John D Baldwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 88476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John D Baldwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | John D |
| FAMILY NAME | Baldwin |
| SIGNATURE | BALDWIN J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Ending the Science Wars
The "science wars" have been raging for decades, raising many questions about the power of science. Some critics claim that science, including social science, is "merely a social construction" that fallible humans have created with words and other symbols. If this is true, is science as formidable a source of knowledge as most scientists claim? Baldwin explains why the edifice of science has robust properties that make it one of the most useful f…
Shibutani and Pragmatism
Tamotsu (Tom) Shibutani was generous in revealing the secrets of his inventive mind with other people. This article, the second in Symbolic Interaction's symposium tribute to this exceptionally creative sociologist, is written by a University of California colleague. The author shares some of Shibutani's creative ideas with those of us who were not fortunate enough to know Shibutani personally
Heterosexual Anal Intercourse: An Understudied, High-Risk Sexual Behavior
Gender Differences in Sexual Interest
George Herbert Mead: The Making of a Social Pragmatist
The effect of ethnic group on sexual activities related to contraception and stds
There is a paucity of empirical data available on how ethnicity affects various sexual behaviors on college campuses. A questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of college students, and 1,173 students completed the questions requesting information about their sexual, contraceptive and STD‐related behavior. Minority students—Asians, Blacks, and Latinos—were oversampled in order to test numerous effects of ethnic group on selected sexual, contra…
The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology--and How to End It
Changing aids‐ and fertility‐related behavior: The effectiveness of sexual education
A questionnaire was used to access the effectiveness of a ten‐week university course on human sexuality in changing students' AIDS‐ and fertility‐related behavior. The students' knowledge and behavior were evaluated (1) early in the class before there were any discussions or readings about sexual behavior, AIDS, or birth control and (2) three months later—approximately one month after completing the class. A randomly selected control group of stu…
Advancing the Chicago School of Pragmatic Sociology: The Life and Work of Tamotsu Shibutani
Tamotsu Shibutani is a contemporary proponent of the Chicago School of pragmatic sociology who has devoted his academic efforts to using the Chicago School of pragmatism to analyze problems of contemporary social life and to refine the theoretical tools available to the discipline of sociology. He has evaluated such topics as the Japanese relocation centers, the social construction of rumor, demoralization in Army life, the dynamics of ethnic str…
The socialization of homosexuality and heterosexuality in a non-Western society
The Use and Abuse of Mead: A Case Study
The Matter of Habit and G. H. Mead: Comment on Camic
Self and Identity: Perspective Across the Life Span
Factors affecting aids‐related sexual risk‐taking behavior among college students
Questionnaires were mailed to a random sample of students at a university in Southern California. The results revealed that for the most part, students were engaging in few activities that would protect them from contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Regression analyses were used to evaluate several variables related to sexual risk‐taking, i.e., condom use, number of sexual partners in the last three months, and casual sex. The most…
George Herbert Mead: A Unifying Theory for Sociology
Habit, Emotion, and Self-Conscious Action
Modern sociological theory tends to be overly cognitive, underemphasizing both habit and emotions. During the past decade, the increased attention to the sociology of emotions has helped partially to correct for some of the problems created by overly cognitive theories. More recent attention is focusing on habitual activities. Although several classic theorists dealt with habit, the concept was dropped from modern sociological theories, beginning…
Mead's Solution to the Problem of Agency
The question of agency is central to several important debates in contemporary sociology. Unfortunately, discussions of agency can become embroiled with issues related to free will and dterminism. George Herbert Mead developed an approach to agency that avoids unsolvable metaphysical problems about free will and determinism. This paper presents Mead's work relevant to agency, revealing both Mead's method and the details of his theory. First, it s…
