Kim Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3643097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1914-8040 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Preparing for Medical School
Educators have recently highlighted the importance of social science courses for students entering the medical field. This has led to the inclusion of sociological theories and concepts on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), a requirement for any student seeking formal medical training. Using open-ended survey data responses provided by students who recently completed the MCAT, we explore how students perceive that sociology courses prepar…
New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe
Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, bile acids, sedaDNA) analyses of crannog cores…
So I Won’t Go to Jail”
This paper presents evaluation results of a PROMUNDO-adapted program enacted to reduce gender-based violence among preadolescent boys. Outcomes that are examined include promoting critical thinking regarding masculinity, aggression, and violence; fostering skills necessary for effective communication, prosocial emotional expression, and non-violent conflict resolution. While quantitative findings in this small sample do not indicate statistically…
Engaging Boys in Eradicating Gender-based Violence
The Brazil-based Promundo organization originated in 1997 and developed Program H to engage young men in the fight for gender equality. Research on Promundo and similar gender-transformative programs demonstrate that this type of intervention can significantly increase beliefs in gender equality and improve sexual health outcomes—pregnancy, safe sex practices, sexual and intimate partner violence, and STI and HIV transmission. Because Promundo ha…
Small Screens and Big Streets
This article utilizes a longitudinal approach to assess the visibility of women as police officers in primetime crime shows from 1950 to 2008 and compares these numbers for television to actual data on women who work as police officers in the United States. We find that as expected, annual labor force data and crime show data both indicate increases in the number of minorities and women working in the criminal justice system over time. Given the …
Presidential Speeches and Teaching Sociology (2009 Mssa Presidential Address)
In this address, I review available published presidential addresses written by presidents of various sociological organizations as a way of thinking about sociology and what sociologists may find important. Using Eller's categorizations, I divide the articles into three types including (1) query of the profession in which the author discussed the history of sociology or its future; (2) a call for new directions in methodologies or theories withi…
A Virtual View of Managing Violence among British Escorts
It is no secret that men seeking to victimize women often select women who work as prostitutes. More is known about the violence experienced by women who work as street prostitutes than those who work indoor as escorts. This article reports two main types of violence reported by British escorts on an Internet site set up specifically for the escorts to share information with one another. Physical violence and electronic abuse are common experienc…
Silent and Censured Travellers
This article seeks to demonstrate how patients' oral testimony can usefully contribute to--and challenge--the history of mental illness in the second half of the twentieth century, through the use of the concept of narrative frames. This work has emerged from a broader study which seeks to examine shifts and continuities in the experiences of mental illness from the introduction of the NHS to the present day, through a study of Oxfordshire. Psych…
No Sissy Boys Here
Voluntary exposure to pornography and men's attitudes toward feminism and rape
The effects that pornography have on men's attitudes toward women remains an issue of contention. Most previous researchers who have examined the relationship between pornography and attitudes toward women have used experimental studies or aggregate studies. Instead, I examined a sample of men who voluntarily viewed sexually explicit videos of their choosing in a non‐experimental setting. I examined the relationship between these men's renting of…
Empiricism and the Bounds of Sense
In this book' Professor Strawson seeks to renew the Kantian enterprise, stripping off the speculative aberrations of Transcendental Idealism to reveal that hard core of argument which constitutes its analytic essence. Part of what remains is held to amount to a refutation of that radical empiricism which holds that it is possible that all there is, is experience, and that the existence of an independent world populated by material objects is open…
Empiricism and the Private Language Argument
Journal Article Empiricism and the Private Language Argument Get access Kim Davies Kim Davies University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 125, October 1981, Pages 343–347, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219404 Published: 01 October 1981
No Sissy Boys Here
A Virtual View of Managing Violence among British Escorts
It is no secret that men seeking to victimize women often select women who work as prostitutes. More is known about the violence experienced by women who work as street prostitutes than those who work indoor as escorts. This article reports two main types of violence reported by British escorts on an Internet site set up specifically for the escorts to share information with one another. Physical violence and electronic abuse are common experienc…
Voluntary exposure to pornography and men's attitudes toward feminism and rape
The effects that pornography have on men's attitudes toward women remains an issue of contention. Most previous researchers who have examined the relationship between pornography and attitudes toward women have used experimental studies or aggregate studies. Instead, I examined a sample of men who voluntarily viewed sexually explicit videos of their choosing in a non‐experimental setting. I examined the relationship between these men's renting of…
Silent and Censured Travellers
