Robert A Jones

Biographic Data

ID3630087
NAMERobert A Jones
GIVEN NAMESRobert A
FAMILY NAMEJones
SIGNATUREJONES R A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
ORCID0000-0003-1293-0507
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS55
WORKS AS AUTHOR39
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1957
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX3

  • Industrial Ruins

    Robert A JonesARTICLETechnology and Culture2006

    Reviewed by Robert A. Jones Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics, and Materiality. By Tim Edensor. Oxford: Berg, 2005. Pp. 208. £50/£16.99. Tim Edensor's new book is not the usual tour through the world of material-cultural studies and industrial archeology. Instead, it is about industrial space, how it is socially produced and commodified, and how it can be imbued with new meanings that recall original intentions while simultaneously allowing peo…

  • Science in National Cultures

    Open AccessRobert A JonesARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2004

    Scientists in Britain believe that their work does not receive the recognition that it deserves from the national culture in comparison with continental Europe. Not an easy proposition to test, but possible through a comparison of how the achievements of science have been celebrated through representation on stamps. Postage stamps are official government products, and they are used to transmit and define the official view of the national culture.…

  • Confederate Corsair

    James C Bradford, Robert A Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2002

  • Heroes of the Nation? The Celebration of Scientists on the Postage Stamps of Great Britain, France and West Germany

    Open AccessRobert A Jones, Richard A JonesARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History2001Cited by: 4

    Despite their easy availability, postage stamps have received little attention as historical source material. One of the aims of this article is to demonstrate the utility of postage stamps for the study of the construction of national attitudes and cultures — in this instance, national attitudes to science and scientists. It has frequently been suggested that science has not been afforded the same level of respect in Britain that is usual in man…

  • Frank Wedekind

    Audrone B Willeke, Robert A Jones et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly1999

  • The scientist as artist

    Open AccessRobert A JonesARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science1998

    The Man in the White Suit is perhaps the major representation of a scientist in mainstream British films of the postwar period. The film was immensely popular at the time of its release in 1951 and continues to be influential today. This paper, which is part of an ongoing study of the image of scientists presented by the cinema during this period, analyzes The Man in the White Suit by comparing it with another film of the period, The Horse's Mout…

  • The Boffin

    Open AccessRobert A JonesARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science1997

    The period between 1945 and 1970 was critical for the public reputation of British science. It was also a golden age for British cinema. Feature films of this period are used in this paper as a tool for investigating the public image of the scientist. Three main stereotypes are identified, but one of these, which I have called `the Boffin' forms the main focus of the paper. `Boffins' are scientists working with the government and/or armed forces …

  • Effect of variation in perceived risk on the secretion of β‐endorphin

    Robert A Jones, Gary D EllisARTICLELeisure Sciences1996Cited by: 1References: 28

    It is currently unknown why individuals opt to participate in risk taking as a form of recreation. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that β‐endorphin, a naturally produced opiatelike peptide, is secreted in response to a perception of risk, thereby reinforcing risk‐taking behaviors. A 2 × 2 factorial design (Time × Perceived Risk) with repeated measures across both factors was used. The two levels of time were pre‐and postexposure to…

  • The Soviet Concept of 'Limited Sovereignty' from Lenin to Gorbachev

    Sarah Meiklejohn Terry, Robert A Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1993Cited by: 2

    Introduction - The Genealogy of the Soviet Conception of Sovereignty - Sovereignty and Stalin's Policy Towards Eastern Europe - Early Post-War Soviet Theories of Socialist International Relations - Marxist-Leninist Doctrine and the Soviet Theory of Sovereignty - The Ideological Dimension - Challenges to Soviet Regional Hegemony in the 1950s and the Soviet Response - Socialist Internationalism and the Warsaw Pact Intervention in Czechoslovakia - S…

  • The Soviet Concept of 'Limited Sovereignty' from Lenin to Gorbachev

    John C Campbell, Robert A Jones et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1990

  • Late Bronze Age Seals of Szechwan

    Robert A JonesARTICLEMonumenta Serica1986

  • The Treasury-Bill Futures Market

    Rodney L Jacobs, Robert A Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1980

    A model of the Treasury-bill futures market of the risk-premium augmented expectations variety is developed and estimated for the period March 1976 to July 1978. For that period we conclude that (1) futures interest rates deviate significantly from the corresponding forward rates implicit in the spot-market yield curve; (2) the hypothesis that expectations about the level of and trend in interest rates are formed adaptively from past spot rates f…

  • My Jewishness

    Manès Sperber, Robert A JonesARTICLENew German Critique1980

  • The Nazi Thingspiel

    Henning Eichberg, Robert A JonesARTICLENew German Critique1977

    depths, choruses of Young-Germany soldiers call from afar. Because the unemployed worker confirms lamentations about a country which has become economically crippled and taken over by foreign powers, fallen one, unknown soldier rises up-as voice of warning-to suffer his passion and to save his people. The evil spirit, a mixture of war profiteers, revolutionaries, traitors and capitalists, mobilizes a campaign for total consumption and, to applaus…

  • The Origin and Development of Media of Exchange

    Robert A Jones, Richard A JonesARTICLEJournal of Political Economy1976Cited by: 36

    The paper develops an explanation for the emergence of media of exchange through the unconcerted market behavior of individuals. Individuals are assumed to accomplish their ultimate exchanges through trading sequences which minimize the expected time spent searching for complementary trading partners. If individual perceptions of the trading environment are appropriately restricted, then the equilibrium pattern of trade will be some mixture of di…

  • Durkheim on Religion. A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies

    Robert A Jones, Richard A Jones et al.ARTICLERevue Française de Sociologie1976Cited by: 9

  • Freud and American Sociology, 1909-1949

    Open AccessRobert A JonesARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1974References: 61

  • Mr. Woolworth's Tower

    Open AccessRobert A Jones, Richard A JonesARTICLEThe Journal of Popular Culture1973Cited by: 1

  • John Bascom 1827-1911

    Open AccessRobert A Jones, Richard A JonesARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1972Cited by: 2

    be viewed as one of the more well-researched areas in the history of the discipline. There are, of course, several volumes and articles on Sumner, Ward and their followers, although much remains to be done here as well. But an assessment of the impact of Darwin on American sociology awaits at least two additional resources: 1) studies of the dominant schools of social thought before Darwin's appearance; and 2) studies of the careers of anti-Darwi…

  • Correlates of a Pass-Fail Decision for Admission to Candidacy in a Doctoral Program in Education

    Open AccessWilliam B Michael, Robert A Jones et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1971

  • The Criterion-Related Validity of English Language Screening Instruments for Foreign Students Entering the University of Southern California

    Open AccessJack D Burke, William B Michael et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1969

  • An IBM Scoring Routine for Three-Choice Inventories

    Open AccessRobert A Jones, Calvin M Pullias et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1967

  • The Predictive Validities of Selected Aptitude and Achievement Measures and of Three Personality Inventories in Relation to Nursing Training Criteria

    Open AccessWilliam B Michael, Russell Haney et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1966

  • An Ibm 1401 Computer Program for Item and Test Analysis

    Open AccessRobert A Jones, Calvin M Pullias et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1965

  • The Predictive Validity of a Modified Battery of Tests in Language Skills for Foreign Students at an American University

    Open AccessRobert A Jones, Robert B Kaplan et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1964