David J O'Brien
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4532405 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David J O'Brien |
| PRENOMES | David J |
| SOBRENOME | O'Brien |
| ASSINATURA | BRIEN D J O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Department of Rural Sociology University of Missouri |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 190 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Introduction to symposium
The primary contributions of smallholders during the communist and early postcommunist periods have been food production and labour for large farms. Those conditions are changing, however, as modern farms require less labour and food supply may be imported. For most smallholders in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries, the postcommunist neoliberal environment has not brought significant improvement, and strong arguments …
The Role of Household Social Organization in the Structure of Rural Economies
Sociologists have examined how structural economic change affects household social organization and generation of household income from different sources. The introduction of elements of a market economy into rural Russia in the early 1990s provides a unique opportunity to examine these relationships. Much of the work on this topic, however, has been conducted in black earth zone, agriculturally dependent regions. Less attention has been given to…
The Underrepresentation of Women in Leadership Positions in Rural Russia
Numerous studies have documented the persistence of gender inequality in rural Russia, including the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions. A survey (N = 169) conducted in two rural Russian regions examined residents' explanations of gender inequality and their support for various remedies to ameliorate this situation. Both male and female respondents downplay outright discrimination in accounting for gender-based occupational ineq…
Formal institutional solutions to the development of social capital
Rural Reform and the Gender Gap in Post-Soviet Russia
Using survey data from 900 rural households, this article assesses the degree to which Soviet-era workplace inequality between rural males and females has been remediated by the introduction of democratic and market reforms. The overall effects of reform institutions are mixed. Concerning male-female workplace inequality, three continuities were found with the Soviet period. First, rural males have larger total incomes than do rural females. Seco…
Social mobility in rural Russia, 1995-2003
Using panel survey data from three Russian villages, this article examines rural social mobility in post-communist Russia. The article finds that contemporary rural social mobility is different from that which existed during the Soviet period. During the Soviet period, rural social mobility was linked to changes in profession and the direction of mobility was primarily upward. In the post-Soviet period, rural mobility is linked to increasing inco…
Marketization and Community in Post-Soviet Russian Villages
The introduction of new market institutions in former socialist countries has produced economic and social dislocations in people's lives. Researchers have focused on the impact of these changes on inequality and poverty, but have not given much attention to changes in community relationships. Panel data from surveys of Russian rural households (1995–1999) is used to examine post-socialist changes in community involvement. The surveys show an ove…
Why Russia's Rural Poor Are Poor
Specialists on the Russian rural sector examine the level, extent, causes, and consequences of rural poverty in Russia. Analysis is based on survey data from person-to-person interviews of 800 rural households in five regions within Russia. The article examines structural, behavioral, and psychological factors, comparing the poor with the non-poor on each dimension
Winners and Losers in Russian Agrarian Reform
More than ten years after Russian agrarian reform was begun, it is appropriate to reflect upon winners and losers. Using survey data from 800 households in five Russian regions, this article is interested in the effect of reform within the rural sphere. The analysis focuses on four groups of rural actors within the food production sphere: private farmers, farm managers, specialists employed on state and collective farms and their juridical succes…
The Social Networks of Leaders in More or Less Viable Communities Six Years Later
Using 1995 data, this study re-examines the social networks of leaders in five more and less viable rural communities in Missouri which were originally studied in 1989 (O'Brien et al. 1991; O'Brien and Hassinger 1992). In the six year period between the 1989 and 1995 surveys, four of the five communities were impacted by major events, including the introduction of corporate hog production in two places and flooding in two others. However, despite…
When Strangers Cooperate
Household Production and Symptoms of Stress in Post-Soviet Russian Villages1
This paper examines the impact of human capital (the number of working age household members), social capital (social exchange helping networks and community integration), technological capital (use of mechanical agricultural tools), and village of residence on stratification of Russian peasant households in the post-Soviet era. Findings from a 1995 survey of households in three Russian villages show that the number of working age adults in the h…
The use of the CES-D for measuring symptoms of depression in three rural Russian villages
Asians in Small Business in the Russian Far East
Valeri Patsiorkovsky, Stephen S. Fugita, David J. O'Brien, Asians in Small Business in the Russian Far East: A Historical Overview and Comparison with Asians on the American West Coast, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 566-575
Asians in Small Business in the Russian Far East
The historical role of Asians in the Russian Far East is examined, with particular attention paid to their involvement in small business activities. Similarities are identified between this experience and that of Asians on the American Pacific Coast
Inshopping by Residents of Small Communities1
