George J Mccall
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George J Mccall |
| GIVEN NAMES | George J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccall |
| SIGNATURE | MCCALL G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Friendship as a Social Institution
Friendship: Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship
Lessons about nation-building and civil society
The concepts "nation-building" and "civil society" have extensive roots in positive social theory, but both have been reborn as important prescriptive concepts in the context of foreign aid. Even as a normative concept, the term "civil society" means quite different things, as at least four models can be distinguished in the foreign aid context. More to the point, today's normative notions of nation-building also vary, seemingly by the model of c…
Introduction: Dilemmas of Nation-Building
Mapping Conflict Cultures: Interpersonal Disputing in a South African Black Township
Even in socially diverse communities, who fights about what, and how different sorts of disputes get handled, are culturally patterned features of social living. Cognitive anthropologists have devised techniques for systematically mapping cultural domains, and this article applies one such technique (ethnosemantic domain definition) to mapping community beliefs about disputes and dispute handling. That application is illustrated through a cultura…
Family interventions and adolescent resiliency: The Southwest Texas State High‐Risk Youth Program
Family interventions and adolescent resiliency: The Southwest Texas State High-Risk Youth Program
The emergence of social ecology as an orienting perspective in prevention has reinforced attention to the family as a critical influence on adolescent risk and protection. The Southwest Texas High-Risk Youth Program (SWTHRY) addressed the neglect of family as a prevention focus by providing in-home sessions for high-risk families that sought to strengthen family cohesion and adaptability, and thereby promote adolescent resiliency. Based on pre- a…
Use of Law in a South African Black Township
The First Course: Introducing How Many -- And Which -- Social Psychologies
Systematic Field Observation
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
Sociological Approaches to Social Psychology: Are Textbooks a Further Sign of Crisis
Observing the Law: Field Methods in the Study of Crime and the Criminal Justice System
Social Scientists as Advocates: Views from the Applied Disciplines
Identities and interactions: An Examination of Human Associations in Everyday Life
Field Research: Strategies for a Natural Sociology. Leonard Schatzman , Anselm L. Strauss
Social Relationships
Issues in Participant Observation: A Text and Reader
Power and Discontent
Identities and Interactions: An Examination of Human Association in Everyday Life
A New Measure of Attitudinal Opposition
Journal Article A NEW MEASURE OF ATTITUDINAL OPPOSITION Get access GEORGE J. MCCALL, GEORGE J. MCCALL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. L. SIMMONS J. L. SIMMONS *George J. McCall is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois (Urbana), and J. L. Simmons is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California (Santa Barbara). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Symbiosis: The Case of Hoodoo and the Numbers Racket
Journal Article Symbiosis: The Case of Hoodoo and The Numbers Racket Get access George J. McCall George J. McCall Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 4, Spring 1963, Pages 361–371, https://doi.org/10.2307/799207 Published: 08 August 2014
Issues in Participant Observation: A Text and Reader
Systematic Field Observation
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
Identities and Interactions: An Examination of Human Association in Everyday Life
Symbiosis: The Case of Hoodoo and the Numbers Racket
Journal Article Symbiosis: The Case of Hoodoo and The Numbers Racket Get access George J. McCall George J. McCall Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 4, Spring 1963, Pages 361–371, https://doi.org/10.2307/799207 Published: 08 August 2014
Use of Law in a South African Black Township
Symbiosis: The Case of Hoodoo and the Numbers Racket
Journal Article Symbiosis: The Case of Hoodoo and The Numbers Racket Get access George J. McCall George J. McCall Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 4, Spring 1963, Pages 361–371, https://doi.org/10.2307/799207 Published: 08 August 2014
A New Measure of Attitudinal Opposition
Journal Article A NEW MEASURE OF ATTITUDINAL OPPOSITION Get access GEORGE J. MCCALL, GEORGE J. MCCALL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. L. SIMMONS J. L. SIMMONS *George J. McCall is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois (Urbana), and J. L. Simmons is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California (Santa Barbara). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Identities and Interactions: An Examination of Human Association in Everyday Life
Power and Discontent
Issues in Participant Observation: A Text and Reader
Social Relationships
Field Research: Strategies for a Natural Sociology. Leonard Schatzman , Anselm L. Strauss
Identities and interactions: An Examination of Human Associations in Everyday Life
Observing the Law: Field Methods in the Study of Crime and the Criminal Justice System
Social Scientists as Advocates: Views from the Applied Disciplines
Sociological Approaches to Social Psychology: Are Textbooks a Further Sign of Crisis
The First Course: Introducing How Many -- And Which -- Social Psychologies
Systematic Field Observation
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
Use of Law in a South African Black Township
Mapping Conflict Cultures: Interpersonal Disputing in a South African Black Township
Even in socially diverse communities, who fights about what, and how different sorts of disputes get handled, are culturally patterned features of social living. Cognitive anthropologists have devised techniques for systematically mapping cultural domains, and this article applies one such technique (ethnosemantic domain definition) to mapping community beliefs about disputes and dispute handling. That application is illustrated through a cultura…
Family interventions and adolescent resiliency: The Southwest Texas State High‐Risk Youth Program
Family interventions and adolescent resiliency: The Southwest Texas State High-Risk Youth Program
The emergence of social ecology as an orienting perspective in prevention has reinforced attention to the family as a critical influence on adolescent risk and protection. The Southwest Texas High-Risk Youth Program (SWTHRY) addressed the neglect of family as a prevention focus by providing in-home sessions for high-risk families that sought to strengthen family cohesion and adaptability, and thereby promote adolescent resiliency. Based on pre- a…
Lessons about nation-building and civil society
The concepts "nation-building" and "civil society" have extensive roots in positive social theory, but both have been reborn as important prescriptive concepts in the context of foreign aid. Even as a normative concept, the term "civil society" means quite different things, as at least four models can be distinguished in the foreign aid context. More to the point, today's normative notions of nation-building also vary, seemingly by the model of c…
Introduction: Dilemmas of Nation-Building
Friendship: Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship
Friendship as a Social Institution
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