James Curtis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5774798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Curtis |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtis |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4042-3847 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A bridge over troubled water? Flood insurance and the governance of climate change adaptation
Floods are one of the most commonly occurring natural hazard events globally, and present a significant threat to the UK from climate change. Operating since 2016, Flood Re is an industry-government initiative, set up with the goal of reforming the flood insurance market in order to provide universal, affordable cover for UK households. Principally providing reinsurance services to insurers and including mutualisation arrangements, it aims to wit…
Social Problems: A Canadian Perspective
Height, Gender, and Authority Status at Work: Analyses for a National Sample of Canadian Workers
Trends in Civic Association Activity in Four Democracies: The Special Case of Women in the United States
This study assesses whether civic association activity has declined in four Western democracies: Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Influential accounts of decreasing civic engagement in the United States lead to the expectation of similar patterns in the other three nations. The authors test this hypothesis using data from time-use surveys of adult national samples for the mid-1960s to the late 1990s. One major f…
Estimation des tendances de l'engagement dans les associations volontaires au cours des dernières décennies au Québec et au Canada anglais1
Étant donné la rareté des données sur les tendances passées de l'engagement dans les associations volontaires au Québec et au Canada anglais, nous proposons une méthode d'estimation de ces tendances. C'est une méthode qui repose sur la comparaison de données fournies par des répondants au sujet de leurs expériences à une étape particulière de leur vie, c'est-à-dire pendant leurs années d'études. Nous disposons de données provenant de telles quest…
Do High School Athletes Earn More Pay? Youth Sport Participation and Earnings as an Adult
This paper reports on tests of relationships between participation in organized sport as a youth and earned income in adulthood. The data are drawn from a sample survey of adult Canadians. The results, both before and after appropriate controls, show that those who participated in organized sport as a youth tended to have higher annual earned incomes as adults than those who did not participate in this way. The relationships are stronger and more…
The Vertical Mosaic Revisited
The Vertical Mosaic Revisited
Exploring Effects of School Sport Experiences on Sport Participation in Later Life
This paper presents findings on the relationship between high school sport participation and involvement in sport as adults. The data are provided by a survey of a large representative national sample of adult Canadians. For different age subgroups among women and men, we tested the school sport experiences hypothesis that sport involvement during the high school years contributes to later adult involvement in sport. The measurement of sport invo…
The Origins of American Individualism: Reconsidering the Historical Evidence
This paper reconsiders S. M. Lipset's well-known thesis that origins of America's dominant value system can be directly traced to formative events of Revolution. Our specific concern is with one core value, individualism, and suggestion that individualist ideas and beliefs were widely held in population in Revolutionary era. A central claim of present paper is that crux of Lipset's depiction of value system, or American Creed, is a particular ver…
The Vertical Mosaic Revisited
This collection of papers by five of Canada’s top sociologists subjects John Porter’s landmark study to renewed scrutiny and traces the dramatic changes since Porter’s time – both in Canadian society and in the agenda of Canadian sociology
Gender differences in pay histories and views on pay entitlement among university students
Gender and perceived pay entitlement: Testing for effects of experience with income
This article reports on 2 studies where variations on a research design from the literature on gender and perceived pay entitlement were used to test for effects of past pay experience and salience of the pay experience for the participants. In Study 1, level of previous income was not a predictor of self-payment behavior for women or men, and men allocated more pay to themselves than did women. In Study 2, women and men did not differ on perceiv…
Respect for Authority in Canada, the United States, Great Britain and Australia
This paper presents a test of S.M. Lipset's thesis that Americans are less respectful or accepting of authority than people from Canada and from two other English-speaking democracies: Australia and Great Britain. We use data from World Values Survey, 1981–83, to compare adult samples from the four populations, with separate analyses for English Canada and French Canada. Twenty-one dependent variables are employed, measuring beliefs about authori…
Popular images of the future
A life satisfaction scale for use with national adult samples from the USA, Canada and Mexico
Giving to Caesar
Sport and Physical Activity and Subjective Well Being: National Panel Data for the U.S
This study examines the relationship between participation in sport and physical activity and feelings of well being. Our previous cross-sectional survey research on this topic (McTeer and Curtis, 1990) is extended through the use of data collected at two points in time from the same respondents in a national sample of Americans. We include social involvement levels, along with other social background factors, as controls in the analyses. We expe…
Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. American Civilization
The Search for Meaning in Farm Security Administration Photographs
Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years . Peter H. Wood , Karen C. C. Dalton, Winslow Homer
Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered
Journal Article Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. By James Curtis. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. x + 139 pp. $29.95.) Get access William Stott William Stott University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1076–1077, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079116 Published: 01 December 1990
