Kenneth Wilson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3955960 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth Wilson |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth |
| APELLIDO | Wilson |
| FIRMA | WILSON K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5264-6522 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 834 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Strong Leaders in the Former Soviet Union
The term "strong leader" is generally understood to mean a leader who concentrates power in his or her hands, dominates public policy and the political party to which he or she belongs, and takes the big decisions. Many contemporary politicians present themselves as leaders in this mold and there is substantial public support around the world for this type of leader. Recent research, however, has questioned the desirability of strong leaders, fin…
Survey of Adherence with Covid-19 Prevention Behaviors During the 2020 Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays Among Members of the Covid-19 Community Research Partnership
Prevention behaviors represent important public health tools to limit spread of SARS-CoV-2. Adherence with recommended public health prevention behaviors among 20000 + members of a COVID-19 syndromic surveillance cohort from the mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States was assessed via electronic survey following the 2020 Thanksgiving and winter holiday (WH) seasons. Respondents were predominantly non-Hispanic Whites (90%), female (60%), and ≥…
Is Vladimir Putin a strong leader
A strong leader – i.e. an individual who concentrates great power in his hands and uses it to solve the country’s problems – is often considered a good thing in contemporary politics. Vladimir Putin has always presented himself as precisely this kind of leader. This article considers whether Putin actually is a strong leader who has used his powers to do great things for Russia. The analysis begins by considering whether Putin is a strong leader …
Rice revitalization and food sovereignty in Sabah
Questioning Putin’s Popularity
Russia's pre-eminent leader, Vladimir Putin, has always had very high approval ratings, as both president and prime minister. This article argues that Russia's electoral authoritarian political system is an essential precondition of these ratings. The discussion begins by presenting comparative evidence suggesting that prolonged, very high approval ratings are only possible in authoritarian states. Then the article examines Putin's record in offi…
Ruling Russia
How Increased Competition Can Strengthen Electoral Authoritarianism
Opposition and electoral competition are intrinsic features of electoral authoritarian regimes, but also constitute threats or potential threats which must be contained. A major focus of the literature has been to delineate the ways in which authoritarian polities control and manipulate competition, so that it serves the regime rather than challenging it. Far less attention has been paid to the ways in which authoritarian regimes benefit from enc…
Modernization or More of the Same in Russia
One of the main features of Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency was the package of reforms known as “modernization.” Three years after Medvedev’s presidency ended, it still is not certain what these reforms amounted to. It seems reasonably clear that transformational change did not occur, but did significant reforms occur in some areas? Or did no real change take place at all? This article examines the reforms and seeks to clarify what Medvedev’s modern…
Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society
How Russians View Electoral Fairness
There is a broad consensus that the Duma and presidential elections held in Russia in 2007–2008 failed to meet internationally recognised democratic standards. Post-election public opinion surveys, however, show that most Russians thought that the elections were mainly fair. This discrepancy between the views of international observers and of Russians themselves has not been adequately explained. The main aim of this article, utilising data from …
Picture and social concept
This article introduces a new variation of Mandelbrot’s fractal geometry: fractal-concept analysis. Like fractal geometry, fractal-concept analysis differentiates phenomena into self-similar fractals that resemble the parent seed, but instead of using geometric generators, fractal-concept analysis uses a conceptual architecture as the generator. The methodology’s unique capacity for clearly characterizing difficult subject matter is demonstrated …
Party-System Reform in Democracy's Grey Zone
This article analyses the party-system reforms introduced in Russia during Vladimir Putin's presidency. It contests Byron Moraski's interpretation, published in an earlier edition of this journal, which claims that the reforms introduced in Putin's second term were a response to the 2003 Duma election and were intended to preserve the unity and discipline of United Russia, the regime's ‘party of power’. This article argues that Moraski's explanat…
