Michael J Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 83224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5245-2576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Overlapping Origins, Diverging Paths
Although public historians and public intellectuals were present in the United States long before the 1970s and 80s, in those decades these terms emerged as focal points for intensified debates about the roles to which they pointed. Those debates shared more than chronological proximity; they had common questions and concerns. As The Public Historian marks its forty-fifth year, comparing discussions about public historians to those about public i…
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang. The Great Exodus from China
After Japan’s surrender in 1945, war continued in China—civil war between Communist and Nationalist forces. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang’s awarding-winning book examines the million Nationalist refugees who made it to Taiwan—not only the traumatic paths of their journey (1945–1956) but also how they reshaped Taiwan and were themselves reshaped by Taiwanese society over subsequent decades. Yang’s findings have implications far beyond twentieth-cent…
For a Black Feminist Digital Sociology
A black feminist digital sociology addresses how black women and black LGBTQ people use digital technology and create or remix digital practices to shape social processes and institutions in contemporary society. Black feminist digital sociology provides a strategy for the analysis of race and technology that recognizes how the matrix of domination maintains unequal social relations and the ways intersecting oppressions creates an unequal distrib…
Hope and Scorn
Hope and Scorn
Shatema Threadcraft, The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (New York
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres
A look at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US presidential election.
Separate but Equal? Individual and Community since the Enlightenment
Herr takes stock of the tensions between individualist and community impulses in the West since the eighteenth century. His study focuses on the United States, France, Spain, Great Britain, and Germany; Austria, Italy, Poland, Portugal, and other European countries receive less attention. Though he sees the struggle to reconcile individuals and communities as characterizing his entire period, Herr divides his work into three distinct sections, ea…
Footbinding, Industrialization, and Evolutionary Explanation
Explaining Culture Scientifically
What exactly is culture? The authors of this volume suggest that the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route to developing a scientific paradigm for the field. The contributors - prominent scholars in anthropology, biology, and economics - approach culture from very different theoretical and methodological perspectives, through studies grounded in fieldwork, surveys, demography, and other empirical data. From humans to chi…
Le célibat masculin involontaire en Chine rurale
Si un homme dispose d'un réseau d'intermédiaires, ses chances de se marier en sont-elles accrues ? En exploitant des données d'enquête recueillies en 2008 dans le district X de la province d'Anhui en Chine, les auteurs analysent les déterminants de la probabilité de premier mariage selon le type de réseau d'un échantillon d'hommes âgés de 18 à 50 ans vivant en milieu rural ( N = 412). L'âge au premier mariage des hommes se concentre entre 22 et 2…
Male Marriage Squeeze and Inter-provincial Marriage in Central China
Since the 1990s, inter-provincial female migration for marriage has become important in central and eastern rural China. Using survey data from X County in rural Anhui Province, we explore the arrangement of inter-provincial marriages, as well as the characteristics of husbands and wives, marital satisfaction, and marital stability for these marriages. We find that inter-provincial marriage is an important option for local men to respond to the m…
Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China
We provide evidence contrary to long-standing general expectations that before 1949 most Chinese women married up the social hierarchy and that footbinding facilitated this hypergamy. In our sample of 7,314 rural women living in Sichuan, Northern, Central, and Southwestern China in the first half of the twentieth century, two-thirds of women did not marry up. In fact, 22 percent of all women, across regions, married down. In most regions, more wo…
Feet and Fabrication
The early twentieth-century transformations of rural Chinese women’s work have received relatively little direct attention. By contrast, the former custom of footbinding continues to fascinate and is often used to illustrate or contest theories about Chinese women’s status. Arguing that for rural women at least, footbinding needs to be understood in relation to rural economic conditions, the authors focus on changes in textile production and in f…
Support for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights
This research outlines the development of a psychometrically sound, uni-dimensional scale to assess support for gay and lesbian civil rights. Initial scale development involved examining item-pool responses from 224 undergraduate students. The resulting Support for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights (SGLCR) scale consisted of 20 items. In a series of studies, the SGLCR demonstrated a stable factor structure, strong internal consistency, test-retest rel…
Changing authentic identities
Despite ideological rhetoric to the contrary, identity changes and authenticity depend on social experience - the lived interactions of individuals as well as the broad range of political-economic, historical, and personal factors that shape those interactions. Because governments influence social experience, they can shape identities of their populations. Plains Aborigines in colonial Taiwan became Han Taiwanese after Japanese authorities banned…
Do Women Spend More Time in the Restroom than Men
120 college students were observed entering and exiting a public restroom. A significant sex difference was found (Cohen d = .34)
Perceptions of Same-sex Domestic Violence Among Crisis Center Staff
Ethnic Identity, Cultural Variation, and Processes of Change
Watson’s view that culture held late imperial China together appears to be problematic with regard to standardization and insightful with regard to social theory. Ethnographic evidence about the assimilation of non-Han minority peoples to Han identity shows that orthopraxy led to many nonstandard cultural practices and beliefs. Theoretical implications include reassessment of the canonical interpretive assumption that cultural ideas are the prima…
Is Taiwan Chinese?
