John P Robinson

Biographic Data

ID90442
NAMEJohn P Robinson
GIVEN NAMESJohn P
FAMILY NAMERobinson
SIGNATUREROBINSON J P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ORCID0000-0002-6585-0116
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS111
TOTAL CITATIONS2229
AUTHOR COUNT111
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX18

  • Stalled or Uneven Gender Revolution? A Long‐Term Processual Framework for Understanding Why Change Is Slow

    Open AccessOriel Sullivan, J Gershuny et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Theory & Review2018Cited by: 72References: 21

    Recently much attention has been focused on whether the gender transformation of paid and unpaid work in society referred to as the gender revolution has hit a wall, or at least stalled. In this article, we discuss key trends in the gender division of labor across 13 developed countries over a 50‐year period. These trends show little decisive evidence for a stall but rather a continuing, if uneven, long‐term trend in the direction of greater gend…

  • The Demand for Multilingual Human Capital in the U.S. Labor Market

    Open AccessRebecca Rubin Damari, William P Rivers et al.ARTICLEForeign Language Annals2017Cited by: 16References: 5

    This article presents the results of a 2014 survey of more than 2,100 U.S. employers on their requirements for multilingual employees. The survey found a significant discrepancy: On the one hand, 93% of respondents “value[d] employees who...are able to work effectively with customers, clients, and businesses from a range of different countries and cultures.” On the other, 66% of respondents reported identifying foreign language skills in the hiri…

  • Time Use Research: Subjective Time Use

    Open AccessJohn P Robinson, J GershunyCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Time Use Research: Recent Developments

    Open AccessJohn P Robinson, Teresa Harms et al.CHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Leisure and Cultural Consumption: US Perspective

    Open AccessJohn P Robinson, Timothy TriplettCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Yet Again, 'Between Absolute and Programme Music

    Gregory Karl, J Robinson et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2015Cited by: 1

    In this paper, we contest Peter Kivy’s claim that there is a clear opposition between ‘absolute music’ and programme music and between musical form and musical expressiveness. We argue, on the contrary, that much music falls somewhere between absolute and programme music as Kivy conceives the categories, and that such music is often primarily organized not on purely formal principles but by means of the overall ‘expressive trajectory’ or ‘poetic …

  • Society's (Virtually) Time-Free Transition into the Digital Age

    Open AccessJohn P Robinson, Chang Won LeeARTICLESocial Indicators Research2014Cited by: 4References: 12

  • Language Votes: Attitudes Toward Foreign Language Policies

    Open AccessWilliam P Rivers, John P Robinson et al.ARTICLEForeign Language Annals2013Cited by: 9References: 8

    This article reports data from opinion polls on attitudes toward language policy in the American public over the last decade. The data provide a foundation on which to advocate for increased support of foreign language learning as a core component of 21st‐century education and citizenship

  • Darkened Surfaces: Camouflage and the Nocturnal Observation of Britain, 1941-45

    Open AccessJohn P Robinson, James Philip RobinsonARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2013Cited by: 14References: 42

    Positioned in relation to an emerging geographical interest into the effects of different atmospheric and observational conditions in shaping sensory engagements with the Earth's surfaces, this paper considers how a critical examination of the practices of camouflage can open up new dialogues into how the Earth's surfaces become known, are interacted with, and transformed in the conditions of darkness. With an empirical focus on the cultural and …

  • Guest Editorial

    Open AccessIsla Forsyth, Jennifer Bair et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2013Cited by: 53References: 52

    What are surfaces?" So much of life occurs at the surface that, as students of the human scene, we are obliged to pay far more attention to its character (subtlety, variety, and density) than we have done.The scholar's neglect and suspicion of surface phenomena is a consequence of a dichotomy in western thought between surface and depth, sensory appreciation and intellectual understanding, with bias against the first of the two terms

  • Americans Less Rushed But No Happier: 1965-2010 Trends in Subjective Time and Happiness

    Open AccessJohn P RobinsonARTICLESocial Indicators Research2013Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Housework: Who Did, Does or Will Do It, and How Much Does It Matter

    Stephen Bianchi, S M Bianchi et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2012

    “Is Anyone Doing the Housework?” (Bianchi et al. 2000) was motivated, like much of the research on housework, by a desire to better understand gender inequality and social change in the work and family arena in the United States. During the 1990s, Arlie Hochschild’s (1989) influential book, The Second Shift, provided the dominant assessment of the gender division of labor in the home (Konigsberg 2011): men were unwilling to share the burden of wo…

  • Introduction. Between Absence and Presence: Geographies of Hiding, Invisibility and Silence

    Rhys Dafydd Jones, John P Robinson et al.ARTICLESpace and Polity2012Cited by: 12References: 24

