Barrie Stacey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barrie Stacey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barrie |
| FAMILY NAME | Stacey |
| SIGNATURE | STACEY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Constructions of social reality
A person interprets the social situations he (or she) encounters in his own way, influenced by his upbringing, education and experience and by his own intellectual efforts, and he acts in the light of such interpretations. He reacts to any class or status situation as he perceives it within the constraints of the circumstances. It is because he perceives a given situation in certain ways, and because he accepts (or to varying degrees does not acc…
Social mobility
The study of social mobility is usually defined in Western countries as the investigation of the causes, facts and patterns, social and psychological consequences of individual or family movement within a hierarchy of strata differentiated in terms of income, employment, status or some combination of attributes. While changes in the relative positions of classes, strata and social groups feature in the theories of Marx, Weber and Sorokin, and are…
Inequality of educational opportunities
In Britain, France, the United States and other Western countries there are great inequalities in educational opportunities at the primary and secondary school levels and especially at the higher educational level. Further, there are vast inequalities of access to the scarcer high quality types of secondary and higher education in prominent institutions. Arising partly, but by no means wholly, from these educational inequalities are inequalities …
Social structure
The termn ‘social structure’ denotes the net work of interdependent relations among the basic social components of a society. It includes: the productive or employment relations stemming from the mode of production and division of labour; the interrelations of classes, national groups, races, religious and other social groups; the relations associated with existing institutions, corporations, collectives and other organizations, and with social m…
Stratification and class
There exist institutionalized differences of privilege and ad-vantage, various in degree and form, among the citizens of all industrialized and industrializing countries (see F8). Vertical gradations of occupational prestige and income ate universal. So are structural contradictions of interests between differently earning groups ( Rus, 1973 ; Tellenback, 1975 )1 The existence of social conflicts in every type of society is undeniable.
Psychology and Social Structure
Originally published in 1976, this book relates psychology to the wider question of the nature and structure of society, particularly Western industrialized societies. It examines various types of man-made inequality, particularly inequality of educational opportunities, class and stratification and social mobility. It reviews the main theoretical orientations in the field and empirical research from a number of countries including France, Sweden…
Psychology and ageing in australia
The study of psychology and ageing in Australia has a long history dating back to the pioneering work of Alan Welford, Elsie Harwood and George Naylor. Today, Australian psychologists are active in promoting the study of ageing both within Australia and internationally. However, despite this strong research record and the changes in the age-structure of the Australian population, the number of psychologists working with older people is relatively…
Estimation of Parental IQ
217 undergraduates, their parents, and grandparents were asked to estimate the IQs of themselves as well as those of their parents. Previous research has shown the existence of a gender-related bias that affects the ability of younger adults to estimate the IQs of their parents. The results of this survey showed that, in contrast to young and middle-aged individuals, older adults estimated the IQs of their parents to be equal to their own
The Anatomy of Adolescence
Career Development in Four Professions
This paper describes the career development to 1978 of four samples of people who entered Australian universities in 1965 or 1967. The study reported is based upon data obtained by means of a mail questionnaire survey from 1,490 respondents. The data were obtained from former students of engineering, law, medicine and teaching, and were analysed using standard techniques. Information is presented concerning the qualifications and professional sta…
Drinking and Driving
An analysis of drink‐driving research methods and findings with reference to traffic accidents is presented. This analysis is used to challenge some of the conclusions about drinking and driving that have gained wide currency in Australia and New Zealand. The growing acceptance of Scandinavian‐type laws is critically evaluated. The demand to ‘criminalize’ drink‐driving offences is rejected. The reduction of deat and damage from traffic accidents …
Self-Reported Alcohol Consumption; A Real Psychophysical Problem
