Nahum Z Medalia

Biographic Data

ID3632206
NAMENahum Z Medalia
GIVEN NAMESNahum Z
FAMILY NAMEMedalia
SIGNATUREMEDALIA N Z
AFFILIATIONSGeorgia Institute of Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
H-INDEX1

  • Citizen participation and environmental health action

    Nahum Z MedaliaARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health…1969

    Citizen participation and environmental health action: the case of air pollution control. N Z MedaliaCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.59.8.1385 Published Online: August 29, 2011

  • Choice of College Major by Contest Mobility

    Nahum Z MedaliaARTICLESociology of Education1968

    This paper places the choice of major field by college students in the context of a market situation wherein students, as a resource, become allocated to various major departments; and it attempts to bring into focus the institutional arrangements which govern operation of this market. In the case studied, the requirement of pre-admission choice was found to make symbolic rather than rational elements pre-dominate in the initial selection of majo…

  • Air Pollution as a Socio-Environmental Health Problem

    Nahum Z MedaliaARTICLEJournal of Health and Human…1964

    Nahum Z. Medalia, Air Pollution as a Socio-Environmental Health Problem: A Survey Report, Journal of Health and Human Behavior, Vol. 5, No. 4, Special Issue: The Environmental Health Challenge to Medical Sociology (Winter, 1964), pp. 154-165

  • Mydral's Assumptions on Race Relations

    Nahum Z MedaliaARTICLESocial Forces1962Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Mydral's Assumptions on Race Relations: A Conceptual Commentary Get access Nahum Z. Medalia Nahum Z. Medalia Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 40, Issue 3, March 1962, Pages 223–227, https://doi.org/10.2307/2573633 Published: 01 March 1962

  • Who Cries Wolf? The Reporters of Damage to Police in a Pseudo-Disaster

    Nahum Z MedaliaARTICLESocial Problems1959References: 4

    Who Cries Wolf? The Reporters of Damage to Police in a Pseudo-Disaster Nahum Z. Medalia Nahum Z. Medalia Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 7, Issue 3, Winter 1959, Pages 233–240, https://doi.org/10.2307/799450 Published: 09 August 2014

  • Diffusion and Belief in a Collective Delusion

    Nahum Z Medalia, Otto N LarsenARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1958Cited by: 11

    W HILE individuals may at times lose touch with reality as their culture defines it, whole communities ordinarily do not. Yet instances are on record when this has very nearly happened: people in Illinois,. believed for a few days in September 1945 that a phantom anesthetist was prowling their town; 1 and a Martian invasion took place in the minds of many persons in the New York City area on October 30, 1938.2 Russia's Sputniks may be expected to…

  • Human Relations Leadership and the Association of Morale and Efficiency in Work Groups

    Nahum Z Medalia, David C MillerARTICLESocial Forces1955

    Journal Article Human Relations Leadership and the Association of Morale and Efficiency in Work Groups: A Controlled Study with Small Military Units Get access Nahum Z. Medalia, Nahum Z. Medalia Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Delbert C. Miller Delbert C. Miller Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Washington Search for other works b…

  • Authoritarianism, leader acceptance, and group cohesion

    Nahum Z MedaliaARTICLEJournal of Abnormal & Social…1955

  • Efficiency, Leadership, and Morale in Small Military Organizations

    Open AccessDelbert C Miller, Nahum Z MedaliaARTICLEThe Sociological Review1955

    of Findings. 1. The efficiency of a squadron is associated with morale attitudes involving satisfaction with the air site. There is no association indicated between efficiency and such attitude areas as (a) Satisfaction with the Air Force, (b) Satisfaction with the Job, or (c) Personal Commitment to the Mission. The lack of association with these three morale dimensions is explained as due to factors operating outside of the squadron that are att…

  • Unit Size and Leadership Perception

    Nahum Z MedaliaARTICLESociometry1954