J H Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 67826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J H Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | J H |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7567-2010 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sport and Gender Equality Game Plan: Guidelines for Gender-transformative Sport Policies and Programmes
The Sport and Gender Equality Game Plan aims to support sport decision-makers in designing and delivering evidence-based policies and programmes that advance sustainable social transformations. The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are the first in history to achieve gender parity of athletes on the playing field. Over the past few decades, the number of girls participating in sport has risen in many countries, leading to improved physical and mental heal…
The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo
Work expectations of adults with developmental disabilities
Employment is central to an individual’s well-being. Work-related expectations of individuals with developmental disabilities were compared with those of service coordinators. Variables included the type of work expected, expected number of work hours, employment-related concerns, desired workplace supports, and influence that both the severity of a disability and service coordinator’s work experience have on work expectations. Data were collecte…
May it never end: Price wars, networks, and temporality in the “3 Ts” mining trade of the Eastern DR Congo
In this article, I examine some of the ways in which artisanal mining communities in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo experience digital age capitalism. I show how an extractive economy in tantalum, tin, and tungsten (referred to in NGO circles as the "3 Ts") shapes experiences and understandings of space, time, and value. Making use of oral narratives and other ethnographic data, I focus on the interconnections among time and price, as w…
Hegel for the (Middle) Ages
This is an extremely important and timely book that makes a number of bold claims. Some of these claims are, in my view, too boldly formulated and they thereby overly restrict Cole's focus. But to the extent that this restricted focus has allowed him to bring out aspects of Hegel's thought that have been under-illuminated and are of relevance to discussions in Marxist and other contemporary theories, even the overstatements turn out to be product…
Email from Ngeti: An Ethnography of Sorcery, Redemption, and Friendship in Global Africa
Primal Religious Experience as Philosophical Evidence: A Response to Arvind Sharma's A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion
Religion, is engaged in a very specific task. Sharma poses the question of the contribution that primal religions can make to Western philoso-phy of religion. Sharma begins with two givens: the philosophy of reli-gion as it exists in the Western academic world, especially as defined by John Hick, and “primal religion ” as it is described in a number of well-known works, such as those of John Mbiti and Geoffrey Parrinder in the case of African rel…
Tantalus in the Digital Age: Coltan ore, temporal dispossession, and "movement" in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
This article concerns the paradoxical value potentials of coltan and coltan mining in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, focusing on the actions and statements of diggers, traders, and state and military authorities in and around mining enclaves. Coltan ore is essential for Digital Age technology, and the struggle for it and other minerals is partly responsible for the historical and ongoing violent conflict in the region. However, a great…
Mortgaging the Ancestors: Ideologies of Attachment in Africa. Parker Shipton
Snake-driven development: Culture, nature and religious conflict in neoliberal Kenya
This article examines how different groups of Luo people living in a village in western Kenya fought over, publicized, and sought to harness the power of a returned python-spirit referred to as Omieri. The alleged return of Omieri catalyzed the local imagination concerning a range of issues, and mobilized all of the major social groups and dominant cosmological-ideological perspectives in the region, while also becoming a source of cooperation an…
Buying a better witch doctor: Witch-finding, neoliberalism, and the development imagination in the Taita Hills, Kenya
In this article, I examine the efforts of a Kenyan community to make sense of, and to act on, structural transformations associated with economic and political liberalization and globalization. To locate the sources of its conjoined moral and economic decline, the community employed the witch finder Maji Marefu to expose the real circuits of power and abuse underlying the false appearances of everyday life and to make the institutions and practic…
Of Spirit Possession and Structural Adjustment Programs: Government Downsizing, Education, and Their Enchantments in Neoliberal Kenya
