Alexander Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3819620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5788-7883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wastewater-based epidemiology for public health – benefits and trade-offs of different molecular methods for the generation of actionable data in a small-town context
Background Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a promising complement to traditional surveillance systems, yet its practical utility and performance in real-world public health settings remain insufficiently characterized. This study aims to evaluate the feasibility and added value of WBE for monitoring infectious disease dynamics at the regional level, with a particular focus on jointly identifying, together with public health authorities, ac…
Up/Down Politics and Techno-Human Relations: Utopias, Dystopias and Pluralistic Futures
This paper will consider the development of a new polarity in politics: up wing and down wing. It will trace the lineage of the up wing to proto-transhumanism and outline how utopian promises underpin this sensibility with its fantasies of overcoming all natural constraints. The influence of cybernetics upon up/down thought will be discussed and the post-anthropocentric shift it enabled from centring the human to Life itself. The influence of up …
Inclusion of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Covid-19 Public Health Research: Research Design Adaptations to Seek Different Perspectives in Victoria, Australia
Participation of people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in public health research is often limited by challenges with recruitment, retention and second-language data collection. Consequently, people from CALD communities are at risk of their needs being marginalised in public health interventions. This paper presents intrinsic case analyses of two studies which were adapted to increase the cultural competence of rese…
Covid-19 and Social Capital Loss: The Results of a Campus Outbreak
Praxisbuch Interkulturelle Handlungskompetenz: Für Fach- und Führungskräfte mit globalen Herausforderungen
On progress and reason: Stories of gods, animals and humans
Purpose While transhumanists and posthumanists understand the human condition as mutable, for transhumanists, this represents the possibility for enhancement, opening up a teleological narrative of evolution toward. For posthumanists, it represents a fracturing of the liberal human subject, undermining its hegemonic principles. The former advocates the potentiality of instrumental rationality, the latter engages with values, demanding ethical con…
Social systems and community development: Cooperstown, New York, and its imitators
This article explores a distinction between two types of community and economic development: System-Oriented Development (SOD) and Project-Oriented Development (POD). SOD is understood as the development that seeks to build on long-term trajectories in community evolution, and it is argued that such projects will have a higher chance of success. In contrast, POD is based on individual projects that are developed within a narrower range of concern…
What Makes Urban Life Possible: On the Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems
This article introduces and explains a novel concept - the urban-rural system - as a means for addressing the question, what makes urban life possible? To address this question, the authors examine the archaeological record from the first agrarian villages, market towns, and eventual first cities that arose during the late Paleolithic through early Neolithic world of the Fertile Crescent (roughly modern-day Syria and Iraq). Following this, they r…
Temperament and Development
This conceptual framework for understanding the career development process defines career development as a continuous process of matching individual characteristics with organizational role requirements.Responsibility for achieving effective matching rests both with individuals and with organizations.The relative emphasis on individual efforts and organizational efforts over different phases of the career development process as a function of chan…
Urbanization as the Cause of Cities: Notes from the Near East and the Northeast
The concept of urbanization has long been used to refer to the growth of cities in a particular region. The definition of a city is notoriously vague, however, and as such using their growth as a mechanism for understanding urbanization is highly problematic. In addition, the sequence of events leading to the urbanization of a region does not indicate that cities necessarily lead to the effects with which urbanization is commonly associated, but …
Kultur, Kulturdimensionen und Kulturstandards
Urbanization before Cities: Lessons for Social Theory from the Evolution of Cities
This article examines the role of the world-system in the structure of cities. Data from the evolution of cities in the Fertile Crescent shows that a number of traits of modern cities were also present in the earliest cities. Specifically, mass production, social differentiation and inequality, cultural mechanisms utilized for social control, and a tendency even a need for territorial expansion were all characteristic of ancient cities. Such char…
The Rural: Critical Essays in Human Geography - Edited by Richard Munton