There are good practical reasons for wanting to know how much alcohol people consume, at what rate, and in what patterns over time. Various measures of consumption and their associated frequency distributions are described. Self-report data on alcohol consumption present problems of interpretation. A detailed rationale for the use of the self-report method by Gregson and Stacey (1980) is presented. Measurement problems arising with the method, em…
Is Alcohol Consumption Log-Normally Distributed among Fourteen- to Seventeen-Year-Olds
The problem of explaining the distribution of alcohol consumption in a population is discussed with particular reference to the log-normal frequency distribution of alcohol consumption and the claims associated with it. Criticisms directed at this application of the log-normal distribution are presented, as is Ole-Jørgen Skog's defense of the log-normal hypothesis. A nation-wide survey of alcohol consumption by 1278 New Zealand 14- to 17-yr.-olds…
Infant-Mother Attachment
This paper examines infant-mother attachment and its alleged significant for personality and social development. There is now a great deal of evidence that that significance given to this attachment is not warranted. Infants normally develop attachments to more than one person. They are active participants in their interactions with other persons. The infant's and young child's interpersonal world is both broader and more complex than is usually …
Practical Problems Associated with the Use of Cluster Analysis
Comparative evaluation of a variety of clustering methods on real and simulated data indicates that the appropriate method for a given set of data must be determined empirically. Selection of an appropriate method generally requires several preliminary analyses. With larger data sets, preliminary analyses on the whole may not be possible. As an alternative one may adopt an interactive strategy and break a large set into manageable subsets
Distribution of Self-Reported Alcohol Consumption in New Zealand, 1978–1979
The problem of estimating how much alcohol individuals actually drink is discussed with particular reference to the log-normal frequency distribution of alcohol consumption. It is then presented as being a problem of inference from the recent history of a time series. Following directly from this presentation, data obtained in a national survey of 10,000 New Zealand residents are analyzed (a) to yield the frequency distribution of estimated drink…
Exploratory Cluster Analysis of Attitude Structure in the New Zealand Electorate
In replicating a national survey dealing with political attitudes in the New Zealand population (2) the authors had to consider the problems associated with classifying their own newly obtained sample of 451 individuals in terms of the responses elicited by an interview which included 35 attitude items and nine biographical measures. The attitude items were designed to measure responses to the political situation and New Zealand society in genera…
Political Socialization in Western Society
Political Socialization in Western Society
An Evaluation of an Ethnocentrism Scale with Reference to Item Content and Response Style
The BE-scale was developed to provide a measure of ethnocentrism relevant to the contemporary situation in Britain. It was constructed by a procedure reflecting the viewpoint of the response-style advocates and standardized on a small sample in Sheffield. A replication study has been carried out in Glasgow. This study shows that the scale is reliable and has stable characteristics, though it does not have a high level of acceptability in the popu…
Achievement Motivation, Occupational Choice and Inter-Generation Occupational Mobility
Some Psychological Consequences of Inter-generation Mobility
A characteristic feature of modern industrial society is the extent to which it is possible for people to change occupational and social position. In recent years a great deal has been written about the causes of mobility, the pattern of mobility and the role of education in the mobility process. A considerable amount of data about the consequences of mobility is available in social surveys and community studies. This data provides the basis for …
Inter-Generation Mobility and Voting
Journal Article INTER-GENERATION MOBILITY AND VOTING Get access BARRIE STACEY BARRIE STACEY *Barrie Stacey is a Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Lanchester College of Technology, Coventry, Britain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 1, SPRING 1966, Pages 133–139, https://doi.org/10.1086/267388 Published: 01 January 1966
Psychology and Social Structure
Originally published in 1976, this book relates psychology to the wider question of the nature and structure of society, particularly Western industrialized societies. It examines various types of man-made inequality, particularly inequality of educational opportunities, class and stratification and social mobility. It reviews the main theoretical orientations in the field and empirical research from a number of countries including France, Sweden…
Political Socialization in Western Society
Some Psychological Consequences of Inter-generation Mobility
A characteristic feature of modern industrial society is the extent to which it is possible for people to change occupational and social position. In recent years a great deal has been written about the causes of mobility, the pattern of mobility and the role of education in the mobility process. A considerable amount of data about the consequences of mobility is available in social surveys and community studies. This data provides the basis for …