Correlates of Quality of Life of Agricultural Scholarship Recipients
Of Spirit Possession and Structural Adjustment Programs: Government Downsizing, Education and Their Enchantments in Neo-Liberal Kenya
This article analyzes a case of possession by spirit familiars (majini) among female students of a primary school in the Taita/Taveta District of Kenya. I explore the symbolic and historical significance of majini among the people of Taita (Wataita), examining in particular the homology among local conceptions of majini and local conceptions of money. I argue that the idea of majini has long reflected the discontents of the particular modernity t…
The Enduring Legacy of Elton Mayo
When Human Relations first appeared, Elton Mayo had just retired from Harvard and was at the peak of his fame. All contributors to the journal in its first decade would have acknowledged his already legendary status as a pioneer of applied social science, especially in the workplace. His fall from grace in the late 1950s coincided with growing ideological-cum-methodological critiques of the Hawthorne Experiments. In the event, this sustained inte…
Njama's Supper: The Consumption and Use of Literary Potency by Mau Mau Insurgents in Colonial Kenya
In this essay I hope to come closer to an understanding of how Mau Mau insurgents created a world in the Aberdares forest composed of individuals and groups who contested the means for which positive social value could be attained.Mau Mau is the name given by whites to the Central Kenyan insurgency that became openly violent in 1952. Most Mau Mau violence was centered in and around the Aberdares Forest, which separated the European “White Highlan…
Elton Mayo and the English Dream
Elton Mayo remains a controversial but elusive figure in the development of applied social science. A re-examination of the principal myths surrounding him is made possible by new evidence chiefly from family letters. These show the importance of England to him both personally and professionally and throw a new light on his lack of integration into American academic life and on the nature of his influence in Britain
Elton Mayo and the Hidden Hawthorne
Fifty years of controversy have established the Hawthorne Experiments as industrial sociology's most durable legend and Elton Mayo as one of its most enigmatic figures. The precise part played by Mayo has been the subject of widely different interpretations both favourable and unfavourable. New evidence from his personal papers and from the Hawthorne archives support the view that his was a central role in developing as well as publicising the Ex…
The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics
The Nigerian Millitary: A Sociological Analysis of Authority and Revolt 1960–1967
The Nigerian Millitary: a sociological analysis of authority and revolt 1960–1967 Get access The Nigerian Millitary: a sociological analysis of authority and revolt 1960–1967, by Robin Luckham. CUP, 1971. xiii+376pp. 43 tables, map, appendices and indices. £6·00. The Nigerian Army 1956–1966, by N. J. Miners. Methuen, 1971. 290pp. £2·25 hardback. £1·40 paperback. The Police in Modern Nigeria, by T. N. Tamuno. Ibadan University Press, 1971. 332pp. …
The Study of Society--A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Apprenticeship in Europe: The Lesson for Britain
Bridging Occupations
The Gordon's Mill Farming Club, 1758-1764
The University Teaching of the Social Sciences: Industrial Sociology
Tantalus in the Digital Age: Coltan ore, temporal dispossession, and "movement" in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
This article concerns the paradoxical value potentials of coltan and coltan mining in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, focusing on the actions and statements of diggers, traders, and state and military authorities in and around mining enclaves. Coltan ore is essential for Digital Age technology, and the struggle for it and other minerals is partly responsible for the historical and ongoing violent conflict in the region. However, a great…
The Enduring Legacy of Elton Mayo
When Human Relations first appeared, Elton Mayo had just retired from Harvard and was at the peak of his fame. All contributors to the journal in its first decade would have acknowledged his already legendary status as a pioneer of applied social science, especially in the workplace. His fall from grace in the late 1950s coincided with growing ideological-cum-methodological critiques of the Hawthorne Experiments. In the event, this sustained inte…
Buying a better witch doctor: Witch-finding, neoliberalism, and the development imagination in the Taita Hills, Kenya
In this article, I examine the efforts of a Kenyan community to make sense of, and to act on, structural transformations associated with economic and political liberalization and globalization. To locate the sources of its conjoined moral and economic decline, the community employed the witch finder Maji Marefu to expose the real circuits of power and abuse underlying the false appearances of everyday life and to make the institutions and practic…