Party-System Reform in Democracy's Grey Zone
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Problematics of grounded theory
Our purpose in this article is to identify and suggest resolution for two core problematics of grounded theory. First, while grounded theory provides transparency to one part of the conceptualization process, where codes emerge directly from the data, it provides no such systematic or transparent way for gaining insight into the conceptual relationships between discovered codes. Producing a grounded theory depends not only on the definition of co…
Party finance in Russia
The 2001 law ‘On political parties’ instituted several substantive changes to party finance in Russia. This article examines these elements of the law on parties, which have so far received little attention, to ascertain the aims of this party-funding reform, the extent to which these aims have been realised, and what impact—if any—the financial terms of the law have had on party finance. The article draws on new sources, namely parties' annual f…
Elderly people from ethnic minorities in Liverpool
The objective of the Health and Ethnicity Project was to identify unmet need and barriers to the use of psychogeriatric and welfare services by ethnic minority older people living in Liverpool's inner-city. The results presented here are the findings of Phase II of the project in which 71 ethnic minority older people aged 65 years and over were interviewed. These respondents had been diagnosed as suffering from dementia or depression earlier in P…
Sustaining Aids Mobilization
Party-System Development Under Putin
Using interviews and election-related documents, a political scientist examines party-system development in Russia under President Putin. The main focus is on the 2001 law "On political parties" in the context of the 2003 Duma election; several additional amendments to electoral legislation in Putin's first term are also considered. The content of this legislation, how it has worked in practice, and the conduct of the election campaign are analyz…
Being a Learner
Lifelong learning is something which one does for oneself that no one else can do for one: it is a public and personal human activity, rather than private or individualistic. One of the features of the education system is the paucity of a language for learning as process and participative experience. Personalised learning requires a sense of the worthwhileness of ‘being a learner’– a virtue in the 21st century. A sense of one's own worth as a per…
Chasing Rainbow Notions
This paper discusses tensions and contradictions experienced by a group of psychologists in post‐1994 South Africa as we struggled to develop an MA program in community psychology. Situating our work within the history of the subdiscipline and the historical context confronting South Africans in the “wake of apartheid,” we explore models of community psychology that informed praxis under apartheid and contemporary challenges confronting a country…
Statistical analysis of sex ratios
In this chapter we discuss how to make best use of sex ratio data. We identify three basic questions that such data can be used to answer: does the sex ratio differ from some theoretically expected mean value, does it differ from an expected distribution and is variation in sex ratio associated with some measured explanatory terms? Our main focus is on the latter question. We discuss analytical methods in order of 'sophistication', starting with …
Sex Ratios
Covering sex allocation, sex determination and operational sex ratios, this multi-author volume provides both a conceptual context and an instruction in methods for many aspects of sex ratio research. Theory, statistical analysis and genetics are each explained and discussed in the first three sections. The remaining chapters each focus on research in one of a wide spectrum of animal, plant and microbial taxa, including sex ratio distorting bacte…
Creative Accounting
Rogers Platt Churchill's The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, published by the Torch Press at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1939, is the only monograph ever written on the actual negotiation of the agreements regarding Tibet, Afghanistan, and Persia which together constitute what is certainly one of the most important diplomatic developments of the first decade of the twentieth century. Subsequent writers have considered that the AngloRussian negotiati…
Heading for higher ground
The purpose of this paper is to assess the determinants of hurricane evacuation behavior of North Carolina coastal households during Hurricane Bonnie and a future hypothetical hurricane. We use the data from a telephone survey of North Carolina coastal residents. Hypothetical questions are used to assess whether respondents will evacuate and where in the case of a future hurricane with varying intensities. We examine the social, economic, and ris…
Market\industry confusion in tourism economic analyses
Immigrant Enclaves
