James B Rule
Biographic Data
| ID | 97400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James B Rule |
| GIVEN NAMES | James B |
| FAMILY NAME | Rule |
| SIGNATURE | RULE J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9248-7693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Crisis in Sociology: Problems of Sociological Epistemology
Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Written by a select international group of leading privacy scholars, Social Dimensions of Privacy endorses and develops an innovative approach to privacy. By debating topical privacy cases in their specific research areas, the contributors explore the new privacy-sensitive areas: legal scholars and political theorists discuss the European and American approaches to privacy regulation; sociologists explore new forms of surveillance and privacy on …
Islands of Privacy
Theory and Progress in Social Science
Privacy Codes and Institutional Record Keeping: Procedural versus Strategic Approaches
Privacy codes aim at protecting individuals' interests in the treatment of data on themselves held by institutions. One can distinguish between procedural and strategic principles underlying these codes. The former aim at shaping treatment of personal information, once compiled within data systems; the latter aim at limiting and dispersing personal information from the start. A historical view of the workings of these two principles gives more re…
Who's Watching: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families
Privacy in PerilHow We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience: How We are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
This book offers a probing account of the erosion of privacy in American society, which shows that we are often unwitting, if willing, accomplices, providing personal data in exchange for security or convenience. The book reveals that in today's “information society,” the personal data that we make available to virtually any organization for virtually any purpose is apt to surface elsewhere, applied to utterly different purposes. The mass collect…
Global Privacy Protection: The First Generation
The once and future information society
Between Positivism and Relativism
Translation and Globalization
Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance
The spread of mobile communication, most obtrusively as cell phones but increasingly in other wireless devices, is affecting people's lives and relationships to a previously unthought-of extent. Mobile phones, which are fast becoming ubiquitous, affect either directly or indirectly every aspect of our personal and professional lives. They have transformed social practices and changed the way we do business, yet surprisingly little serious academi…
The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State
It's in the Cards: Consumer Credit and the American Experience
Preface Consumer Credit as a Social Control Mechanism Advent of Post-Fordist Cultural Developments Consumer Credit and the Experiential Realm The Advertising Industry Commodity Distribution Networks Consumer Debt and the Social Impact of Credit Implications of a Consumer Credit Society References
Savoir quand s'arrêter
Savoir quand s’arrêter. Un article de la revue Sociologie et sociétés (La théorie du choix rationnel contre les sciences sociales ? Bilan des débats contemporains) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Les leçons du choix rationnel
Les leçons du choix rationnel. Un article de la revue Sociologie et sociétés (La théorie du choix rationnel contre les sciences sociales ? Bilan des débats contemporains) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior
Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences
Theory and Progress in Social Science
La protection des données personnelles aux États-Unis: La réaction à la directive européenne
Data Protection in the United States : the Reaction to the European Directive The tensions which exist between American law and Community law on data protection reveal less a difference in starting position as in operation and institutional context. The conflict lies in the prohibition upon exporting personal data to countries which do not have an adequate level of protection. It is indisputable that the United States does not yet satisfy this cr…
Silver Bullets or Land Rushes? Sociologies of Cyberspace
JAMES B. RULE State University of New York, Stony Brook everyone from everywhere can join the conversation, how can it be orderly, coherent, or decisive? The partisan model seems doomed by its Own success in marketing; it can be superseded by the online ease in comparison shopping for candidates and in changing affiliations. The monitorial model, on the other hand, may succeed too well by transforming politics into consultations among computer sy…
Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory
Theory and Progress in Social Science
The Legitimization of Violence
Part Ii
No one familiar with the history of our disciplines would deny that something very like fluctuating “taste” plays a vast role in our theoretical life. And as in art, literature, and other domains of pure expression, the rise and fall of such tastes often bear obvious links to social experience. Thus, if ethnomethodology fit the mind-set of certain thinkers in the 1960s and 1970s, one might conclude, no one should be surprised to find that differe…
Private lives and public surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age
Documentary Identification and Mass Surveillance in the United States
Reliance on documentary identification such as computer records, identification cards, and official papers is an essential feature of life in today's advanced industrial societies. This paper examines the history and use of six of the most common personal documents in the United States: Social Security cards, driver's licenses, credit cards, birth certificates, passports, and bank books. The increasing use and importance of such documents reflect…
What Do Computers Do
Few studies using representative methods have explored the effects of computing in a cross section of different kinds of organizations. This study presents results of detailed interviews in a representative sample of some 184 computerized private sector firms. Contrary to some skeptical analyses of computerization, managers of most of these organizations appeared to have shrewd instrumental rationales for their decisions to computerize. Moreover,…
And the Unnatural History of Revolution 1
When natural histories of revolution do not consist simply of explicated definitions, they generally fail as explanatory theories, largely because they fail to deal with negative cases or to eliminate alternative explanations, and because they assume that a continuous and integrated social system experiences revolution. A more adequate treatment requires that governments, contenders for power, and relations among them be distinguished. Revolution…
Sociological Theory: What Went Wrong? Diagnoses and Remedies
Translation and Globalization