Bridging Occupations
May it never end: Price wars, networks, and temporality in the “3 Ts” mining trade of the Eastern DR Congo
In this article, I examine some of the ways in which artisanal mining communities in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo experience digital age capitalism. I show how an extractive economy in tantalum, tin, and tungsten (referred to in NGO circles as the "3 Ts") shapes experiences and understandings of space, time, and value. Making use of oral narratives and other ethnographic data, I focus on the interconnections among time and price, as w…
Njama's Supper: The Consumption and Use of Literary Potency by Mau Mau Insurgents in Colonial Kenya
In this essay I hope to come closer to an understanding of how Mau Mau insurgents created a world in the Aberdares forest composed of individuals and groups who contested the means for which positive social value could be attained.Mau Mau is the name given by whites to the Central Kenyan insurgency that became openly violent in 1952. Most Mau Mau violence was centered in and around the Aberdares Forest, which separated the European “White Highlan…
Snake-driven development: Culture, nature and religious conflict in neoliberal Kenya
This article examines how different groups of Luo people living in a village in western Kenya fought over, publicized, and sought to harness the power of a returned python-spirit referred to as Omieri. The alleged return of Omieri catalyzed the local imagination concerning a range of issues, and mobilized all of the major social groups and dominant cosmological-ideological perspectives in the region, while also becoming a source of cooperation an…
Of Spirit Possession and Structural Adjustment Programs: Government Downsizing, Education and Their Enchantments in Neo-Liberal Kenya
This article analyzes a case of possession by spirit familiars (majini) among female students of a primary school in the Taita/Taveta District of Kenya. I explore the symbolic and historical significance of majini among the people of Taita (Wataita), examining in particular the homology among local conceptions of majini and local conceptions of money. I argue that the idea of majini has long reflected the discontents of the particular modernity t…
Elton Mayo and the Hidden Hawthorne
Fifty years of controversy have established the Hawthorne Experiments as industrial sociology's most durable legend and Elton Mayo as one of its most enigmatic figures. The precise part played by Mayo has been the subject of widely different interpretations both favourable and unfavourable. New evidence from his personal papers and from the Hawthorne archives support the view that his was a central role in developing as well as publicising the Ex…
Managers and Married Women Workers
The Study of Society--A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Correlates of Quality of Life of Agricultural Scholarship Recipients
Apprenticeship in Europe: The Lesson for Britain
Nationalized Industry and Public Ownership
Morale in War and Work
The Distribution of Power in Nationalized Industries
r NHE APPOINTMENT of the National Coal Board was announced in the summer of I946. In the following three years ownership of the i fuel and power and transport industries was vested in a number of public corporations, two of which controlled, in terms of total undertakings and labour force, industrial organizations larger than any previously known in this country, or in the United states.l The National Coal Board acquired over I,500 collieries and…
Elton Mayo and the English Dream
Elton Mayo remains a controversial but elusive figure in the development of applied social science. A re-examination of the principal myths surrounding him is made possible by new evidence chiefly from family letters. These show the importance of England to him both personally and professionally and throw a new light on his lack of integration into American academic life and on the nature of his influence in Britain
The Distribution of Power in Nationalized Industries
r NHE APPOINTMENT of the National Coal Board was announced in the summer of I946. In the following three years ownership of the i fuel and power and transport industries was vested in a number of public corporations, two of which controlled, in terms of total undertakings and labour force, industrial organizations larger than any previously known in this country, or in the United states.l The National Coal Board acquired over I,500 collieries and…
To and Fro: Human Relations in American Industry Seen Through Dutch Eyes
Scunthorpe and Its Families
The Scope of Industrial Relations
Recent Economic Trends: P ost ‐war T rends in S cottish A griculture
