Robert L Hamblin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Hamblin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamblin |
| SIGNATURE | HAMBLIN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 264 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Reinforcement and the Origin, Rate, and Extent of Cultural Diffusion
This chapter investigates how reinforcement influences the “origin,” rate, and extent of one large-scale social-change process—cultural diffusion. The investigation uses Zvi Griliches’s data on the adoption of hybrid corn by farmers in the Midwestern and Southern states and builds upon the logistic analyses that Griliches did of those data. In contrast, energy input into a social system is a function of relative benefits or reinforcement. Reinfor…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book investigates bargaining processes in varied exchange networks. It assumes that bargaining power is inversely related to dependency, which in part is a function of available alternatives, as determined by the centrality of a person’s position in an exchange network. The book starts out by questioning some assumptions implic…
Behavior and Reinforcement: A Generalization of the Matching Law
Over the past fifteen years Homans’s frequency and value propositions have been used many times either explicitly or implicitly in making theoretical predictions and explanations in sociology. Mathematical equations are much more accurate than verbal statements as descriptors of causal relationships among two or more variables, and mathematical logic is much more powerful than verbal logic. By moving from verbal to mathematical formulations it ma…
Anomie and Deviance
One of the simplest is to think of deviance as behavior in violation of a verbal norm of a particular social system. Consequently, it is simpler to think of deviance as occurring in one of two ways in a social system—the extent to which behaviors are missing that facilitate the achievement of the system goals and the degree to which behavior is present that disrupts or works against the system goals. The anomie-deviance hypothesis is about steady…
Behavioral Theory in Sociology: Essays in Honor of George C. Homans
Social Causality
Sociology and a developing administrative tradition at Washington University: 1957–1971
Collective Learning in Ongoing Political Conflicts
Analyses of political conflict typically concentrate on various structural dimensions and neglect the underlying dynamic processes. In this research, we depart from that practice and take the collective learning process inherent in large-scale and ongoing social conflict as our focus. A mathematical model and its theoretical rationale are developed and evaluated. The model, derived from well-grounded behavioral propositions, assumes that the tren…
Jensen's Brief for IQ Tests
The Classic Maya Collapse: Testing Class Conflict Hypotheses
Several lines of archaeological evidence are presented in this paper to suggest the existence of class warfare among the Classic Maya and of issues that historically have been associated with class conflict. This evidence indicates that class warfare may have halted the rule of the monument-producing, or Classic, elites and precipitated the depopulation of the lowland area. The theory is evaluated quantitatively by testing for time-related mathem…
Modeling Use Diffusion
Journal Article Modeling Use Diffusion Get access Robert L. Hamblin, Robert L. Hamblin University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jerry L. L. Miller, Jerry L. L. Miller University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar D. Eugene Saxton D. Eugene Saxton University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socia…
Behavioral Choice and Social Reinforcement: Step Function Versus Matching
The Diffusion of Collective Violence
Reoriented duct flows of generalised Newtonian fluids are an idealisation of non-Newtonian fluid flow inindustrial in-line mixers. Based on scaling analysis and computation we find that non-Newtonian duct flowshave several limit behaviours, in the sense that such flows can become (nearly) independent of one or moreof the rheological and dynamical control parameters, simplifying the general flow and mixing problem. Theselimit flows give several le…
Behavioral Theory in Sociology: Essays in Honor of George C. Homans
This book is designed to honor George Caspar Homans for his many and varied contributions to the development of modern sociology. The chapters have been written by sociologists and psychologists who value his work sufficiently to have made his basic approach their own. These original essays are intended to elucidate, assess, and give a progress report on the theoretical tradition Homans founded and to which he has given such significant impetus
Arms Races: A Test of Two Models
This is an investigation of two models of arms races: Lewis F. Richardson's linear, additive, symmetric model and a curvilinear, asymmetric alternative based on the same interaction paradigm but with empirical equations from psychophysical experiments on perception as premises. Two hypotheses derived from each model are tested using data from seven arms races. In general, the data give stronger support to the curvilinear, asymmetric model which p…
A Mathematical Theory of Social Change
Reinforcement and the Origin, Rate and Extent of Cultural Diffusion
Cultural diffusion occurs as a logistic process and the dependent variables in this investigation are origin, rate and asymptotes from logistic equations which were fitted by Zvi Griliches to through-time data on the adoption of hybrid corn in each of 132 crop-reporting districts. In multiplicative power functions measures, actual reinforcement to farmers explained 57 percent of the variance in the rate of adoption, expected reinforcement to farm…
A Mathematical Theory of Social Change
A Mathematical Theory of Social Change
Utility and gambling decisions: Experiments and equations
