Paul William Kingston
Biographic Data
| ID | 82387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul William Kingston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul William |
| FAMILY NAME | Kingston |
| SIGNATURE | KINGSTON P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The High-Status Track
The High-Status Track
The High Status Track
Justice, Gender, and the Family
Merry White
American education is in “crisis.” That was the message of numerous recent reports indicting American schools for woeful intellectual rigor and lax standards. And many accepted the related conclusion: we were a “nation at risk” beset by an unproductive work force and an inability to compete in the international economy. Indeed, discontent with schools seemed more to reflect a diffuse worry about America’s economic and moral vitality than any conc…
Bloom’s Appeal to the American Mind
Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind has struck a raw nerve among those who think about American education -- and, indeed, about the general condition of American society. Not only have reviewers in prominent publications praised and condemned this work in the most extravagant terms, but its public attention far exceeds the grandest hopes of any “serious” nonfiction author, much less one who makes Plato the hero and the debasement of ph…
The Wages of Writing
Time with Children
Using detailed time diaries of a 1981 national sample of 226 married couples with children, we analyze the extent of the trade-off between their time commitments to work and time with their children. Parents in single-earner families spend substantially more time with children than their dual-earner counterparts; the overall difference is largely accounted for by the lesser time of employed mothers in activities that involve children only periphe…
Time Together Among Dual-Earner Couples
This study examines the amount of time dual-earner couples spend together by analyzing time diaries (N= 177) from the 1981 Study of Time Use. We find that time together is substantially reduced by the number of hours couples work (combined) and how they schedule these hours. Sociocultural and life-cycle factors appear to have very limited net effects on time spent together. There is a theoretically predictable relationship between marital quality…
Is There a Marriage Gap in Politics
With 1984 national survey data, the authors test whether there is a marriage gap in politics-that is, does marital status affect political orientations and participation? Married and single persons consistently differ in their politics: the married were relatively inclined to Reagan, the Republican party, conservative self-identification, and conservative views on a number of issues. However, multivariate analyses indicate that marital status per…
Resistance theory
Theory at risk
Getting on the Fast Track
There appears to be a recruitment process in which recruits tend to look at people much like themselves, proceed with an uncertain feel for what defines a desirable candidate (while emphasising considerations of personal style over indicators of analytical‐technical competence), and concentrate efforts among those who have received a prestigious degree. Analysis of one American business school's recruiting procedures produces evidence that simply…
Consequences of the Family Work Day
The paper analyzes how dimensions of the work are related to various aspects of the domestic lives of dual-earner couples. (The concept of the family work day directs attention to the combined number of hours that a couple works each day, as well as how the two separate schedules are related to each other.) Neither the combined number of hours a couple works nor the amount of time one or both spouses is working is strongly related to the quality …
Sociological Explanation as Translation
Preface 1. Introduction: the object of sociological explanation 2. Winch's account of the sociological explanation of action 3. Some criticisms of the Winch thesis 4. A pattern of explanation 5. Recognising the solution Notes References Index
The Family Work Day
To understand the difficulties working couples face in balancing their work and family lives, we argue that it is essential to consider the family work day, the pattern of work-time commitment for a family as a unit that results from the combination of two individual workday schedules. Based on national survey data, we present estimates of three dimensions of the family work day for a large subpopulation of working couples. These dimensions are: …
Homeownership and Social Attachment
A multivariate analysis of survey data collected by Claude Fischer (1982) in northern California is used to test whether or not homeownership is associated with attitudes and behaviors that seem supportive of the prevailing social order. Homeownership has a zero-order relationship with each of three indicators of 'social attachment': Attitudes indicative of traditionalism; participation in voluntary organizations; and informal interaction with ne…
Education
Current discussions of education from Jenck's Inequality Coleman's recent controversial pronouncements on desegregation orders and white flight concentrate on the efficacy of educational reform. The articles in this anthology, collected from two issues of the journal Problems, all consider this topic. The volume is divided into six sections, each exploring different aspects of education. In an introductory essay the editors state the theme of the…