    (2012). Introduction. Between Absence and Presence: Geographies of Hiding, Invisibility and Silence. Space and Polity: Vol. 16, BETWEEN ABSENCE AND PRESENCE: GEOGRAPHIES OF HIDING, INVISIBILITY AND SILENCE, pp. 257-263

  • Being observant and observed: Embodied citizenship training in the Home Guard and the Boy Scout Movement, 1907–1945

    Open AccessJohn P Robinson, James Robinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2012Cited by: 4References: 14

  • Invisible Targets, Strengthened Morale: Static Camouflage as a ‘Weapon of the Weak

    John P Robinson, James Philip RobinsonARTICLESpace and Polity2012Cited by: 6References: 10

    In the natural world, camouflage is habitually deployed by ‘vulnerable’ creatures to deceive predators. Such protective strategies have been culturally, socially and technologically translated into human societies, whereby camouflage has been used to mask intentions, actions, feelings and valuable objects or spaces. Through the material presence of such techniques, everyday spaces can become inscribed as places of sanctuary. Focusing on British c…

  • It Use and Leisure Time Displacement: Convergent evidence over the last 15 years

    John P RobinsonARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2011

    A major concern about new technologies like information technology (IT) is how much they impact existing media and behaviour, particularly in reducing time on these behaviours. The present article first examines whether Internet users report spending less time on various leisure (and non-leisure) activities. It uses data from three separate national surveys about the public's leisure participation: (1) estimate data from the SPPA2008; (2) single-…

  • Daily Life in 23 Countries

    Open AccessKimberly Fisher, John P Robinson et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2011Cited by: 8

    Citation: Fisher, K. & Robinson, J. (2011). 'Daily life in 23 countries', Social Indicators Research 101(2), 295-304. [Available at http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/journal/11205]. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited

  • Arts and Leisure Participation Among IT Users: Further Evidence of Time Enhancement Over Time Displacement

    Open AccessJohn P RobinsonARTICLESocial Science Computer Review2010Cited by: 4References: 12

    A major concern about new technologies like IT is how much they might displace time on media and other daily activities. Three highly-publicized early studies of the initial impact of IT indicated it was reducing time on both social life and mass media use. However, data from a number of high-quality national surveys since then—from the Pew Center, the General Social Survey (GSS), the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) and the Amer…

  • IT Use and Declining Social Capital: More Cold Water From the General Social Survey (GSS) and the American Time-Use Survey (Atus)

    Open AccessJohn P Robinson, Steven P Martin et al.ARTICLESocial Science Computer Review2010Cited by: 13References: 6

    Early studies of the impact of information technology (IT) on society suggested that it had a negative impact on social life as well as on mass media use. This article reviews the results from several subsequent studies both in the United States and other countries that show little such societal change in terms of users’ daily behavior. It then proceeds to document further negative evidence from two more recent large national surveys with high re…

  • IT, TV and Time Displacement: What Alexander Szalai Anticipated but Couldn’t Know

    Open AccessJohn P RobinsonARTICLESocial Indicators Research2010Cited by: 1References: 11

    The study of how people spend time dates back more than 100 years.Serious attention to its societal policy implications was undertaken in Soviet Russia soon after its revolution in the early 1920s and continued into the 1970s (Zuzanek 1980).These were preludes of the masterfully coordinated Multinational Time-Budget Research Project.The project was the brainchild organized by Hungarian Professor Alexander Szalai (1972), a giant of a man, not just…

  • Sex, Arts and Verbal Abilities: Three Further Indicators of How American Life is not Improving

    Open AccessJohn P RobinsonARTICLESocial Indicators Research2010Cited by: 1References: 10

  • Social Attitude Differences Between Internet Users and Non-Users: Evidence from the General Social Survey

    John P Robinson, Steven P MartinARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2009

    As more survey and opinion polling agencies collect their data using the Internet, questions arise about how representative Internet users are of the American population as a whole. We use a targeted module of IT-relevant questions added to the 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 samples in the General Social Survey (GSS) to analyze differences between Internet users and non-users. We devote particular attention to the issue of whether Internet use is asso…

  • Of Time and Television

    Open AccessJohn P Robinson, Steven P Martins et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2009Cited by: 7References: 4

    Analysis of early time-diary studies suggests that television has had more impact on daily time than any other household technology in the past century. In the United States, viewing time has steadily increased from roughly ten weekly hours in the 1960s to sixteen hours today, encompassing almost half of all “free time” reported in the diaries. A prominent recent TV casualty has been time spent reading the newspaper, providing further support for…

  • Introduction, Outline and Acknowledgements

    Open AccessJohn P RobinsonARTICLESocial Indicators Research2009

  • Average Weekly Time Spent in 30 Basic Activities Across 17 Countries

    Open AccessKimberly Fisher, John P Robinson et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2009Cited by: 5References: 1