Michael Aiken
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95989 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Aiken |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Aiken |
| ASSINATURA | AIKEN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 523 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Citation of James W. Carey for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Illinois
The Persistence of Political Attitudes Among 1960s Civil Rights Activists
Journal Article THE PERSISTENCE OF POLITICAL ATTITUDES AMONG 1960s CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS Get access GERALD MARWELL, GERALD MARWELL Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL T. AIKEN, MICHAEL T. AIKEN Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Urban Systems Theory and Urban Policy
There are few systematically comparative cross-national studies of urban policy or service provision, partly because there is little in the way of empirical testable theory that might guide research and partly because the variety of institutional methods of providing and financing urban services in different nation states makes it difficult to carry out such comparisons. Urban systems theory, however, applies to all levels of urban society from l…
Corporate Influence and the German Urban System
Donald Strickland, Michael Aiken, Corporate Influence and the German Urban System: Headquarters Location of German Industrial Corporations, 1950-1982, Economic Geography, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan., 1984), pp. 38-54
Complex Organizations
Policy and Politics in Belgian Cities
Patterns of public policies as reflected by the expenditure of local governments of 196 Belgian cities are examined in the context of five hypotheses explaining variations in expenditure patterns. The role a city plays in the urban system of the nation-state, as reflected by the index of ecological centrality, is found to have the most pervasive effect on various types of expenditures. Population stagnation of cities, the explanation of which is …
The Impact of Alienation, Meaninglessness, and Meritocracy on Supervisor and Subordinate Satisfaction
Dividing alienation into dimensions of reification and powerlessness, this paper attempts to examine the relationship between these dimensions and the satisfaction of department heads and subordinates in 44 administrative bureaucracies. Four dimensions of satisfaction were examined: satisfaction with work, with superiors, with co-workers and with salary. Beyond alienation, the relationships between meaninglessness and worker satisfaction and betw…
Urban Social Structure and Political Competition
Communication and Satisfaction in Organizations
The present study, based on data obtained in a set of health and social welfare agencies, attempted to develop some measures for examining organizational communication and to relate those measures to worker satisfaction. The communication properties of primary concern were the formality of the communication network and the direction of communication in the organization. The results indicated that these dimensions could be specified empirically an…
Dynamics of Idealism
Dynamics of Idealism
Social Change in Complex Organizations
Planned Change in the Hospital
The Structure of Community Power
Reply to Faia
Criteria and Contingencies of Success in a Radical Political Movement 1
Using data collected in 1965 on white student civil rights workers in the South affiliated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, this paper seeks to probe the factors that underlie the subjective sense of success and failure in an episode of political activism. Focusing on some fifty local projects scattered from Virginia to Alabama, we find that success was only partially a function of gains in voter registration, the summer's princ…
Organization Structure and Communications
A theoretical model is developed in which organizational structure is related to the type of coordination in the organization-planning or programming versus feedback or mutual adjustment. It is argued that the nature of the mechanism of coordination employed in the organization in turn affects the volume and direction of communications in the organization. Hypotheses are developed relating the variables of complexity, formalization, and centraliz…
The Organic Organization and Innovation
This study explores several variables that characterize organic organization to test whether they are associated with varying rates of innovation. The number of occupational specialities, the intensity of scheduled and unscheduled communication and, to a lesser extent, the decentralization of decision-making, are related to innovation. A review of the literature suggests other factors that are also associated with innovation: slack resources, joi…
Community Structure and Innovation
The presence of, and speed of application for, and number of dollars reserved for, Federal urban renewal programs (the measures of innovation) are analyzed for 582 American cities over 25,000 population in 1960. Other variables studied are ethnicity, income, Democratic vote, political structure, industrial character, educational level, voting turnout, age and size of the city, unemployment, migration, housing condition, and nonwhite composition. …
Community Structure and Innovation
Innovation can be defined as "... the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new ideas, processes, products, or services." We mean here an activity, process, service, or idea that is new to an American city. We do not restrict it to mean only the first appearance ever of something new (i.e., an invention) or only the first use by one among a set of social actors. We are concerned neither with the diffusion of innovation nor with internal s…
Routine Technology, Social Structure, and Organization Goals
