David H Kamens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David H Kamens |
| GIVEN NAMES | David H |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamens |
| SIGNATURE | KAMENS D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A New American Creed
A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunteering, religiosity, and civic consciousness. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced collectivist notions of civic obligations—but such obligations have since become regarded as options. In this book, David H. Kamens takes this basic shift as his starting point for exploring numerous trends in A…
A New American Creed
Arapidly burgeoning literature on populism roots the election of Donald Trump in three primary developments: skyrocketing economic inequality coupled with the hollowing out of the American welfare state; a crisis of political representation beginning in the late 1970s; and cultural resentment over the increasing diversification of the country’s population. But in A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and the Rise of Populism, David Kam…
School Knowledge for the Masses
National, regional and international learning assessments
This paper examines annual changes in the participation of developing countries in three kinds of learning assessment activity over the past three decades. It specifically highlights, and provides initial explanations for, the worldwide spread of national and regional assessments since the mid-1990s. The paper argues that national learning assessments – namely, non-standardised, context-sensitive and non-comparable learning assessments – have bec…
The Expanding Polity
In this article, I argue that the expansion of higher education worldwide has had important effects in restructuring the political system of affluent democracies. A large literature has developed that describes how democracy has been “downsized” (e.g., lower voting rates). This, I argue, is one impact of expanded higher education. But there is another less‐noticed effect that is just as important. Modern democratic polities have expanded so that …
Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and National Assessment
Curriculum Assessment
Charles L. Cappell, David H. Kamens, Curriculum Assessment: A Case Study in Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, Teaching Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Curriculum Design and Assessment (Oct., 2002), pp. 467-494
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Walter W. Powell , Paul J. DiMaggio
The `Costs' of Institutional Isomorphism
The theoretical section of this paper describes three mechanisms through which science in non-Western countries is institutionalized to follow the forms that are prevalent in the major industrial nations. The empirical section, which is based on a sample of 73 less developed countries (LDCs) and underdeveloped countries (UDCs) demonstrates that the findings are inconsistent with predictions made by theories of economic development and modernizati…
Elite Knowledge for the Masses
This article examines how and why mathematics and science became universally required, core components of official elementary and secondary school curricula worldwide. Based on a broad analysis of historical documents and official curricular timetables, it discusses the introduction and growth of these school subjects since the 1800s. While math-related subjects became required in most national school curricula relatively early in the nineteenth …
The Making of an American High School
Education and Democracy
This article presents an institutional analysis of the effects of educational expansion on (1) the development of democratic political systems in new nations and (2) popular participation in politics within democratic systems. A major purpose is to contribute to the emerging discussion of education that recognizes that many of the taken-for-granted effects of education on individuals and society are not universal. In considering how the effects o…
Youth and the State
This article argues that the nation-building process in the post-World War II era often results in changes in the definitions of adolescence and in the status of youth. This happens because both nation building and economic development have become the responsibilities of modern states. Using the work of John Meyer and his students (1978, 1979), I argue that these state-sponsored activities are guided by institutional “recipes” for development tha…
A Theory of Corporate Civic Giving
This article analyzes one corporate boundary at which legitimation problems may arise: The relation between the corporation and the local community. I indicate how ideology and a form of symbolic behavior, corporate giving, may work as a strategy of social control for corporations. This analysis leads to a theory of corporate giving as one form of corporate civic involvement. In the theory I specify the characteristics of firms and features of th…
The Sociology of Educational Expansion
Chartering National Educational Systems
Statist” Ideology, National Political Control of Education, and Youth Protest
This article provides a theoretical account of the sudden rise and equally sudden demise of 1960s youth protest in many parts of the world. Quantitative data from a small sample of countries (N = 17) are used to illustrate the utility of the explanation through examination of its predictions. The theory focuses on two generally neglected issues: First, what are sources of normative commitments to collective action? Second, why were youth protests…
Student Status aspirations
Schooling in Capitalist America
Legitimating Myths and Educational Organization
