Jerry Neapolitan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4144110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerry Neapolitan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Neapolitan |
| SIGNATURE | NEAPOLITAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tennessee Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cross-National Crime
This book describes various types and sources of crime and explanatory data available to study variation in crime across nations. Problems with the data and appropriate methods for adjusting and analyzing the data are described. A thorough review of theories and past cross-national crime research is included. This book intends to facilitate and stimulate quality cross-national crime research. The book notes past misuse of data, such as using homi…
Poverty and property crime
Motivation theories suggest a positive association between poverty and property crime, while opportunity theories suggest a negative or null association. Research on the association of poverty to property crime has yielded inconsistent and conflicting results. It is proposed that poverty has a greater effect on property crime in areas of larger population size and concentration than it does in areas of smaller and less concentrated populations. T…
The Internship Experience and Clarification of Career Choice
The use of internships in educating sociology majors has increased in recent years so that currently most departments offer some type of internship opportunity. Most programs are on a small scale, offering three or four hours of course credit. Although a major justification of internship programs is that they help students in career choice clarification, there has been little hard evidence that small-scale programs achieve this end. Using qualita…
The meaning of political self‐identifications
Using General Social Survey data, this research examines whether the political self‐identifications “liberal,” “moderate,” and “conservative” have consensual meanings in terms of shared social and political attitudes. Results indicate there is a large degree of consensus as to the meaning of liberal and a moderate degree for moderate and conservative. The research also shows that the marginality of liberals and liberal attitudes has been greatly …
Contemporary Craft Objects and American Culture
A Test of Simple Computer-Assisted Instructional Software
which also can create problems. Crull (1987, p. 82) notes that primary problem with CAI is the expenditure in time (teacher, student, and class time). Additional problems are insufficient access to computers and students' and instructors' unfamiliarity with computers. The more complex software, more time an instructor must devote to mastering it and then to instructing students in its use and meaning. As Garson (1987, p. 20) stated, It is wrong t…
Attribution Theory
The Effects of Different Types of Praise and Criticism on Performance
It has been suggested that praise does not reinforce performance in a straightforward manner but that the type of praise affects the manner in which praise is cognitively processed, and the manner in which praise is processed affects how it influences performance. A similar perspective can be taken on the effects of criticism. This research examines four types of evaluation — specific product praise, general actor praise, specific product critici…
General symbolic definitions and subjective well-being
In recent years evidence has suggested that demographic factors such as income and status have only a modest relationship to subjective well‐being. As a result, much attention has been paid to internal rather than external factors. Discrepancy perceptions approaches, particularly multiple discrepancy theory, link internal subjective factors with external conditions in explaining subjective well‐being. This study suggests that discrepancy percepti…
Art, Craft, and Art/Craft Segments among Craft Media Workers
There has been a great increase in the last twenty years in the creation and use of handcrafted objects. Preceding and accompanying growth are changes in the way craft media workers work and in the aesthetic conventions that guide their work. Some are still guided by traditional craft concerns, some by conventions of the contemporary art world, and some by both craft and art concerns. This research investigated whether craft media workers differe…
An Empirical Examination of the Existence of Art, Art/Craft, and Craft Segment Among Craft Media Workers
Mid-American Review of Sociology schools comprise an 'academic elite' who have the largest number of faculty members in the discipline who have a vested interest in maintaining the 'definition of the situation' (Thomas, 1931) that they are the best?" Our data suggests the latter and appears to support Helmer's (1974:42) contention that "the hierarchy of prestige is thus fundamentally a hierarchy of power unequally distributed. No more in sociolog…
The art/craft object
There has been a great resurgence in the creation and sales of craft media objects in the United States in the last twenty years. However, craft media objects are not the same as those of the past, nor do they serve the same functions. This research discovers the conventions which guide contemporary craft media work, and argues that these result in a new style of object. It further discovers why these conventions and resultant objects appeal to t…
Art as Quality of Interaction Experiences
Journal Article ART AS QUALITY OF INTERACTION EXPERIENCES Get access Jerry Neapolitan Jerry Neapolitan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 23, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1983, Pages 346–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/23.4.346 Published: 01 April 1983
Poverty and property crime
Motivation theories suggest a positive association between poverty and property crime, while opportunity theories suggest a negative or null association. Research on the association of poverty to property crime has yielded inconsistent and conflicting results. It is proposed that poverty has a greater effect on property crime in areas of larger population size and concentration than it does in areas of smaller and less concentrated populations. T…
The Internship Experience and Clarification of Career Choice
The use of internships in educating sociology majors has increased in recent years so that currently most departments offer some type of internship opportunity. Most programs are on a small scale, offering three or four hours of course credit. Although a major justification of internship programs is that they help students in career choice clarification, there has been little hard evidence that small-scale programs achieve this end. Using qualita…
A Test of Simple Computer-Assisted Instructional Software
which also can create problems. Crull (1987, p. 82) notes that primary problem with CAI is the expenditure in time (teacher, student, and class time). Additional problems are insufficient access to computers and students' and instructors' unfamiliarity with computers. The more complex software, more time an instructor must devote to mastering it and then to instructing students in its use and meaning. As Garson (1987, p. 20) stated, It is wrong t…
