Maxine P Atkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 76264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxine P Atkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxine P |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkinson |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINSON M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Sociology in Action
Teaching Community Networks
Despite the prominence of teaching in academia, we know little about how graduate students learn to teach. We propose the concept of a teaching community network (TCN), an informal social network that facilitates the exchange of teaching-specific resources. We explore the role of TCNs through a case study of a sociology doctoral program at a large state university. Results reveal that students rely heavily on informal ties within the graduate stu…
Sociology of the College Classroom
Teaching Sociology's emphasis on the scholarship of teaching and learning has moved the field well beyond simple description of teaching methods. There is no doubt that the journal is more scholarly than in the past. Still, we do not take advantage of our rich theoretical disciplinary work. There is much to learn sociologically about the classroom and other sites of interaction between teachers and students. Our classrooms are social sites and ou…
From the Outside Looking In
The Evidence Matrix
THE DEBATE DEFINING THINKING, critical thinking, and higher-level thinking is expan sive. Geersteen (2003) provides an excellent review of this literature and suggests that one way to distinguish between lowerand higher-level thinking is based on the level of abstraction. In this article, we focus on analysis and synthesis or integration-that is, identifying parts and putting these parts together to form a coherent whole. We offer a simple heuris…
Inquiry-Guided Learning in Sociology
This paper is based on a workshop of the same name presented at the 2007 American Sociological Association meetings. The purpose of the workshop and this article is to focus attention on teaching methods that require students to actively investigate sociological phenomena. During the workshop, participants practiced constructing inquiry-guided learning activities suitable for a range of different courses taught throughout the curriculum. These ac…
Table Reading Skills as Quantitative Literacy
Integrating Sociological Research Into Large Introductory Courses
Sociologists can make meaningful contributions to quantitative literacy by teaching sociological research skills in sociology classes, including introductory courses. We report on the effectiveness of requiring a research module in a large introductory class. The module is designed to teach both basic research skills and to increase awareness of race and gender inequality. We find that a majority of students are able to interpret basic percentage…
For Women, Breadwinning Can Be Dangerous
To explain wife abuse, we offer a refinement of relative resource theory, gendered resource theory, which argues that the effect of relative resources is contingent upon husbands' gender ideologies. We use data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (N =4,296) to test three theories of wife abuse. Resource theory receives no support. Relative resource theory receives limited support. Gendered resource theory receive…
Greedy Institutions
This article focuses on how the institutional contexts of colleges and universities shape these “greedy institutions.” We look at the current social, political, and economic trends affecting all postsecondary institutions, specifically the forces that encourage “greediness.” We examine the literature on structural arenas that influence teaching in higher education, including type of institution and departmental level characteristics, considering …
The Future of Sociology is Teaching? A Vision of the Possible
The biggest lie in academe is that the bedrock of faculty rewards and responsibilities is triumvirate of teaching, research, and service. Many academic sociologists view teaching as something to do to earn the right to perform the truly important work: MY RESEARCH. Others value teaching but lack peer respect because professional recognition for teaching is either absent or infrequent. Teaching, like service, is too often the activity you have to …
Parental Involvement and Adolescent Development
A series of structural equation models was specified to examine whether parental involvement predicts adolescents' development, controlling on family socioeconomic statuses, family composition, mothers 'work status, race, and gender Three measures of adolescent development and two dimensions of parental involvement were entered in the equations. The measures of development were grade point average, a standardized achievement test score, and an in…
Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods
Maternal Employment Experiences and Children's Behavior
Recently, MacEwen and Barling (1991) published an article on the effects of maternal employment experiences on children's behavior. The authors suggest that most empirical research on the impact of maternal employment has focused on whether children of employed mothers suffer ill effects and suggest that, popular notions notwithstanding, there appear to be no consistent negative effects of maternal employment experiences on families. However, whe…
Fathering in the 20th Century
L'article analyse les definitions de la paternite et l'interet qu'elle a suscite de 1900 a 1989 aux Etats-Unis. Les AA. montrent que l'interet pour la paternite a davantage fluctue qu'augmente. Ils s'interrogent sur la maniere dont le role paternel a ete defini par la presse populaire au cours de cette periode et comment cette definition a evolue