The Rural: Critical Essays in Human Geography , edited by Richard Munton , Surrey, England : Ashgate , 2008 . 562 pp. $275.00 (hardcover), ISBN : 0754627217 . When the reader considers The Rural, images of rolling hillsides of agricultural fields, densely nucleated villages, and rugged people wearing heavy fabrics come to mind. The cognitive corrective comes next, and the reader blushes at the recognition of the stereotyped ideas that inform thos…
After the Disaster: Re‐creating Community and Well‐Being at Buffalo Creek since the Notorious Coal‐Mining Disaster in 1972 , by T.P. Schwartz‐Barcott
Interkulturelle Kompetenzen im internationalen Management
Leben und studieren in den USA: Trainingsprogramm für Studenten, Schüler und Praktikanten
Harlem Between Heaven and Hell
Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality
"Response to Richard Foltz's Article "Mormon Values and the Utah Environment
Grundriss der Sozialpsychologie
Roundtable: What Is Temperament? Four Approaches
4 current approaches to understanding temperament are discussed in the roundtable. In an introductory overview, Goldsmith outlines some of the major convergences and divergences in the understanding of this concept. Theorists representing 4 positions--Goldsmith, Buss and Plomin, Rothbart, and Thomas and Chess--outline their views by responding to each of 6 questions: How do you define temperament and explain the boundaries of the concept? What ar…
A Temperament Questionnaire for Early Adult Life
The construction of a temperament questionnaire for early adult life is described, utilizing the nine categories of the New York Longitudinal Study. A correlation matrix of the nine categories, as generated from the 140 item questionnaire, and a factor analysis are reported, and the significance of the factor is discussed. The questionnaire was administered to 70 young adult subjects of the NYLS, and independent temperament ratings were also obta…
Issues of temperament and attachment: Reply
Infant bonding: Mystique and reality
Current formulations of the crucial significance of the mother-infant relationship in the neonatal period and the first year of life for the child's psychological development have important theoretical and practical implications. This review examines these formulations in their historical context and concludes that they are not supported by the research literature. An alternative approach is suggested
Current trends in developmental theory
Current trends in developmental theory are examined in the light of the explosion of new knowledge and ideas in the past 25 years in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences. The findings of early childhood research and long-term longitudinal studies are emphasized. Old theories are reevaluated and new approaches suggested
Temperament and Development
This conceptual framework for understanding the career development process defines career development as a continuous process of matching individual characteristics with organizational role requirements.Responsibility for achieving effective matching rests both with individuals and with organizations.The relative emphasis on individual efforts and organizational efforts over different phases of the career development process as a function of chan…
Behavioral individuality in early childhood
Characteristics of the individual child's behavioral responses to the environment
Harlem Between Heaven and Hell
Covid-19 and Social Capital Loss: The Results of a Campus Outbreak
Social systems and community development: Cooperstown, New York, and its imitators
This article explores a distinction between two types of community and economic development: System-Oriented Development (SOD) and Project-Oriented Development (POD). SOD is understood as the development that seeks to build on long-term trajectories in community evolution, and it is argued that such projects will have a higher chance of success. In contrast, POD is based on individual projects that are developed within a narrower range of concern…
Urbanization as the Cause of Cities: Notes from the Near East and the Northeast
The concept of urbanization has long been used to refer to the growth of cities in a particular region. The definition of a city is notoriously vague, however, and as such using their growth as a mechanism for understanding urbanization is highly problematic. In addition, the sequence of events leading to the urbanization of a region does not indicate that cities necessarily lead to the effects with which urbanization is commonly associated, but …
Urbanization before Cities: Lessons for Social Theory from the Evolution of Cities
This article examines the role of the world-system in the structure of cities. Data from the evolution of cities in the Fertile Crescent shows that a number of traits of modern cities were also present in the earliest cities. Specifically, mass production, social differentiation and inequality, cultural mechanisms utilized for social control, and a tendency even a need for territorial expansion were all characteristic of ancient cities. Such char…
Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality
What Makes Urban Life Possible: On the Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems
This article introduces and explains a novel concept - the urban-rural system - as a means for addressing the question, what makes urban life possible? To address this question, the authors examine the archaeological record from the first agrarian villages, market towns, and eventual first cities that arose during the late Paleolithic through early Neolithic world of the Fertile Crescent (roughly modern-day Syria and Iraq). Following this, they r…
"Response to Richard Foltz's Article "Mormon Values and the Utah Environment
The Development of the Overseas Civil Service