This paper investigates the relationship between organizational technology, specifically the degree of routineness of work, and the social structure and goals of health and welfare organizations.! Hypotheses relating four aspects of social structure and two aspects of organizational goals with the degree of routine work are tested with data from sixteen social welfare and health organizations located in a Midwestern metropolis in 1967. The social…
Community Power and Community Mobilization
The debate among sociologists and political scientists about community power structure was concerned primarily with questions of methodology and the appropriate imagery for describing the distribution of power in American communities. The question of what difference it made for a local community and its citizens, if any, whether power was narrowly concentrated or widely dispersed was seldom raised. Two alternative hypotheses relating the concentr…
Economic Failure, Alienation, and Extremism
Social Mobility and Kinship
Two hypotheses relating occupational mobility to kinship involvement are examined: (1) the interaction hypothesis, which argues that the occupationally mobile, either upward or downward, have less involvement with their kin, and (2) the median hypothesis, which argues that occupational mobility has no uniformly depressing effect on kinship involvement but rather that kinship involvement is simply an additive function of the class of origin and th…
Organizational Interdependence and Intra-Organizational Structure
The relationship between organizational interdependence was investigated specifically the number of joint programs and internal organizational behavior for health and welfare organizations. A model of organizational interdependence produces 5 hypotheses about organizations which are tested with data for 16 social welfare and health organizations located in a midwestern metropolis in 1967. The hypotheses were: a high degree of complexity varies di…
Organizational Interdependence and Intra-Organizational Structure
The relationship between organizational interdependence was investigated specifically the number of joint programs and internal organizational behavior for health and welfare organizations. A model of organizational interdependence produces 5 hypotheses about organizations which are tested with data for 16 social welfare and health organizations located in a midwestern metropolis in 1967. The hypotheses were: a high degree of complexity varies di…
Organizational Alienation
The relationship between two types of alienation-alienation from work and alienation from expressive relations-and two structural properties of organizations-centralization and formalization-are examined in a comparative study of sixteen welfare organizations. Both alienation from work and alienation from expressive relations are found to be more prominent in highly centralized and highly formalized organizations. Multivariate analysis is introdu…
Community Structure and Innovation
The presence of, and speed of application for, and number of dollars reserved for, Federal urban renewal programs (the measures of innovation) are analyzed for 582 American cities over 25,000 population in 1960. Other variables studied are ethnicity, income, Democratic vote, political structure, industrial character, educational level, voting turnout, age and size of the city, unemployment, migration, housing condition, and nonwhite composition. …
The Persistence of Political Attitudes Among 1960s Civil Rights Activists
Journal Article THE PERSISTENCE OF POLITICAL ATTITUDES AMONG 1960s CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS Get access GERALD MARWELL, GERALD MARWELL Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL T. AIKEN, MICHAEL T. AIKEN Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Organization Structure and Communications
A theoretical model is developed in which organizational structure is related to the type of coordination in the organization-planning or programming versus feedback or mutual adjustment. It is argued that the nature of the mechanism of coordination employed in the organization in turn affects the volume and direction of communications in the organization. Hypotheses are developed relating the variables of complexity, formalization, and centraliz…
Community Structure and Innovation
Innovation can be defined as "... the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new ideas, processes, products, or services." We mean here an activity, process, service, or idea that is new to an American city. We do not restrict it to mean only the first appearance ever of something new (i.e., an invention) or only the first use by one among a set of social actors. We are concerned neither with the diffusion of innovation nor with internal s…
The Organic Organization and Innovation
This study explores several variables that characterize organic organization to test whether they are associated with varying rates of innovation. The number of occupational specialities, the intensity of scheduled and unscheduled communication and, to a lesser extent, the decentralization of decision-making, are related to innovation. A review of the literature suggests other factors that are also associated with innovation: slack resources, joi…
Program Change and Organizational Properties a Comparative Analysis
Empirical indicators of the organizational properties of complexity, centralization, formalization, and morale are developed and related to the rate of adoption of new programs and services in sixteen social welfare organizations. Specifically, a high deree of participation in agency-wide decisions, a low deree of job condification, and a high degree of job satisfactions are found to be most highly associated with a high rate of program change. M…
Social Mobility and Kinship