Data from a longitudinal sample of Cuban emigres are used to test competing hypotheses about the mode of incorporation of new immigrants into the U.S. labor market. Classic theories of assimilation assumed a unified economy in which immigrants started at the bottom and gradually moved up occupationally, while they gained social acceptance. Recent dual labor market theories define new immigrants mainly as additions to the secondary labor market li…
Ethnic Enclaves
Structural hypotheses that link the relative advantage in certain ethnic enclaves to the structure of their economies are tested in a comparative analysis of the Cuban and black businesses in Miami. Findings suggest that the more advantaged community, the Cuban enclave, is characterized by highly interdependent industries, ones which are less dependent on majority industry; the less advantaged community, the black enclave, is characterized by wea…
Black-White Differences in Educational Attainment
Main and interactive effects of racial differences in educational attainment are examined on the basis of a recent longitudinal sample of the U.S. high school population. Availability of aprpopriate measures permits comparison between comprehensive models of the attainment sequence between blacks and whites. In agreement with past results, it is found that blacks have higher educational attainment than whites of similar parental status and abilit…
Party-System Development Under Putin
Using interviews and election-related documents, a political scientist examines party-system development in Russia under President Putin. The main focus is on the 2001 law "On political parties" in the context of the 2003 Duma election; several additional amendments to electoral legislation in Putin's first term are also considered. The content of this legislation, how it has worked in practice, and the conduct of the election campaign are analyz…
Gender Segregation in Higher Education
Kenneth L. Wilson, Janet P. Boldizar, Gender Segregation in Higher Education: Effects of Aspirations, Mathematics Achievement, and Income, Sociology of Education, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 62-74
The Educational Attainment Process
The process of educational attainment of U. S. youth is reexamined on the basis of a recent, nationally representative data set. Strict comparison with past models is impossible, given differences in measurement, sampling, and time of data collection. Still, the general structure of the final model differs in theoretically significant ways from past findings. Present results reduce the importance of social psychological intervening variables, suc…
Problematics of grounded theory
Our purpose in this article is to identify and suggest resolution for two core problematics of grounded theory. First, while grounded theory provides transparency to one part of the conceptualization process, where codes emerge directly from the data, it provides no such systematic or transparent way for gaining insight into the conceptual relationships between discovered codes. Producing a grounded theory depends not only on the definition of co…
Elderly people from ethnic minorities in Liverpool
The objective of the Health and Ethnicity Project was to identify unmet need and barriers to the use of psychogeriatric and welfare services by ethnic minority older people living in Liverpool's inner-city. The results presented here are the findings of Phase II of the project in which 71 ethnic minority older people aged 65 years and over were interviewed. These respondents had been diagnosed as suffering from dementia or depression earlier in P…
Cultural aspects of male sex aggression
Sex aggression is the forceful pursuit of a sexual goal that offends the victim. Most college women report encountering sex aggression, and about one quarter of college males admit forcefully persisting in their pursuit of a sexual goal after they realize that it is disagreeable and offensive to the female. Three explanations for the existence of this substantial number of sex aggressors are discussed and tested. The data are not consistent with …
Toward an Improved Explanation of Income Attainment
In past attempts at predicting income attainment, education and occupation have been recognized as the most intuitively appealing causal factors but have yielded especially dismal empirical results. This paper attempts to demonstrate that the relatively poor success at predicting income attainment with these variables can be corrected with straighforward recalibrations of their scales. A scale of occupations is drawn from classical notions of wor…
Heading for higher ground
The purpose of this paper is to assess the determinants of hurricane evacuation behavior of North Carolina coastal households during Hurricane Bonnie and a future hypothetical hurricane. We use the data from a telephone survey of North Carolina coastal residents. Hypothetical questions are used to assess whether respondents will evacuate and where in the case of a future hurricane with varying intensities. We examine the social, economic, and ris…
Scaling the prestige, authority, and income potential of college curricula
Is Vladimir Putin a strong leader