Sweet, J. 1973 Women in the Labor Force. New York: Seminar. Thurow, L. 1969 Poverty and Discrimination. Washington: Brookings Institution. U. S. Bureau of the Census 1943a Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940. Population Characteristics of the Nonwhite Population by Race. 1943b Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, Population, Vol. III, Part I. 1953 Census of Population: 1950, P-Cl. 1963 Census of Population: 1960, PC(1)-lC. 1964 Ce…
Institutional Definitions and Collective Action
Educability, Schools and Ideology
Residence and Student Life
David Kamens on Hagstrom's 'Inputs, Outputs, and the Prestige of American University Science Departments
IN HIS RECENT article Hagstrom (1971:375-398) makes an initial assumption about academic markets that later makes it difficult for him to develop a causal explanation of the determinants of departmental prestige. This assumption is that departments within universities operate in relatively autonomous labor markets, so that determinants of the attractiveness, and hence recruitment success, of one department are independent of those for others. Hag…
The College 'Charter' and College Size
Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and National Assessment
Legitimating Myths and Educational Organization
Sweet, J. 1973 Women in the Labor Force. New York: Seminar. Thurow, L. 1969 Poverty and Discrimination. Washington: Brookings Institution. U. S. Bureau of the Census 1943a Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940. Population Characteristics of the Nonwhite Population by Race. 1943b Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, Population, Vol. III, Part I. 1953 Census of Population: 1950, P-Cl. 1963 Census of Population: 1960, PC(1)-lC. 1964 Ce…
Education and Democracy
This article presents an institutional analysis of the effects of educational expansion on (1) the development of democratic political systems in new nations and (2) popular participation in politics within democratic systems. A major purpose is to contribute to the emerging discussion of education that recognizes that many of the taken-for-granted effects of education on individuals and society are not universal. In considering how the effects o…
The College 'Charter' and College Size
National, regional and international learning assessments
This paper examines annual changes in the participation of developing countries in three kinds of learning assessment activity over the past three decades. It specifically highlights, and provides initial explanations for, the worldwide spread of national and regional assessments since the mid-1990s. The paper argues that national learning assessments – namely, non-standardised, context-sensitive and non-comparable learning assessments – have bec…
Curriculum Assessment
Charles L. Cappell, David H. Kamens, Curriculum Assessment: A Case Study in Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, Teaching Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Curriculum Design and Assessment (Oct., 2002), pp. 467-494
The `Costs' of Institutional Isomorphism
The theoretical section of this paper describes three mechanisms through which science in non-Western countries is institutionalized to follow the forms that are prevalent in the major industrial nations. The empirical section, which is based on a sample of 73 less developed countries (LDCs) and underdeveloped countries (UDCs) demonstrates that the findings are inconsistent with predictions made by theories of economic development and modernizati…
Elite Knowledge for the Masses
This article examines how and why mathematics and science became universally required, core components of official elementary and secondary school curricula worldwide. Based on a broad analysis of historical documents and official curricular timetables, it discusses the introduction and growth of these school subjects since the 1800s. While math-related subjects became required in most national school curricula relatively early in the nineteenth …
Statist” Ideology, National Political Control of Education, and Youth Protest
This article provides a theoretical account of the sudden rise and equally sudden demise of 1960s youth protest in many parts of the world. Quantitative data from a small sample of countries (N = 17) are used to illustrate the utility of the explanation through examination of its predictions. The theory focuses on two generally neglected issues: First, what are sources of normative commitments to collective action? Second, why were youth protests…
The Expanding Polity
In this article, I argue that the expansion of higher education worldwide has had important effects in restructuring the political system of affluent democracies. A large literature has developed that describes how democracy has been “downsized” (e.g., lower voting rates). This, I argue, is one impact of expanded higher education. But there is another less‐noticed effect that is just as important. Modern democratic polities have expanded so that …
Youth and the State
This article argues that the nation-building process in the post-World War II era often results in changes in the definitions of adolescence and in the status of youth. This happens because both nation building and economic development have become the responsibilities of modern states. Using the work of John Meyer and his students (1978, 1979), I argue that these state-sponsored activities are guided by institutional “recipes” for development tha…
Schooling in Capitalist America
Anarchy and Culture
The College 'Charter' and College Size
David Kamens on Hagstrom's 'Inputs, Outputs, and the Prestige of American University Science Departments
IN HIS RECENT article Hagstrom (1971:375-398) makes an initial assumption about academic markets that later makes it difficult for him to develop a causal explanation of the determinants of departmental prestige. This assumption is that departments within universities operate in relatively autonomous labor markets, so that determinants of the attractiveness, and hence recruitment success, of one department are independent of those for others. Hag…
