Valerie A Haines
Biographic Data
| ID | 3631079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie A Haines |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Haines |
| SIGNATURE | HAINES V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 507 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
On Folkways and Mores: William Graham Sumner Then and Now
Understanding Interdisciplinary Collaborations as Social Networks
The dynamics of interdisciplinary collaboration invite further investigation if we are to make this endeavour more rewarding and productive. We are using social network analysis to track the development of a new interdisciplinary collaboration on complex interventions to improve population health. It involves nineteen scholars across four countries. We report the Baseline network of formal relationships among the scholars, along with the impact o…
Neighborhood Disadvantage, Network Social Capital, and Depressive Symptoms
Research on why neighborhood disadvantage matters for health focuses on the capacity of neighborhoods to regulate residents' behavior through informal social control. The authors extend this research by conducting a multilevel analysis of data from a 1995 telephone survey of 497 residents of 32 neighborhoods in a U.S. city. The authors find that network social capital mediates the contextual effect of neighborhood disadvantage on depressive sympt…
Small area contextual effects on self-reported health: Evidence from Riverside, Calgary
These findings demonstrate that, even within a cohesive community, contextual effects on health can be located at a smaller geographic level than the Census tract. Research on the effects of local area socio-economic disadvantage on health that combines administrative and survey data enables researchers to develop more comprehensive measures of social and material deprivation. Our findings suggest that both social and material deprivation affect …
On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection
Socioeconomic disadvantage within a neighborhood, perceived financial security and self-rated health
Contextualizing Health Outcomes: Do Effects of Network Structure Differ for Women and Men
Lost in translation: A genealogy of the “social capital” concept in public health
Study objective: To examine the genealogy of the social capital concept in public health, with attention to the epistemological concerns and academic practices that shaped the way in which this concept was translated into public health. Design: A citation-network path analysis of the public health literature on social capital was used to generate a genealogy of the social capital concept in public health. The analysis identifies the intellectual …
Contextualizing and assessing the social capital of seniors in congregate housing residences: Study design and methods
Working with seniors living in 5 congregate housing residencies in Calgary, the project uses a mixed method approach to develop grounded measures of the social capital of seniors. The project integrates both qualitative and quantitative methods in a 3-phase research design: 1) qualitative, 2) quantitative, and 3) qualitative. Phase 1 uses gender-specific focus groups; phase 2 involves the administration of individual surveys that include a social…
The Privileging of Communitarian Ideas: Citation Practices and the Translation of Social Capital Into Public Health Research
The growing use of social science constructs in public health invites reflection on how public health researchers translate, that is, appropriate and reshape, constructs from the social sciences. To assess how 1 recently popular construct has been translated into public health research, we conducted a citation network and content analysis of public health articles on the topic of social capital. The analyses document empirically how public health…
Sociology's Heritage
HOW SHOULD SOCIOLOGY understand its history? Do the concepts that sociologists use routinely to study classical sociology and its contemporary significance improve or impede this understanding? This book examines these questions by assessing the value to sociology of the concepts of founders, classics and canons. Its central thesis is that it is possible to resolve controversies surrounding the origins and appraisal of sociology's heritage but th…
"Gender-Role Attitudes, Perceptions of Engineering, and Beliefs About Women in Engineering "Having it All: Are Male and Female Engineering Undergraduates Really So Different
Cette note de recherche presente les resultats d'une enquete mettant en avant les stereotypes associes aux femmes dans l'ingenierie.
Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions
Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton, James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montreal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Dan…
Exploring the Association of Sex and Majoring in Science
Areas of research interest include gender differences in academic choices, history of sociology
Do Factors that Differentiate Science and Nonscience Majors Predict Majoring in Science
Core Networks and Tie Activation: What Kinds of Routine Networks Allocate Resources in Nonroutine Situations
Social resources research has linked activated ties to outcomes-but not to the core networks from which the ties came. This study shifts the focus to the question of how networks allocate resources. The activation of core network ties is analyzed in a nonroutine situation-a hurricane-to determine how core network structure affects the degree to which individuals activate core network ties to gain one type of social resource-informal support. Resu…
Situational Contingencies Surrounding the Receipt of Informal Support
The social support strand of network analysis has confirmed the importance of taking seriously the personal network context in studies of informal support. But, as recent reviews make clear, it has paid relatively little attention to other situational contingencies that may influence flows of informal support. To begin to fill this gap, we draw on social-resources theory and research on helping behavior during disasters to expand its analytical f…
Exploring the Determinants of Support Provision: Provider Characteristics, Personal Networks, Community Contexts, and Support Following Life Events
To explore the determinants of support provision in the natural disaster context, we followed House (1981) and developed a model that specifies how characteristics of the providers, their personal networks, and the community contexts in which they live facilitate or impede their ability to provide support. All three sets of factors affected support provision during Hurricane Andrew, but the pattern of effects differs for the preparation and short…
Community Attachment in a Rural Setting: A Refinement and Empirical Test of the Systemic Model1
As they examine the complex issues currently facing rural America, rural sociologists draw increasingly on studies of community attachment. Because this research tradition has established the superiority of the systemic model, recent studies in rural and urban settings have focused on the conceptualization and operationalization of its components. We introduce four operational refinements to this model, and we test our refined model with data fro…
Revisiting the Rural-Urban Contrast: Personal Networks in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Settings1
To revisit the rural-urban contrast, we use data from non-metropolitan and metropolitan subsamples of the 1985 General Social Survey to test whether, compared to personal networks in urban settings, personal networks in rural settings contain ties of greater intensity and role multiplexity, are based more on kinship and neighborhood solidarities rather than on friendship, are smaller, are denser, and have greater educational, race-ethnic, and rel…
Knowledge and Passion: Essays in Honour of John Rex
Part 1 The analysis of social conflict: race and ethnicity after apartheid - pluralism revisited, Robin Cohen race relations - the research agenda, Robert Moore the negotiated order of the industrial enterprise, Richard K Brown. Part 2 On Max Weber: reflection on the world reception of Max Weber, Martin Albrow democracy and disenchantment - Tocqueville and Weber, Peter Lassman. Part 3 Studies in social theory: the siege mentality - the Rex-Parson…
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought
Spencer's Philosophy of Science
Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties
Sheldon Goldenberg, Valerie A. Haines, Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer, 1992), pp. 301-312
Network Range and Health
The inclusion of network concepts in the stress-distress model of health represents a major theoretical advance. Most researchers use the dyadic approach of social network analysis to construct network measures of social support. Working from the argument that network structure and social support are conceptually and empirically distinct, we extend the stress-distress model to include measures of network structure (network range) as predictors of…
Core Networks and Tie Activation: What Kinds of Routine Networks Allocate Resources in Nonroutine Situations
Social resources research has linked activated ties to outcomes-but not to the core networks from which the ties came. This study shifts the focus to the question of how networks allocate resources. The activation of core network ties is analyzed in a nonroutine situation-a hurricane-to determine how core network structure affects the degree to which individuals activate core network ties to gain one type of social resource-informal support. Resu…
Revisiting the Rural-Urban Contrast: Personal Networks in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Settings1
To revisit the rural-urban contrast, we use data from non-metropolitan and metropolitan subsamples of the 1985 General Social Survey to test whether, compared to personal networks in urban settings, personal networks in rural settings contain ties of greater intensity and role multiplexity, are based more on kinship and neighborhood solidarities rather than on friendship, are smaller, are denser, and have greater educational, race-ethnic, and rel…
Community Attachment in a Rural Setting: A Refinement and Empirical Test of the Systemic Model1
As they examine the complex issues currently facing rural America, rural sociologists draw increasingly on studies of community attachment. Because this research tradition has established the superiority of the systemic model, recent studies in rural and urban settings have focused on the conceptualization and operationalization of its components. We introduce four operational refinements to this model, and we test our refined model with data fro…
Network Range and Health
The inclusion of network concepts in the stress-distress model of health represents a major theoretical advance. Most researchers use the dyadic approach of social network analysis to construct network measures of social support. Working from the argument that network structure and social support are conceptually and empirically distinct, we extend the stress-distress model to include measures of network structure (network range) as predictors of…
Exploring the Determinants of Support Provision: Provider Characteristics, Personal Networks, Community Contexts, and Support Following Life Events
To explore the determinants of support provision in the natural disaster context, we followed House (1981) and developed a model that specifies how characteristics of the providers, their personal networks, and the community contexts in which they live facilitate or impede their ability to provide support. All three sets of factors affected support provision during Hurricane Andrew, but the pattern of effects differs for the preparation and short…