A strong leader – i.e. an individual who concentrates great power in his hands and uses it to solve the country’s problems – is often considered a good thing in contemporary politics. Vladimir Putin has always presented himself as precisely this kind of leader. This article considers whether Putin actually is a strong leader who has used his powers to do great things for Russia. The analysis begins by considering whether Putin is a strong leader …
Party-System Reform in Democracy's Grey Zone
This article analyses the party-system reforms introduced in Russia during Vladimir Putin's presidency. It contests Byron Moraski's interpretation, published in an earlier edition of this journal, which claims that the reforms introduced in Putin's second term were a response to the 2003 Duma election and were intended to preserve the unity and discipline of United Russia, the regime's ‘party of power’. This article argues that Moraski's explanat…
Chasing Rainbow Notions
This paper discusses tensions and contradictions experienced by a group of psychologists in post‐1994 South Africa as we struggled to develop an MA program in community psychology. Situating our work within the history of the subdiscipline and the historical context confronting South Africans in the “wake of apartheid,” we explore models of community psychology that informed praxis under apartheid and contemporary challenges confronting a country…
Stepfathers and Stepchildren
Kenneth L. Wilson, Louis A. Zurcher, Diana Claire McAdams, Russell L. Curtis, Stepfathers and Stepchildren: An Exploratory Analysis from Two National Surveys, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Aug., 1975), pp. 526-536
How Increased Competition Can Strengthen Electoral Authoritarianism
Opposition and electoral competition are intrinsic features of electoral authoritarian regimes, but also constitute threats or potential threats which must be contained. A major focus of the literature has been to delineate the ways in which authoritarian polities control and manipulate competition, so that it serves the regime rather than challenging it. Far less attention has been paid to the ways in which authoritarian regimes benefit from enc…
Modernization or More of the Same in Russia
One of the main features of Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency was the package of reforms known as “modernization.” Three years after Medvedev’s presidency ended, it still is not certain what these reforms amounted to. It seems reasonably clear that transformational change did not occur, but did significant reforms occur in some areas? Or did no real change take place at all? This article examines the reforms and seeks to clarify what Medvedev’s modern…
Status Inconsistency and Participation in Social Movements
Goodman's hierarchical modeling is used to analyze the status inconsistency configuration of 67 active participants in an anti-pornography social movement and 44 persons who actively opposed the movement. The substantive results indicated the need to interpret status inconsistency effects in light of the second-order interaction of all three stratification variables—education, occupation and income. We found that inconsistencies between two of th…
Questioning Putin’s Popularity
Russia's pre-eminent leader, Vladimir Putin, has always had very high approval ratings, as both president and prime minister. This article argues that Russia's electoral authoritarian political system is an essential precondition of these ratings. The discussion begins by presenting comparative evidence suggesting that prolonged, very high approval ratings are only possible in authoritarian states. Then the article examines Putin's record in offi…
How Russians View Electoral Fairness
There is a broad consensus that the Duma and presidential elections held in Russia in 2007–2008 failed to meet internationally recognised democratic standards. Post-election public opinion surveys, however, show that most Russians thought that the elections were mainly fair. This discrepancy between the views of international observers and of Russians themselves has not been adequately explained. The main aim of this article, utilising data from …
Party finance in Russia
The 2001 law ‘On political parties’ instituted several substantive changes to party finance in Russia. This article examines these elements of the law on parties, which have so far received little attention, to ascertain the aims of this party-funding reform, the extent to which these aims have been realised, and what impact—if any—the financial terms of the law have had on party finance. The article draws on new sources, namely parties' annual f…
The Effects of Integration and Class on Black Educational Attainment
Integration, perhaps one of the most important issues in education today, has never been examined from the framework of the status attainment model. This paper utilizes a national longitudinal sample of black and white male youths to assess this question: How does the educational attainment process differ for blacks in segregated and integrated schools? I find that the model improves substantially as a prediction instrument for blacks in integrat…
