Ronald J Troyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3923539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald J Troyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Troyer |
| SIGNATURE | TROYER R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drake University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Revised Social Constructionism: Traditional Social Science More Than a Postmodernist Analysis
Old issues and habits, especially the tendency to comment on the relevance and nature of social conditions, often creep back into constructionist studies, and the result is research inconsistent with the theoretical intent. Constructing Social Problems (CSP) located social problems analysis in the middle of the discussions about the nature, purpose, and consequence of the social science project. The initial formulation in CSP was radical in the c…
Smoking Policy: Law, Politics, and Culture
This work examines the interplay between public attitudes and governmental action as norms have changed on where and whether one should smoke. With evidence accumulating on the serious health risks of smoking to both smokers and nonsmokers, an interdisciplinary team of experts in law, public health, communications, political science, and sociology addresses a wide range of tobacco control issues-the politics of regulatory enactment and enforcemen…
Some Consequences of Contextual Constructionism
In response to Rafter's paper, "Claims-Making and the Eugenics Campaign," the author highlights the theoretical ground covered by social constructionists, and the departure of the paper from this orientation. primary criticism of Rafter's work is that it returns to an objectivist approach by relying on historical accounts explanations for a focus on women in the first eugenics campaign, and by attributing discrepancies between "facts" and claims …
Community reponse to crime: Two middle-class anti-crime patrols
Cigarettes: The Battle over Smoking
Cigarettes: The Battle over Smoking
Cigarettes: The Battle over Smoking
Coffee Drinking: An Emerging Social Problem
Is coffee bad for your health? This question has been at the center of a growing controversy in the United States which threatens to transform the widespread use of coffee into a social problem. Though coffee has been suspect for some 300 years, public attention since 1970 has been focused on medical research which suggests that the caffeine in coffee may cause cancer, birth defects, and heart disease. This paper looks at the history of the contr…
Deviant Street Networks: Prostitution in New York City
Creating Deviance Rules: A Macroscopic Model
In this paper we propose a macrolevel model for analyzing the creation of deviance rules. We begin by placing the phenomenon within the context of the social factist and social definitionist sociological traditions, identifying the insights and difficulties the social problems literature presents for explaining deviance rule creation. We suggest that the theoretical difficulties can be resolved by placing the process within a sociology of knowled…
Sociology: The Human Science
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cigarette Smoking as Deviant Behavior
This article focuses on the long-standing, but recently intensified controversy over cigarette smoking. In the late 1960s and the 1970s a variety of laws and regulations were implemented to regulate smoking and the smoker. Initially these strictures were what Gusfield terms assimilative, but more recently they have become coercive. In 1978, for example, a California referendum to ban smoking in most public places was narrowly defeated. Many view …
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cigarette Smoking as Deviant Behavior
This article focuses on the long-standing, but recently intensified controversy over cigarette smoking. In the late 1960s and the 1970s a variety of laws and regulations were implemented to regulate smoking and the smoker. Initially these strictures were what Gusfield terms assimilative, but more recently they have become coercive. In 1978, for example, a California referendum to ban smoking in most public places was narrowly defeated. Many view …
Some Consequences of Contextual Constructionism
In response to Rafter's paper, "Claims-Making and the Eugenics Campaign," the author highlights the theoretical ground covered by social constructionists, and the departure of the paper from this orientation. primary criticism of Rafter's work is that it returns to an objectivist approach by relying on historical accounts explanations for a focus on women in the first eugenics campaign, and by attributing discrepancies between "facts" and claims …
Coffee Drinking: An Emerging Social Problem
Is coffee bad for your health? This question has been at the center of a growing controversy in the United States which threatens to transform the widespread use of coffee into a social problem. Though coffee has been suspect for some 300 years, public attention since 1970 has been focused on medical research which suggests that the caffeine in coffee may cause cancer, birth defects, and heart disease. This paper looks at the history of the contr…
Cigarettes: The Battle over Smoking
Sociology: The Human Science
Creating Deviance Rules: A Macroscopic Model
In this paper we propose a macrolevel model for analyzing the creation of deviance rules. We begin by placing the phenomenon within the context of the social factist and social definitionist sociological traditions, identifying the insights and difficulties the social problems literature presents for explaining deviance rule creation. We suggest that the theoretical difficulties can be resolved by placing the process within a sociology of knowled…
Community reponse to crime: Two middle-class anti-crime patrols
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cigarette Smoking as Deviant Behavior
This article focuses on the long-standing, but recently intensified controversy over cigarette smoking. In the late 1960s and the 1970s a variety of laws and regulations were implemented to regulate smoking and the smoker. Initially these strictures were what Gusfield terms assimilative, but more recently they have become coercive. In 1978, for example, a California referendum to ban smoking in most public places was narrowly defeated. Many view …
Sociology: The Human Science
Deviant Street Networks: Prostitution in New York City
Creating Deviance Rules: A Macroscopic Model
In this paper we propose a macrolevel model for analyzing the creation of deviance rules. We begin by placing the phenomenon within the context of the social factist and social definitionist sociological traditions, identifying the insights and difficulties the social problems literature presents for explaining deviance rule creation. We suggest that the theoretical difficulties can be resolved by placing the process within a sociology of knowled…
Cigarettes: The Battle over Smoking
Cigarettes: The Battle over Smoking
Coffee Drinking: An Emerging Social Problem
Is coffee bad for your health? This question has been at the center of a growing controversy in the United States which threatens to transform the widespread use of coffee into a social problem. Though coffee has been suspect for some 300 years, public attention since 1970 has been focused on medical research which suggests that the caffeine in coffee may cause cancer, birth defects, and heart disease. This paper looks at the history of the contr…
Community reponse to crime: Two middle-class anti-crime patrols
Cigarettes: The Battle over Smoking
Some Consequences of Contextual Constructionism
In response to Rafter's paper, "Claims-Making and the Eugenics Campaign," the author highlights the theoretical ground covered by social constructionists, and the departure of the paper from this orientation. primary criticism of Rafter's work is that it returns to an objectivist approach by relying on historical accounts explanations for a focus on women in the first eugenics campaign, and by attributing discrepancies between "facts" and claims …
Smoking Policy: Law, Politics, and Culture
This work examines the interplay between public attitudes and governmental action as norms have changed on where and whether one should smoke. With evidence accumulating on the serious health risks of smoking to both smokers and nonsmokers, an interdisciplinary team of experts in law, public health, communications, political science, and sociology addresses a wide range of tobacco control issues-the politics of regulatory enactment and enforcemen…
Revised Social Constructionism: Traditional Social Science More Than a Postmodernist Analysis
Old issues and habits, especially the tendency to comment on the relevance and nature of social conditions, often creep back into constructionist studies, and the result is research inconsistent with the theoretical intent. Constructing Social Problems (CSP) located social problems analysis in the middle of the discussions about the nature, purpose, and consequence of the social science project. The initial formulation in CSP was radical in the c…
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