Group Selection
The Humanization Processes: A Social, Behavioral Analysis of Children's Problems
On Teaching Disadvantaged Preschoolers to Read: A Successful Experiment
A number of experiments have indicated that the rate at which children learn to read may be accelerated via token reinforcement with material backups (Hamblin, Buckholdt, Ferritor, Kozloff, and Blackwell, 1971; Pfeiffer, 1969; Staats and Staats, 1963; Wolf, Giles, and Hall, 1968). In other experiments the rate of learning to read has been accelerated by using more able pupils who are succeeding at reading to help those who are achieving poorly (H…
Suicide and Pseudocide: A Reanalysis of Maris's Data
Mathematical Experimentation and Sociological Theory: A Critical Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a serious problem with empirically based theory in sociology (low explained variance, on the average about 10 percent), a probable reason for that problem (traditional methodology) and a possible solution (mathematical experimentation and correlation). Data are reviewed from a number of mathematical experiments and correlational studies-of status, group learning, gambling, and voting. All of these involved …
The Diffusion of Collective Violence
Reoriented duct flows of generalised Newtonian fluids are an idealisation of non-Newtonian fluid flow inindustrial in-line mixers. Based on scaling analysis and computation we find that non-Newtonian duct flowshave several limit behaviours, in the sense that such flows can become (nearly) independent of one or moreof the rheological and dynamical control parameters, simplifying the general flow and mixing problem. Theselimit flows give several le…
Interdependence, Differential Rewarding, and Productivity
Leadership and Crises
Mathematical Experimentation and Sociological Theory: A Critical Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a serious problem with empirically based theory in sociology (low explained variance, on the average about 10 percent), a probable reason for that problem (traditional methodology) and a possible solution (mathematical experimentation and correlation). Data are reviewed from a number of mathematical experiments and correlational studies-of status, group learning, gambling, and voting. All of these involved …
Behavioral Theory in Sociology: Essays in Honor of George C. Homans
The Classic Maya Collapse: Testing Class Conflict Hypotheses
Several lines of archaeological evidence are presented in this paper to suggest the existence of class warfare among the Classic Maya and of issues that historically have been associated with class conflict. This evidence indicates that class warfare may have halted the rule of the monument-producing, or Classic, elites and precipitated the depopulation of the lowland area. The theory is evaluated quantitatively by testing for time-related mathem…
Socio-Economic Variables and Voting for the Radical Left: Chile, 1952
This is the first of a number of investigations of the socio-economic basis of politics, with a special focus on voting for the radical left or right. In this case, the voting data are the percentage of votes cast for Allende, the socialist candidate in the 1952 presidential elections in Chile
Arms Races: A Test of Two Models
This is an investigation of two models of arms races: Lewis F. Richardson's linear, additive, symmetric model and a curvilinear, asymmetric alternative based on the same interaction paradigm but with empirical equations from psychophysical experiments on perception as premises. Two hypotheses derived from each model are tested using data from seven arms races. In general, the data give stronger support to the curvilinear, asymmetric model which p…
Some Effects of Close and Punitive Styles of Supervision
An experiment based on a two-by-two factorial design was conducted to test hypotheses involving the relationship of four supervisory styles to aggressive feelings and actions of subordinates. The supervisory styles were arrayed on two continuums: the close versus general and the punitive versus non-punitive. Close as compared with general supervision produced significant increases in aggressive feelings toward the supervisor and in indirect aggre…
Group Integration during a Crisis
The Effect of the Wife's Employment on the Family Power Structure
Journal Article The Effect of the Wife's Employment on the Family Power Structure Get access Robert O. Blood, Jr., Robert O. Blood, Jr. University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert L. Hamblin Robert L. Hamblin Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 36, Issue 4, May 1958, Pages 347–352, https://doi.org/10.2307/257…
A Mathematical Theory of Social Change
Values, Status, and Professors
Using ratio methods developed in psychophysics, the determinants of local and professional status of professors were investigated. Local status among graduate students increased as teaching ability and professorial demeanor (outside the classroom) increased. Professional status increased with merit of publication, merit of teaching, negative cordiality (maintaining appropriate social distance), and length of service or experience in the disciplin…
The Dynamics of Racial Discrimination
The Dynamics of Racial Discrimination Get access Robert L. Hamblin Robert L. Hamblin Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 2, Autumn 1962, Pages 103–121, https://doi.org/10.2307/799044 Published: 08 August 2014
Utility and gambling decisions: Experiments and equations
The Interference-Aggression Law
A Mathematical Theory of Social Change
Sociology and a developing administrative tradition at Washington University: 1957–1971
Collective Learning in Ongoing Political Conflicts
Analyses of political conflict typically concentrate on various structural dimensions and neglect the underlying dynamic processes. In this research, we depart from that practice and take the collective learning process inherent in large-scale and ongoing social conflict as our focus. A mathematical model and its theoretical rationale are developed and evaluated. The model, derived from well-grounded behavioral propositions, assumes that the tren…