Race and Job Satisfaction in the Military
This paper questions the validity of past studies of job satisfaction for minority groups. Past studies relegate the racial issue to the initial determinant of status attainment deficiencies which indirectly influence job satisfaction. On a sample of over 9,000 military men, including almost 1,500 blacks, three questions are examined: (1) Do past findings on job satisfaction apply to the military setting? (2) Are the conditions contributing to jo…
Picture and social concept
This article introduces a new variation of Mandelbrot’s fractal geometry: fractal-concept analysis. Like fractal geometry, fractal-concept analysis differentiates phenomena into self-similar fractals that resemble the parent seed, but instead of using geometric generators, fractal-concept analysis uses a conceptual architecture as the generator. The methodology’s unique capacity for clearly characterizing difficult subject matter is demonstrated …
Surge Studies for Portage Mountain Tailrace System
The discharge of the underground powerhouse at Portage Mountain rejoins the Peace River through two large free-flow tunnels. The surge waves in these tunnels caused by changes in turbine discharge were studied by three methods–approximate manual calculations, computer analysis, and model testing. The surges are considered under two headings–the determination of the initial extreme level following a flow change and the more complicated conditions …
Need for Action Now
Stepfathers and Stepchildren
Kenneth L. Wilson, Louis A. Zurcher, Diana Claire McAdams, Russell L. Curtis, Stepfathers and Stepchildren: An Exploratory Analysis from Two National Surveys, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Aug., 1975), pp. 526-536
The Educational Attainment Process
The process of educational attainment of U. S. youth is reexamined on the basis of a recent, nationally representative data set. Strict comparison with past models is impossible, given differences in measurement, sampling, and time of data collection. Still, the general structure of the final model differs in theoretically significant ways from past findings. Present results reduce the importance of social psychological intervening variables, suc…
Black-White Differences in Educational Attainment
Main and interactive effects of racial differences in educational attainment are examined on the basis of a recent longitudinal sample of the U.S. high school population. Availability of aprpopriate measures permits comparison between comprehensive models of the attainment sequence between blacks and whites. In agreement with past results, it is found that blacks have higher educational attainment than whites of similar parental status and abilit…
Status Inconsistency and Participation in Social Movements
Goodman's hierarchical modeling is used to analyze the status inconsistency configuration of 67 active participants in an anti-pornography social movement and 44 persons who actively opposed the movement. The substantive results indicated the need to interpret status inconsistency effects in light of the second-order interaction of all three stratification variables—education, occupation and income. We found that inconsistencies between two of th…
Status Inconsistency and Participation in Social Movements
Bland and Wallis attend to our paper, and participation in social movements: an application of Goodman's hierarchical modeling, and we appreciate their interest. Yet their comments in several ways either miss the point of the paper, or misinterpret our statements. Consequently, we offer a rejoinder. Bland and Wallis' comments began with observations concerning the inconsistency method represented in our article, and moved to a broader criticism o…
The Differences between Having One and Two Children
Young mothers of two children responded to a 49 item questionnaire designed to assess their motivations for and consequences (personal and marital) of having a second child. Results indicated that while the impact of the first child was greater than the second, the latter involved less time for self, more work, more noise, and decreased marital happiness. Implications of these findings are suggested
Race and Job Satisfaction in the Military
This paper questions the validity of past studies of job satisfaction for minority groups. Past studies relegate the racial issue to the initial determinant of status attainment deficiencies which indirectly influence job satisfaction. On a sample of over 9,000 military men, including almost 1,500 blacks, three questions are examined: (1) Do past findings on job satisfaction apply to the military setting? (2) Are the conditions contributing to jo…
Toward an Improved Explanation of Income Attainment
In past attempts at predicting income attainment, education and occupation have been recognized as the most intuitively appealing causal factors but have yielded especially dismal empirical results. This paper attempts to demonstrate that the relatively poor success at predicting income attainment with these variables can be corrected with straighforward recalibrations of their scales. A scale of occupations is drawn from classical notions of wor…