Gender, Familial Control, and Delinquency
This research addresses a key process in power‐control theory, namely, the gender stratification of social control. Using a multidimensional measure of familial control, the authors find evidence that the types of familial control employed are stratified by gender: male children are more typically aligned with paternal support and appearance rules, and female children are more often the objects of maternal support and curfew rules. All four dimen…
Farm Women
Ladies
The lady represented the ideal image for most nineteenth‐century American women, even those who pioneered the American frontier. The Southern lady, however, has always been considered the particular embodiment of that image. Since the advent of women's liberation and the large‐scale movement of women into the labor force, one might well question the salience of the lady as role model for contemporary women. Do modern women still want to be ladies…
Marital Age Heterogamy and Homogamy, 1900 to 1980
Using US census data from 1900 1960 and 1980 this paper investigates age differences between spouses over time and examines the structural variables that differentiate age-homogamous marriages from age-heterogamous marriages to see if these trends also differ over time. The variables examined include wifes education wifes employment status husbands occupational status wifes occupational status annual family income race rural residence wifes count…
Mothers and Such
Wasp (Wives as Senior Partners)
Using exchange and interactionist perspectives, this research explores a previously ignored contemporary marriage pattern: Wives as Senior Partners. WASP marriages are those in which marriage and family life are organized around the wife's job or career rather than the husband's. We found that there are three social conditions concurrent with WASP marriages: wives having traditionally male jobs, flexibility of husbands' jobs, and absence of child…
For Women, Breadwinning Can Be Dangerous
To explain wife abuse, we offer a refinement of relative resource theory, gendered resource theory, which argues that the effect of relative resources is contingent upon husbands' gender ideologies. We use data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (N =4,296) to test three theories of wife abuse. Resource theory receives no support. Relative resource theory receives limited support. Gendered resource theory receive…
Gender, Familial Control, and Delinquency
This research addresses a key process in power‐control theory, namely, the gender stratification of social control. Using a multidimensional measure of familial control, the authors find evidence that the types of familial control employed are stratified by gender: male children are more typically aligned with paternal support and appearance rules, and female children are more often the objects of maternal support and curfew rules. All four dimen…
Marital Age Heterogamy and Homogamy, 1900 to 1980
Using US census data from 1900 1960 and 1980 this paper investigates age differences between spouses over time and examines the structural variables that differentiate age-homogamous marriages from age-heterogamous marriages to see if these trends also differ over time. The variables examined include wifes education wifes employment status husbands occupational status wifes occupational status annual family income race rural residence wifes count…
Wasp (Wives as Senior Partners)
Using exchange and interactionist perspectives, this research explores a previously ignored contemporary marriage pattern: Wives as Senior Partners. WASP marriages are those in which marriage and family life are organized around the wife's job or career rather than the husband's. We found that there are three social conditions concurrent with WASP marriages: wives having traditionally male jobs, flexibility of husbands' jobs, and absence of child…
Parental Involvement and Adolescent Development
A series of structural equation models was specified to examine whether parental involvement predicts adolescents' development, controlling on family socioeconomic statuses, family composition, mothers 'work status, race, and gender Three measures of adolescent development and two dimensions of parental involvement were entered in the equations. The measures of development were grade point average, a standardized achievement test score, and an in…
Greedy Institutions
This article focuses on how the institutional contexts of colleges and universities shape these “greedy institutions.” We look at the current social, political, and economic trends affecting all postsecondary institutions, specifically the forces that encourage “greediness.” We examine the literature on structural arenas that influence teaching in higher education, including type of institution and departmental level characteristics, considering …
Inquiry-Guided Learning in Sociology
This paper is based on a workshop of the same name presented at the 2007 American Sociological Association meetings. The purpose of the workshop and this article is to focus attention on teaching methods that require students to actively investigate sociological phenomena. During the workshop, participants practiced constructing inquiry-guided learning activities suitable for a range of different courses taught throughout the curriculum. These ac…
Integrating Sociological Research Into Large Introductory Courses