Inter-Generation Mobility and Voting
Journal Article INTER-GENERATION MOBILITY AND VOTING Get access BARRIE STACEY BARRIE STACEY *Barrie Stacey is a Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Lanchester College of Technology, Coventry, Britain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 1, SPRING 1966, Pages 133–139, https://doi.org/10.1086/267388 Published: 01 January 1966
The Anatomy of Adolescence
Drinking and Driving
An analysis of drink‐driving research methods and findings with reference to traffic accidents is presented. This analysis is used to challenge some of the conclusions about drinking and driving that have gained wide currency in Australia and New Zealand. The growing acceptance of Scandinavian‐type laws is critically evaluated. The demand to ‘criminalize’ drink‐driving offences is rejected. The reduction of deat and damage from traffic accidents …
Inter-Generation Mobility and Voting
Journal Article INTER-GENERATION MOBILITY AND VOTING Get access BARRIE STACEY BARRIE STACEY *Barrie Stacey is a Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Lanchester College of Technology, Coventry, Britain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 1, SPRING 1966, Pages 133–139, https://doi.org/10.1086/267388 Published: 01 January 1966
Some Psychological Consequences of Inter-generation Mobility
A characteristic feature of modern industrial society is the extent to which it is possible for people to change occupational and social position. In recent years a great deal has been written about the causes of mobility, the pattern of mobility and the role of education in the mobility process. A considerable amount of data about the consequences of mobility is available in social surveys and community studies. This data provides the basis for …
Achievement Motivation, Occupational Choice and Inter-Generation Occupational Mobility
An Evaluation of an Ethnocentrism Scale with Reference to Item Content and Response Style
The BE-scale was developed to provide a measure of ethnocentrism relevant to the contemporary situation in Britain. It was constructed by a procedure reflecting the viewpoint of the response-style advocates and standardized on a small sample in Sheffield. A replication study has been carried out in Glasgow. This study shows that the scale is reliable and has stable characteristics, though it does not have a high level of acceptability in the popu…
Political Socialization in Western Society
Political Socialization in Western Society
Infant-Mother Attachment
This paper examines infant-mother attachment and its alleged significant for personality and social development. There is now a great deal of evidence that that significance given to this attachment is not warranted. Infants normally develop attachments to more than one person. They are active participants in their interactions with other persons. The infant's and young child's interpersonal world is both broader and more complex than is usually …
Practical Problems Associated with the Use of Cluster Analysis
Comparative evaluation of a variety of clustering methods on real and simulated data indicates that the appropriate method for a given set of data must be determined empirically. Selection of an appropriate method generally requires several preliminary analyses. With larger data sets, preliminary analyses on the whole may not be possible. As an alternative one may adopt an interactive strategy and break a large set into manageable subsets
Distribution of Self-Reported Alcohol Consumption in New Zealand, 1978–1979
The problem of estimating how much alcohol individuals actually drink is discussed with particular reference to the log-normal frequency distribution of alcohol consumption. It is then presented as being a problem of inference from the recent history of a time series. Following directly from this presentation, data obtained in a national survey of 10,000 New Zealand residents are analyzed (a) to yield the frequency distribution of estimated drink…
Exploratory Cluster Analysis of Attitude Structure in the New Zealand Electorate
In replicating a national survey dealing with political attitudes in the New Zealand population (2) the authors had to consider the problems associated with classifying their own newly obtained sample of 451 individuals in terms of the responses elicited by an interview which included 35 attitude items and nine biographical measures. The attitude items were designed to measure responses to the political situation and New Zealand society in genera…
Is Alcohol Consumption Log-Normally Distributed among Fourteen- to Seventeen-Year-Olds
The problem of explaining the distribution of alcohol consumption in a population is discussed with particular reference to the log-normal frequency distribution of alcohol consumption and the claims associated with it. Criticisms directed at this application of the log-normal distribution are presented, as is Ole-Jørgen Skog's defense of the log-normal hypothesis. A nation-wide survey of alcohol consumption by 1278 New Zealand 14- to 17-yr.-olds…
Self-Reported Alcohol Consumption; A Real Psychophysical Problem
