D Stanley Eitzen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 9249 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Stanley Eitzen |
| PRENOMES | D Stanley |
| SOBRENOME | Eitzen |
| ASSINATURA | EITZEN D S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Colorado State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 232 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Fooling with the Amish
Sport, College
Organized sport competition and institutions of higher education are inseparable in the United States. But the intertwining of the two as found in the US is not present in other countries. In European and Scandinavian countries, for example, intercollegiate sports competition is virtually nonexistent. Rather, there are club sports outside of the school system where young people in teams compete against other clubs. Canada fits somewhere between t…
The atrophy of social life
Fair and Foul
Social Control and Sport
The Missing Safety Net and Families
This is an overview essay on the 1996 welfare legislation and its consequences. The paper is divided into five parts: (1) The basic elements of the legislation; (2) The conservative assumptions undergirding this legislation and the progressive responses to them; (3) The consequences of the legislation for individuals and families; (4) The missing elements in the new welfare legislation; and (5) The progressive solution to welfare
Nurturing Graduate Students
TEXTBOOKS ARE CONTROVERSIAL in sociology. Some professors refuse to use textbooks in their courses, believing that they are too simplistic. Others view textbooks as effective conduits of sociological knowledge. As an example of this latter position, a recent critique of current family textbooks created a furor in sociology and the national media because of their alleged bias (Glenn 1997; Footnotes 1998). Implicit in Glenn's critique was that text…
Integrating professional socialization and training for sociology graduate students
The Role Exit of Professional Athletes
Previous research on the role transition of ex-athletes to a new career is somewhat limited because the studies have applied theories that do not fit the unique characteristics of athletes. This research uses another approach, Ebaugh’s role exit theory to understand the role exit process of professional athletes. Ebaugh claims that her theory, is applicable to all role exits. We found that Ebaugh’s theory applies to athletes, but with modificatio…
Changing Families
Transforming Sociology through Textbooks
We began by discussing structural differences between professors and students. We suggested that these can be neither denied nor ignored, and ought not be magnified; such tactics can jeopardize the pedagogical task. We argued that ethical teaching presumes acknowledging inequality and meritocratic elitism. It entails making and maintaining clear distinctions between roles. In our opinion, ethical teaching begins with honesty and avoids deceptive …
Dirk Eitzen Responds
Paths to Homelessness
Overview Understanding Homelessness: Industrial and Urban Decline The Root Causes of Homelessness in American Cities Paths To Homelessness The Old Homeless: Sam Sheldon and Henry Walsh Work Versus WelfareA False Choice: Sue Jackson The Economic Marginality of Young Families: Sara, Dave, Elizabeth, and Joshua Left Behind in a De-industrialized, Low-Wage Economy: Bob and Nancy Shagford and Their Children Eviction: Debbie Jones and Her Children Soci…
Classism in Sport
Paths to Homelessness
Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen and Kathryn D. Talley, Paths to Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. $55.00 hardcover, $16.95 papercover
Paths to Homelessness
When Is a Documentary
Documentaries-or whatever their directors care to call them-are just not my favorite kind of movie watching. The is I don't trust little bastards. I don't trust motives of those who think they are superior to films. I don't trust their claim to have cornered market on truth. I don't trust their inordinately high, and entirely undeserved, status of bourgeois respectability.' -Marcel Ophuls Ophuls's ongoing career as maker of serious documentaries …
Economic Sociology
Economic sociology covers the gray area between the disciplines of economics and sociology brings scholars from both disciplines together to communicate over topics of interest. This communication provides debate that stimulates and strengthens social theory, which in turn, allows for better policy recommendations. A major area for concern in the development of economic sociology has been the presence of economic imperialism combined with economi…
A Reexamination of Salary Discrimination in Major League Baseball by Race/Ethnicity
This paper extends previous research examining salary differentials by race/ethnicity in major league baseball. Our analysis adds to previous research by using career statistics for both hitters and pitchers, and, for the pitcher category, both starters and relievers. We also examined race/ethnicity two ways: (a) according to the standard three categories of white, black, and Hispanic and (b) according to five categories—white, black U.S. born, b…
Advocacy and the SSSP
The demographic transformation and the sociological enterprise
The Sexist Naming of Collegiate Athletic Teams and Resistance to Change
Colleges and universities use nicknames, logos, and mascots as identifying and unifying symbols, especially surrounding their athletic teams. More than half of U. S. colleges and universities use sexist names and mascots for their women's athletic teams. We argue that these naming practices define, deprecate, and excude women. We show how these linguistic marking systems adopted by schools promote male supremacy and female subordination. They do …
Teaching “Sport and Society”
This is a case study of the consequences of a “sport and society” course for students. Data from a pretest and posttest of one class in sport and society suggest that students changed in “desired” directions. At the conclusion of the course they tend to adopt the sociological perspective, as indicated by a greater probability of criticism rather than the acceptance of societal arrangements, a greater willingness to change social structures, and a…
The Root Causes of Urban Homelessness in the United States
The Reshaping of America
Are Athletes Also Students? The Educational Attainment of College Athletes
Though the educational attainment of college athletes has become a major concern in the United States, there has been little research on the relationship between participation in college sports and educational attainment. We studied more than two thousand athletes over 10 years at a major western university and found that athletes were less prepared for college and achieved less academically in college than the general student population. All ath…