Residence and Student Life
Educability, Schools and Ideology
Schooling in Capitalist America
Legitimating Myths and Educational Organization
Sweet, J. 1973 Women in the Labor Force. New York: Seminar. Thurow, L. 1969 Poverty and Discrimination. Washington: Brookings Institution. U. S. Bureau of the Census 1943a Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940. Population Characteristics of the Nonwhite Population by Race. 1943b Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, Population, Vol. III, Part I. 1953 Census of Population: 1950, P-Cl. 1963 Census of Population: 1960, PC(1)-lC. 1964 Ce…
Institutional Definitions and Collective Action
Student Status aspirations
Chartering National Educational Systems
Statist” Ideology, National Political Control of Education, and Youth Protest
This article provides a theoretical account of the sudden rise and equally sudden demise of 1960s youth protest in many parts of the world. Quantitative data from a small sample of countries (N = 17) are used to illustrate the utility of the explanation through examination of its predictions. The theory focuses on two generally neglected issues: First, what are sources of normative commitments to collective action? Second, why were youth protests…
The Sociology of Educational Expansion
Youth and the State
This article argues that the nation-building process in the post-World War II era often results in changes in the definitions of adolescence and in the status of youth. This happens because both nation building and economic development have become the responsibilities of modern states. Using the work of John Meyer and his students (1978, 1979), I argue that these state-sponsored activities are guided by institutional “recipes” for development tha…
A Theory of Corporate Civic Giving
This article analyzes one corporate boundary at which legitimation problems may arise: The relation between the corporation and the local community. I indicate how ideology and a form of symbolic behavior, corporate giving, may work as a strategy of social control for corporations. This analysis leads to a theory of corporate giving as one form of corporate civic involvement. In the theory I specify the characteristics of firms and features of th…
Education and Democracy
This article presents an institutional analysis of the effects of educational expansion on (1) the development of democratic political systems in new nations and (2) popular participation in politics within democratic systems. A major purpose is to contribute to the emerging discussion of education that recognizes that many of the taken-for-granted effects of education on individuals and society are not universal. In considering how the effects o…
The Making of an American High School
The `Costs' of Institutional Isomorphism
The theoretical section of this paper describes three mechanisms through which science in non-Western countries is institutionalized to follow the forms that are prevalent in the major industrial nations. The empirical section, which is based on a sample of 73 less developed countries (LDCs) and underdeveloped countries (UDCs) demonstrates that the findings are inconsistent with predictions made by theories of economic development and modernizati…
Elite Knowledge for the Masses
This article examines how and why mathematics and science became universally required, core components of official elementary and secondary school curricula worldwide. Based on a broad analysis of historical documents and official curricular timetables, it discusses the introduction and growth of these school subjects since the 1800s. While math-related subjects became required in most national school curricula relatively early in the nineteenth …
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Walter W. Powell , Paul J. DiMaggio
Curriculum Assessment
Charles L. Cappell, David H. Kamens, Curriculum Assessment: A Case Study in Sociology, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, Teaching Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Curriculum Design and Assessment (Oct., 2002), pp. 467-494
The Expanding Polity
In this article, I argue that the expansion of higher education worldwide has had important effects in restructuring the political system of affluent democracies. A large literature has developed that describes how democracy has been “downsized” (e.g., lower voting rates). This, I argue, is one impact of expanded higher education. But there is another less‐noticed effect that is just as important. Modern democratic polities have expanded so that …
Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and National Assessment
National, regional and international learning assessments
This paper examines annual changes in the participation of developing countries in three kinds of learning assessment activity over the past three decades. It specifically highlights, and provides initial explanations for, the worldwide spread of national and regional assessments since the mid-1990s. The paper argues that national learning assessments – namely, non-standardised, context-sensitive and non-comparable learning assessments – have bec…
School Knowledge for the Masses
A New American Creed
A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunteering, religiosity, and civic consciousness. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced collectivist notions of civic obligations—but such obligations have since become regarded as options. In this book, David H. Kamens takes this basic shift as his starting point for exploring numerous trends in A…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works)