Bruce J Biddle

Biographic Data

ID3633044
NAMEBruce J Biddle
GIVEN NAMESBruce J
FAMILY NAMEBiddle
SIGNATUREBIDDLE B J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Missouri
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS569
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1956
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX8

  • The Unacknowledged Disaster: Youth Poverty and Educational Failure in America

    Open AccessBruce J Biddle, Bruce BiddleBOOKUnacknowledged Disaster2014

  • Role Theory: Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors

    Bruce J Biddle, Edwin J ThomasBOOKRole Theory2013Cited by: 102

  • Splendid Contributions and Flawed Conclusions

    Open AccessBruce J BiddleARTICLEEducational Researcher2012

  • Social Class, Poverty, and Education: Policy and Practice

    Wanda Rushing, Bruce J BiddleARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2002

    1. Poverty, Ethnicity and Achievement in American Schools: Bruce J. Biddle 2. First Person Plural: Education as Public Property: Peter W. Cookson Jr 3. Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Children's Achievement: Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 4. Linking Bordieu's Concept of Capital to the Broader Field: The Case of Family-School Relationships: Annette Lareau 5. Defensive Network Orientations as Internalized Oppression: How Schools Mediate the Inf…

  • Social Psychology of Education

    Open AccessBruce J BiddleARTICLESocial Psychology of Education2001

  • Research news and Comment: Funding, Poverty, and Mathematics Achievement: A Rejoinder to Sarah E. Turner

    Open AccessKevin J Payne, Bruce J BiddleARTICLEEducational Researcher2000References: 5

  • Funding, Poverty, and Mathematics Achievement: A Rejoinder to Sarah E. Turner

    Kevin J Payne, Bruce J BiddleARTICLEEducational Researcher2000References: 2

    reviewer disagrees with the conclusions stated by authors, but Turner appears to agree in large part with our major claims. In our article we noted that a lot of confusion had appeared in prior research concerning the impact of poor school funding and child poverty on achievement in American schools, and that we hoped to resolve some of that confusion by reviewing problems in prior research and offering evidence from a new study of the issue. Hav…

  • Poor School Funding, Child Poverty, and Mathematics Achievement

    Kevin J Payne, Bruce J BiddleARTICLEEducational Researcher1999Cited by: 13References: 27

    This article concerns the effects of poor school funding and child poverty on mathematics achievement in American schools. A good deal of research and a lot of confusion have surrounded these topics. We begin by first reviewing these traditions of effort. Next, we present information about a new study of these effects, including the rationale for our research, our methods, and our findings. We close by discussing the implications of our results

  • The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools

    J Rupp, Jan C Rupp et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1998

  • Better Ideas: Expanded Funding for Educational Research

    Bruce J BiddleARTICLEEducational Researcher1996References: 4

    ehold, I tell you a mystery. On the one hand, Americans have an abiding faith in research. As perhaps no other people in the world, they embrace the empirical ideal, believe in science, fund engineering, and demand that evidence be obtained before taking action in endeavors they consider important. Moreover, they are willing to fund expensive research on a host of problems they consider important: unearthing the remains of dinosaurs; studying dis…

  • The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public

    Faustine C Jones-Wilson, Faustine C Jones‐Wilson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Negro Education1995

    The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools by David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995. 414 pp. $25.00, cloth. Reviewed by Faustine C. Jones-Wilson, Journal of Negro Education Editor-in-Chief Emerita. The title of this well-written, thoroughly documented book succinctly explains its intent. In it, the authors expose, debunk, and refute popular beliefs about education in the Un…

  • What do Students Want: Expectations and Undergraduate Persistence

    Open AccessBarbara J Bank, Bruce J Biddle et al.ARTICLESociological Quarterly1992Cited by: 1References: 22

    At the descriptive and theoretical levels, surprisingly little attention has been given to students' expectancies when they enter college. Using data from a longitudinal study, this article describes the expectancies of entering freshmen at a Midwestern state university; distinguishes expectancies from three other types of expectations—self-labels, attributed norms, and own norms; and investigates the extent to which all four types of expectation…

  • Effects of Peer, Faculty, and Parental Influences on Students' Persistence

    Barbara J Bank, Ricky L Slavings et al.ARTICLESociology of Education1990Cited by: 14