Characteristics of the individual child's behavioral responses to the environment
Pseudo-transference reactions due to cultural stereotyping
A therapist's culturally determined, derogatory, stereotyped attitudes toward a patient based on his sex, race, religion, or socio-economic status may create disturbed, negative reactions of the patient to the therapist which can be incorrectly interpreted as neurotic transference phenomena. Significant distortions of the diagnostic and therapeutic process can occur when both therapist and patient are unaware of the nature of such pseudo-transfer…
The influence of nursery school on social interactions
Age of entrance to nursery school and length of preschool attendance are shown not to have a significant influence on the frequency of children's interactions with each other or with teachers in kindergarten. However, negative interactions with other children decreased and negative interactions with teachers increased for those children who had been in school longest
Examiner effect in IQ testing of Puerto Rican working-class children
The WISC scores of school-age Puerto Rican children were markedly affected by differences in examiner style between two examiners who were equivalent as to sex, ethnicity, fluency in Spanish and English, and clinical experience. Higher performance level occurred with examiner behavior that encouraged active participation, verbalization and repeated effort on the child's part
Racism and Psychiatry
Your Child Is a Person
Sexual attitudes and behavior patterns in a middle-class adolescent population
Sexual activities and attitudes of a group of adolescents, who have been followed from early infancy as a part of the New York Longitudinal Study, are reported. Adolescents in the study evince a more matter-of-fact, less fearful attitude than that of previous generations, but do not seem more prone to casual sexual encounters. Sexual conflicts are seen to occur only in relation to overall psychological conflict
Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development
Behavioral individuality in early childhood
Current trends in developmental theory
Current trends in developmental theory are examined in the light of the explosion of new knowledge and ideas in the past 25 years in the biological, behavioral, and social sciences. The findings of early childhood research and long-term longitudinal studies are emphasized. Old theories are reevaluated and new approaches suggested
A Temperament Questionnaire for Early Adult Life
The construction of a temperament questionnaire for early adult life is described, utilizing the nine categories of the New York Longitudinal Study. A correlation matrix of the nine categories, as generated from the 140 item questionnaire, and a factor analysis are reported, and the significance of the factor is discussed. The questionnaire was administered to 70 young adult subjects of the NYLS, and independent temperament ratings were also obta…
Issues of temperament and attachment: Reply
Infant bonding: Mystique and reality
Current formulations of the crucial significance of the mother-infant relationship in the neonatal period and the first year of life for the child's psychological development have important theoretical and practical implications. This review examines these formulations in their historical context and concludes that they are not supported by the research literature. An alternative approach is suggested
Roundtable: What Is Temperament? Four Approaches
4 current approaches to understanding temperament are discussed in the roundtable. In an introductory overview, Goldsmith outlines some of the major convergences and divergences in the understanding of this concept. Theorists representing 4 positions--Goldsmith, Buss and Plomin, Rothbart, and Thomas and Chess--outline their views by responding to each of 6 questions: How do you define temperament and explain the boundaries of the concept? What ar…
Grundriss der Sozialpsychologie
"Response to Richard Foltz's Article "Mormon Values and the Utah Environment
Harlem Between Heaven and Hell
Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality
Leben und studieren in den USA: Trainingsprogramm für Studenten, Schüler und Praktikanten
Interkulturelle Kompetenzen im internationalen Management
After the Disaster: Re‐creating Community and Well‐Being at Buffalo Creek since the Notorious Coal‐Mining Disaster in 1972 , by T.P. Schwartz‐Barcott
The Rural: Critical Essays in Human Geography - Edited by Richard Munton
The Rural: Critical Essays in Human Geography , edited by Richard Munton , Surrey, England : Ashgate , 2008 . 562 pp. $275.00 (hardcover), ISBN : 0754627217 . When the reader considers The Rural, images of rolling hillsides of agricultural fields, densely nucleated villages, and rugged people wearing heavy fabrics come to mind. The cognitive corrective comes next, and the reader blushes at the recognition of the stereotyped ideas that inform thos…
Urbanization before Cities: Lessons for Social Theory from the Evolution of Cities
This article examines the role of the world-system in the structure of cities. Data from the evolution of cities in the Fertile Crescent shows that a number of traits of modern cities were also present in the earliest cities. Specifically, mass production, social differentiation and inequality, cultural mechanisms utilized for social control, and a tendency even a need for territorial expansion were all characteristic of ancient cities. Such char…
Kultur, Kulturdimensionen und Kulturstandards
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Law (5 works)