Robert A Stallings
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3611295 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert A Stallings |
| PRENOMES | Robert A |
| SOBRENOME | Stallings |
| ASSINATURA | STALLINGS R A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Evansville |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Causality and "Natural" Disasters
power from the church and assumed primary responsibility for response, recovery, and rebuilding. In the process, a void was created that would later open the way for a naturalistic explanation of disasters to rival the prevailing belief that they were acts of God. In 1755, the priests of Lisbon continued to preach that the earthquake was divine retribution for the of Portugal (Dynes 2000b, p. 14), and, as predictions of future earthquakes mounted…
Promoting Risk
Promoting Risk
The risk of a future catastrophic earthquake has never achieved the level of public concern accorded to such issues as crime, health care, economic conditions, or even pornography. This lack of concern might be explained as a function of our inability to control the geophysical processes that produce earthquakes. Yet a sociological theory of risk questions such a direct connection between physical forces and social reality, because human beings, …
Organizing, Role Enactment, and Disaster. A Structural Theory
Media Discourse and the Social Construction of Risk
A sociological approach to the study of risk assumes that risk and safety exist in and through social organization rather than as objective conditions that individuals simply perceive either more or less accurately. A research agenda based on this assumption must identify who influences the social construction of risk and how they do so. This paper focuses on media discourse in the aftermath of a dramatic event. It deals with news accounts of a b…
Sources of Reputation among Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs
Various rankings describing the perceived reputation of public administration and public affairs programs have been published over the years, but to date no empirical efforts explaining these ratings have appeared. This paper examines measures of the quality of research and teaching that are conventionally regarded as indicators of program quality to see which if any are related to subjective assessments of program reputation. Using ordinary leas…
Reply to Professor Guyot
Public Administration Research
The current state of research in the field of public administration has been much debated in recent years. Some writers have discussed research methods employed by doctoral students in the course of their dissertations' while others have commented on appropriate research strategies for the field as a whole, including its university-based faculty.2 Using empirical evidence, Perry and Kraemer in 1986 presented an initial examination of the methods …
Teaching Sociology in Professional Schools
In this paper I examine some of the behavioral aspects of teaching sociology in professional schools. Concepts such as stereotype and role conflict are useful in understanding these organizational settings and their career implications. Regardless of specific contractual arrangements, teaching sociology in the professional school represents an intellectual joint appointment. The perceived drawbacks of accepting such a position can easily be overe…
Doctoral Programs in Public Administration
administration. The paper is divided into two sections. In the first, confusion over whether public administration refers to practice in the public sector or to the study of the public sector is noted. Since the study of the public sector seems to be the only defensible role for a doctoral program in the field, firsthand knowledge of practice is not sufficient as a method of study at the doctoral level.2 A qualitatively different form of knowledg…
Emergent Citizen Groups and Emergency Management
animals (primarily horses) and to provide shelter, food, and other supplies for fire victims. The contents of these calls were recorded on cards noting the donor's name, address, telephone number, and nature of donation. It shortly became apparent that more telephones were needed, and four additional lines were immediately installed. In addition to these calls, food, clothing, medical supplies, blankets, and personal items (toothpaste, soap, shav…
On Theory in Collective Behavior and Empirical Patterns in a Riot Process
Concepts and Controversy in Organizational Behavior
The Community Context of Crisis Management
Patterns of Belief In Social Movements
Several explanations of social movements rest on the assumption that participants are bonded together by a commonly-held set of beliefs differentiating them from non-participants. This is especially true of Smelser's theory of collective behavior and its central concept, the generalized belief. Components of the generalized belief are examined in light of recent studies of groups within the environmental movement; results disclose significant het…
Hospital Adaptations to Disaster
A great number of models have been employed in empirical studies of formal organizations. Some have been developed explicitly and elaborately in their own right while others are more implicit in specific investigations of organizational behavior. A majority of existing organizational models, however, fall generally into three main categories. Certainly the most famous of these is Weber's classic bureaucratic model with its emphasis on rationality…
Media Discourse and the Social Construction of Risk
A sociological approach to the study of risk assumes that risk and safety exist in and through social organization rather than as objective conditions that individuals simply perceive either more or less accurately. A research agenda based on this assumption must identify who influences the social construction of risk and how they do so. This paper focuses on media discourse in the aftermath of a dramatic event. It deals with news accounts of a b…
Patterns of Belief In Social Movements
Several explanations of social movements rest on the assumption that participants are bonded together by a commonly-held set of beliefs differentiating them from non-participants. This is especially true of Smelser's theory of collective behavior and its central concept, the generalized belief. Components of the generalized belief are examined in light of recent studies of groups within the environmental movement; results disclose significant het…