    The literatures on the social influence of referent others suggest four questions that need to be answered: (1) Who are the influential persons? (2) What types of influence are used? (3) What is the nature of the influence process? and (4) Are the effects of social influence substantial and independent of other forces? Data from a longitudinal study of the persistence in college of first-year undergraduates at a large, midwestern state university…

  • Implications of government funding policies for research on teaching and teacher education: United States of America

    Open AccessBruce J BiddleARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education1989Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Educational Research Downunder

    Bruce J Biddle, John P KeevesARTICLEEducational Researcher1988

  • Norms, Preferences, Identities and Retention Decisions

    Bruce J Biddle, Barbara J Bank et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly1987Cited by: 14

    Social psychologists have differed concerning the modes of thought that presumably generate decisions, and independent traditions of research have appeared concerning the effects of three separate thought modes: norms, preferences and self-referent identity labels. In prior research the authors have shown that these modes have independent effects on decisions and that the relative strengths of modal effects vary depending on the context studied. …

  • Social research and social policy: The theoretical connection

    Open AccessBruce J BiddleARTICLEThe American Sociologist1987References: 1

  • Recent Developments in Role Theory

    Bruce J Biddle, B BiddleREVIEWAnnual Review of Sociology1986Cited by: 343References: 18

    Role theory concerns one of the most important features of social life, characteristic behavior patterns or roles. It explains roles by presuming that persons are members of social positions and hold expectations for their own behaviors and those of other persons. Its vocabulary and concerns are popular among social scientists and practitioners, and role concepts have generated a lot of research. At least five perspectives may be discriminated in…

  • Comparative Research on the Social Determinants of Adolescent Drinking

    Barbara J Bank, Bruce J Biddle et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly1985Cited by: 4

    Barbara J. Bank, Bruce J. Biddle, Don S. Anderson, Ragnar Hauge, Daphne M. Keats, John A. Keats, Marjorie M. Marlin, Simone Valantin, Comparative Research on the Social Determinants of Adolescent Drinking, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 164-177

  • Social Influence, Self-Referent Identity Labels, and Behavior

    Open AccessBruce J Biddle, Barbara J Bank et al.ARTICLESociological Quarterly1985Cited by: 8References: 55

    Self-referent identity labels are frequently argued to be a central component of the self and to be important in the planning of conduct. Despite the attractiveness of this argument, relatively little research has yet appeared that supports it, and studies of the etiology and effects of self-referent labels often fail to control for the confounding effects of preferences, norms. or other conceptions that are known to affect conduct. In this paper…

  • The Structure of Idleness: In-School and Dropout Adolescent Activities in the United States and Australia

    Bruce J Biddle, Barbara J Bank et al.ARTICLESociology of Education1981Cited by: 3

    Bruce J. Biddle, Barbara J. Bank, D. S. Anderson, John A. Keats, Daphne M. Keats, The Structure of Idleness: In-School and Dropout Adolescent Activities in the United States and Australia, Sociology of Education, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Apr., 1981), pp. 106-119

  • Social determinants of adolescent drinking; what they think, what they do and what I think and do

    Bruce J Biddle, Barbara J Bank et al.ARTICLEJournal of Studies on Alcohol and…1980Cited by: 27References: 6

    Four social determinants (parental and peer modeling, parental and peer norms) were studied for their effects on adolescents' norms, preferences and reported drinking behavior

  • Parental and Peer Influence on Adolescents

    Bruce J Biddle, Barbara J Bank et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1980Cited by: 14

    Journal Article Parental and Peer Influence on Adolescents Get access Bruce J. Biddle, Bruce J. Biddle University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barbara J. Bank, Barbara J. Bank University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Marjorie M. Marlin Marjorie M. Marlin University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this aut…

  • Identities and Social Positions

    Bruce J BiddleCHAPTERRole theory1979

  • Normative, Preferential, and Belief Modes in Adolescent Prejudice

    Open AccessBarbara J Bank, Bruce J Biddle et al.ARTICLESociological Quarterly1977References: 9

    The concept of attitude often subsumes normative, preferential, and belief components; some attitude scales are composed of items exhibiting two or more of these modalities. Beliefs may, in turn, be classified as reports, stereotypes, consequences, and intentions. This article shows that attitude questions in different modes have differing origins and implications, and that it is an error to continue to use an attitude concept and attitude scales…