James M O'Kane
Biographic Data
| ID | 4567579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M O'Kane |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Kane |
| SIGNATURE | KANE J M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology Drew University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Wicked Deeds: Murder in America
The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream
Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the mobility patterns of their own ethnic ancestors or current minority newcomers. The Crooked Ladder represents a groundbreaking attempt to describe how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized organized crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing fro…
The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream
The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream
Pamplona: A Sociological Analysis of Migration and Urban Adaptation Patterns
Anticipatory Socialization and Male Catholic Adolescent Socio-Political Attitudes
Urbanization-Industrialization and the Theory of Demographic Transition
An effort is made in this analysis to overcome the weaknesses in transition theory in regard to its description of demographic history and its lack of information on future demographic change and industrial development. Some demographic generalizations about the relationship between the historical decline in fertility rates and the concurrent processes of urbanization and industrialization are presented. The inadequacies of transition theory are …
Student Activists, Downward Mobility and Social Change
The Myth of a Population Explosion in America: Implications for the Social Welfare Profession
In the past decade, the concern over a hypothetical "population explosion" has become an increasing preoccupation in growing segments of the American public. Terms such as "standing-room-only-world," "demographic catastrophe,' "future doomsday," etc. have become common, and the work of organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Zero Population Growth, and countless other agencies has centered around this supposed threat to continued human existenc…
Evaluating Compensatory Education: A Case Study
This analysis has attempted to assess the impact of a long-range compensatory education program in Newark, New Jersey. Using an array of data from a five-year period and a variety of statistical devices, the authors have found no observable gains in reading level, school attendance, or IQ scores as the result of a five-year analysis of the Newark-Victoria Plan. The experimental subjects who were exposed to the extensive academic programs show lit…
Economic and Noneconomic Liberalism, Upward Mobility Potential, and Catholic Working-Class Youth
Ethnic Mobility and the Lower-Income Negro: A Socio-Historical Perspective
The plight of the lower-income Negro is interpreted in ethnic rather than racial terms. The problems confronting the black American result primarily from his lower-class positioning rather than from his "racial" characteristics. Historically he constitutes the most recent ethnic group to encounter the paradoxes of the city, and like all previous groups he faces the predicament of upward mobility. Historically, the ethnic minorities utilized three…
Anticipatory Socialization and Male Catholic Adolescent Socio-Political Attitudes
Urbanization-Industrialization and the Theory of Demographic Transition
An effort is made in this analysis to overcome the weaknesses in transition theory in regard to its description of demographic history and its lack of information on future demographic change and industrial development. Some demographic generalizations about the relationship between the historical decline in fertility rates and the concurrent processes of urbanization and industrialization are presented. The inadequacies of transition theory are …
Economic and Noneconomic Liberalism, Upward Mobility Potential, and Catholic Working-Class Youth
The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream
Student Activists, Downward Mobility and Social Change
Evaluating Compensatory Education: A Case Study
This analysis has attempted to assess the impact of a long-range compensatory education program in Newark, New Jersey. Using an array of data from a five-year period and a variety of statistical devices, the authors have found no observable gains in reading level, school attendance, or IQ scores as the result of a five-year analysis of the Newark-Victoria Plan. The experimental subjects who were exposed to the extensive academic programs show lit…
Ethnic Mobility and the Lower-Income Negro: A Socio-Historical Perspective
The plight of the lower-income Negro is interpreted in ethnic rather than racial terms. The problems confronting the black American result primarily from his lower-class positioning rather than from his "racial" characteristics. Historically he constitutes the most recent ethnic group to encounter the paradoxes of the city, and like all previous groups he faces the predicament of upward mobility. Historically, the ethnic minorities utilized three…
Economic and Noneconomic Liberalism, Upward Mobility Potential, and Catholic Working-Class Youth
Evaluating Compensatory Education: A Case Study
This analysis has attempted to assess the impact of a long-range compensatory education program in Newark, New Jersey. Using an array of data from a five-year period and a variety of statistical devices, the authors have found no observable gains in reading level, school attendance, or IQ scores as the result of a five-year analysis of the Newark-Victoria Plan. The experimental subjects who were exposed to the extensive academic programs show lit…
The Myth of a Population Explosion in America: Implications for the Social Welfare Profession
In the past decade, the concern over a hypothetical "population explosion" has become an increasing preoccupation in growing segments of the American public. Terms such as "standing-room-only-world," "demographic catastrophe,' "future doomsday," etc. have become common, and the work of organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Zero Population Growth, and countless other agencies has centered around this supposed threat to continued human existenc…
Student Activists, Downward Mobility and Social Change
Anticipatory Socialization and Male Catholic Adolescent Socio-Political Attitudes
Urbanization-Industrialization and the Theory of Demographic Transition
An effort is made in this analysis to overcome the weaknesses in transition theory in regard to its description of demographic history and its lack of information on future demographic change and industrial development. Some demographic generalizations about the relationship between the historical decline in fertility rates and the concurrent processes of urbanization and industrialization are presented. The inadequacies of transition theory are …
Pamplona: A Sociological Analysis of Migration and Urban Adaptation Patterns
The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream
The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream
The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream
Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the mobility patterns of their own ethnic ancestors or current minority newcomers. The Crooked Ladder represents a groundbreaking attempt to describe how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized organized crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing fro…
Wicked Deeds: Murder in America
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works)