James L Wood

Biographic Data

ID3660602
NAMEJames L Wood
GIVEN NAMESJames L
FAMILY NAMEWood
SIGNATUREWOOD J L
AFFILIATIONSSan Diego State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS79
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX3

  • Sur la ferme à Maggie

    James L Wood, Patricia A Wood et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Community…2016

    Ce texte aborde une nouvelle forme de protestation politique : le Mouvement des camps pour la paix en Grande-Bretagne. Cette expérience nouvelle fait partie du Mouvement pour le désarmement nucléaire en Grande-Bretagne, lequel englobe, à son tour, la Campagne pour le désarmement nucléaire (CDN). Au début, les femmes campaient de manière plutôt spontanée à proximité de la base aérienne de la commune de Greenham, en signe de protestation contre l'i…

  • La Campagne pour le désarmement nucléaire en Grande-Bretagne

    Robert A Mitchell, James L WoodARTICLEInternational Review of Community…2016References: 3

    Ce texte vise à faire comprendre ce qu'est la Campagne pour le désarmement nucléaire » (CDN) en Grande Bretagne, à la fois comme organisation spécifique et dans ses relations avec les structures politiques et normatives qu'elle cherche à influencer. Les données utilisées pour cette analyse ont été principalement puisées dans les enquêtes portant sur les membres de la CDN. Ces sondages démontrent d'importants changements survenus dans la CDN au co…

  • Contemplating the Beautiful

    James L WoodARTICLEJournal of the history of…2011

    Contemplating the Beautiful: The Practical Importance of Theoretical Excellence in Aristotle's Ethics James L. Wood (bio) Aristotle, unlike plato, famously distinguishes φρόνησις from , practical from theoretical wisdom, in Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics. He distinguishes them on the basis of both their objects and their psychic spheres: is the excellence or virtue (ἀρετή) of the scientific faculty, τὸ ἐπιστημονικόν, "by which we contemplate […

  • ‘‘Fifty Percent Bunk, Forty Percent Fraud, and Ten Percent Fancy Lingo’’

    Open AccessJames L Wood, James WoodARTICLEMetascience2009

  • The Academy under Siege

    Open AccessJames L WoodARTICLESociological Perspectives1998References: 1

    This special issue of Sociological Perspectives has focused attention on a series of difficulties the academy has experienced in the 1990s. What can be done? Among other strategies, the faculty can form alliances with professional organizations, students, and the legislature. This article details the various ways these three groups can assist the faculty in addressing common problems of all four groups. The professional organizations can assist, …

  • Introduction

    Open AccessCharles F Hohm, James L WoodARTICLESociological Perspectives1998Cited by: 1

    The first eight articles in this Special Issue on 'The Academy Under Siege' deal with tenure-related issues. The ninth and tenth articles deal with problems related to distance learning. The last two articles offer some practical suggestions on how the above problems can be addressed

  • The Academy in Crisis

    James L Wood, John W SommerARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995

    The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes. Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of …

  • The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilization

    James L Wood, Barbara Ballis LalARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992

    1. Social Context and Individual Biography 2. Culture, Communication and Social Control 3. Park's Approach to Race and Ethnic Relations 4.The Emergence of an Ethnographic Tradition 5. Immigrants and the 'Ethnicity Paradox' 6. Bright Lights, Impending Shadows: Afro-American Migration to Northern Cities 7. Getting it together: A Scheme of Interpretation

  • Five Texts

    Patrick H Mcnamara, Earl Babbie et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1984

  • Outbreaks

    Michael S Kimmel, Jerry D Rose et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1983

  • Sociology

    Thomas Jackson Rice, Howard J Sherman et al.ARTICLETeaching Sociology1982Cited by: 5

  • Mayday at Yale

    Richard G Braungart, John Taft et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1977

  • The Study of Political Commitment.John DeLamater

    James L WoodARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1977

  • John Frum He Come

    James L N Wood, James L Wood et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1976

  • The Sources of American Student Activism

    Ross A Mcleod, James L WoodARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1976Cited by: 5

  • Strands of Theory and Research in Collective Behavior

    Gary T Marx, James L WoodARTICLEAnnual Review of Sociology1975Cited by: 66References: 27

  • Functional Contributions of Bootlegging and Entrepreneurship in Research Organizations

    Todd R La Porte, James L N Wood et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization1970Cited by: 2

    One of the central concerns in modern social science is the examination of conditions under which various types of social systems maintain their existence. As industrialized society developed, the complex formal organization emerged as a pervasive and important type of social system whose maintenance has been widely studied. The development of complex organizations was paralleled by a more recent characteristic of modern society, the rapid profes…