The gross reproduction rates for Scottish cities and counties have come much closer to each other between 1930‐32 and 1950‐52. This process has taken the form of spectacular increases in some counties with small populations and decreases by smaller amounts in cities and counties with large populations. To a considerable extent this has been due to reductions in the differences in the proportions of married women in the reproductive age‐groups. Th…
Industrial Society
Morale in War and Work
Trade Union Leadership; Based on a Study of Arthur Deakin
New Ways in Industrial Sociology
tF INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY must be given a beginning, it | is generally agreed to have been fathered by the Hawthorne XExperiments and the subsequent writings of Elton Mayo and his colleagues. The full account of those experiments Roethlisberger and Dickson's Management and the Worker was published in I939, SO we shall shortly be able to celebrate the infant's coming of age. Looking back, he seems to have followed a fairly typical pattern of develop…
Sociology and Management Studies
HE CONTRIBUTION of the sociologist to the study of | industrial problems, particularly those of morale and inter1 group conflict, has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years; and one might reasonably expect recognition of this development in the teaching of management subjects in the universities. Yet if we make the obvious comparison between Britain and the United States, there is a considerable difference. Sociology is no stranger to the…
Nationalized Industry and Public Ownership
Managers and Married Women Workers
The University Teaching of the Social Sciences: Industrial Sociology
Les sciences sociales dans l'enseignement supérieur: Sociologie industrielle
Bridging Occupations
The Gordon's Mill Farming Club, 1758-1764
Apprenticeship in Europe: The Lesson for Britain
The Study of Society--A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
The Nigerian Millitary: A Sociological Analysis of Authority and Revolt 1960–1967
The Nigerian Millitary: a sociological analysis of authority and revolt 1960–1967 Get access The Nigerian Millitary: a sociological analysis of authority and revolt 1960–1967, by Robin Luckham. CUP, 1971. xiii+376pp. 43 tables, map, appendices and indices. £6·00. The Nigerian Army 1956–1966, by N. J. Miners. Methuen, 1971. 290pp. £2·25 hardback. £1·40 paperback. The Police in Modern Nigeria, by T. N. Tamuno. Ibadan University Press, 1971. 332pp. …
The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics
Elton Mayo and the English Dream
Elton Mayo remains a controversial but elusive figure in the development of applied social science. A re-examination of the principal myths surrounding him is made possible by new evidence chiefly from family letters. These show the importance of England to him both personally and professionally and throw a new light on his lack of integration into American academic life and on the nature of his influence in Britain
Elton Mayo and the Hidden Hawthorne
Fifty years of controversy have established the Hawthorne Experiments as industrial sociology's most durable legend and Elton Mayo as one of its most enigmatic figures. The precise part played by Mayo has been the subject of widely different interpretations both favourable and unfavourable. New evidence from his personal papers and from the Hawthorne archives support the view that his was a central role in developing as well as publicising the Ex…
The Enduring Legacy of Elton Mayo
When Human Relations first appeared, Elton Mayo had just retired from Harvard and was at the peak of his fame. All contributors to the journal in its first decade would have acknowledged his already legendary status as a pioneer of applied social science, especially in the workplace. His fall from grace in the late 1950s coincided with growing ideological-cum-methodological critiques of the Hawthorne Experiments. In the event, this sustained inte…
Njama's Supper: The Consumption and Use of Literary Potency by Mau Mau Insurgents in Colonial Kenya
In this essay I hope to come closer to an understanding of how Mau Mau insurgents created a world in the Aberdares forest composed of individuals and groups who contested the means for which positive social value could be attained.Mau Mau is the name given by whites to the Central Kenyan insurgency that became openly violent in 1952. Most Mau Mau violence was centered in and around the Aberdares Forest, which separated the European “White Highlan…
Of Spirit Possession and Structural Adjustment Programs: Government Downsizing, Education and Their Enchantments in Neo-Liberal Kenya
This article analyzes a case of possession by spirit familiars (majini) among female students of a primary school in the Taita/Taveta District of Kenya. I explore the symbolic and historical significance of majini among the people of Taita (Wataita), examining in particular the homology among local conceptions of majini and local conceptions of money. I argue that the idea of majini has long reflected the discontents of the particular modernity t…
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