Bruce C Straits
Biographic Data
| ID | 3819781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce C Straits |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce C |
| FAMILY NAME | Straits |
| SIGNATURE | STRAITS B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 331 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Survey Interviewing
Ego's important discussants or significant people: An experiment in varying the wording of personal network name generators
Approaches to Social Research
Ego-net diversity: Same- and cross-sex coworker ties
The Changing Nature of Sociological Inquiry: A Review of Research Methods Textbooks
Bringing Strong Ties Back in Interpersonal Gateways to Political Information and Influence
Journal Article BRINGING STRONG TIES BACK IN INTERPERSONAL GATEWAYS TO POLITICAL INFORMATION AND INFLUENCE Get access BRUCE C. STRAITS BRUCE C. STRAITS associate professor of sociology at the University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 55, Issue 3, FALL 1991, Pages 432–448, https://doi.org/10.1086/269272 Published: 01 January 1991
The Social Context of Voter Turnout
Journal Article THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF VOTER TURNOUT Get access BRUCE C. STRAITS BRUCE C. STRAITS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 1, SPRING 1990, Pages 64–73, https://doi.org/10.1086/269184 Published: 01 January 1990
Residence, Migration, and School Progress
This paper seeks to clarify the effects of migration on the age-grade progress of children in school. The analysis is based on 3,334 teenagers living in the households sampled in the national 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity. Results support the main hypothesis that the detrimental effect of a move on children's progress in school is a positive function of the cultural difference between the previous and the current places of residence, but on…
Factors Influencing College Women's Responses to Fertility Decision-Making Vignettes
In a study conducted in 1981 at the University of California Santa Barbara a random sample of 180 women undergraduates were probed to explore the influence that direct and indirect costs of chilbearing and the cultural support for parenthood have on fertility decisions 6 vignettes were placed in a questionnaire describing some typical decision situations that married women might face; the respondent was asked to choose an option that seemed best …
Status Inconsistency and Marginality in Malaysia
Drawing upon the theory of status inconsistency and the theory of the marginal man, several hypotheses regarding the consequences of occupying an unusual combination of statuses were formulated and tested with data from a large sample survey of Malaysian secondary school students. Hierarchical modeling of incomplete contingency tables revealed that between-group differences on nine dependent variables for 26 status-combinations of race, religion,…
Confession of prior knowledge about experimental procedures as a function of evaluation apprehension and commitment
Smoking: A Behavioral Analysis. Bernard Mausner , Ellen S. Platt
College Students' Reactions To Social Scientific Experimentation
A random sample of undergraduate students were interviewed to study (a) their attitudes about and reactions to social science experiments and (b) the effects such attitudes and reactions may have on the validity of experimental research. It was found that the majority of the respondents had rather definite reactions to experiments, most of them generally favorable. Although the models of subjects and experiments proposed by various writers in the…
Influences on Subjects' Perceptions of Experimental Research Situations
Community Adoption and Implementation of Urban Renewal
Approaches to Social Research
Bringing Strong Ties Back in Interpersonal Gateways to Political Information and Influence
Journal Article BRINGING STRONG TIES BACK IN INTERPERSONAL GATEWAYS TO POLITICAL INFORMATION AND INFLUENCE Get access BRUCE C. STRAITS BRUCE C. STRAITS associate professor of sociology at the University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 55, Issue 3, FALL 1991, Pages 432–448, https://doi.org/10.1086/269272 Published: 01 January 1991
The Social Context of Voter Turnout
Journal Article THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF VOTER TURNOUT Get access BRUCE C. STRAITS BRUCE C. STRAITS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 1, SPRING 1990, Pages 64–73, https://doi.org/10.1086/269184 Published: 01 January 1990
Residence, Migration, and School Progress
This paper seeks to clarify the effects of migration on the age-grade progress of children in school. The analysis is based on 3,334 teenagers living in the households sampled in the national 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity. Results support the main hypothesis that the detrimental effect of a move on children's progress in school is a positive function of the cultural difference between the previous and the current places of residence, but on…