Neighborhood Disadvantage, Network Social Capital, and Depressive Symptoms
Research on why neighborhood disadvantage matters for health focuses on the capacity of neighborhoods to regulate residents' behavior through informal social control. The authors extend this research by conducting a multilevel analysis of data from a 1995 telephone survey of 497 residents of 32 neighborhoods in a U.S. city. The authors find that network social capital mediates the contextual effect of neighborhood disadvantage on depressive sympt…
The Privileging of Communitarian Ideas: Citation Practices and the Translation of Social Capital Into Public Health Research
The growing use of social science constructs in public health invites reflection on how public health researchers translate, that is, appropriate and reshape, constructs from the social sciences. To assess how 1 recently popular construct has been translated into public health research, we conducted a citation network and content analysis of public health articles on the topic of social capital. The analyses document empirically how public health…
Lost in translation: A genealogy of the “social capital” concept in public health
Study objective: To examine the genealogy of the social capital concept in public health, with attention to the epistemological concerns and academic practices that shaped the way in which this concept was translated into public health. Design: A citation-network path analysis of the public health literature on social capital was used to generate a genealogy of the social capital concept in public health. The analysis identifies the intellectual …
Contextualizing Health Outcomes: Do Effects of Network Structure Differ for Women and Men
Situational Contingencies Surrounding the Receipt of Informal Support
The social support strand of network analysis has confirmed the importance of taking seriously the personal network context in studies of informal support. But, as recent reviews make clear, it has paid relatively little attention to other situational contingencies that may influence flows of informal support. To begin to fill this gap, we draw on social-resources theory and research on helping behavior during disasters to expand its analytical f…
Knowledge and Passion: Essays in Honour of John Rex
Part 1 The analysis of social conflict: race and ethnicity after apartheid - pluralism revisited, Robin Cohen race relations - the research agenda, Robert Moore the negotiated order of the industrial enterprise, Richard K Brown. Part 2 On Max Weber: reflection on the world reception of Max Weber, Martin Albrow democracy and disenchantment - Tocqueville and Weber, Peter Lassman. Part 3 Studies in social theory: the siege mentality - the Rex-Parson…
Occupational Stress, Social Support, and the Buffer Hypothesis
The relationship between occupational stress, social support, and strain was investigated in a series of influential studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This continues to provide the most consistent support for the buffer hypothesis in the stress-strain literature. The authors argue that this support is more tenuous than it appears because these studies have theoretical and methodological limitations. When they are corrected, there is, at …
From Organicist to Relational Human Ecology
In the recent sociological literature there has been a resurgence of interest in one of the central problems of social theory: the relation between human action and social structure. Giddens' (1979) theory of structuration, Collins's (1981) microtranslation strategy and Burt's (1982) structural theory of action all challenge the methodological foundation of traditional macrosociology. This methodology holds societies to exist sui generis as entit…
Understanding Interdisciplinary Collaborations as Social Networks
The dynamics of interdisciplinary collaboration invite further investigation if we are to make this endeavour more rewarding and productive. We are using social network analysis to track the development of a new interdisciplinary collaboration on complex interventions to improve population health. It involves nineteen scholars across four countries. We report the Baseline network of formal relationships among the scholars, along with the impact o…
Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties
Sheldon Goldenberg, Valerie A. Haines, Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer, 1992), pp. 301-312
Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions
Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton, James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montreal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Dan…
Socioeconomic disadvantage within a neighborhood, perceived financial security and self-rated health
Spencer's Philosophy of Science
Is Spencer's Theory an Evolutionary Theory
The explanatory form of Spencer's theory of social evolution has been persistently misunderstood in the sociological literature. This paper challenges the conventional interpretation that Spencer proposed a theory of immanent change to establish that his is an evolutionary theory in the modern biological sense. Proponents of the immanence interpretation have failed to grasp the role that Lamarckian and von Baerian models of change play in Spencer…
A Critical Note on Langton's `the Behavioural Theory of Evolution and the Weber Thesis
From Organicist to Relational Human Ecology
In the recent sociological literature there has been a resurgence of interest in one of the central problems of social theory: the relation between human action and social structure. Giddens' (1979) theory of structuration, Collins's (1981) microtranslation strategy and Burt's (1982) structural theory of action all challenge the methodological foundation of traditional macrosociology. This methodology holds societies to exist sui generis as entit…
Energy and Urban Form: A Human Ecological Critique
Studies of the relationship between urban form and energy use have used scenarios to examine the relative energy efficiency of three spatial configurations of urban systems: centralization, multinucleation, and sprawl. Their results have been contradictory. This article develops a human ecological critique of these studies by examining the events included in each scenario. The results suggest that these contradictions are more apparent than real:…
Herbert Spencer: A Renewed Appreciation
Biology and Social Theory: Parsons's Evolutionary Theme
The evolutionary theme of Parsons's sociology relates his theory of sociocultural evolution to the theory of organic evolution and to the general theory of action systems. To grasp both relationships, the immanence and Darwinian interpretations of Parsonsian evolutionism must be rejected. Parsons's assumptions about the nature of change and the nature of what is changing follow from the use of Emerson's model of group selection as his source anal…
Social network analysis, structuration theory and the holism-individualism debate