Economic and Social Aspects of the Literary Situation
SURVEYS of public opinion have repeatedly found that the occupation of author is held in comparatively high esteem by the American public, ranking among the top 10 percent of all occupations (Reiss, et al., 1961). Since the prestige of an occupation is notably associated with the typical income derived from it (Blau and Duncan, 1967; Featherman and Hauser, 1978; Treiman, 1977), the prestige accorded authors might therefore suggest that Americans …
Time Together Among Dual-Earner Couples
This study examines the amount of time dual-earner couples spend together by analyzing time diaries (N= 177) from the 1981 Study of Time Use. We find that time together is substantially reduced by the number of hours couples work (combined) and how they schedule these hours. Sociocultural and life-cycle factors appear to have very limited net effects on time spent together. There is a theoretically predictable relationship between marital quality…
Homeownership and Social Attachment
A multivariate analysis of survey data collected by Claude Fischer (1982) in northern California is used to test whether or not homeownership is associated with attitudes and behaviors that seem supportive of the prevailing social order. Homeownership has a zero-order relationship with each of three indicators of 'social attachment': Attitudes indicative of traditionalism; participation in voluntary organizations; and informal interaction with ne…
Time with Children
Using detailed time diaries of a 1981 national sample of 226 married couples with children, we analyze the extent of the trade-off between their time commitments to work and time with their children. Parents in single-earner families spend substantially more time with children than their dual-earner counterparts; the overall difference is largely accounted for by the lesser time of employed mothers in activities that involve children only periphe…
Is There a Marriage Gap in Politics
With 1984 national survey data, the authors test whether there is a marriage gap in politics-that is, does marital status affect political orientations and participation? Married and single persons consistently differ in their politics: the married were relatively inclined to Reagan, the Republican party, conservative self-identification, and conservative views on a number of issues. However, multivariate analyses indicate that marital status per…
Consequences of the Family Work Day
The paper analyzes how dimensions of the work are related to various aspects of the domestic lives of dual-earner couples. (The concept of the family work day directs attention to the combined number of hours that a couple works each day, as well as how the two separate schedules are related to each other.) Neither the combined number of hours a couple works nor the amount of time one or both spouses is working is strongly related to the quality …
The Family Work Day
To understand the difficulties working couples face in balancing their work and family lives, we argue that it is essential to consider the family work day, the pattern of work-time commitment for a family as a unit that results from the combination of two individual workday schedules. Based on national survey data, we present estimates of three dimensions of the family work day for a large subpopulation of working couples. These dimensions are: …
Getting on the Fast Track
There appears to be a recruitment process in which recruits tend to look at people much like themselves, proceed with an uncertain feel for what defines a desirable candidate (while emphasising considerations of personal style over indicators of analytical‐technical competence), and concentrate efforts among those who have received a prestigious degree. Analysis of one American business school's recruiting procedures produces evidence that simply…
Economic and Social Aspects of the Literary Situation
SURVEYS of public opinion have repeatedly found that the occupation of author is held in comparatively high esteem by the American public, ranking among the top 10 percent of all occupations (Reiss, et al., 1961). Since the prestige of an occupation is notably associated with the typical income derived from it (Blau and Duncan, 1967; Featherman and Hauser, 1978; Treiman, 1977), the prestige accorded authors might therefore suggest that Americans …
The High-Status Track
Bloom’s Appeal to the American Mind
Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind has struck a raw nerve among those who think about American education -- and, indeed, about the general condition of American society. Not only have reviewers in prominent publications praised and condemned this work in the most extravagant terms, but its public attention far exceeds the grandest hopes of any “serious” nonfiction author, much less one who makes Plato the hero and the debasement of ph…
Resistance theory
Theory at risk
Education
Current discussions of education from Jenck's Inequality Coleman's recent controversial pronouncements on desegregation orders and white flight concentrate on the efficacy of educational reform. The articles in this anthology, collected from two issues of the journal Problems, all consider this topic. The volume is divided into six sections, each exploring different aspects of education. In an introductory essay the editors state the theme of the…