Behavioral Theory in Sociology: Essays in Honor of George C. Homans
This book is designed to honor George Caspar Homans for his many and varied contributions to the development of modern sociology. The chapters have been written by sociologists and psychologists who value his work sufficiently to have made his basic approach their own. These original essays are intended to elucidate, assess, and give a progress report on the theoretical tradition Homans founded and to which he has given such significant impetus
Ratio Measurement for the Social Sciences
Group Morale and Competence of the Leader
Behavioral Choice and Social Reinforcement: Step Function Versus Matching
Reinforcement and the Origin, Rate and Extent of Cultural Diffusion
Cultural diffusion occurs as a logistic process and the dependent variables in this investigation are origin, rate and asymptotes from logistic equations which were fitted by Zvi Griliches to through-time data on the adoption of hybrid corn in each of 132 crop-reporting districts. In multiplicative power functions measures, actual reinforcement to farmers explained 57 percent of the variance in the rate of adoption, expected reinforcement to farm…
A Mathematical Theory of Social Change
Pre-Marital Experience and the Wife's Sexual Adjustment
The publishers of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in an advertisement appearing in the November 1953 issue of the American Journal of Sociology announced that this book would be referred to and again for factual information on such probems as . . . (the) relation of premarital sexual experience to the women's sexual adjustment in The chief pertinent finding reported in the 1953 volume is that there is marked, positive correlation between expe…
Leadership and Crises
Group Integration during a Crisis
The Effect of the Wife's Employment on the Family Power Structure
Journal Article The Effect of the Wife's Employment on the Family Power Structure Get access Robert O. Blood, Jr., Robert O. Blood, Jr. University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert L. Hamblin Robert L. Hamblin Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 36, Issue 4, May 1958, Pages 347–352, https://doi.org/10.2307/257…
Group Morale and Competence of the Leader
Variations in Interaction Profiles and Group Size
The Dynamics of Racial Discrimination
The Dynamics of Racial Discrimination Get access Robert L. Hamblin Robert L. Hamblin Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 2, Autumn 1962, Pages 103–121, https://doi.org/10.2307/799044 Published: 08 August 2014
The Interference-Aggression Law
Interdependence, Differential Rewarding, and Productivity
Diagnosing delinquency
Punitive and Non-Punitive Supervision
Journal Article Punitive and Non-Punitive Supervision Get access Robert L. Hamblin Robert L. Hamblin Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 11, Issue 4, Spring 1964, Pages 345–359, https://doi.org/10.2307/799190 Published: 07 August 2014
Some Effects of Close and Punitive Styles of Supervision
An experiment based on a two-by-two factorial design was conducted to test hypotheses involving the relationship of four supervisory styles to aggressive feelings and actions of subordinates. The supervisory styles were arrayed on two continuums: the close versus general and the punitive versus non-punitive. Close as compared with general supervision produced significant increases in aggressive feelings toward the supervisor and in indirect aggre…
Values, Status, and Professors
Using ratio methods developed in psychophysics, the determinants of local and professional status of professors were investigated. Local status among graduate students increased as teaching ability and professorial demeanor (outside the classroom) increased. Professional status increased with merit of publication, merit of teaching, negative cordiality (maintaining appropriate social distance), and length of service or experience in the disciplin…
Socio-Economic Variables and Voting for the Radical Left: Chile, 1952
This is the first of a number of investigations of the socio-economic basis of politics, with a special focus on voting for the radical left or right. In this case, the voting data are the percentage of votes cast for Allende, the socialist candidate in the 1952 presidential elections in Chile
Changing the game from “get the teacher” to “learn”
Mathematical Experimentation and Sociological Theory: A Critical Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a serious problem with empirically based theory in sociology (low explained variance, on the average about 10 percent), a probable reason for that problem (traditional methodology) and a possible solution (mathematical experimentation and correlation). Data are reviewed from a number of mathematical experiments and correlational studies-of status, group learning, gambling, and voting. All of these involved …
Attitude Measurement
Ratio Measurement for the Social Sciences
On Teaching Disadvantaged Preschoolers to Read: A Successful Experiment
A number of experiments have indicated that the rate at which children learn to read may be accelerated via token reinforcement with material backups (Hamblin, Buckholdt, Ferritor, Kozloff, and Blackwell, 1971; Pfeiffer, 1969; Staats and Staats, 1963; Wolf, Giles, and Hall, 1968). In other experiments the rate of learning to read has been accelerated by using more able pupils who are succeeding at reading to help those who are achieving poorly (H…
Suicide and Pseudocide: A Reanalysis of Maris's Data
The Humanization Processes: A Social, Behavioral Analysis of Children's Problems
Group Selection
A Mathematical Theory of Social Change
A Mathematical Theory of Social Change
Utility and gambling decisions: Experiments and equations
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