Evolution and Social Life
Is Spencer's Theory an Evolutionary Theory
The explanatory form of Spencer's theory of social evolution has been persistently misunderstood in the sociological literature. This paper challenges the conventional interpretation that Spencer proposed a theory of immanent change to establish that his is an evolutionary theory in the modern biological sense. Proponents of the immanence interpretation have failed to grasp the role that Lamarckian and von Baerian models of change play in Spencer…
Occupational Stress, Social Support, and the Buffer Hypothesis
The relationship between occupational stress, social support, and strain was investigated in a series of influential studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This continues to provide the most consistent support for the buffer hypothesis in the stress-strain literature. The authors argue that this support is more tenuous than it appears because these studies have theoretical and methodological limitations. When they are corrected, there is, at …
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought
Spencer's Philosophy of Science
Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties
Sheldon Goldenberg, Valerie A. Haines, Social Networks and Institutional Completeness: From Territory to Ties, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer, 1992), pp. 301-312
Network Range and Health
The inclusion of network concepts in the stress-distress model of health represents a major theoretical advance. Most researchers use the dyadic approach of social network analysis to construct network measures of social support. Working from the argument that network structure and social support are conceptually and empirically distinct, we extend the stress-distress model to include measures of network structure (network range) as predictors of…
Knowledge and Passion: Essays in Honour of John Rex
Part 1 The analysis of social conflict: race and ethnicity after apartheid - pluralism revisited, Robin Cohen race relations - the research agenda, Robert Moore the negotiated order of the industrial enterprise, Richard K Brown. Part 2 On Max Weber: reflection on the world reception of Max Weber, Martin Albrow democracy and disenchantment - Tocqueville and Weber, Peter Lassman. Part 3 Studies in social theory: the siege mentality - the Rex-Parson…
Situational Contingencies Surrounding the Receipt of Informal Support
The social support strand of network analysis has confirmed the importance of taking seriously the personal network context in studies of informal support. But, as recent reviews make clear, it has paid relatively little attention to other situational contingencies that may influence flows of informal support. To begin to fill this gap, we draw on social-resources theory and research on helping behavior during disasters to expand its analytical f…
Exploring the Determinants of Support Provision: Provider Characteristics, Personal Networks, Community Contexts, and Support Following Life Events
To explore the determinants of support provision in the natural disaster context, we followed House (1981) and developed a model that specifies how characteristics of the providers, their personal networks, and the community contexts in which they live facilitate or impede their ability to provide support. All three sets of factors affected support provision during Hurricane Andrew, but the pattern of effects differs for the preparation and short…
Community Attachment in a Rural Setting: A Refinement and Empirical Test of the Systemic Model1
As they examine the complex issues currently facing rural America, rural sociologists draw increasingly on studies of community attachment. Because this research tradition has established the superiority of the systemic model, recent studies in rural and urban settings have focused on the conceptualization and operationalization of its components. We introduce four operational refinements to this model, and we test our refined model with data fro…
Revisiting the Rural-Urban Contrast: Personal Networks in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Settings1
To revisit the rural-urban contrast, we use data from non-metropolitan and metropolitan subsamples of the 1985 General Social Survey to test whether, compared to personal networks in urban settings, personal networks in rural settings contain ties of greater intensity and role multiplexity, are based more on kinship and neighborhood solidarities rather than on friendship, are smaller, are denser, and have greater educational, race-ethnic, and rel…
Core Networks and Tie Activation: What Kinds of Routine Networks Allocate Resources in Nonroutine Situations
Social resources research has linked activated ties to outcomes-but not to the core networks from which the ties came. This study shifts the focus to the question of how networks allocate resources. The activation of core network ties is analyzed in a nonroutine situation-a hurricane-to determine how core network structure affects the degree to which individuals activate core network ties to gain one type of social resource-informal support. Resu…
Do Factors that Differentiate Science and Nonscience Majors Predict Majoring in Science
Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions
Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton, James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montreal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Dan…
Exploring the Association of Sex and Majoring in Science
Areas of research interest include gender differences in academic choices, history of sociology
"Gender-Role Attitudes, Perceptions of Engineering, and Beliefs About Women in Engineering "Having it All: Are Male and Female Engineering Undergraduates Really So Different
Cette note de recherche presente les resultats d'une enquete mettant en avant les stereotypes associes aux femmes dans l'ingenierie.
Sociology's Heritage
HOW SHOULD SOCIOLOGY understand its history? Do the concepts that sociologists use routinely to study classical sociology and its contemporary significance improve or impede this understanding? This book examines these questions by assessing the value to sociology of the concepts of founders, classics and canons. Its central thesis is that it is possible to resolve controversies surrounding the origins and appraisal of sociology's heritage but th…
Contextualizing and assessing the social capital of seniors in congregate housing residences: Study design and methods
Working with seniors living in 5 congregate housing residencies in Calgary, the project uses a mixed method approach to develop grounded measures of the social capital of seniors. The project integrates both qualitative and quantitative methods in a 3-phase research design: 1) qualitative, 2) quantitative, and 3) qualitative. Phase 1 uses gender-specific focus groups; phase 2 involves the administration of individual surveys that include a social…
Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Social science (12 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works)