Feminist consciousness and the Canadian electorate: A review of national election studies 1965-1984
Personality Correlates of Moral Reasoning and Attitudes toward Authority
The purpose of this study was to explore the relations of empathy and socialization to moral reasoning and attitudes toward authority. 105 undergraduates completed the empathy and socialization scales of the California Psychological Inventory, the Defining Issues Test, and a questionnaire on which they rated two types of authority (public, impersonal and private, personal). Subjects' moral reasoning scores were correlated with both empathy and so…
Negative Consequences of Leaving Competitive Sport? Comparative Findings for Former Elite-Level Hockey Players
This paper compares findings from a survey of former Canadian Junior hockey players and results from a representative sample of males of the same age in the general population. The analyses test hypotheses derived from the argument that disengagement from elite-level sport leads to various stress-induced negative consequences. The three primary dependent variables, suggested by the previous literature, are measures of life satisfaction, employmen…
Voluntary Association Joining: A Cross-National Comparative Note
Secondary analysis of data from national surveys of Americans, Canadians and adults in four other countries are offered in order to provide perspective on the as a nation of joiners observation and related propositions in the literature. The broad hypotheses considered are that: (1) the uniqueness and scope of the American pattern of association joining have been overemphasized; and (2) previous American findings on correlates of association memb…
Trends in Civic Association Activity in Four Democracies: The Special Case of Women in the United States
This study assesses whether civic association activity has declined in four Western democracies: Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Influential accounts of decreasing civic engagement in the United States lead to the expectation of similar patterns in the other three nations. The authors test this hypothesis using data from time-use surveys of adult national samples for the mid-1960s to the late 1990s. One major f…
Do High School Athletes Earn More Pay? Youth Sport Participation and Earnings as an Adult
This paper reports on tests of relationships between participation in organized sport as a youth and earned income in adulthood. The data are drawn from a sample survey of adult Canadians. The results, both before and after appropriate controls, show that those who participated in organized sport as a youth tended to have higher annual earned incomes as adults than those who did not participate in this way. The relationships are stronger and more…
Negative Consequences of Leaving Competitive Sport? Comparative Findings for Former Elite-Level Hockey Players
This paper compares findings from a survey of former Canadian Junior hockey players and results from a representative sample of males of the same age in the general population. The analyses test hypotheses derived from the argument that disengagement from elite-level sport leads to various stress-induced negative consequences. The three primary dependent variables, suggested by the previous literature, are measures of life satisfaction, employmen…
Height, Gender, and Authority Status at Work: Analyses for a National Sample of Canadian Workers
Estimation des tendances de l'engagement dans les associations volontaires au cours des dernières décennies au Québec et au Canada anglais1
Étant donné la rareté des données sur les tendances passées de l'engagement dans les associations volontaires au Québec et au Canada anglais, nous proposons une méthode d'estimation de ces tendances. C'est une méthode qui repose sur la comparaison de données fournies par des répondants au sujet de leurs expériences à une étape particulière de leur vie, c'est-à-dire pendant leurs années d'études. Nous disposons de données provenant de telles quest…
Exploring Effects of School Sport Experiences on Sport Participation in Later Life
This paper presents findings on the relationship between high school sport participation and involvement in sport as adults. The data are provided by a survey of a large representative national sample of adult Canadians. For different age subgroups among women and men, we tested the school sport experiences hypothesis that sport involvement during the high school years contributes to later adult involvement in sport. The measurement of sport invo…
Gender differences in pay histories and views on pay entitlement among university students
A life satisfaction scale for use with national adult samples from the USA, Canada and Mexico
English Canadian-American differences in value orientations: Survey comparisons bearing on Lipset's thesis
Social Stratification: Canada
Gender and perceived pay entitlement: Testing for effects of experience with income
This article reports on 2 studies where variations on a research design from the literature on gender and perceived pay entitlement were used to test for effects of past pay experience and salience of the pay experience for the participants. In Study 1, level of previous income was not a predictor of self-payment behavior for women or men, and men allocated more pay to themselves than did women. In Study 2, women and men did not differ on perceiv…
A bridge over troubled water? Flood insurance and the governance of climate change adaptation
Floods are one of the most commonly occurring natural hazard events globally, and present a significant threat to the UK from climate change. Operating since 2016, Flood Re is an industry-government initiative, set up with the goal of reforming the flood insurance market in order to provide universal, affordable cover for UK households. Principally providing reinsurance services to insurers and including mutualisation arrangements, it aims to wit…
The Origins of American Individualism: Reconsidering the Historical Evidence
This paper reconsiders S. M. Lipset's well-known thesis that origins of America's dominant value system can be directly traced to formative events of Revolution. Our specific concern is with one core value, individualism, and suggestion that individualist ideas and beliefs were widely held in population in Revolutionary era. A central claim of present paper is that crux of Lipset's depiction of value system, or American Creed, is a particular ver…