There are good practical reasons for wanting to know how much alcohol people consume, at what rate, and in what patterns over time. Various measures of consumption and their associated frequency distributions are described. Self-report data on alcohol consumption present problems of interpretation. A detailed rationale for the use of the self-report method by Gregson and Stacey (1980) is presented. Measurement problems arising with the method, em…
Career Development in Four Professions
This paper describes the career development to 1978 of four samples of people who entered Australian universities in 1965 or 1967. The study reported is based upon data obtained by means of a mail questionnaire survey from 1,490 respondents. The data were obtained from former students of engineering, law, medicine and teaching, and were analysed using standard techniques. Information is presented concerning the qualifications and professional sta…
Drinking and Driving
An analysis of drink‐driving research methods and findings with reference to traffic accidents is presented. This analysis is used to challenge some of the conclusions about drinking and driving that have gained wide currency in Australia and New Zealand. The growing acceptance of Scandinavian‐type laws is critically evaluated. The demand to ‘criminalize’ drink‐driving offences is rejected. The reduction of deat and damage from traffic accidents …
The Anatomy of Adolescence
Estimation of Parental IQ
217 undergraduates, their parents, and grandparents were asked to estimate the IQs of themselves as well as those of their parents. Previous research has shown the existence of a gender-related bias that affects the ability of younger adults to estimate the IQs of their parents. The results of this survey showed that, in contrast to young and middle-aged individuals, older adults estimated the IQs of their parents to be equal to their own
Psychology and ageing in australia
The study of psychology and ageing in Australia has a long history dating back to the pioneering work of Alan Welford, Elsie Harwood and George Naylor. Today, Australian psychologists are active in promoting the study of ageing both within Australia and internationally. However, despite this strong research record and the changes in the age-structure of the Australian population, the number of psychologists working with older people is relatively…
Constructions of social reality
A person interprets the social situations he (or she) encounters in his own way, influenced by his upbringing, education and experience and by his own intellectual efforts, and he acts in the light of such interpretations. He reacts to any class or status situation as he perceives it within the constraints of the circumstances. It is because he perceives a given situation in certain ways, and because he accepts (or to varying degrees does not acc…
Social mobility
The study of social mobility is usually defined in Western countries as the investigation of the causes, facts and patterns, social and psychological consequences of individual or family movement within a hierarchy of strata differentiated in terms of income, employment, status or some combination of attributes. While changes in the relative positions of classes, strata and social groups feature in the theories of Marx, Weber and Sorokin, and are…
Inequality of educational opportunities
In Britain, France, the United States and other Western countries there are great inequalities in educational opportunities at the primary and secondary school levels and especially at the higher educational level. Further, there are vast inequalities of access to the scarcer high quality types of secondary and higher education in prominent institutions. Arising partly, but by no means wholly, from these educational inequalities are inequalities …
Social structure
The termn ‘social structure’ denotes the net work of interdependent relations among the basic social components of a society. It includes: the productive or employment relations stemming from the mode of production and division of labour; the interrelations of classes, national groups, races, religious and other social groups; the relations associated with existing institutions, corporations, collectives and other organizations, and with social m…
Stratification and class
There exist institutionalized differences of privilege and ad-vantage, various in degree and form, among the citizens of all industrialized and industrializing countries (see F8). Vertical gradations of occupational prestige and income ate universal. So are structural contradictions of interests between differently earning groups ( Rus, 1973 ; Tellenback, 1975 )1 The existence of social conflicts in every type of society is undeniable.
Psychology and Social Structure
Originally published in 1976, this book relates psychology to the wider question of the nature and structure of society, particularly Western industrialized societies. It examines various types of man-made inequality, particularly inequality of educational opportunities, class and stratification and social mobility. It reviews the main theoretical orientations in the field and empirical research from a number of countries including France, Sweden…
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