With improvements in transportation and communication, rural consumers no longer are limited to their local trade center and personal factors become more important in shaping consumer patterns. With data from residents in two small rural communities in northwestern Missouri, this study examines the effects of consumers' socioeconomic characteristics, personal location situations, and community satisfaction on buying within the local community (in…
Community Attachment and Depression Among Residents in Two Rural Midwestern Communities1
The relationship between community attachment and depression is examined in a sample survey (N = 295) in two midwestern rural towns and their surrounding open-country areas. When community attachment, a variable through which a rural resident's social integration into the local community affects mental health, was low, higher levels of symptoms of depression were observed. The economic viability of the local community was found to have a relation…
The Japanese American Experience
The Japanese American Experience
Slim, well-researched, and readable, this is not only a social history of an ethnic community but a gateway into the ancient psyche of the Japanese. The San Francisco Review of Books... straightforward... informative... Contemporary SociologyThe Japanese American Experience... will be used with profit by professors and students in sociology and ethnic studies courses, for it is the best general text on Japanese Americans currently in print. The J…
Japanese American Ethnicity
The Japanese American Experience
Japanese American Ethnicity
The Japanese American Experience
Japanese American Ethnicity
Journal Article Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community Get access Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community. By Fugita Stephen S. O'Brien David. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. x + 207 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. $30.00.) Donald Teruo Hata, Jr. Donald Teruo Hata, Jr. California State University, Dominguez Hills Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western …
Community Attachment Among Leaders in Five Rural Communities1
The relationship between the different ways leaders may relate to rural communities and their ability to relate to extracommunity individuals and organizations is examined. Drawing from the insights of Merton (1957) into local and cosmopolitan influentials and a newer literature on community attachment, two dimensions of attachment to the local community are identified. A survey of 75 leaders in five midwestern rural communities provides evidence…
Community Attachment and Depression Among Residents in Two Rural Midwestern Communities1
The relationship between community attachment and depression is examined in a sample survey (N = 295) in two midwestern rural towns and their surrounding open-country areas. When community attachment, a variable through which a rural resident's social integration into the local community affects mental health, was low, higher levels of symptoms of depression were observed. The economic viability of the local community was found to have a relation…
The Social Networks of Leaders in More and Less Viable Rural Communities1
The relationship between the social networks of leaders and community viability is examined in a comparative study of leaders (N = 75) in five rural communities (population range, 1,000 to 2,500). The analysis looks at leaders' connections to organizations outside of their communities and at different kinds of linkages between leaders within their respective communities. Leaders in more and less viable communities do not differ much in characteri…
Winners and Losers in Russian Agrarian Reform
More than ten years after Russian agrarian reform was begun, it is appropriate to reflect upon winners and losers. Using survey data from 800 households in five Russian regions, this article is interested in the effect of reform within the rural sphere. The analysis focuses on four groups of rural actors within the food production sphere: private farmers, farm managers, specialists employed on state and collective farms and their juridical succes…
Community Attachment Among Leaders in Five Rural Communities1
The relationship between the different ways leaders may relate to rural communities and their ability to relate to extracommunity individuals and organizations is examined. Drawing from the insights of Merton (1957) into local and cosmopolitan influentials and a newer literature on community attachment, two dimensions of attachment to the local community are identified. A survey of 75 leaders in five midwestern rural communities provides evidence…
Question-Order Effects on the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Journal Article QUESTION-ORDER EFFECTS ON THE DETERMINANTS OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING Get access MCKEE J. MCCLENDON, MCKEE J. MCCLENDON Professor Department of Sociology at the University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID J. O'BRIEN DAVID J. O'BRIEN Professor Department of Community Development at the University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
The Social Networks of Leaders in More or Less Viable Communities Six Years Later
Using 1995 data, this study re-examines the social networks of leaders in five more and less viable rural communities in Missouri which were originally studied in 1989 (O'Brien et al. 1991; O'Brien and Hassinger 1992). In the six year period between the 1989 and 1995 surveys, four of the five communities were impacted by major events, including the introduction of corporate hog production in two places and flooding in two others. However, despite…
The use of the CES-D for measuring symptoms of depression in three rural Russian villages
Social mobility in rural Russia, 1995-2003
Using panel survey data from three Russian villages, this article examines rural social mobility in post-communist Russia. The article finds that contemporary rural social mobility is different from that which existed during the Soviet period. During the Soviet period, rural social mobility was linked to changes in profession and the direction of mobility was primarily upward. In the post-Soviet period, rural mobility is linked to increasing inco…
Why Russia's Rural Poor Are Poor
Specialists on the Russian rural sector examine the level, extent, causes, and consequences of rural poverty in Russia. Analysis is based on survey data from person-to-person interviews of 800 rural households in five regions within Russia. The article examines structural, behavioral, and psychological factors, comparing the poor with the non-poor on each dimension