The Cultural Impact of Gendered Social Roles and Ethnicity
The differential gendering of a social role in Han and Aborigine religious traditions impacted cultural content when the actual social order resulted in a person holding that role who did not match gendered expectations. The actual holder of the gendered social role of spirit medium influenced both the social rules for who could achieve that role in the future and the religious practices and meanings for which that role holder was responsible. An…
"Portraits of "Primitives
Local Government Agency
Ethnic Classification and Culture
Specific cultural practices, or their absence, definitively mark many ethnic identities. Why then are cultural practices frequently at odds with ethnic categories? The case of the Tujia, an ethnic minority in China, demonstrates the disjuncture between officially assigned ethnic categories, culture and local identity. It also suggests a potential explanation for why such disjunctures occur. State officials apparently classified Tujia in terms of …
Reconstructing Ethnicity
Ethnic identity can have a different basis locally than it does at the level of the larger society or ethnic group. This point is illustrated with a reconstruction of the early twentieth-century ethnic classification used in three villages in southwestern Taiwan. Discrepancies between estimates of ethnic intermarriage based on government records and on interview reports result from cross-ethnic adoptions. Interview reports more accurately portray…
Support for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights
This research outlines the development of a psychometrically sound, uni-dimensional scale to assess support for gay and lesbian civil rights. Initial scale development involved examining item-pool responses from 224 undergraduate students. The resulting Support for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights (SGLCR) scale consisted of 20 items. In a series of studies, the SGLCR demonstrated a stable factor structure, strong internal consistency, test-retest rel…
Effects of a Prosocial Television Soap Opera in Promoting Women's Status
This study examines the effects of "Hum Log" ("We People"), India's first long-running television soap opera. "Hum Log" was a prosocial television program that was designed to promote women's status in Indian society. LISREL analysis was used to measure the degree to which viewers' awareness, involvement, and television dependency mediated the effects of exposure to the television series. Results indicated that exposure to "Hum Log" was positivel…
Ethnic Classification and Culture
Specific cultural practices, or their absence, definitively mark many ethnic identities. Why then are cultural practices frequently at odds with ethnic categories? The case of the Tujia, an ethnic minority in China, demonstrates the disjuncture between officially assigned ethnic categories, culture and local identity. It also suggests a potential explanation for why such disjunctures occur. State officials apparently classified Tujia in terms of …
Perceptions of Same-sex Domestic Violence Among Crisis Center Staff
Ethnic Identity, Cultural Variation, and Processes of Change
Watson’s view that culture held late imperial China together appears to be problematic with regard to standardization and insightful with regard to social theory. Ethnographic evidence about the assimilation of non-Han minority peoples to Han identity shows that orthopraxy led to many nonstandard cultural practices and beliefs. Theoretical implications include reassessment of the canonical interpretive assumption that cultural ideas are the prima…
Male Marriage Squeeze and Inter-provincial Marriage in Central China
Since the 1990s, inter-provincial female migration for marriage has become important in central and eastern rural China. Using survey data from X County in rural Anhui Province, we explore the arrangement of inter-provincial marriages, as well as the characteristics of husbands and wives, marital satisfaction, and marital stability for these marriages. We find that inter-provincial marriage is an important option for local men to respond to the m…
Changing authentic identities
Despite ideological rhetoric to the contrary, identity changes and authenticity depend on social experience - the lived interactions of individuals as well as the broad range of political-economic, historical, and personal factors that shape those interactions. Because governments influence social experience, they can shape identities of their populations. Plains Aborigines in colonial Taiwan became Han Taiwanese after Japanese authorities banned…
Local Government Agency
Feet and Fabrication
The early twentieth-century transformations of rural Chinese women’s work have received relatively little direct attention. By contrast, the former custom of footbinding continues to fascinate and is often used to illustrate or contest theories about Chinese women’s status. Arguing that for rural women at least, footbinding needs to be understood in relation to rural economic conditions, the authors focus on changes in textile production and in f…
Reconstructing Ethnicity
