Burkart Holzner

Biographic Data

ID81095
NAMEBurkart Holzner
GIVEN NAMESBurkart
FAMILY NAMEHolzner
SIGNATUREHOLZNER B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pittsburgh
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS100
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX5

  • Privatization

    Open AccessBurkart HolznerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Privatization is a transfer of public services provided by various levels of governments in national states to the private sector of business. It is a relatively recent transformation of governance and markets in countries worldwide. In fact, it is an extraordinary, rapidly expanding phenomenon that is rising in global waves, transferring ownership from governments to private enterprises

  • Transparency and Global Change

    Open AccessBurkart HolznerOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    The word “transparent” traditionally means the capacity of light to pass through clear glass so that one can see the things behind it. Transparency also means open, frank, candid, and true, as opposed to opaque or secret. Today, the concept “transparency” in sociology refers to the globally emerging value (and its derivative norms) of information disclosure and access. It asserts that all centers of authority have a “duty to disclose information”…

  • The Self-Guiding Society: The Hope and Challenge of Competent Democracy

    Burkart Holzner, Charles E LindblomARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991

  • Science Impact Assessment and Public Policy

    Open AccessWilliam N Dunn, Andrea M Hegedus et al.ARTICLEReview of Policy Research1988References: 2

    In recent years a number of important science policy issues have rentered on questions about the social utility of science. The field of knowledge systems accounting has evolved as a special form of social impact assessment to observe and measure the impact of science on society. A system of social impacts of science (SIS) indicators has been developed as an attempt to represent these complex patterns and relationships. In the final analysis, the…

  • The Architecture of Knowledge Systems: Toward Policy-Relevant Science Impact Indicators

    Open AccessWilliam N Dunn, Burkart Holzner et al.ARTICLEKnowledge1987References: 10

    The task of designing social impact of science (SIS) indicators is an ill-structured or systemic problem involving competing design goals, indeterminate design states, unspecified design rules, and an unbounded design space. These features of the problem are not a result of imperfections of measurement alone; they are due primarily to properties of the knowledge system that make it resemble a tangled river delta (anastomotic reticulum) in which d…

  • An Accounting Scheme for Designing Science Impact Indicators: The Knowledge System Perspective

    Open AccessBurkart Holzner, William N Dunn et al.ARTICLEKnowledge1987Cited by: 1References: 16

    The social system of knowledge—or knowledge system, for short—is an accounting scheme that helps organize the search for social impact of science (SIS) indicators. The accounting scheme specifies six related knowledge functions (production, structuring, storage, distribution, utilization, and mandating) that are performed in different domains (industry, agriculture, education, and so forth) by many institutions and organizations that vary in size…

  • Constructing Civilizations

    Open AccessBurkart Holzner, Carl J CouchARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology1986Cited by: 13

  • Directions of Change: Modernization Theory, Research, and Realities

    T R Pitt Ford, Thomas R Ford et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1983

  • Guest Editor's Introduction

    Open AccessBurkart HolznerARTICLEKnowledge1982

  • Towards the Economics of Knowledge

    Burkart Holzner, Fritz MachlupARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1982

  • Identity and Authority: Explorations in the Theory of Society

    Alvin W Rose, Alvin Rose et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1982

  • Individual and Society: On the Possibility of a Theory

    Kenneth E Morris, Roland Robertson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1981

  • Identity and Authority: Explorations in the Theory of Society

    Harold J Bershady, Roland Robertson et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1981

    Journal Article Identity and Authority: Explorations in the Theory of Society, ed. by Roland Robertson and Burkart Holzner. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980, 318 pp. $27.50 Get access Harold J. Bershady Harold J. Bershady University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 1, Spring 1981, Pages 69–71, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709703 Published: 01 March 1981

  • Identity and Authority: Explorations in the Theory of Society

    Robert Wuthnow, Roland Robertson et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1981Cited by: 3

  • Meaning and Appreciation: Time and Modern Political Life

    Burkart Holzner, Michael A WeinsteinARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1980

    The great crisis of twentieth-century philosophy has been the loss of meaning as a criterion for conduct. With the collapse of the historical sociologies of the nineteenth century and their replacement by relativistic doctrines, contemporary thought has retreated to the fleeting present moment as the ground for describing action. In Meaning and Appreciation, Michael Weinstein traces the history of the failure of historical meaning, showing how th…

  • Knowledge application: The Knowledge System in Society

    Burkart HolznerBOOKKnowledge application1979

  • Knowledge in Use: Considerations in the Sociology of Knowledge Application

    Open AccessBurkart Holzner, Evelyn M Fisher et al.ARTICLEKnowledge1979Cited by: 12

  • Conceptions of Research and Development for Education in the United States

    Open AccessBurkart Holzner, Leslie Salmon-CoxARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1977Cited by: 2

    In the early 1960s, spurred by federal initia tives and funding, a movement got underway to place educa tional practice on a foundation of scientifically based know ledge. The Research and Development Centers pro gram was the first of several institutional approaches to what came later to be known as the knowledge production and use (KPU) system in education. Based on their thirteen. years of case study experience of one such center, and their ap…

  • The Social Construction of Strain and Ideological Models of Grievance in Contemporary Movements

    Josef Marx, John H Marx et al.ARTICLEThe Pacific Sociological Review1977Cited by: 8References: 17

  • Paul Lazarsfeld and the Study of Knowledge Applications

    Burkart Holzner, Evelyn M Fisher et al.ARTICLESociological Focus1977Cited by: 1References: 8

    The death of Paul Lazarsfeld during the 1976 ASA convention saddened all sociologists. In this paper, three of Lazarsfeld's colleagues at The University of Pittsburgh attempt to put the entire corpus of his works on the sociology of knowledge and communication into perspective, with special reference to his recent work (with Jeffrey G. Reitz, in collaboration with Ann K. Pasanella), An Introduction to Applied Sociology (Elesvier, 1976). They argu…

  • Ideology and Social Knowledge. Harold J. Bershady

    Burkart HolznerARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1976

  • Ideological Primary Groups in Contemporary Cultural Movements

    Josef Marx, John H Marx et al.ARTICLESociological Focus1975Cited by: 1References: 15

    This paper argues that “post-modern” societies generate movements for cultural change in models “of” and “for” identity and consciousness, rather than traditional kinds of social movements aiming at structural changes in institutional arrangements. The distinctive and crucial unit in comtemporary cultural movements is what we have termed the “ideological group.” These groups are similar to the “ideological informal groups” which recruited members…

  • "Comments on Heap and Roth "On Phenomenological Sociology

    Burkart HolznerARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1974Cited by: 1

  • Inter-Civilizational Encounters and the Construction of Social Actors. A Note

    Burkart HolznerARTICLESociological Analysis1974

    Journal Article Inter-Civilizational Encounters and the Construction of Social Actors. A Note Get access Burkart Holzner Burkart Holzner University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 35, Issue 2, Summer 1974, Pages 119–122, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709744 Published: 01 July 1974

  • Rebellion in the University.Seymour Martin Lipset

    Burkart HolznerARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1973