On Theory in Collective Behavior and Empirical Patterns in a Riot Process
The Community Context of Crisis Management
Causality and "Natural" Disasters
power from the church and assumed primary responsibility for response, recovery, and rebuilding. In the process, a void was created that would later open the way for a naturalistic explanation of disasters to rival the prevailing belief that they were acts of God. In 1755, the priests of Lisbon continued to preach that the earthquake was divine retribution for the of Portugal (Dynes 2000b, p. 14), and, as predictions of future earthquakes mounted…
Sources of Reputation among Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs
Various rankings describing the perceived reputation of public administration and public affairs programs have been published over the years, but to date no empirical efforts explaining these ratings have appeared. This paper examines measures of the quality of research and teaching that are conventionally regarded as indicators of program quality to see which if any are related to subjective assessments of program reputation. Using ordinary leas…
Hospital Adaptations to Disaster
A great number of models have been employed in empirical studies of formal organizations. Some have been developed explicitly and elaborately in their own right while others are more implicit in specific investigations of organizational behavior. A majority of existing organizational models, however, fall generally into three main categories. Certainly the most famous of these is Weber's classic bureaucratic model with its emphasis on rationality…
The Community Context of Crisis Management
Patterns of Belief In Social Movements
Several explanations of social movements rest on the assumption that participants are bonded together by a commonly-held set of beliefs differentiating them from non-participants. This is especially true of Smelser's theory of collective behavior and its central concept, the generalized belief. Components of the generalized belief are examined in light of recent studies of groups within the environmental movement; results disclose significant het…
Concepts and Controversy in Organizational Behavior
On Theory in Collective Behavior and Empirical Patterns in a Riot Process
Emergent Citizen Groups and Emergency Management
animals (primarily horses) and to provide shelter, food, and other supplies for fire victims. The contents of these calls were recorded on cards noting the donor's name, address, telephone number, and nature of donation. It shortly became apparent that more telephones were needed, and four additional lines were immediately installed. In addition to these calls, food, clothing, medical supplies, blankets, and personal items (toothpaste, soap, shav…
Teaching Sociology in Professional Schools
In this paper I examine some of the behavioral aspects of teaching sociology in professional schools. Concepts such as stereotype and role conflict are useful in understanding these organizational settings and their career implications. Regardless of specific contractual arrangements, teaching sociology in the professional school represents an intellectual joint appointment. The perceived drawbacks of accepting such a position can easily be overe…
Doctoral Programs in Public Administration
administration. The paper is divided into two sections. In the first, confusion over whether public administration refers to practice in the public sector or to the study of the public sector is noted. Since the study of the public sector seems to be the only defensible role for a doctoral program in the field, firsthand knowledge of practice is not sufficient as a method of study at the doctoral level.2 A qualitatively different form of knowledg…
Sources of Reputation among Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs
Various rankings describing the perceived reputation of public administration and public affairs programs have been published over the years, but to date no empirical efforts explaining these ratings have appeared. This paper examines measures of the quality of research and teaching that are conventionally regarded as indicators of program quality to see which if any are related to subjective assessments of program reputation. Using ordinary leas…
Reply to Professor Guyot
Public Administration Research
The current state of research in the field of public administration has been much debated in recent years. Some writers have discussed research methods employed by doctoral students in the course of their dissertations' while others have commented on appropriate research strategies for the field as a whole, including its university-based faculty.2 Using empirical evidence, Perry and Kraemer in 1986 presented an initial examination of the methods …
Media Discourse and the Social Construction of Risk
A sociological approach to the study of risk assumes that risk and safety exist in and through social organization rather than as objective conditions that individuals simply perceive either more or less accurately. A research agenda based on this assumption must identify who influences the social construction of risk and how they do so. This paper focuses on media discourse in the aftermath of a dramatic event. It deals with news accounts of a b…
Organizing, Role Enactment, and Disaster. A Structural Theory
Promoting Risk
Promoting Risk
The risk of a future catastrophic earthquake has never achieved the level of public concern accorded to such issues as crime, health care, economic conditions, or even pornography. This lack of concern might be explained as a function of our inability to control the geophysical processes that produce earthquakes. Yet a sociological theory of risk questions such a direct connection between physical forces and social reality, because human beings, …
Causality and "Natural" Disasters
power from the church and assumed primary responsibility for response, recovery, and rebuilding. In the process, a void was created that would later open the way for a naturalistic explanation of disasters to rival the prevailing belief that they were acts of God. In 1755, the priests of Lisbon continued to preach that the earthquake was divine retribution for the of Portugal (Dynes 2000b, p. 14), and, as predictions of future earthquakes mounted…
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