Factors Influencing College Women's Responses to Fertility Decision-Making Vignettes
In a study conducted in 1981 at the University of California Santa Barbara a random sample of 180 women undergraduates were probed to explore the influence that direct and indirect costs of chilbearing and the cultural support for parenthood have on fertility decisions 6 vignettes were placed in a questionnaire describing some typical decision situations that married women might face; the respondent was asked to choose an option that seemed best …
Status Inconsistency and Marginality in Malaysia
Drawing upon the theory of status inconsistency and the theory of the marginal man, several hypotheses regarding the consequences of occupying an unusual combination of statuses were formulated and tested with data from a large sample survey of Malaysian secondary school students. Hierarchical modeling of incomplete contingency tables revealed that between-group differences on nine dependent variables for 26 status-combinations of race, religion,…
College Students' Reactions To Social Scientific Experimentation
A random sample of undergraduate students were interviewed to study (a) their attitudes about and reactions to social science experiments and (b) the effects such attitudes and reactions may have on the validity of experimental research. It was found that the majority of the respondents had rather definite reactions to experiments, most of them generally favorable. Although the models of subjects and experiments proposed by various writers in the…
Community Adoption and Implementation of Urban Renewal
Influences on Subjects' Perceptions of Experimental Research Situations
College Students' Reactions To Social Scientific Experimentation
A random sample of undergraduate students were interviewed to study (a) their attitudes about and reactions to social science experiments and (b) the effects such attitudes and reactions may have on the validity of experimental research. It was found that the majority of the respondents had rather definite reactions to experiments, most of them generally favorable. Although the models of subjects and experiments proposed by various writers in the…
Smoking: A Behavioral Analysis. Bernard Mausner , Ellen S. Platt
Confession of prior knowledge about experimental procedures as a function of evaluation apprehension and commitment
Status Inconsistency and Marginality in Malaysia
Drawing upon the theory of status inconsistency and the theory of the marginal man, several hypotheses regarding the consequences of occupying an unusual combination of statuses were formulated and tested with data from a large sample survey of Malaysian secondary school students. Hierarchical modeling of incomplete contingency tables revealed that between-group differences on nine dependent variables for 26 status-combinations of race, religion,…
Factors Influencing College Women's Responses to Fertility Decision-Making Vignettes
In a study conducted in 1981 at the University of California Santa Barbara a random sample of 180 women undergraduates were probed to explore the influence that direct and indirect costs of chilbearing and the cultural support for parenthood have on fertility decisions 6 vignettes were placed in a questionnaire describing some typical decision situations that married women might face; the respondent was asked to choose an option that seemed best …
Residence, Migration, and School Progress
This paper seeks to clarify the effects of migration on the age-grade progress of children in school. The analysis is based on 3,334 teenagers living in the households sampled in the national 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity. Results support the main hypothesis that the detrimental effect of a move on children's progress in school is a positive function of the cultural difference between the previous and the current places of residence, but on…
The Social Context of Voter Turnout
Journal Article THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF VOTER TURNOUT Get access BRUCE C. STRAITS BRUCE C. STRAITS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 1, SPRING 1990, Pages 64–73, https://doi.org/10.1086/269184 Published: 01 January 1990
Bringing Strong Ties Back in Interpersonal Gateways to Political Information and Influence
Journal Article BRINGING STRONG TIES BACK IN INTERPERSONAL GATEWAYS TO POLITICAL INFORMATION AND INFLUENCE Get access BRUCE C. STRAITS BRUCE C. STRAITS associate professor of sociology at the University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 55, Issue 3, FALL 1991, Pages 432–448, https://doi.org/10.1086/269272 Published: 01 January 1991
The Changing Nature of Sociological Inquiry: A Review of Research Methods Textbooks
Ego-net diversity: Same- and cross-sex coworker ties
Approaches to Social Research
Ego's important discussants or significant people: An experiment in varying the wording of personal network name generators
Survey Interviewing
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Psychology of Social Influence (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)