Economic and Social Aspects of the Literary Situation
SURVEYS of public opinion have repeatedly found that the occupation of author is held in comparatively high esteem by the American public, ranking among the top 10 percent of all occupations (Reiss, et al., 1961). Since the prestige of an occupation is notably associated with the typical income derived from it (Blau and Duncan, 1967; Featherman and Hauser, 1978; Treiman, 1977), the prestige accorded authors might therefore suggest that Americans …
The Family Work Day
To understand the difficulties working couples face in balancing their work and family lives, we argue that it is essential to consider the family work day, the pattern of work-time commitment for a family as a unit that results from the combination of two individual workday schedules. Based on national survey data, we present estimates of three dimensions of the family work day for a large subpopulation of working couples. These dimensions are: …
Homeownership and Social Attachment
A multivariate analysis of survey data collected by Claude Fischer (1982) in northern California is used to test whether or not homeownership is associated with attitudes and behaviors that seem supportive of the prevailing social order. Homeownership has a zero-order relationship with each of three indicators of 'social attachment': Attitudes indicative of traditionalism; participation in voluntary organizations; and informal interaction with ne…
Getting on the Fast Track
There appears to be a recruitment process in which recruits tend to look at people much like themselves, proceed with an uncertain feel for what defines a desirable candidate (while emphasising considerations of personal style over indicators of analytical‐technical competence), and concentrate efforts among those who have received a prestigious degree. Analysis of one American business school's recruiting procedures produces evidence that simply…
Consequences of the Family Work Day
The paper analyzes how dimensions of the work are related to various aspects of the domestic lives of dual-earner couples. (The concept of the family work day directs attention to the combined number of hours that a couple works each day, as well as how the two separate schedules are related to each other.) Neither the combined number of hours a couple works nor the amount of time one or both spouses is working is strongly related to the quality …
Sociological Explanation as Translation
Preface 1. Introduction: the object of sociological explanation 2. Winch's account of the sociological explanation of action 3. Some criticisms of the Winch thesis 4. A pattern of explanation 5. Recognising the solution Notes References Index
Resistance theory
Theory at risk
Time Together Among Dual-Earner Couples
This study examines the amount of time dual-earner couples spend together by analyzing time diaries (N= 177) from the 1981 Study of Time Use. We find that time together is substantially reduced by the number of hours couples work (combined) and how they schedule these hours. Sociocultural and life-cycle factors appear to have very limited net effects on time spent together. There is a theoretically predictable relationship between marital quality…
Is There a Marriage Gap in Politics
With 1984 national survey data, the authors test whether there is a marriage gap in politics-that is, does marital status affect political orientations and participation? Married and single persons consistently differ in their politics: the married were relatively inclined to Reagan, the Republican party, conservative self-identification, and conservative views on a number of issues. However, multivariate analyses indicate that marital status per…
Merry White
American education is in “crisis.” That was the message of numerous recent reports indicting American schools for woeful intellectual rigor and lax standards. And many accepted the related conclusion: we were a “nation at risk” beset by an unproductive work force and an inability to compete in the international economy. Indeed, discontent with schools seemed more to reflect a diffuse worry about America’s economic and moral vitality than any conc…
Bloom’s Appeal to the American Mind
Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind has struck a raw nerve among those who think about American education -- and, indeed, about the general condition of American society. Not only have reviewers in prominent publications praised and condemned this work in the most extravagant terms, but its public attention far exceeds the grandest hopes of any “serious” nonfiction author, much less one who makes Plato the hero and the debasement of ph…
The Wages of Writing
Time with Children
Using detailed time diaries of a 1981 national sample of 226 married couples with children, we analyze the extent of the trade-off between their time commitments to work and time with their children. Parents in single-earner families spend substantially more time with children than their dual-earner counterparts; the overall difference is largely accounted for by the lesser time of employed mothers in activities that involve children only periphe…
Justice, Gender, and the Family
The High-Status Track
The High-Status Track
The High Status Track
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