Household Production and Symptoms of Stress in Post-Soviet Russian Villages1
This paper examines the impact of human capital (the number of working age household members), social capital (social exchange helping networks and community integration), technological capital (use of mechanical agricultural tools), and village of residence on stratification of Russian peasant households in the post-Soviet era. Findings from a 1995 survey of households in three Russian villages show that the number of working age adults in the h…
Inshopping by Residents of Small Communities1
With improvements in transportation and communication, rural consumers no longer are limited to their local trade center and personal factors become more important in shaping consumer patterns. With data from residents in two small rural communities in northwestern Missouri, this study examines the effects of consumers' socioeconomic characteristics, personal location situations, and community satisfaction on buying within the local community (in…
Introduction to symposium
The primary contributions of smallholders during the communist and early postcommunist periods have been food production and labour for large farms. Those conditions are changing, however, as modern farms require less labour and food supply may be imported. For most smallholders in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries, the postcommunist neoliberal environment has not brought significant improvement, and strong arguments …
Marketization and Community in Post-Soviet Russian Villages
The introduction of new market institutions in former socialist countries has produced economic and social dislocations in people's lives. Researchers have focused on the impact of these changes on inequality and poverty, but have not given much attention to changes in community relationships. Panel data from surveys of Russian rural households (1995–1999) is used to examine post-socialist changes in community involvement. The surveys show an ove…
Structural Assimilation, Ethnic Group Membership, and Political Participation among Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans differ from most other American ethnic groups by combining high levels of structural assimilation with high levels of involvement in ethnic community voluntary associations. The impact of this on political participation is examined with data from a two generation study of Japanese Americans. The analysis shows that structural assimilation and involvement in the ethnic community can provide different but complementary mechanisms…
Rural Reform and the Gender Gap in Post-Soviet Russia
Using survey data from 900 rural households, this article assesses the degree to which Soviet-era workplace inequality between rural males and females has been remediated by the introduction of democratic and market reforms. The overall effects of reform institutions are mixed. Concerning male-female workplace inequality, three continuities were found with the Soviet period. First, rural males have larger total incomes than do rural females. Seco…
The Underrepresentation of Women in Leadership Positions in Rural Russia
Numerous studies have documented the persistence of gender inequality in rural Russia, including the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions. A survey (N = 169) conducted in two rural Russian regions examined residents' explanations of gender inequality and their support for various remedies to ameliorate this situation. Both male and female respondents downplay outright discrimination in accounting for gender-based occupational ineq…
Breaking Bread
Journal Article Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America. By Mel Piehl. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982. xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access David J. O'Brien David J. O'Brien College of the Holy Cross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 2, September 1984, P…
Formal institutional solutions to the development of social capital
Mobilization of a Traditionally Petit Bourgeois Ethnic Group
Historically, petit bourgeois ethnic groups have been able to mobilize to support collective economic goals. This study examines whether they can still draw on ethnic community support when many members no longer have an economic stake in the issue. Survey data on Japanese American support for the Japanese American farmers' position on a farm labor referendum were collected. There was a high degree of support among the second generation regardles…
Middleman Minority Concept
The concept of the “middleman minority” has been employed in the social sciences to deal with minority groups whose historical experience, although marked by discrimination, is not characterized by continuous, extreme subordinate status. The explanatory value of this concept is challenged, however, when one examines the historical experience of one of its primary empirical examples, Japanese Americans in agriculture. In this case, one of the most…
Economics, Ideology, and Ethnicity
The different dimensions of ethnicity in an inter-ethnic group conflict are explored in this study of the struggle between the predominantly Mexican American United Farm Workers Union and the Japanese American initiated Nisei Farmers League. Our central thesis is that although the economic/situational dimension of ethnicity plays the dominant role in generating the causes and consequences of the conflict between the farm workers and the growers, …
American Catholics and Social Reform
American Catholic Historiography
Papers on historiography, reviewing and assessing recent literature in a particular field, have become commonplace and no one questions their value or utility. A report of this sort would be useful today on the subject of American Catholicism for, in the ten years since Henry J. Browne last surveyed the field, a number of high quality monographs have appeared. Nevertheless there is a second type of historiographical analysis more relevant today. …
American Catholic Historiography
Papers on historiography, reviewing and assessing recent literature in a particular field, have become commonplace and no one questions their value or utility. A report of this sort would be useful today on the subject of American Catholicism for, in the ten years since Henry J. Browne last surveyed the field, a number of high quality monographs have appeared. Nevertheless there is a second type of historiographical analysis more relevant today. …
