Steven Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3700460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Avondale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2915-3663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Meeting the Moment
Exploring “high tech” and “high touch” interaction capabilities
Purpose To explore the emergent characteristics of IT portfolios in business-to-business (B2B) firms. The goal is to develop a model that clarifies what interaction capabilities B2B firms develop and to what form of IT this corresponds to. Design/methodology/approach We apply an a priori conceptual framework that is based on the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group's theoretical focus on business relationships. The framework depicts th…
Disability and the Family in South Wales Coalfield Society, c.1920–1939
This article utilises the south Wales coalfield in the interwar period as a case study to illustrate the applicability of two sociological theories - family systems theory and the social ecology of the family - to impairment in the past. It demonstrates that a theoretically-informed approach can help to situate impairment in its particular contexts, most especially the family and the community, and give a better sense of the lived experience of d…
The Incident Command System
Given the foundational and the fundamental role that the Incident Command System (ICS) is intended to play in on‐scene response efforts across the United States, it is important to determine what is known about the system and how this is known. Accordingly, this study addresses the following research question: ‘How has research explored the ICS?’. To probe this question, a methodological review of the scant, but widening, pool of research literat…
This is the country of premature old men’ Ageing and Aged Miners in the South Wales Coalfield, c.1880–1947
This article considers the effects of work in the south Wales coal industry either side of the turn of the twentieth century and, specifically, the ways in which work aged workers prematurely. It examines the consequences of working practices for miners' bodies, the expedients utilized by miners to try and cope with the effects of premature ageing, and the consequences for their living standards, experiences and status. It situates these phenomen…
The Friendly and Welfare Provision of British Trade Unions
This article examines the provision of friendly benefits and welfare services by British trade unions through a case study of the South Wales Miners' Federation. It engages with the historiography on these issues initiated by the Webbs in the 1890s (but only taken up fitfully by historians during the course of the twentieth century) that focused on the role that the provision of these benefits and services played in the approaches of British trad…
Motorcycling and Leisure
Reviewed by: Motorcycling and Leisure: Understanding the Recreational PTW Rider Steven L. Thompson (bio) Motorcycling and Leisure: Understanding the Recreational PTW Rider. By Paul Broughton and Linda Walker. Aldershot, Hants, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xvii+195. $99.95. Published as part of Ashgate's Human Factors in Road and Rail Transport series, this book's objective is to aid road-safety "stakeholders" in shaping policy and pave…
Gustaf Dalman, Anti-Semitism, and the Language of Jesus Debate
The theory that Jesus of Nazareth spoke and taught exclusively in Aramaic rather than Hebrew achieved its present dominant position just over a century ago due largely to the labour of Gustaf Dalman. His primary motivation was not the recovery of the historical Jesus, however, but to support his deep commitment to the Protestant movement to convert Jews. This movement did not escape the impact of escalating anti-Semitism in society, intensified b…
Autophobia
Reviewed by: Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age Steven L. Thompson (bio) Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age. By Brian Ladd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. vii+227. $22.50. Some books are not well-served by the titles their publishers give them, and not because the titles don’t necessarily invite closer inspection and possible purchase. Rather, it is because the true scope of the book is not fully reveale…
The Model T
Reviewed by: The Model T: A Centennial History Steven L. Thompson (bio) The Model T: A Centennial History. By Robert Casey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi+148. $25.95. Henry Ford’s Model T is considered the most important automobile of the twentieth century. It achieved that status not merely through long production (1908–27), but by influencing people to adopt automobility, a process that transformed the world. Thus the…
Communications
Communications To the editor: Edward Constant's excellent article in the April 2006 issue of Technology and Culture, "A Tale of Two Bonanzas: How Knowledgeable Communities Think about Technology" (pp. 253–85), was a joy to read. However, because his elegant theory of the Belief-O-Meter is calibrated by sales figures alone, there are some messy questions that his work leaves unaddressed. Recognizing this, Constant notes that we would need a detail…
History, Special Interest Magazines, and the World's Fastest Indian
Was Ancient Rome a Dead Wives Society? What did the Roman Paterfamilias Get Away With
Until recently, descriptions of the Roman family routinely attributed to the head of household the right of life and death over his wife, children of any age, and slaves, and assumed he exercised it. Challenges to this position by Roman law specialists have gradually affected the way this right and its exercise are described by historians of the family. This article surveys these challenges, tracks their uptake by historians of the family, and no…
The Apocalypse and Semitic Syntax
This book offers a consistent explanation of the peculiarity of the language of the Apocalypse (or Book of Revelation), namely that the rules of Greek grammar are broken because of the influence of Hebrew and Aramaic. It advances previous similar hypotheses in three ways. First, it focuses chiefly on the verbal system. Secondly, by methodically citing the ancient Greek translations of the Old Testament to demonstrate Hebrew/Aramaic influence, it …
Disability and the Family in South Wales Coalfield Society, c.1920–1939
This article utilises the south Wales coalfield in the interwar period as a case study to illustrate the applicability of two sociological theories - family systems theory and the social ecology of the family - to impairment in the past. It demonstrates that a theoretically-informed approach can help to situate impairment in its particular contexts, most especially the family and the community, and give a better sense of the lived experience of d…
This is the country of premature old men’ Ageing and Aged Miners in the South Wales Coalfield, c.1880–1947
This article considers the effects of work in the south Wales coal industry either side of the turn of the twentieth century and, specifically, the ways in which work aged workers prematurely. It examines the consequences of working practices for miners' bodies, the expedients utilized by miners to try and cope with the effects of premature ageing, and the consequences for their living standards, experiences and status. It situates these phenomen…