Popular images of the future
Sport and Physical Activity and Subjective Well Being: National Panel Data for the U.S
This study examines the relationship between participation in sport and physical activity and feelings of well being. Our previous cross-sectional survey research on this topic (McTeer and Curtis, 1990) is extended through the use of data collected at two points in time from the same respondents in a national sample of Americans. We include social involvement levels, along with other social background factors, as controls in the analyses. We expe…
The Search for Meaning in Farm Security Administration Photographs
Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered
Journal Article Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. By James Curtis. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. x + 139 pp. $29.95.) Get access William Stott William Stott University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1076–1077, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079116 Published: 01 December 1990
The English Poor Law System
Administration of the Purdue Pegboard Test To Blind Individuals
Pictorial Coin Types at the Roman Mint of Alexandria: A Third Supplement
Pictorial Coin Types at the Roman Mint of Alexandria a Third Supplement
Coinage of Pharaonic Egypt
Coinage of Pharaonic Egypt
Blacks, Medical Schools, and Society
Voluntary Association Joining: A Cross-National Comparative Note
Secondary analysis of data from national surveys of Americans, Canadians and adults in four other countries are offered in order to provide perspective on the as a nation of joiners observation and related propositions in the literature. The broad hypotheses considered are that: (1) the uniqueness and scope of the American pattern of association joining have been overemphasized; and (2) previous American findings on correlates of association memb…
English Canadian-American differences in value orientations: Survey comparisons bearing on Lipset's thesis
Andrew Jackson: Symbol for what Age
Social Stratification: Canada
A Comparison of Suicide-Dip Effects of Major Sport Events and Civil Holidays
Recent research has shown that there are “death dips” for suicide around major ceremonial occasions, and for certain public holidays in particular. This research suggests that the suicide-dip phenomenon is caused by increased social integration associated with such occasions. Elsewhere in the literature, sociological interpretations of major sport events indicate that they, too, serve as ceremonial occasions and play an integrative role in societ…
Feminist consciousness and the Canadian electorate: A review of national election studies 1965-1984
Personality Correlates of Moral Reasoning and Attitudes toward Authority
The purpose of this study was to explore the relations of empathy and socialization to moral reasoning and attitudes toward authority. 105 undergraduates completed the empathy and socialization scales of the California Psychological Inventory, the Defining Issues Test, and a questionnaire on which they rated two types of authority (public, impersonal and private, personal). Subjects' moral reasoning scores were correlated with both empathy and so…
Negative Consequences of Leaving Competitive Sport? Comparative Findings for Former Elite-Level Hockey Players
This paper compares findings from a survey of former Canadian Junior hockey players and results from a representative sample of males of the same age in the general population. The analyses test hypotheses derived from the argument that disengagement from elite-level sport leads to various stress-induced negative consequences. The three primary dependent variables, suggested by the previous literature, are measures of life satisfaction, employmen…
Solzhenitsyn in Exile: Critical Essays and Documentary Materials
Solzhenitsyn in Exile rises out of the aiding interest in Solzhenitsyn: the political image, the writer, and the man. There are four aspects to this volume: the change in attitude toward Solzhenitsyn in the West after his expulsion from the USSR; literary criticism of his oeuvre since his expulsion from Russia; newly translated memoirs and interviews; and bibliographies of works about Solzhenitsyn and his writings
Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years . Peter H. Wood , Karen C. C. Dalton, Winslow Homer
Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered
Journal Article Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. By James Curtis. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. x + 139 pp. $29.95.) Get access William Stott William Stott University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1076–1077, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079116 Published: 01 December 1990
Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. American Civilization
The Search for Meaning in Farm Security Administration Photographs
Sport and Physical Activity and Subjective Well Being: National Panel Data for the U.S
This study examines the relationship between participation in sport and physical activity and feelings of well being. Our previous cross-sectional survey research on this topic (McTeer and Curtis, 1990) is extended through the use of data collected at two points in time from the same respondents in a national sample of Americans. We include social involvement levels, along with other social background factors, as controls in the analyses. We expe…
Giving to Caesar
Respect for Authority in Canada, the United States, Great Britain and Australia
This paper presents a test of S.M. Lipset's thesis that Americans are less respectful or accepting of authority than people from Canada and from two other English-speaking democracies: Australia and Great Britain. We use data from World Values Survey, 1981–83, to compare adult samples from the four populations, with separate analyses for English Canada and French Canada. Twenty-one dependent variables are employed, measuring beliefs about authori…
Popular images of the future
A life satisfaction scale for use with national adult samples from the USA, Canada and Mexico
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