Rationality and Non-Rationality in Militant Collective Action
on the agenda of the social sciences. This is the question of how self-interested human beings are moved to accept the constraints inherent in social life. In its political forms, this question asks when and why people peacefully comply with the requirements of regimes-and when they turn to resistance in the form of protest movements, collective violence and other forms of militant collective mobilization. This
Dilemmas of theoretical progress
Freedom, Equality and the Market
The Problem with Social Problems
Who's Watching: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families
The once and future information society
Les leçons du choix rationnel
Les leçons du choix rationnel. Un article de la revue Sociologie et sociétés (La théorie du choix rationnel contre les sciences sociales ? Bilan des débats contemporains) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Rational Choice and the Limits of Theoretical Generality
Claims that rational choice analysis represents a general theory of social processes raise questions not only about rational choice but about the very idea of theoretical generality. Logically, a truly general theory ought to offer analytical means to all legitimate ends of social inquiry. This article holds, however, that no theory based on any single genre of social processes (rational calculation included) can serve the full range of descripti…
Insight and Social Betterment: A Preface to Applied Social Science
Privacy Codes and Institutional Record Keeping: Procedural versus Strategic Approaches
Privacy codes aim at protecting individuals' interests in the treatment of data on themselves held by institutions. One can distinguish between procedural and strategic principles underlying these codes. The former aim at shaping treatment of personal information, once compiled within data systems; the latter aim at limiting and dispersing personal information from the start. A historical view of the workings of these two principles gives more re…
The Legitimization of Violence
Insight and Social Betterment: A Preface to Applied Social Science
On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman, by Nathan Glazer, Joseph Gusfield, Herbert J. Gans and Christopher Jencks
Journal Article On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman, by Nathan Glazer, Joseph Gusfield, Herbert J. Gans and Christopher Jencks Get access On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman edited by Herbert J. Gans, Nathan Glazer, Joseph Gusfield, and Christopher Fencks. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. 350 pp. $25.00. James B. Rule James B. Rule State University of New York at Stony Brook S…
Models of Relevance: The Social Effects of Sociology
Most sociologists predicate their work on the conviction that it will have at least some benefical social effects. But ideas vary greatly as to how such effects may come about. Perhaps the most difficult problem for proponents of any such "model of relevance" is to show how social insight can serve the general good when it addresses conflict situations in which help to one set of interests necessarily entails damage to others. Several different m…
Work in Traditional and Modern Society. Stanley H. Udy, Jr. The Crisis of Industrial Society. Norman Birnbaum
The Problem with Social Problems
And the Unnatural History of Revolution 1
When natural histories of revolution do not consist simply of explicated definitions, they generally fail as explanatory theories, largely because they fail to deal with negative cases or to eliminate alternative explanations, and because they assume that a continuous and integrated social system experiences revolution. A more adequate treatment requires that governments, contenders for power, and relations among them be distinguished. Revolution…
Private lives and public surveillance: Social Control in the Computer Age
Making People Pay
Private Lives and Public Surveillance
Consumers in Trouble: A Study of Debtors in Default.David Caplovitz
Consumers in Trouble: A Study of Debtors in Default
Models of Relevance: The Social Effects of Sociology
Most sociologists predicate their work on the conviction that it will have at least some benefical social effects. But ideas vary greatly as to how such effects may come about. Perhaps the most difficult problem for proponents of any such "model of relevance" is to show how social insight can serve the general good when it addresses conflict situations in which help to one set of interests necessarily entails damage to others. Several different m…
Insight and Social Betterment: A Preface to Applied Social Science
Insight and Social Betterment: A Preface to Applied Social Science
Study Project on Social Research and Development. Volume 2: The Funding of Social Knowledge Production and Application: A Survey of Federal Agencies, by Mark A. Abramson ; Study Project on Social Rese…
Insight and Social Betterment: A Preface to Applied Social Science
Oppression and Social Intervention
On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman, by Nathan Glazer, Joseph Gusfield, Herbert J. Gans and Christopher Jencks
Journal Article On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman, by Nathan Glazer, Joseph Gusfield, Herbert J. Gans and Christopher Jencks Get access On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman edited by Herbert J. Gans, Nathan Glazer, Joseph Gusfield, and Christopher Fencks. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. 350 pp. $25.00. James B. Rule James B. Rule State University of New York at Stony Brook S…
Crisis Unresolved
The Politics of Privacy: Planning for Personal Data Systems as Powerful Technologies
Documentary Identification and Mass Surveillance in the United States
Reliance on documentary identification such as computer records, identification cards, and official papers is an essential feature of life in today's advanced industrial societies. This paper examines the history and use of six of the most common personal documents in the United States: Social Security cards, driver's licenses, credit cards, birth certificates, passports, and bank books. The increasing use and importance of such documents reflect…
Out of this world
Law and strategy in sociological explanation
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Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History.Barrington Moore, Jr
Theories of Civil Violence
Theories of Civil Violence provides both a new look at the origins of civil upheaval and a critical examination of society theory itself. James B. Rule develops an incisive historical analysis of theories of civil violence, beginning with the classic views of Hobbes and Marx and continuing to those of Gurr, Tilly, and other present-day thinkers. He then exploits this overview to yield conclusions on the nature of and prospects for theoretical und…
Social Theory and Modern Sociology
Freedom, Equality and the Market
Renewal Unfulfilled
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