Kenneth L Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth L Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 742 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Picture and social concept: A fractal-concept analysis of advertising art
This article introduces a new variation of Mandelbrot’s fractal geometry: fractal-concept analysis. Like fractal geometry, fractal-concept analysis differentiates phenomena into self-similar fractals that resemble the parent seed, but instead of using geometric generators, fractal-concept analysis uses a conceptual architecture as the generator. The methodology’s unique capacity for clearly characterizing difficult subject matter is demonstrated …
Problematics of grounded theory: Innovations for Developing an Increasingly Rigorous Qualitative Method
Our purpose in this article is to identify and suggest resolution for two core problematics of grounded theory. First, while grounded theory provides transparency to one part of the conceptualization process, where codes emerge directly from the data, it provides no such systematic or transparent way for gaining insight into the conceptual relationships between discovered codes. Producing a grounded theory depends not only on the definition of co…
Sustaining Aids Mobilization: The Problem of Late-Stage Mobilization among High-Risk HIV/Aids Subpopulations
Race, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship in Urban America
The introduction to a book-length study, this chapter reviews the interaction of ethnic self-employment and introduces multiple disadvantage as an improvement over disadvantage theory
Moral judgment development: The effects of education and occupation
Discrimination: Its Economic Impact on Blacks, Women, and Jews
Gender Segregation in Higher Education: Effects of Aspirations, Mathematics Achievement, and Income
Kenneth L. Wilson, Janet P. Boldizar, Gender Segregation in Higher Education: Effects of Aspirations, Mathematics Achievement, and Income, Sociology of Education, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 62-74
Gender, life experiences, and moral judgment development: A process-oriented approach
Education Occupation Marriage Abstract The purpose of this study was to reexamine the issue of gender differences in moral development from a process-oriented perspective. We hypothesized that life experiences and value orientations toward those experiences would exert differential influences on the processes (but not necessarily the outcomes) of moral development for women and men. Ss were 52 men and 50 women (mean adult age = 26.8 years) who we…
Talking Sociology
Culture, Ethnicity, and Identity: Current Issues in Research
Reassessing the Discrimination against Women in Higher Education
This paper argues that the sex composition of college curricula is the major source of sex inequality in higher education today. Census data are analyzed to demonstrate that while women are obtaining an ever growing proportion of college degrees, fields of specialty are still segregated to an important extent. A model of prejudice and discrimination is constructed and analyzed as a possible explanation of the sex composition of college curricula.…
Scaling the prestige, authority, and income potential of college curricula
Multiple Regression with Dummy Variables: Response to Sandefur and Finley
Journal Article Multiple Regression with Dummy Variables: Response to Sandefur and Finley Get access Kenneth L. Wilson Kenneth L. Wilson Florida Atlantic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 4, June 1982, Page 1171, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.4.1171 Published: 01 June 1982
Ethnic Enclaves: A Comparison of the Cuban and Black Economies in Miami
Structural hypotheses that link the relative advantage in certain ethnic enclaves to the structure of their economies are tested in a comparative analysis of the Cuban and black businesses in Miami. Findings suggest that the more advantaged community, the Cuban enclave, is characterized by highly interdependent industries, ones which are less dependent on majority industry; the less advantaged community, the black enclave, is characterized by wea…
Role Satisfaction, Situational Assessment, and Scapegoating
Using data from participant observation, informal interviews, and questionnaires administered to the members of a Naval Reserve unit mobilizedfor a Marine field exercise, it is demonstrated that the pattern of satisfactions people are accustomed to derive from enacting assorted roles in their sets is related to their assessment of the social situation in which they enact the roles. It is further shown that disruption of anticipated role satisfact…
On population comparisons using factor indexes or latent variables
Who Goes to College
Immigrant Enclaves: An Analysis of the Labor Market Experiences of Cubans in Miami
Data from a longitudinal sample of Cuban emigres are used to test competing hypotheses about the mode of incorporation of new immigrants into the U.S. labor market. Classic theories of assimilation assumed a unified economy in which immigrants started at the bottom and gradually moved up occupationally, while they gained social acceptance. Recent dual labor market theories define new immigrants mainly as additions to the secondary labor market li…