George Herbert Mead: A Unifying Theory for Sociology
Social Behaviorism on Emotions: Mead and Modern Behaviorism Compared
This paper presents George Herbert Mead's work on emotions from the perspective of social behaviorism and compares it with the modem behavioral analysis of emotions. The two positions are strikingly similar. The main difference between modern behaviorism and Mead's social behaviorism is that contemporary behaviorists have access to a larger empirical data base and more refined theoretical models than Mead had. The modern behavioral analysis of em…
Thrill and Adventure Seeking and the Age Distribution of Crime: Comment on Hirschi and Gottfredson
"Comment on Denzin's "Note on Emotionality, Self, and Interaction
Behavior Principles in Everyday Life
1. Science and Human Behavior2. Pavlovian Conditioning3. Operant Conditioning4. Pavlovian and Operant Conditioning Together5. The Stimulus Collage6. Behavior Modification7. Primary Reinforcers and Punishers8. Secondary Reinforcers and Punishers9. Differential Reinforcement and Shaping10. Modelling and Observational Learning11. Prompts and Fading12. Rules13. Schedules14. Positive and Negative Control15. Thinking, the Self, and Self-Control Referen…
The Radical Spinoza
George Herbert Mead and Modern Behaviorism
There are a large number of similarities between Mead's social behaviorism and the modern behaviorism of Skinner, Bandura, and others. There are two main differences between the two schools, but the differences are not great and are for the most part overshadowed by the similarities. The evaluation of the similarities and differences presented here should help clarify the relationship between these two schools that share many important features a…
The Sociobiology of Homo Sapiens
Factors affecting aids‐related sexual risk‐taking behavior among college students
Questionnaires were mailed to a random sample of students at a university in Southern California. The results revealed that for the most part, students were engaging in few activities that would protect them from contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Regression analyses were used to evaluate several variables related to sexual risk‐taking, i.e., condom use, number of sexual partners in the last three months, and casual sex. The most…
The effect of ethnic group on sexual activities related to contraception and stds
There is a paucity of empirical data available on how ethnicity affects various sexual behaviors on college campuses. A questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of college students, and 1,173 students completed the questions requesting information about their sexual, contraceptive and STD‐related behavior. Minority students—Asians, Blacks, and Latinos—were oversampled in order to test numerous effects of ethnic group on selected sexual, contra…
George Herbert Mead: A Unifying Theory for Sociology
Changing aids‐ and fertility‐related behavior: The effectiveness of sexual education
A questionnaire was used to access the effectiveness of a ten‐week university course on human sexuality in changing students' AIDS‐ and fertility‐related behavior. The students' knowledge and behavior were evaluated (1) early in the class before there were any discussions or readings about sexual behavior, AIDS, or birth control and (2) three months later—approximately one month after completing the class. A randomly selected control group of stu…
Gender Differences in Sexual Interest
Heterosexual Anal Intercourse: An Understudied, High-Risk Sexual Behavior
George Herbert Mead: A Unifying Theory for Sociology
Habit, Emotion, and Self-Conscious Action
Modern sociological theory tends to be overly cognitive, underemphasizing both habit and emotions. During the past decade, the increased attention to the sociology of emotions has helped partially to correct for some of the problems created by overly cognitive theories. More recent attention is focusing on habitual activities. Although several classic theorists dealt with habit, the concept was dropped from modern sociological theories, beginning…
Behaviorism on Verstehen and Erklaren
Modern behaviorism has made significant progress in analyzing private behavior: cognition and emotion. The behavioral distinction between contingency-shaped and rule-governed behavior establishes a starting point for analyzing tacit (subjective, private) knowledge and explicit (objective, public) knowledge. The present paper extends this analysis to include the issues of verstehen and erklaren. One subset of tacit knowledge is verstehen. Behavior…
Thrill and Adventure Seeking and the Age Distribution of Crime: Comment on Hirschi and Gottfredson