Sociologists can make meaningful contributions to quantitative literacy by teaching sociological research skills in sociology classes, including introductory courses. We report on the effectiveness of requiring a research module in a large introductory class. The module is designed to teach both basic research skills and to increase awareness of race and gender inequality. We find that a majority of students are able to interpret basic percentage…
Sociology of the College Classroom
Teaching Sociology's emphasis on the scholarship of teaching and learning has moved the field well beyond simple description of teaching methods. There is no doubt that the journal is more scholarly than in the past. Still, we do not take advantage of our rich theoretical disciplinary work. There is much to learn sociologically about the classroom and other sites of interaction between teachers and students. Our classrooms are social sites and ou…
Fathering in the 20th Century
L'article analyse les definitions de la paternite et l'interet qu'elle a suscite de 1900 a 1989 aux Etats-Unis. Les AA. montrent que l'interet pour la paternite a davantage fluctue qu'augmente. Ils s'interrogent sur la maniere dont le role paternel a ete defini par la presse populaire au cours de cette periode et comment cette definition a evolue
Teaching Community Networks
Despite the prominence of teaching in academia, we know little about how graduate students learn to teach. We propose the concept of a teaching community network (TCN), an informal social network that facilitates the exchange of teaching-specific resources. We explore the role of TCNs through a case study of a sociology doctoral program at a large state university. Results reveal that students rely heavily on informal ties within the graduate stu…
Table Reading Skills as Quantitative Literacy
The Future of Sociology is Teaching? A Vision of the Possible
The biggest lie in academe is that the bedrock of faculty rewards and responsibilities is triumvirate of teaching, research, and service. Many academic sociologists view teaching as something to do to earn the right to perform the truly important work: MY RESEARCH. Others value teaching but lack peer respect because professional recognition for teaching is either absent or infrequent. Teaching, like service, is too often the activity you have to …
The Evidence Matrix
THE DEBATE DEFINING THINKING, critical thinking, and higher-level thinking is expan sive. Geersteen (2003) provides an excellent review of this literature and suggests that one way to distinguish between lowerand higher-level thinking is based on the level of abstraction. In this article, we focus on analysis and synthesis or integration-that is, identifying parts and putting these parts together to form a coherent whole. We offer a simple heuris…
From the Outside Looking In
Ladies
The lady represented the ideal image for most nineteenth‐century American women, even those who pioneered the American frontier. The Southern lady, however, has always been considered the particular embodiment of that image. Since the advent of women's liberation and the large‐scale movement of women into the labor force, one might well question the salience of the lady as role model for contemporary women. Do modern women still want to be ladies…
Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods
Maternal Employment Experiences and Children's Behavior
Recently, MacEwen and Barling (1991) published an article on the effects of maternal employment experiences on children's behavior. The authors suggest that most empirical research on the impact of maternal employment has focused on whether children of employed mothers suffer ill effects and suggest that, popular notions notwithstanding, there appear to be no consistent negative effects of maternal employment experiences on families. However, whe…
Wasp (Wives as Senior Partners)
Using exchange and interactionist perspectives, this research explores a previously ignored contemporary marriage pattern: Wives as Senior Partners. WASP marriages are those in which marriage and family life are organized around the wife's job or career rather than the husband's. We found that there are three social conditions concurrent with WASP marriages: wives having traditionally male jobs, flexibility of husbands' jobs, and absence of child…
Marital Age Heterogamy and Homogamy, 1900 to 1980
Using US census data from 1900 1960 and 1980 this paper investigates age differences between spouses over time and examines the structural variables that differentiate age-homogamous marriages from age-heterogamous marriages to see if these trends also differ over time. The variables examined include wifes education wifes employment status husbands occupational status wifes occupational status annual family income race rural residence wifes count…
Mothers and Such
Ladies
The lady represented the ideal image for most nineteenth‐century American women, even those who pioneered the American frontier. The Southern lady, however, has always been considered the particular embodiment of that image. Since the advent of women's liberation and the large‐scale movement of women into the labor force, one might well question the salience of the lady as role model for contemporary women. Do modern women still want to be ladies…
Farm Women
Gender, Familial Control, and Delinquency
This research addresses a key process in power‐control theory, namely, the gender stratification of social control. Using a multidimensional measure of familial control, the authors find evidence that the types of familial control employed are stratified by gender: male children are more typically aligned with paternal support and appearance rules, and female children are more often the objects of maternal support and curfew rules. All four dimen…