The Friendly and Welfare Provision of British Trade Unions
This article examines the provision of friendly benefits and welfare services by British trade unions through a case study of the South Wales Miners' Federation. It engages with the historiography on these issues initiated by the Webbs in the 1890s (but only taken up fitfully by historians during the course of the twentieth century) that focused on the role that the provision of these benefits and services played in the approaches of British trad…
Was Ancient Rome a Dead Wives Society? What did the Roman Paterfamilias Get Away With
Until recently, descriptions of the Roman family routinely attributed to the head of household the right of life and death over his wife, children of any age, and slaves, and assumed he exercised it. Challenges to this position by Roman law specialists have gradually affected the way this right and its exercise are described by historians of the family. This article surveys these challenges, tracks their uptake by historians of the family, and no…
The Apocalypse and Semitic Syntax
This book offers a consistent explanation of the peculiarity of the language of the Apocalypse (or Book of Revelation), namely that the rules of Greek grammar are broken because of the influence of Hebrew and Aramaic. It advances previous similar hypotheses in three ways. First, it focuses chiefly on the verbal system. Secondly, by methodically citing the ancient Greek translations of the Old Testament to demonstrate Hebrew/Aramaic influence, it …
Was Ancient Rome a Dead Wives Society? What did the Roman Paterfamilias Get Away With
Until recently, descriptions of the Roman family routinely attributed to the head of household the right of life and death over his wife, children of any age, and slaves, and assumed he exercised it. Challenges to this position by Roman law specialists have gradually affected the way this right and its exercise are described by historians of the family. This article surveys these challenges, tracks their uptake by historians of the family, and no…
Communications
Communications To the editor: Edward Constant's excellent article in the April 2006 issue of Technology and Culture, "A Tale of Two Bonanzas: How Knowledgeable Communities Think about Technology" (pp. 253–85), was a joy to read. However, because his elegant theory of the Belief-O-Meter is calibrated by sales figures alone, there are some messy questions that his work leaves unaddressed. Recognizing this, Constant notes that we would need a detail…
History, Special Interest Magazines, and the World's Fastest Indian
Autophobia
Reviewed by: Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age Steven L. Thompson (bio) Autophobia: Love and Hate in the Automotive Age. By Brian Ladd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. vii+227. $22.50. Some books are not well-served by the titles their publishers give them, and not because the titles don’t necessarily invite closer inspection and possible purchase. Rather, it is because the true scope of the book is not fully reveale…
The Model T
Reviewed by: The Model T: A Centennial History Steven L. Thompson (bio) The Model T: A Centennial History. By Robert Casey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi+148. $25.95. Henry Ford’s Model T is considered the most important automobile of the twentieth century. It achieved that status not merely through long production (1908–27), but by influencing people to adopt automobility, a process that transformed the world. Thus the…
Motorcycling and Leisure
Reviewed by: Motorcycling and Leisure: Understanding the Recreational PTW Rider Steven L. Thompson (bio) Motorcycling and Leisure: Understanding the Recreational PTW Rider. By Paul Broughton and Linda Walker. Aldershot, Hants, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. Pp. xvii+195. $99.95. Published as part of Ashgate's Human Factors in Road and Rail Transport series, this book's objective is to aid road-safety "stakeholders" in shaping policy and pave…
Gustaf Dalman, Anti-Semitism, and the Language of Jesus Debate
The theory that Jesus of Nazareth spoke and taught exclusively in Aramaic rather than Hebrew achieved its present dominant position just over a century ago due largely to the labour of Gustaf Dalman. His primary motivation was not the recovery of the historical Jesus, however, but to support his deep commitment to the Protestant movement to convert Jews. This movement did not escape the impact of escalating anti-Semitism in society, intensified b…
The Friendly and Welfare Provision of British Trade Unions
This article examines the provision of friendly benefits and welfare services by British trade unions through a case study of the South Wales Miners' Federation. It engages with the historiography on these issues initiated by the Webbs in the 1890s (but only taken up fitfully by historians during the course of the twentieth century) that focused on the role that the provision of these benefits and services played in the approaches of British trad…
This is the country of premature old men’ Ageing and Aged Miners in the South Wales Coalfield, c.1880–1947
This article considers the effects of work in the south Wales coal industry either side of the turn of the twentieth century and, specifically, the ways in which work aged workers prematurely. It examines the consequences of working practices for miners' bodies, the expedients utilized by miners to try and cope with the effects of premature ageing, and the consequences for their living standards, experiences and status. It situates these phenomen…
The Incident Command System
Given the foundational and the fundamental role that the Incident Command System (ICS) is intended to play in on‐scene response efforts across the United States, it is important to determine what is known about the system and how this is known. Accordingly, this study addresses the following research question: ‘How has research explored the ICS?’. To probe this question, a methodological review of the scant, but widening, pool of research literat…
Disability and the Family in South Wales Coalfield Society, c.1920–1939
This article utilises the south Wales coalfield in the interwar period as a case study to illustrate the applicability of two sociological theories - family systems theory and the social ecology of the family - to impairment in the past. It demonstrates that a theoretically-informed approach can help to situate impairment in its particular contexts, most especially the family and the community, and give a better sense of the lived experience of d…
Exploring “high tech” and “high touch” interaction capabilities
Purpose To explore the emergent characteristics of IT portfolios in business-to-business (B2B) firms. The goal is to develop a model that clarifies what interaction capabilities B2B firms develop and to what form of IT this corresponds to. Design/methodology/approach We apply an a priori conceptual framework that is based on the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group's theoretical focus on business relationships. The framework depicts th…
Meeting the Moment
Sociology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works) · Context (archaeology) (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)