This article seeks to demonstrate how patients' oral testimony can usefully contribute to--and challenge--the history of mental illness in the second half of the twentieth century, through the use of the concept of narrative frames. This work has emerged from a broader study which seeks to examine shifts and continuities in the experiences of mental illness from the introduction of the NHS to the present day, through a study of Oxfordshire. Psych…
Preparing for Medical School
Educators have recently highlighted the importance of social science courses for students entering the medical field. This has led to the inclusion of sociological theories and concepts on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), a requirement for any student seeking formal medical training. Using open-ended survey data responses provided by students who recently completed the MCAT, we explore how students perceive that sociology courses prepar…
New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe
Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, bile acids, sedaDNA) analyses of crannog cores…
Presidential Speeches and Teaching Sociology (2009 Mssa Presidential Address)
In this address, I review available published presidential addresses written by presidents of various sociological organizations as a way of thinking about sociology and what sociologists may find important. Using Eller's categorizations, I divide the articles into three types including (1) query of the profession in which the author discussed the history of sociology or its future; (2) a call for new directions in methodologies or theories withi…
Empiricism and the Private Language Argument
Journal Article Empiricism and the Private Language Argument Get access Kim Davies Kim Davies University of Durham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 125, October 1981, Pages 343–347, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219404 Published: 01 October 1981
Empiricism and the Bounds of Sense
In this book' Professor Strawson seeks to renew the Kantian enterprise, stripping off the speculative aberrations of Transcendental Idealism to reveal that hard core of argument which constitutes its analytic essence. Part of what remains is held to amount to a refutation of that radical empiricism which holds that it is possible that all there is, is experience, and that the existence of an independent world populated by material objects is open…
Voluntary exposure to pornography and men's attitudes toward feminism and rape
The effects that pornography have on men's attitudes toward women remains an issue of contention. Most previous researchers who have examined the relationship between pornography and attitudes toward women have used experimental studies or aggregate studies. Instead, I examined a sample of men who voluntarily viewed sexually explicit videos of their choosing in a non‐experimental setting. I examined the relationship between these men's renting of…
No Sissy Boys Here
Silent and Censured Travellers
This article seeks to demonstrate how patients' oral testimony can usefully contribute to--and challenge--the history of mental illness in the second half of the twentieth century, through the use of the concept of narrative frames. This work has emerged from a broader study which seeks to examine shifts and continuities in the experiences of mental illness from the introduction of the NHS to the present day, through a study of Oxfordshire. Psych…
A Virtual View of Managing Violence among British Escorts
It is no secret that men seeking to victimize women often select women who work as prostitutes. More is known about the violence experienced by women who work as street prostitutes than those who work indoor as escorts. This article reports two main types of violence reported by British escorts on an Internet site set up specifically for the escorts to share information with one another. Physical violence and electronic abuse are common experienc…
Presidential Speeches and Teaching Sociology (2009 Mssa Presidential Address)
In this address, I review available published presidential addresses written by presidents of various sociological organizations as a way of thinking about sociology and what sociologists may find important. Using Eller's categorizations, I divide the articles into three types including (1) query of the profession in which the author discussed the history of sociology or its future; (2) a call for new directions in methodologies or theories withi…
Small Screens and Big Streets
This article utilizes a longitudinal approach to assess the visibility of women as police officers in primetime crime shows from 1950 to 2008 and compares these numbers for television to actual data on women who work as police officers in the United States. We find that as expected, annual labor force data and crime show data both indicate increases in the number of minorities and women working in the criminal justice system over time. Given the …
Engaging Boys in Eradicating Gender-based Violence
The Brazil-based Promundo organization originated in 1997 and developed Program H to engage young men in the fight for gender equality. Research on Promundo and similar gender-transformative programs demonstrate that this type of intervention can significantly increase beliefs in gender equality and improve sexual health outcomes—pregnancy, safe sex practices, sexual and intimate partner violence, and STI and HIV transmission. Because Promundo ha…
So I Won’t Go to Jail”
This paper presents evaluation results of a PROMUNDO-adapted program enacted to reduce gender-based violence among preadolescent boys. Outcomes that are examined include promoting critical thinking regarding masculinity, aggression, and violence; fostering skills necessary for effective communication, prosocial emotional expression, and non-violent conflict resolution. While quantitative findings in this small sample do not indicate statistically…
New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe
Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, bile acids, sedaDNA) analyses of crannog cores…
Preparing for Medical School
Educators have recently highlighted the importance of social science courses for students entering the medical field. This has led to the inclusion of sociological theories and concepts on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), a requirement for any student seeking formal medical training. Using open-ended survey data responses provided by students who recently completed the MCAT, we explore how students perceive that sociology courses prepar…
Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)