Fathering in the 20th Century
L'article analyse les definitions de la paternite et l'interet qu'elle a suscite de 1900 a 1989 aux Etats-Unis. Les AA. montrent que l'interet pour la paternite a davantage fluctue qu'augmente. Ils s'interrogent sur la maniere dont le role paternel a ete defini par la presse populaire au cours de cette periode et comment cette definition a evolue
Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods
Maternal Employment Experiences and Children's Behavior
Recently, MacEwen and Barling (1991) published an article on the effects of maternal employment experiences on children's behavior. The authors suggest that most empirical research on the impact of maternal employment has focused on whether children of employed mothers suffer ill effects and suggest that, popular notions notwithstanding, there appear to be no consistent negative effects of maternal employment experiences on families. However, whe…
Parental Involvement and Adolescent Development
A series of structural equation models was specified to examine whether parental involvement predicts adolescents' development, controlling on family socioeconomic statuses, family composition, mothers 'work status, race, and gender Three measures of adolescent development and two dimensions of parental involvement were entered in the equations. The measures of development were grade point average, a standardized achievement test score, and an in…
The Future of Sociology is Teaching? A Vision of the Possible
The biggest lie in academe is that the bedrock of faculty rewards and responsibilities is triumvirate of teaching, research, and service. Many academic sociologists view teaching as something to do to earn the right to perform the truly important work: MY RESEARCH. Others value teaching but lack peer respect because professional recognition for teaching is either absent or infrequent. Teaching, like service, is too often the activity you have to …
Greedy Institutions
This article focuses on how the institutional contexts of colleges and universities shape these “greedy institutions.” We look at the current social, political, and economic trends affecting all postsecondary institutions, specifically the forces that encourage “greediness.” We examine the literature on structural arenas that influence teaching in higher education, including type of institution and departmental level characteristics, considering …
For Women, Breadwinning Can Be Dangerous
To explain wife abuse, we offer a refinement of relative resource theory, gendered resource theory, which argues that the effect of relative resources is contingent upon husbands' gender ideologies. We use data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (N =4,296) to test three theories of wife abuse. Resource theory receives no support. Relative resource theory receives limited support. Gendered resource theory receive…
Integrating Sociological Research Into Large Introductory Courses
Sociologists can make meaningful contributions to quantitative literacy by teaching sociological research skills in sociology classes, including introductory courses. We report on the effectiveness of requiring a research module in a large introductory class. The module is designed to teach both basic research skills and to increase awareness of race and gender inequality. We find that a majority of students are able to interpret basic percentage…
Table Reading Skills as Quantitative Literacy
The Evidence Matrix
THE DEBATE DEFINING THINKING, critical thinking, and higher-level thinking is expan sive. Geersteen (2003) provides an excellent review of this literature and suggests that one way to distinguish between lowerand higher-level thinking is based on the level of abstraction. In this article, we focus on analysis and synthesis or integration-that is, identifying parts and putting these parts together to form a coherent whole. We offer a simple heuris…
Inquiry-Guided Learning in Sociology
This paper is based on a workshop of the same name presented at the 2007 American Sociological Association meetings. The purpose of the workshop and this article is to focus attention on teaching methods that require students to actively investigate sociological phenomena. During the workshop, participants practiced constructing inquiry-guided learning activities suitable for a range of different courses taught throughout the curriculum. These ac…
Sociology of the College Classroom
Teaching Sociology's emphasis on the scholarship of teaching and learning has moved the field well beyond simple description of teaching methods. There is no doubt that the journal is more scholarly than in the past. Still, we do not take advantage of our rich theoretical disciplinary work. There is much to learn sociologically about the classroom and other sites of interaction between teachers and students. Our classrooms are social sites and ou…
From the Outside Looking In
Teaching Community Networks
Despite the prominence of teaching in academia, we know little about how graduate students learn to teach. We propose the concept of a teaching community network (TCN), an informal social network that facilitates the exchange of teaching-specific resources. We explore the role of TCNs through a case study of a sociology doctoral program at a large state university. Results reveal that students rely heavily on informal ties within the graduate stu…
Sociology in Action
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