American Catholics and Social Reform
American Catholics and Social Reform
Journal Article American Catholics and Social Reform: The New Deal Years. By David J. O'Brien. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. xi + 287 pp. Notes and index. $6.50.) Get access George Q. Flynn George Q. Flynn Seattle University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 56, Issue 1, June 1969, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902131 Published: 01 June 1969
American Catholics and Social Reform
American Catholics and Social Reform
Advocacy Planning for Urban Development
Neighborhood Organization and Interest-Group Processes
Economics, Ideology, and Ethnicity
The different dimensions of ethnicity in an inter-ethnic group conflict are explored in this study of the struggle between the predominantly Mexican American United Farm Workers Union and the Japanese American initiated Nisei Farmers League. Our central thesis is that although the economic/situational dimension of ethnicity plays the dominant role in generating the causes and consequences of the conflict between the farm workers and the growers, …
Drug Users and Emergent Organizations
Middleman Minority Concept
The concept of the “middleman minority” has been employed in the social sciences to deal with minority groups whose historical experience, although marked by discrimination, is not characterized by continuous, extreme subordinate status. The explanatory value of this concept is challenged, however, when one examines the historical experience of one of its primary empirical examples, Japanese Americans in agriculture. In this case, one of the most…
Recent Developments in Urban Sociology
Breaking Bread
Journal Article Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America. By Mel Piehl. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982. xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access David J. O'Brien David J. O'Brien College of the Holy Cross Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 2, September 1984, P…
Mobilization of a Traditionally Petit Bourgeois Ethnic Group
Historically, petit bourgeois ethnic groups have been able to mobilize to support collective economic goals. This study examines whether they can still draw on ethnic community support when many members no longer have an economic stake in the issue. Survey data on Japanese American support for the Japanese American farmers' position on a farm labor referendum were collected. There was a high degree of support among the second generation regardles…
Structural Assimilation, Ethnic Group Membership, and Political Participation among Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans differ from most other American ethnic groups by combining high levels of structural assimilation with high levels of involvement in ethnic community voluntary associations. The impact of this on political participation is examined with data from a two generation study of Japanese Americans. The analysis shows that structural assimilation and involvement in the ethnic community can provide different but complementary mechanisms…
Question-Order Effects on the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Journal Article QUESTION-ORDER EFFECTS ON THE DETERMINANTS OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING Get access MCKEE J. MCCLENDON, MCKEE J. MCCLENDON Professor Department of Sociology at the University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID J. O'BRIEN DAVID J. O'BRIEN Professor Department of Community Development at the University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
The Social Networks of Leaders in More and Less Viable Rural Communities1
The relationship between the social networks of leaders and community viability is examined in a comparative study of leaders (N = 75) in five rural communities (population range, 1,000 to 2,500). The analysis looks at leaders' connections to organizations outside of their communities and at different kinds of linkages between leaders within their respective communities. Leaders in more and less viable communities do not differ much in characteri…
Japanese American Ethnicity
The Japanese American Experience
Japanese American Ethnicity
Journal Article Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community Get access Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community. By Fugita Stephen S. O'Brien David. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991. x + 207 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. $30.00.) Donald Teruo Hata, Jr. Donald Teruo Hata, Jr. California State University, Dominguez Hills Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western …
Community Attachment Among Leaders in Five Rural Communities1
The relationship between the different ways leaders may relate to rural communities and their ability to relate to extracommunity individuals and organizations is examined. Drawing from the insights of Merton (1957) into local and cosmopolitan influentials and a newer literature on community attachment, two dimensions of attachment to the local community are identified. A survey of 75 leaders in five midwestern rural communities provides evidence…
The Japanese American Experience
The Japanese American Experience
Slim, well-researched, and readable, this is not only a social history of an ethnic community but a gateway into the ancient psyche of the Japanese. The San Francisco Review of Books... straightforward... informative... Contemporary SociologyThe Japanese American Experience... will be used with profit by professors and students in sociology and ethnic studies courses, for it is the best general text on Japanese Americans currently in print. The J…
Japanese American Ethnicity
The Japanese American Experience
Community Attachment and Depression Among Residents in Two Rural Midwestern Communities1
The relationship between community attachment and depression is examined in a sample survey (N = 295) in two midwestern rural towns and their surrounding open-country areas. When community attachment, a variable through which a rural resident's social integration into the local community affects mental health, was low, higher levels of symptoms of depression were observed. The economic viability of the local community was found to have a relation…
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