General symbolic definitions and subjective well-being
In recent years evidence has suggested that demographic factors such as income and status have only a modest relationship to subjective well‐being. As a result, much attention has been paid to internal rather than external factors. Discrepancy perceptions approaches, particularly multiple discrepancy theory, link internal subjective factors with external conditions in explaining subjective well‐being. This study suggests that discrepancy percepti…
Art, Craft, and Art/Craft Segments among Craft Media Workers
There has been a great increase in the last twenty years in the creation and use of handcrafted objects. Preceding and accompanying growth are changes in the way craft media workers work and in the aesthetic conventions that guide their work. Some are still guided by traditional craft concerns, some by conventions of the contemporary art world, and some by both craft and art concerns. This research investigated whether craft media workers differe…
The art/craft object
There has been a great resurgence in the creation and sales of craft media objects in the United States in the last twenty years. However, craft media objects are not the same as those of the past, nor do they serve the same functions. This research discovers the conventions which guide contemporary craft media work, and argues that these result in a new style of object. It further discovers why these conventions and resultant objects appeal to t…
Art as Quality of Interaction Experiences
Journal Article ART AS QUALITY OF INTERACTION EXPERIENCES Get access Jerry Neapolitan Jerry Neapolitan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 23, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1983, Pages 346–351, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/23.4.346 Published: 01 April 1983
An Empirical Examination of the Existence of Art, Art/Craft, and Craft Segment Among Craft Media Workers
Mid-American Review of Sociology schools comprise an 'academic elite' who have the largest number of faculty members in the discipline who have a vested interest in maintaining the 'definition of the situation' (Thomas, 1931) that they are the best?" Our data suggests the latter and appears to support Helmer's (1974:42) contention that "the hierarchy of prestige is thus fundamentally a hierarchy of power unequally distributed. No more in sociolog…
The art/craft object
There has been a great resurgence in the creation and sales of craft media objects in the United States in the last twenty years. However, craft media objects are not the same as those of the past, nor do they serve the same functions. This research discovers the conventions which guide contemporary craft media work, and argues that these result in a new style of object. It further discovers why these conventions and resultant objects appeal to t…
Art, Craft, and Art/Craft Segments among Craft Media Workers
There has been a great increase in the last twenty years in the creation and use of handcrafted objects. Preceding and accompanying growth are changes in the way craft media workers work and in the aesthetic conventions that guide their work. Some are still guided by traditional craft concerns, some by conventions of the contemporary art world, and some by both craft and art concerns. This research investigated whether craft media workers differe…
The Effects of Different Types of Praise and Criticism on Performance
It has been suggested that praise does not reinforce performance in a straightforward manner but that the type of praise affects the manner in which praise is cognitively processed, and the manner in which praise is processed affects how it influences performance. A similar perspective can be taken on the effects of criticism. This research examines four types of evaluation — specific product praise, general actor praise, specific product critici…
General symbolic definitions and subjective well-being
In recent years evidence has suggested that demographic factors such as income and status have only a modest relationship to subjective well‐being. As a result, much attention has been paid to internal rather than external factors. Discrepancy perceptions approaches, particularly multiple discrepancy theory, link internal subjective factors with external conditions in explaining subjective well‐being. This study suggests that discrepancy percepti…
Contemporary Craft Objects and American Culture
A Test of Simple Computer-Assisted Instructional Software
which also can create problems. Crull (1987, p. 82) notes that primary problem with CAI is the expenditure in time (teacher, student, and class time). Additional problems are insufficient access to computers and students' and instructors' unfamiliarity with computers. The more complex software, more time an instructor must devote to mastering it and then to instructing students in its use and meaning. As Garson (1987, p. 20) stated, It is wrong t…
Attribution Theory
The meaning of political self‐identifications
Using General Social Survey data, this research examines whether the political self‐identifications “liberal,” “moderate,” and “conservative” have consensual meanings in terms of shared social and political attitudes. Results indicate there is a large degree of consensus as to the meaning of liberal and a moderate degree for moderate and conservative. The research also shows that the marginality of liberals and liberal attitudes has been greatly …
The Internship Experience and Clarification of Career Choice
The use of internships in educating sociology majors has increased in recent years so that currently most departments offer some type of internship opportunity. Most programs are on a small scale, offering three or four hours of course credit. Although a major justification of internship programs is that they help students in career choice clarification, there has been little hard evidence that small-scale programs achieve this end. Using qualita…
Poverty and property crime
Motivation theories suggest a positive association between poverty and property crime, while opportunity theories suggest a negative or null association. Research on the association of poverty to property crime has yielded inconsistent and conflicting results. It is proposed that poverty has a greater effect on property crime in areas of larger population size and concentration than it does in areas of smaller and less concentrated populations. T…
Cross-National Crime
This book describes various types and sources of crime and explanatory data available to study variation in crime across nations. Problems with the data and appropriate methods for adjusting and analyzing the data are described. A thorough review of theories and past cross-national crime research is included. This book intends to facilitate and stimulate quality cross-national crime research. The book notes past misuse of data, such as using homi…
Sociology (11 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Craft (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (3 works)