-found in 48 states' public assistance organizations can be partly accounted for by the administrative ideology that was dominant at the formative stage. In addition, the effects of pluralistic …
The Vanishing Sociology-Social Work Alliance: A Study in the Politics of Professionalism
The undergraduate sociology-social work alliance in sociology departments has a long tradition in American colleges despite ideological differences between the two disciplines. Recently this old alliance shows signs of disintegration. This paper argues that the recent emphasis on professionalization of undergraduate social work through the use of accrediting standards coupled with the control of Federal social work training grants have placed new…
Industrialization and Welfare Systems: A Critical Evaluation of the Convergence Hypothesis
The Social Position of the Welfare Class in Urban Industrial States
Previous efforts to study the relative social position of AFDC recipients, as a welfare class, have produced conflicting interpretations of their social position. A comparison of the fifty states over a fifteen-year period indicates that the income position of AFDC recipients, as a welfare class, continued to recede from the income position of the middle class. But the relative status distance between the welfare class and the middle class has in…
Interpreting Institutions' in Veblen's Evolutionary Theory
The form and basic properties of Thorstein Veblen's evolutionary theory are analyzed as an interpretative strategy for understanding the social institutions of modern industrial society. By formulating hypothetical historical reconstructions based on his principles of social action and institutional transformation, Veblen creates an heuristic construction that serves as a formula for observation and analysis of what he finds to be the essential m…
Patterns of Growth in Welfare Bureaucracies
This longitudinal study of the growth of forty-six state welfare departments takes as a point of departure a closed system model of organizational growth. The various components (central office size, managerial components, caseworker component, clerical component) are analyzed in terms of (1) the relationship between the initial size of a component and its growth rate; (2) a comparison of different rates of growth for different components; and (3…
Interorganizational relations in welfare agencies as rituals of Co-optation
Interorganizational relations among community welfare agencies are analyzed as an outgrowth of a legitimacy problem created by the funding of welfare agencies. Research in this area is reviewed and shows the importance of consensus among agencies, and a pattern of asymmetric relationships between agencies, with the smaller, weaker agencies being more involved in interagency relations than the larger agencies with more secure funding. It is argued…
Grass‐Roots Activism and the Drunk Driving Issue: A Survey of Madd Chapters
A survey of the local grass roots chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) revealed that local chapter officers are primarily married, moderately educated, women who are active participants in other community organizations, and are often victims or have had family members killed in auto crashes. The chapter officers of MADD come from the traditional social base of community grass‐roots activism and believe they have the support of other c…
The Impact of Support Resources on Local Chapter Operations in the Antidrunk-Driving Movement
Resource mobilization is critical for the development of social movement organizations. This study evaluates the differential impact of membership support and community organization support on the goals and operations of local chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). It was found that membership support is associated with the programming goals of local chapters, that is, public awareness, victim assistance, and promoting antidrunk-drivin…
The Victim-Activist Role in the Anti-Drunk Driving Movement
Three statuses—individually harmed victim, bereaved victim, and general community activist (non-victim)—found among local chapter officers of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) are analysed in terms of their impact on chapter leadership and operations. Victim and non-victim activists have the same general social background characteristics and level of community involvement, suggesting that they all come from a similar social base of potential a…
Organizational Mortality in the Anti-Drunk-Driving Movement: Failure among Local Madd Chapters
Organizational mortality among chapters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was studied following the initial data collection. Results show that performance in attaining program goals was not related to subsequent failure. However, the chapter officer's dependence on the central office for direction and the inability to engage successfully in cooperative action programs were related to failure. Chapters also demonstrated the need to attract a…
The Madd queen: Charisma and the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Certainty of Justice: Reform in the Crime Victim Movement
The Framing of Political Advocacy and Service Responses in the Crime Victim Rights Movement
This paper analyses two major aspects of the mobilizing frames found among local organizations in the crime victim rights movement. A national survey of 301 organizations demonstrated that organizations shape their service/action responses in terms of three conceptualizations of the "victim problem." These conceptualizations clearly influence the pattern of service programs found in different types of organizations. In addition it is shown that s…
Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk
The position of the victim-activist in crime victim service organizations
The emergence of community-based service organizations for victims of violent crime, rape, domestic violence, child abuse and murder have become a part of the organizational underpinnings of the crime victim movement. Prominent figures in this movement are the victim-activists who speak for victims because they have the experiential expertise that comes from being a victim (survivor). This study examines the organizational positions of two types …
The Sociological Department at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1901 to 1907: Scientific paternalism and industrial control
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's Sociological Department represented an industrial welfare plan based on an early understanding of applied sociology. The Department was created as a response to the demands of integrating coal and coke production with steel manufacturing, and the necessity of combating strikes among the immigrant workers. The "settlement house model" used by the Sociological Department was intended to foster labor stability by…
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