British Areal Studies of Crime: An Assessment
Journal Article BRITISH AREAL STUDIES OF CRIME: AN ASSESSMENT Get access JOHN BALDWIN JOHN BALDWIN *Lecturer, Institute of Judicial Administration, Faculty of Law, University of Birmingham. I wish to thank Dr. A. E. Bottoms and Mrs. Monica Walker of Sheffield University and Mrs Monica Shaw of Newcastle Polytechnic for their helpful comments Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology…
The socialization of homosexuality and heterosexuality in a non-Western society
Mead's Solution to the Problem of Agency
The question of agency is central to several important debates in contemporary sociology. Unfortunately, discussions of agency can become embroiled with issues related to free will and dterminism. George Herbert Mead developed an approach to agency that avoids unsolvable metaphysical problems about free will and determinism. This paper presents Mead's work relevant to agency, revealing both Mead's method and the details of his theory. First, it s…
Social Behaviorism on Emotions: Mead and Modern Behaviorism Compared
This paper presents George Herbert Mead's work on emotions from the perspective of social behaviorism and compares it with the modem behavioral analysis of emotions. The two positions are strikingly similar. The main difference between modern behaviorism and Mead's social behaviorism is that contemporary behaviorists have access to a larger empirical data base and more refined theoretical models than Mead had. The modern behavioral analysis of em…
Shibutani and Pragmatism
Tamotsu (Tom) Shibutani was generous in revealing the secrets of his inventive mind with other people. This article, the second in Symbolic Interaction's symposium tribute to this exceptionally creative sociologist, is written by a University of California colleague. The author shares some of Shibutani's creative ideas with those of us who were not fortunate enough to know Shibutani personally
George Herbert Mead and Modern Behaviorism
There are a large number of similarities between Mead's social behaviorism and the modern behaviorism of Skinner, Bandura, and others. There are two main differences between the two schools, but the differences are not great and are for the most part overshadowed by the similarities. The evaluation of the similarities and differences presented here should help clarify the relationship between these two schools that share many important features a…
Reduction and The Future of Sociology
The reductionist position of Homans and Skinner has generated substantial debate among sociologists over the past two decades. Mitch of the debate can be resolved by examining the issues in light of the history of science. A historical analysis suggests that modern sociology has little to lose-and something to gain-by reevaluating its traditional stance on reduction
Advancing the Chicago School of Pragmatic Sociology: The Life and Work of Tamotsu Shibutani
Tamotsu Shibutani is a contemporary proponent of the Chicago School of pragmatic sociology who has devoted his academic efforts to using the Chicago School of pragmatism to analyze problems of contemporary social life and to refine the theoretical tools available to the discipline of sociology. He has evaluated such topics as the Japanese relocation centers, the social construction of rumor, demoralization in Army life, the dynamics of ethnic str…
The Matter of Habit and G. H. Mead: Comment on Camic
The economics of peace and war: A Simulation
In a social system, there are three ways in which an individual can go about obtaining a given object that he wants that belongs to another. He can offer to the other person goods, services, gratitude, status, etc., in exchange for the desired object; he can attempt to take it from the other person by force; or he can threaten to use force. Since in the following study it was not possible to keep accurate records of the use of threats, this paper…
The economics of peace and war: A Simulation
In a social system, there are three ways in which an individual can go about obtaining a given object that he wants that belongs to another. He can offer to the other person goods, services, gratitude, status, etc., in exchange for the desired object; he can attempt to take it from the other person by force; or he can threaten to use force. Since in the following study it was not possible to keep accurate records of the use of threats, this paper…
Social Behavior of Semi-Free Ranging White-Lipped Tamarins
This note summarizes some field observations of seven semi-free ranging white-lipped tamarins ( Leontocebus nigricallis) at Monkey Jungle near Miami, Florida
Influences Detrimental To Simulation Gaming