Status Inconsistency and the Hope Technique, II: A Linear Hypothesis about Status Enhancement, Status Detraction, and Satisfaction with Membership
“Status Enhancement” refers to the situation in which an individual occupies a relatively more prestigious position as a member of a given association than s/he does as an occupant of one or more statuses outside the association (e.g., occupation, education, income). “Status Detraction” refers to an individual's occupying a relatively less prestigious position in the association than in status(es) outside the association. It was hypothesized that…
Status Inconsistency and the Hope Technique, I: The Grounds for a Resurrection
This paper attempts a reassessment of status inconsistency theory, methods, and empirical results. Theory: Two distinct kinds of status inconsistency hypotheses are clarified—linear and nonlinear. Although the literature has explicitly acknowledged only nonlinear hypotheses, no logical preference for either linear or nonlinear hypotheses can be drawn from the original theory without changing or adding to its basic statements. A reappraisal of pas…
The Effects of Integration and Class on Black Educational Attainment
Integration, perhaps one of the most important issues in education today, has never been examined from the framework of the status attainment model. This paper utilizes a national longitudinal sample of black and white male youths to assess this question: How does the educational attainment process differ for blacks in segregated and integrated schools? I find that the model improves substantially as a prediction instrument for blacks in integrat…
Race and Job Satisfaction in the Military
This paper questions the validity of past studies of job satisfaction for minority groups. Past studies relegate the racial issue to the initial determinant of status attainment deficiencies which indirectly influence job satisfaction. On a sample of over 9,000 military men, including almost 1,500 blacks, three questions are examined: (1) Do past findings on job satisfaction apply to the military setting? (2) Are the conditions contributing to jo…
Toward an Improved Explanation of Income Attainment: Recalibrating Education and Occupation
In past attempts at predicting income attainment, education and occupation have been recognized as the most intuitively appealing causal factors but have yielded especially dismal empirical results. This paper attempts to demonstrate that the relatively poor success at predicting income attainment with these variables can be corrected with straighforward recalibrations of their scales. A scale of occupations is drawn from classical notions of wor…
Status Inconsistency and Participation in Social Movements: A Rejoinder to Bland and Wallis' Comments
Bland and Wallis attend to our paper, and participation in social movements: an application of Goodman's hierarchical modeling, and we appreciate their interest. Yet their comments in several ways either miss the point of the paper, or misinterpret our statements. Consequently, we offer a rejoinder. Bland and Wallis' comments began with observations concerning the inconsistency method represented in our article, and moved to a broader criticism o…
Black-White Differences in Educational Attainment
Main and interactive effects of racial differences in educational attainment are examined on the basis of a recent longitudinal sample of the U.S. high school population. Availability of aprpopriate measures permits comparison between comprehensive models of the attainment sequence between blacks and whites. In agreement with past results, it is found that blacks have higher educational attainment than whites of similar parental status and abilit…
Immigrant Enclaves: An Analysis of the Labor Market Experiences of Cubans in Miami
Data from a longitudinal sample of Cuban emigres are used to test competing hypotheses about the mode of incorporation of new immigrants into the U.S. labor market. Classic theories of assimilation assumed a unified economy in which immigrants started at the bottom and gradually moved up occupationally, while they gained social acceptance. Recent dual labor market theories define new immigrants mainly as additions to the secondary labor market li…
Ethnic Enclaves: A Comparison of the Cuban and Black Economies in Miami
Structural hypotheses that link the relative advantage in certain ethnic enclaves to the structure of their economies are tested in a comparative analysis of the Cuban and black businesses in Miami. Findings suggest that the more advantaged community, the Cuban enclave, is characterized by highly interdependent industries, ones which are less dependent on majority industry; the less advantaged community, the black enclave, is characterized by wea…
Black-White Differences in Educational Attainment
Main and interactive effects of racial differences in educational attainment are examined on the basis of a recent longitudinal sample of the U.S. high school population. Availability of aprpopriate measures permits comparison between comprehensive models of the attainment sequence between blacks and whites. In agreement with past results, it is found that blacks have higher educational attainment than whites of similar parental status and abilit…