Two hypotheses relating occupational mobility to kinship involvement are examined: (1) the interaction hypothesis, which argues that the occupationally mobile, either upward or downward, have less involvement with their kin, and (2) the median hypothesis, which argues that occupational mobility has no uniformly depressing effect on kinship involvement but rather that kinship involvement is simply an additive function of the class of origin and th…
Policy and Politics in Belgian Cities
Patterns of public policies as reflected by the expenditure of local governments of 196 Belgian cities are examined in the context of five hypotheses explaining variations in expenditure patterns. The role a city plays in the urban system of the nation-state, as reflected by the index of ecological centrality, is found to have the most pervasive effect on various types of expenditures. Population stagnation of cities, the explanation of which is …
Community Power in Cornucopia
1968). Community Power in Cornucopia: a Replication in a Small Community of the Bonjean Technique of Identifying Community Leaders. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 261-270
Communication and Satisfaction in Organizations
The present study, based on data obtained in a set of health and social welfare agencies, attempted to develop some measures for examining organizational communication and to relate those measures to worker satisfaction. The communication properties of primary concern were the formality of the communication network and the direction of communication in the organization. The results indicated that these dimensions could be specified empirically an…
Job Mobility and the Social Integration of Displaced Workers
Job Mobility and the Social Integration of Displaced Workers Get access Michael Aiken, Michael Aiken Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Louis A. Ferman Louis A. Ferman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 14, Issue 1, Summer 1966, Pages 48–56, https://doi.org/10.2307/799032 Published: 07 August 2014
Urban Systems Theory and Urban Policy
There are few systematically comparative cross-national studies of urban policy or service provision, partly because there is little in the way of empirical testable theory that might guide research and partly because the variety of institutional methods of providing and financing urban services in different nation states makes it difficult to carry out such comparisons. Urban systems theory, however, applies to all levels of urban society from l…
The Impact of Alienation, Meaninglessness, and Meritocracy on Supervisor and Subordinate Satisfaction
Dividing alienation into dimensions of reification and powerlessness, this paper attempts to examine the relationship between these dimensions and the satisfaction of department heads and subordinates in 44 administrative bureaucracies. Four dimensions of satisfaction were examined: satisfaction with work, with superiors, with co-workers and with salary. Beyond alienation, the relationships between meaninglessness and worker satisfaction and betw…
Community Power and Community Mobilization
The debate among sociologists and political scientists about community power structure was concerned primarily with questions of methodology and the appropriate imagery for describing the distribution of power in American communities. The question of what difference it made for a local community and its citizens, if any, whether power was narrowly concentrated or widely dispersed was seldom raised. Two alternative hypotheses relating the concentr…
Economic Failure, Alienation, and Extremism
Criteria and Contingencies of Success in a Radical Political Movement 1
Using data collected in 1965 on white student civil rights workers in the South affiliated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, this paper seeks to probe the factors that underlie the subjective sense of success and failure in an episode of political activism. Focusing on some fifty local projects scattered from Virginia to Alabama, we find that success was only partially a function of gains in voter registration, the summer's princ…
Mobility and Situational Factors in the Adjustment of Older Workers to Job Displacement
Research on unemployment in the United States has focused mainly on a description of the economic and social consequences resulting from the loss of work. Few attempts have been made to relate these consequences to mobility and situational variables associated with unemployment and re-employment experience. In a phenomenon as complex as unemployment, it is indeed an extensive task to trace the linkages between these variables and their consequenc…
The Social and Political Reactions of Older Negroes to Unemployment
Organizational Alienation
The relationship between two types of alienation-alienation from work and alienation from expressive relations-and two structural properties of organizations-centralization and formalization-are examined in a comparative study of sixteen welfare organizations. Both alienation from work and alienation from expressive relations are found to be more prominent in highly centralized and highly formalized organizations. Multivariate analysis is introdu…
Job Mobility and the Social Integration of Displaced Workers
Job Mobility and the Social Integration of Displaced Workers Get access Michael Aiken, Michael Aiken Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Louis A. Ferman Louis A. Ferman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 14, Issue 1, Summer 1966, Pages 48–56, https://doi.org/10.2307/799032 Published: 07 August 2014
The politics of tokenism in Mississippi’s delta
Program Change and Organizational Properties a Comparative Analysis