Reproductive synchronization in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri)
Squirrel monkeys (Saimiri) in natural habitats in Panama, Colombia, Brazil, and Peru
Population density and use of space in howling monkeys (Alouatta villosa) in southwestern Panama
The role of play in social organization: Comparative observations on squirrel monkeys (Saimiri)
The dynamics of interpersonal spacing in monkeys and man
Data from primate studies suggest that social spacing in many species is controlled by conditioning effects. As do monkeys, humans divide up their social space in ways that closely reflect underlying personality factors and social patterns. Although much of social spacing is beyond conscious awareness in daily life, the study of animals and humans has begun to establish the factors that govern proxemic behavior
British Areal Studies of Crime: An Assessment
Journal Article BRITISH AREAL STUDIES OF CRIME: AN ASSESSMENT Get access JOHN BALDWIN JOHN BALDWIN *Lecturer, Institute of Judicial Administration, Faculty of Law, University of Birmingham. I wish to thank Dr. A. E. Bottoms and Mrs. Monica Walker of Sheffield University and Mrs Monica Shaw of Newcastle Polytechnic for their helpful comments Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology…
Observations onCebus capucinus in Southwestern Panama
Sociobiogy and Behavior
Exploration and play in howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata)
Behaviorism on Verstehen and Erklaren
Modern behaviorism has made significant progress in analyzing private behavior: cognition and emotion. The behavioral distinction between contingency-shaped and rule-governed behavior establishes a starting point for analyzing tacit (subjective, private) knowledge and explicit (objective, public) knowledge. The present paper extends this analysis to include the issues of verstehen and erklaren. One subset of tacit knowledge is verstehen. Behavior…
The Social Structure of Attention
Physical Anthropology: Play and Aggression: A Study of Rhesus Monkeys. Donald Symons
The Sociobiology of Homo Sapiens
Sociobiology or Balanced Biosocial Theory
Increasing numbers of sociologists are showing interest in biosocial theories. We present three central criteria for a balanced biosocial theory, i.e., a theory which provides a balanced integration of both genetic and environmental determinants of behavior. Ethology and sociobiology do not possess the properties of balanced theories; and Type II errors make it unlikely that they will reject the key assumptions which make them unbalanced. There a…
Reduction and The Future of Sociology
The reductionist position of Homans and Skinner has generated substantial debate among sociologists over the past two decades. Mitch of the debate can be resolved by examining the issues in light of the history of science. A historical analysis suggests that modern sociology has little to lose-and something to gain-by reevaluating its traditional stance on reduction
The Radical Spinoza
George Herbert Mead and Modern Behaviorism
There are a large number of similarities between Mead's social behaviorism and the modern behaviorism of Skinner, Bandura, and others. There are two main differences between the two schools, but the differences are not great and are for the most part overshadowed by the similarities. The evaluation of the similarities and differences presented here should help clarify the relationship between these two schools that share many important features a…
Behavior Principles in Everyday Life
1. Science and Human Behavior2. Pavlovian Conditioning3. Operant Conditioning4. Pavlovian and Operant Conditioning Together5. The Stimulus Collage6. Behavior Modification7. Primary Reinforcers and Punishers8. Secondary Reinforcers and Punishers9. Differential Reinforcement and Shaping10. Modelling and Observational Learning11. Prompts and Fading12. Rules13. Schedules14. Positive and Negative Control15. Thinking, the Self, and Self-Control Referen…
"Comment on Denzin's "Note on Emotionality, Self, and Interaction
Social Behaviorism on Emotions: Mead and Modern Behaviorism Compared
This paper presents George Herbert Mead's work on emotions from the perspective of social behaviorism and compares it with the modem behavioral analysis of emotions. The two positions are strikingly similar. The main difference between modern behaviorism and Mead's social behaviorism is that contemporary behaviorists have access to a larger empirical data base and more refined theoretical models than Mead had. The modern behavioral analysis of em…
Thrill and Adventure Seeking and the Age Distribution of Crime: Comment on Hirschi and Gottfredson
George Herbert Mead: A Unifying Theory for Sociology
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