Gender Segregation in Higher Education: Effects of Aspirations, Mathematics Achievement, and Income
Kenneth L. Wilson, Janet P. Boldizar, Gender Segregation in Higher Education: Effects of Aspirations, Mathematics Achievement, and Income, Sociology of Education, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 62-74
The Educational Attainment Process: Results from a National Sample
The process of educational attainment of U. S. youth is reexamined on the basis of a recent, nationally representative data set. Strict comparison with past models is impossible, given differences in measurement, sampling, and time of data collection. Still, the general structure of the final model differs in theoretically significant ways from past findings. Present results reduce the importance of social psychological intervening variables, suc…
Problematics of grounded theory: Innovations for Developing an Increasingly Rigorous Qualitative Method
Our purpose in this article is to identify and suggest resolution for two core problematics of grounded theory. First, while grounded theory provides transparency to one part of the conceptualization process, where codes emerge directly from the data, it provides no such systematic or transparent way for gaining insight into the conceptual relationships between discovered codes. Producing a grounded theory depends not only on the definition of co…
Toward an Improved Explanation of Income Attainment: Recalibrating Education and Occupation
In past attempts at predicting income attainment, education and occupation have been recognized as the most intuitively appealing causal factors but have yielded especially dismal empirical results. This paper attempts to demonstrate that the relatively poor success at predicting income attainment with these variables can be corrected with straighforward recalibrations of their scales. A scale of occupations is drawn from classical notions of wor…
Scaling the prestige, authority, and income potential of college curricula
Stepfathers and Stepchildren: An Exploratory Analysis from Two National Surveys
Kenneth L. Wilson, Louis A. Zurcher, Diana Claire McAdams, Russell L. Curtis, Stepfathers and Stepchildren: An Exploratory Analysis from Two National Surveys, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Aug., 1975), pp. 526-536
Status Inconsistency and Participation in Social Movements: An Application of Goodman's Hierarchical Modeling
Goodman's hierarchical modeling is used to analyze the status inconsistency configuration of 67 active participants in an anti-pornography social movement and 44 persons who actively opposed the movement. The substantive results indicated the need to interpret status inconsistency effects in light of the second-order interaction of all three stratification variables—education, occupation and income. We found that inconsistencies between two of th…
The Effects of Integration and Class on Black Educational Attainment
Integration, perhaps one of the most important issues in education today, has never been examined from the framework of the status attainment model. This paper utilizes a national longitudinal sample of black and white male youths to assess this question: How does the educational attainment process differ for blacks in segregated and integrated schools? I find that the model improves substantially as a prediction instrument for blacks in integrat…
Race and Job Satisfaction in the Military
This paper questions the validity of past studies of job satisfaction for minority groups. Past studies relegate the racial issue to the initial determinant of status attainment deficiencies which indirectly influence job satisfaction. On a sample of over 9,000 military men, including almost 1,500 blacks, three questions are examined: (1) Do past findings on job satisfaction apply to the military setting? (2) Are the conditions contributing to jo…
Picture and social concept: A fractal-concept analysis of advertising art
This article introduces a new variation of Mandelbrot’s fractal geometry: fractal-concept analysis. Like fractal geometry, fractal-concept analysis differentiates phenomena into self-similar fractals that resemble the parent seed, but instead of using geometric generators, fractal-concept analysis uses a conceptual architecture as the generator. The methodology’s unique capacity for clearly characterizing difficult subject matter is demonstrated …
Role Satisfaction, Situational Assessment, and Scapegoating
Using data from participant observation, informal interviews, and questionnaires administered to the members of a Naval Reserve unit mobilizedfor a Marine field exercise, it is demonstrated that the pattern of satisfactions people are accustomed to derive from enacting assorted roles in their sets is related to their assessment of the social situation in which they enact the roles. It is further shown that disruption of anticipated role satisfact…
Status Inconsistency and the Hope Technique, I: The Grounds for a Resurrection