Status Inconsistency and the Hope Technique, II
“Status Enhancement” refers to the situation in which an individual occupies a relatively more prestigious position as a member of a given association than s/he does as an occupant of one or more statuses outside the association (e.g., occupation, education, income). “Status Detraction” refers to an individual's occupying a relatively less prestigious position in the association than in status(es) outside the association. It was hypothesized that…
Status Inconsistency and the Hope Technique, I
This paper attempts a reassessment of status inconsistency theory, methods, and empirical results. Theory: Two distinct kinds of status inconsistency hypotheses are clarified—linear and nonlinear. Although the literature has explicitly acknowledged only nonlinear hypotheses, no logical preference for either linear or nonlinear hypotheses can be drawn from the original theory without changing or adding to its basic statements. A reappraisal of pas…
The Effects of Integration and Class on Black Educational Attainment
Integration, perhaps one of the most important issues in education today, has never been examined from the framework of the status attainment model. This paper utilizes a national longitudinal sample of black and white male youths to assess this question: How does the educational attainment process differ for blacks in segregated and integrated schools? I find that the model improves substantially as a prediction instrument for blacks in integrat…
Who Goes to College
Immigrant Enclaves
Data from a longitudinal sample of Cuban emigres are used to test competing hypotheses about the mode of incorporation of new immigrants into the U.S. labor market. Classic theories of assimilation assumed a unified economy in which immigrants started at the bottom and gradually moved up occupationally, while they gained social acceptance. Recent dual labor market theories define new immigrants mainly as additions to the secondary labor market li…
Role Satisfaction, Situational Assessment, and Scapegoating
Using data from participant observation, informal interviews, and questionnaires administered to the members of a Naval Reserve unit mobilizedfor a Marine field exercise, it is demonstrated that the pattern of satisfactions people are accustomed to derive from enacting assorted roles in their sets is related to their assessment of the social situation in which they enact the roles. It is further shown that disruption of anticipated role satisfact…
On population comparisons using factor indexes or latent variables
An "Active" Introduction to Sociology
the best conditions. Steadily increasing class sizes have added to the difficulties. This article reports on an alternative to lecturing in the large introductory class. Students are assigned an part in the class through discussing the readings, carrying-out lab exercises, and writing research reports on their lab assignments. Student reactions were collected form 405 students over a two-year period. Students with a stronger academic background e…
Multiple Regression with Dummy Variables
Journal Article Multiple Regression with Dummy Variables: Response to Sandefur and Finley Get access Kenneth L. Wilson Kenneth L. Wilson Florida Atlantic University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 60, Issue 4, June 1982, Page 1171, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/60.4.1171 Published: 01 June 1982
Ethnic Enclaves
Structural hypotheses that link the relative advantage in certain ethnic enclaves to the structure of their economies are tested in a comparative analysis of the Cuban and black businesses in Miami. Findings suggest that the more advantaged community, the Cuban enclave, is characterized by highly interdependent industries, ones which are less dependent on majority industry; the less advantaged community, the black enclave, is characterized by wea…
Reassessing the Discrimination against Women in Higher Education
This paper argues that the sex composition of college curricula is the major source of sex inequality in higher education today. Census data are analyzed to demonstrate that while women are obtaining an ever growing proportion of college degrees, fields of specialty are still segregated to an important extent. A model of prejudice and discrimination is constructed and analyzed as a possible explanation of the sex composition of college curricula.…
Cultural aspects of male sex aggression
Sex aggression is the forceful pursuit of a sexual goal that offends the victim. Most college women report encountering sex aggression, and about one quarter of college males admit forcefully persisting in their pursuit of a sexual goal after they realize that it is disagreeable and offensive to the female. Three explanations for the existence of this substantial number of sex aggressors are discussed and tested. The data are not consistent with …
Scaling the prestige, authority, and income potential of college curricula
Culture, Ethnicity, and Identity
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