Ethnic identity can have a different basis locally than it does at the level of the larger society or ethnic group. This point is illustrated with a reconstruction of the early twentieth-century ethnic classification used in three villages in southwestern Taiwan. Discrepancies between estimates of ethnic intermarriage based on government records and on interview reports result from cross-ethnic adoptions. Interview reports more accurately portray…
Le célibat masculin involontaire en Chine rurale
Si un homme dispose d'un réseau d'intermédiaires, ses chances de se marier en sont-elles accrues ? En exploitant des données d'enquête recueillies en 2008 dans le district X de la province d'Anhui en Chine, les auteurs analysent les déterminants de la probabilité de premier mariage selon le type de réseau d'un échantillon d'hommes âgés de 18 à 50 ans vivant en milieu rural ( N = 412). L'âge au premier mariage des hommes se concentre entre 22 et 2…
Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China
We provide evidence contrary to long-standing general expectations that before 1949 most Chinese women married up the social hierarchy and that footbinding facilitated this hypergamy. In our sample of 7,314 rural women living in Sichuan, Northern, Central, and Southwestern China in the first half of the twentieth century, two-thirds of women did not marry up. In fact, 22 percent of all women, across regions, married down. In most regions, more wo…
Alternate Civilities
Alternate Civilities: Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan. Robert P. Welter. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. ix. 172 pp., figures, appendix, bibliography, index
Modeling Cities
The vulnerability of urban populations to crises, poor urban decision making, or terrorism means that city stability is a national security issue. And as cities continue to grow, their components are becoming increasingly intertwined, forcing public works officials to treat urban systems as a “system of systems.” The Urban Security Initiative is an integrated, science-based approach that will link computer models of a range of urban processes so …
Footbinding, Industrialization, and Evolutionary Explanation
The Cultural Impact of Gendered Social Roles and Ethnicity
The differential gendering of a social role in Han and Aborigine religious traditions impacted cultural content when the actual social order resulted in a person holding that role who did not match gendered expectations. The actual holder of the gendered social role of spirit medium influenced both the social rules for who could achieve that role in the future and the religious practices and meanings for which that role holder was responsible. An…
Effects of a Prosocial Television Soap Opera in Promoting Women's Status
This study examines the effects of "Hum Log" ("We People"), India's first long-running television soap opera. "Hum Log" was a prosocial television program that was designed to promote women's status in Indian society. LISREL analysis was used to measure the degree to which viewers' awareness, involvement, and television dependency mediated the effects of exposure to the television series. Results indicated that exposure to "Hum Log" was positivel…
On Becoming Chinese
Prayer in the New Testament. Oscar Cullmann
Cultural Interpretation
Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan
Modeling Cities
The vulnerability of urban populations to crises, poor urban decision making, or terrorism means that city stability is a national security issue. And as cities continue to grow, their components are becoming increasingly intertwined, forcing public works officials to treat urban systems as a “system of systems.” The Urban Security Initiative is an integrated, science-based approach that will link computer models of a range of urban processes so …
Alternate Civilities
Alternate Civilities: Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan. Robert P. Welter. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. ix. 172 pp., figures, appendix, bibliography, index
Ethnic Classification and Culture
Specific cultural practices, or their absence, definitively mark many ethnic identities. Why then are cultural practices frequently at odds with ethnic categories? The case of the Tujia, an ethnic minority in China, demonstrates the disjuncture between officially assigned ethnic categories, culture and local identity. It also suggests a potential explanation for why such disjunctures occur. State officials apparently classified Tujia in terms of …
Reconstructing Ethnicity
Ethnic identity can have a different basis locally than it does at the level of the larger society or ethnic group. This point is illustrated with a reconstruction of the early twentieth-century ethnic classification used in three villages in southwestern Taiwan. Discrepancies between estimates of ethnic intermarriage based on government records and on interview reports result from cross-ethnic adoptions. Interview reports more accurately portray…
"Portraits of "Primitives
Local Government Agency
The Cultural Impact of Gendered Social Roles and Ethnicity
The differential gendering of a social role in Han and Aborigine religious traditions impacted cultural content when the actual social order resulted in a person holding that role who did not match gendered expectations. The actual holder of the gendered social role of spirit medium influenced both the social rules for who could achieve that role in the future and the religious practices and meanings for which that role holder was responsible. An…
Is Taiwan Chinese?