This paper attempts a reassessment of status inconsistency theory, methods, and empirical results. Theory: Two distinct kinds of status inconsistency hypotheses are clarified—linear and nonlinear. Although the literature has explicitly acknowledged only nonlinear hypotheses, no logical preference for either linear or nonlinear hypotheses can be drawn from the original theory without changing or adding to its basic statements. A reappraisal of pas…
Reassessing the Discrimination against Women in Higher Education
This paper argues that the sex composition of college curricula is the major source of sex inequality in higher education today. Census data are analyzed to demonstrate that while women are obtaining an ever growing proportion of college degrees, fields of specialty are still segregated to an important extent. A model of prejudice and discrimination is constructed and analyzed as a possible explanation of the sex composition of college curricula.…
On population comparisons using factor indexes or latent variables
Status Inconsistency and the Hope Technique, II: A Linear Hypothesis about Status Enhancement, Status Detraction, and Satisfaction with Membership
“Status Enhancement” refers to the situation in which an individual occupies a relatively more prestigious position as a member of a given association than s/he does as an occupant of one or more statuses outside the association (e.g., occupation, education, income). “Status Detraction” refers to an individual's occupying a relatively less prestigious position in the association than in status(es) outside the association. It was hypothesized that…
Stepfathers and Stepchildren: An Exploratory Analysis from Two National Surveys
Kenneth L. Wilson, Louis A. Zurcher, Diana Claire McAdams, Russell L. Curtis, Stepfathers and Stepchildren: An Exploratory Analysis from Two National Surveys, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Aug., 1975), pp. 526-536
The Educational Attainment Process: Results from a National Sample
The process of educational attainment of U. S. youth is reexamined on the basis of a recent, nationally representative data set. Strict comparison with past models is impossible, given differences in measurement, sampling, and time of data collection. Still, the general structure of the final model differs in theoretically significant ways from past findings. Present results reduce the importance of social psychological intervening variables, suc…
Black-White Differences in Educational Attainment
Main and interactive effects of racial differences in educational attainment are examined on the basis of a recent longitudinal sample of the U.S. high school population. Availability of aprpopriate measures permits comparison between comprehensive models of the attainment sequence between blacks and whites. In agreement with past results, it is found that blacks have higher educational attainment than whites of similar parental status and abilit…
Status Inconsistency and Participation in Social Movements: An Application of Goodman's Hierarchical Modeling
Goodman's hierarchical modeling is used to analyze the status inconsistency configuration of 67 active participants in an anti-pornography social movement and 44 persons who actively opposed the movement. The substantive results indicated the need to interpret status inconsistency effects in light of the second-order interaction of all three stratification variables—education, occupation and income. We found that inconsistencies between two of th…
Status Inconsistency and Participation in Social Movements: A Rejoinder to Bland and Wallis' Comments
Bland and Wallis attend to our paper, and participation in social movements: an application of Goodman's hierarchical modeling, and we appreciate their interest. Yet their comments in several ways either miss the point of the paper, or misinterpret our statements. Consequently, we offer a rejoinder. Bland and Wallis' comments began with observations concerning the inconsistency method represented in our article, and moved to a broader criticism o…
Race and Job Satisfaction in the Military
This paper questions the validity of past studies of job satisfaction for minority groups. Past studies relegate the racial issue to the initial determinant of status attainment deficiencies which indirectly influence job satisfaction. On a sample of over 9,000 military men, including almost 1,500 blacks, three questions are examined: (1) Do past findings on job satisfaction apply to the military setting? (2) Are the conditions contributing to jo…
Toward an Improved Explanation of Income Attainment: Recalibrating Education and Occupation
In past attempts at predicting income attainment, education and occupation have been recognized as the most intuitively appealing causal factors but have yielded especially dismal empirical results. This paper attempts to demonstrate that the relatively poor success at predicting income attainment with these variables can be corrected with straighforward recalibrations of their scales. A scale of occupations is drawn from classical notions of wor…
Status Inconsistency and the Hope Technique, II: A Linear Hypothesis about Status Enhancement, Status Detraction, and Satisfaction with Membership
“Status Enhancement” refers to the situation in which an individual occupies a relatively more prestigious position as a member of a given association than s/he does as an occupant of one or more statuses outside the association (e.g., occupation, education, income). “Status Detraction” refers to an individual's occupying a relatively less prestigious position in the association than in status(es) outside the association. It was hypothesized that…