Empirical indicators of the organizational properties of complexity, centralization, formalization, and morale are developed and related to the rate of adoption of new programs and services in sixteen social welfare organizations. Specifically, a high deree of participation in agency-wide decisions, a low deree of job condification, and a high degree of job satisfactions are found to be most highly associated with a high rate of program change. M…
Mobility and Situational Factors in the Adjustment of Older Workers to Job Displacement
Research on unemployment in the United States has focused mainly on a description of the economic and social consequences resulting from the loss of work. Few attempts have been made to relate these consequences to mobility and situational variables associated with unemployment and re-employment experience. In a phenomenon as complex as unemployment, it is indeed an extensive task to trace the linkages between these variables and their consequenc…
Organizational Interdependence and Intra-Organizational Structure
The relationship between organizational interdependence was investigated specifically the number of joint programs and internal organizational behavior for health and welfare organizations. A model of organizational interdependence produces 5 hypotheses about organizations which are tested with data for 16 social welfare and health organizations located in a midwestern metropolis in 1967. The hypotheses were: a high degree of complexity varies di…
Economic Failure, Alienation, and Extremism
Community Power in Cornucopia
1968). Community Power in Cornucopia: a Replication in a Small Community of the Bonjean Technique of Identifying Community Leaders. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 261-270
Routine Technology, Social Structure, and Organization Goals
This paper investigates the relationship between organizational technology, specifically the degree of routineness of work, and the social structure and goals of health and welfare organizations.! Hypotheses relating four aspects of social structure and two aspects of organizational goals with the degree of routine work are tested with data from sixteen social welfare and health organizations located in a Midwestern metropolis in 1967. The social…
Community Power and Community Mobilization
The debate among sociologists and political scientists about community power structure was concerned primarily with questions of methodology and the appropriate imagery for describing the distribution of power in American communities. The question of what difference it made for a local community and its citizens, if any, whether power was narrowly concentrated or widely dispersed was seldom raised. Two alternative hypotheses relating the concentr…
Economic Failure, Alienation, and Extremism
Social Mobility and Kinship
Two hypotheses relating occupational mobility to kinship involvement are examined: (1) the interaction hypothesis, which argues that the occupationally mobile, either upward or downward, have less involvement with their kin, and (2) the median hypothesis, which argues that occupational mobility has no uniformly depressing effect on kinship involvement but rather that kinship involvement is simply an additive function of the class of origin and th…
Community Structure and Innovation
The presence of, and speed of application for, and number of dollars reserved for, Federal urban renewal programs (the measures of innovation) are analyzed for 582 American cities over 25,000 population in 1960. Other variables studied are ethnicity, income, Democratic vote, political structure, industrial character, educational level, voting turnout, age and size of the city, unemployment, migration, housing condition, and nonwhite composition. …
Community Structure and Innovation
Innovation can be defined as "... the generation, acceptance, and implementation of new ideas, processes, products, or services." We mean here an activity, process, service, or idea that is new to an American city. We do not restrict it to mean only the first appearance ever of something new (i.e., an invention) or only the first use by one among a set of social actors. We are concerned neither with the diffusion of innovation nor with internal s…
Criteria and Contingencies of Success in a Radical Political Movement 1
Using data collected in 1965 on white student civil rights workers in the South affiliated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, this paper seeks to probe the factors that underlie the subjective sense of success and failure in an episode of political activism. Focusing on some fifty local projects scattered from Virginia to Alabama, we find that success was only partially a function of gains in voter registration, the summer's princ…
Organization Structure and Communications
A theoretical model is developed in which organizational structure is related to the type of coordination in the organization-planning or programming versus feedback or mutual adjustment. It is argued that the nature of the mechanism of coordination employed in the organization in turn affects the volume and direction of communications in the organization. Hypotheses are developed relating the variables of complexity, formalization, and centraliz…
The Organic Organization and Innovation
This study explores several variables that characterize organic organization to test whether they are associated with varying rates of innovation. The number of occupational specialities, the intensity of scheduled and unscheduled communication and, to a lesser extent, the decentralization of decision-making, are related to innovation. A review of the literature suggests other factors that are also associated with innovation: slack resources, joi…
Planned Change in the Hospital
The Structure of Community Power
Reply to Faia
Dynamics of Idealism
Dynamics of Idealism
Social Change in Complex Organizations
Urban Social Structure and Political Competition
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