Ethnic Identity, Cultural Variation, and Processes of Change
Watson’s view that culture held late imperial China together appears to be problematic with regard to standardization and insightful with regard to social theory. Ethnographic evidence about the assimilation of non-Han minority peoples to Han identity shows that orthopraxy led to many nonstandard cultural practices and beliefs. Theoretical implications include reassessment of the canonical interpretive assumption that cultural ideas are the prima…
Perceptions of Same-sex Domestic Violence Among Crisis Center Staff
Do Women Spend More Time in the Restroom than Men
120 college students were observed entering and exiting a public restroom. A significant sex difference was found (Cohen d = .34)
Changing authentic identities
Despite ideological rhetoric to the contrary, identity changes and authenticity depend on social experience - the lived interactions of individuals as well as the broad range of political-economic, historical, and personal factors that shape those interactions. Because governments influence social experience, they can shape identities of their populations. Plains Aborigines in colonial Taiwan became Han Taiwanese after Japanese authorities banned…
Feet and Fabrication
The early twentieth-century transformations of rural Chinese women’s work have received relatively little direct attention. By contrast, the former custom of footbinding continues to fascinate and is often used to illustrate or contest theories about Chinese women’s status. Arguing that for rural women at least, footbinding needs to be understood in relation to rural economic conditions, the authors focus on changes in textile production and in f…
Support for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights
This research outlines the development of a psychometrically sound, uni-dimensional scale to assess support for gay and lesbian civil rights. Initial scale development involved examining item-pool responses from 224 undergraduate students. The resulting Support for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights (SGLCR) scale consisted of 20 items. In a series of studies, the SGLCR demonstrated a stable factor structure, strong internal consistency, test-retest rel…
Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China
We provide evidence contrary to long-standing general expectations that before 1949 most Chinese women married up the social hierarchy and that footbinding facilitated this hypergamy. In our sample of 7,314 rural women living in Sichuan, Northern, Central, and Southwestern China in the first half of the twentieth century, two-thirds of women did not marry up. In fact, 22 percent of all women, across regions, married down. In most regions, more wo…
Male Marriage Squeeze and Inter-provincial Marriage in Central China
Since the 1990s, inter-provincial female migration for marriage has become important in central and eastern rural China. Using survey data from X County in rural Anhui Province, we explore the arrangement of inter-provincial marriages, as well as the characteristics of husbands and wives, marital satisfaction, and marital stability for these marriages. We find that inter-provincial marriage is an important option for local men to respond to the m…
Le célibat masculin involontaire en Chine rurale
Si un homme dispose d'un réseau d'intermédiaires, ses chances de se marier en sont-elles accrues ? En exploitant des données d'enquête recueillies en 2008 dans le district X de la province d'Anhui en Chine, les auteurs analysent les déterminants de la probabilité de premier mariage selon le type de réseau d'un échantillon d'hommes âgés de 18 à 50 ans vivant en milieu rural ( N = 412). L'âge au premier mariage des hommes se concentre entre 22 et 2…
Explaining Culture Scientifically
What exactly is culture? The authors of this volume suggest that the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route to developing a scientific paradigm for the field. The contributors - prominent scholars in anthropology, biology, and economics - approach culture from very different theoretical and methodological perspectives, through studies grounded in fieldwork, surveys, demography, and other empirical data. From humans to chi…
Footbinding, Industrialization, and Evolutionary Explanation
Separate but Equal? Individual and Community since the Enlightenment
Herr takes stock of the tensions between individualist and community impulses in the West since the eighteenth century. His study focuses on the United States, France, Spain, Great Britain, and Germany; Austria, Italy, Poland, Portugal, and other European countries receive less attention. Though he sees the struggle to reconcile individuals and communities as characterizing his entire period, Herr divides his work into three distinct sections, ea…
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