Status Inconsistency and the Hope Technique, I: The Grounds for a Resurrection
This paper attempts a reassessment of status inconsistency theory, methods, and empirical results. Theory: Two distinct kinds of status inconsistency hypotheses are clarified—linear and nonlinear. Although the literature has explicitly acknowledged only nonlinear hypotheses, no logical preference for either linear or nonlinear hypotheses can be drawn from the original theory without changing or adding to its basic statements. A reappraisal of pas…
The Effects of Integration and Class on Black Educational Attainment
Integration, perhaps one of the most important issues in education today, has never been examined from the framework of the status attainment model. This paper utilizes a national longitudinal sample of black and white male youths to assess this question: How does the educational attainment process differ for blacks in segregated and integrated schools? I find that the model improves substantially as a prediction instrument for blacks in integrat…
Who Goes to College
Immigrant Enclaves: An Analysis of the Labor Market Experiences of Cubans in Miami
Data from a longitudinal sample of Cuban emigres are used to test competing hypotheses about the mode of incorporation of new immigrants into the U.S. labor market. Classic theories of assimilation assumed a unified economy in which immigrants started at the bottom and gradually moved up occupationally, while they gained social acceptance. Recent dual labor market theories define new immigrants mainly as additions to the secondary labor market li…
Role Satisfaction, Situational Assessment, and Scapegoating
Using data from participant observation, informal interviews, and questionnaires administered to the members of a Naval Reserve unit mobilizedfor a Marine field exercise, it is demonstrated that the pattern of satisfactions people are accustomed to derive from enacting assorted roles in their sets is related to their assessment of the social situation in which they enact the roles. It is further shown that disruption of anticipated role satisfact…
On population comparisons using factor indexes or latent variables
Multiple Regression with Dummy Variables: Response to Sandefur and Finley
Journal Article Multiple Regression with Dummy Variables: Response to Sandefur and Finley Get access Kenneth L. Wilson Kenneth L. Wilson Florida Atlantic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 4, June 1982, Page 1171, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.4.1171 Published: 01 June 1982
Ethnic Enclaves: A Comparison of the Cuban and Black Economies in Miami
Structural hypotheses that link the relative advantage in certain ethnic enclaves to the structure of their economies are tested in a comparative analysis of the Cuban and black businesses in Miami. Findings suggest that the more advantaged community, the Cuban enclave, is characterized by highly interdependent industries, ones which are less dependent on majority industry; the less advantaged community, the black enclave, is characterized by wea…
Reassessing the Discrimination against Women in Higher Education
This paper argues that the sex composition of college curricula is the major source of sex inequality in higher education today. Census data are analyzed to demonstrate that while women are obtaining an ever growing proportion of college degrees, fields of specialty are still segregated to an important extent. A model of prejudice and discrimination is constructed and analyzed as a possible explanation of the sex composition of college curricula.…
Scaling the prestige, authority, and income potential of college curricula
Culture, Ethnicity, and Identity: Current Issues in Research
Talking Sociology
Gender, life experiences, and moral judgment development: A process-oriented approach
Education Occupation Marriage Abstract The purpose of this study was to reexamine the issue of gender differences in moral development from a process-oriented perspective. We hypothesized that life experiences and value orientations toward those experiences would exert differential influences on the processes (but not necessarily the outcomes) of moral development for women and men. Ss were 52 men and 50 women (mean adult age = 26.8 years) who we…
Discrimination: Its Economic Impact on Blacks, Women, and Jews
Gender Segregation in Higher Education: Effects of Aspirations, Mathematics Achievement, and Income
Kenneth L. Wilson, Janet P. Boldizar, Gender Segregation in Higher Education: Effects of Aspirations, Mathematics Achievement, and Income, Sociology of Education, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 62-74
Moral judgment development: The effects of education and occupation
Race, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship in Urban America
The introduction to a book-length study, this chapter reviews the interaction of ethnic self-employment and introduces multiple disadvantage as an improvement over disadvantage theory
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