The De-Athleticization of Women
American colleges and universities use nicknames, colors, logos, and mascots as identifying and unifying symbols, especially concerning their athletic teams. This paper examines the dark side of these solidarity symbols by reporting the incidence and patterns found in the naming of collegiate men’s and women’s athletic teams. The data from 1,185 four-year schools reveal that more than half of American colleges and universities employ names, masco…
When Is a Documentary
Documentaries-or whatever their directors care to call them-are just not my favorite kind of movie watching. The is I don't trust little bastards. I don't trust motives of those who think they are superior to films. I don't trust their claim to have cornered market on truth. I don't trust their inordinately high, and entirely undeserved, status of bourgeois respectability.' -Marcel Ophuls Ophuls's ongoing career as maker of serious documentaries …
The Role Exit of Professional Athletes
Previous research on the role transition of ex-athletes to a new career is somewhat limited because the studies have applied theories that do not fit the unique characteristics of athletes. This research uses another approach, Ebaugh’s role exit theory to understand the role exit process of professional athletes. Ebaugh claims that her theory, is applicable to all role exits. We found that Ebaugh’s theory applies to athletes, but with modificatio…
Integrating professional socialization and training for sociology graduate students
Classism in Sport
Racial Bias in Women's Collegiate Volleyball
Whites and blacks in team sports tend to be distributed by positions according to stereotyped skills and abilities. This phenomenon of racial stacking has been documented for men's team sports at the professional and collegiate levels. Recently, stacking has also been found in women's collegiate basketball. The present study examines the case of women's collegiate volleyball, a sport where the positions are more likely to be stereotyped by race t…
The Academic Preparation and Achievement of Black and White Collegiate Athletes
Data on all varsity athletes at a major university over a ten-year period were examined to assess the differences, if any, between whites and blacks in precollege academic preparation and college achievement. White athletes scored higher than their black peers on every measure of academic potential-ACT, SAT, high school rank, and high school grade point average. These differences in preparation translate into greater academic success in college f…
The Sexist Naming of Collegiate Athletic Teams and Resistance to Change
Colleges and universities use nicknames, logos, and mascots as identifying and unifying symbols, especially surrounding their athletic teams. More than half of U. S. colleges and universities use sexist names and mascots for their women's athletic teams. We argue that these naming practices define, deprecate, and excude women. We show how these linguistic marking systems adopted by schools promote male supremacy and female subordination. They do …
The Impact of Negro Voting
Economic Sociology
Economic sociology covers the gray area between the disciplines of economics and sociology brings scholars from both disciplines together to communicate over topics of interest. This communication provides debate that stimulates and strengthens social theory, which in turn, allows for better policy recommendations. A major area for concern in the development of economic sociology has been the presence of economic imperialism combined with economi…
The Educational Experiences of Intercollegiate Student-Athletes
The Consequences of Failure in Sport
The Sociology of Amateur Sport
This paper examines the amateur ideal to assess whether it is possible in today's sportsworld. The first section presents the defining characteristics of the amateur. The second reviews the dominant themes in the sport literature regarding the amateur ideal: (1) amateurism as a mechanism of class hegemony; (2) amateurism as exploitive ideology; (3) amateurism as an anachronism; and (4) amateurism as a citadel of purity. The final section of the p…
Ethical Problems in American Sport
This essay examines some ethical problems prevalent in contemporary American sport. Three topics are considered: (1) the ethical principles that should guide sport; (2) the ethical dilemmas that confront various constituencies in sport; and (3) the structural sources of unethical behaviors in sport
The Consequences of Objective and Subjective Status Inconsistency
The phenomenon of status inconsisitency, while having rich potential as an explanatory variable, has been beset with methodological problems and conflicting findings. Nelson has argued that the use of objective and subjective components of status inconsistency will allow for a more accurate test of its usefulness (1973). The present study, using a sample of 1971 male college graduates interviewed in 1974, analyzed the attitudinal and behavioral c…
Textbook Writing
Status Consistency and Consistency of Political Beliefs
This article tests the generalization, often found in the literature, that people who occupy inconsistent statuses are more likely to hold consistent attitudes of either the or the right than those whose statuses are consistent. Using a technique which incorporates socioeconomic status in the analysis, Eitzen concludes that socioeconomic status-not status inconsistencyexplains consistently held liberal or conservative political attitudes. The aut…
The Sociology of Sport
Organizational Linkages among the Inner Group of the Capitalist Class
This study investigates the non-corporate organizational linkages among the inner group of the capitalist class, defined as those who are interlocked with three or more corporations. To the extent that persons already linked through corporate ties also are connected through common memberships in business organizations, social clubs, and other voluntary organizations, the likelihood of a national cohesive power elite is increased. The corporate da…
Some Social and Demographic Correlates of Football Productivity
variation in the capacity of regions to produce players with enough talent to play on major college teams.2 Rooney chose a sample of 14,500 players, based on two mutually exclusive roster samples taken between 1961 and 1967 for each team,3 by means of an examination of the press brochures and game programs from the 136 major college teams (as rated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association). He used the 1960 census figures as a guide and fo…
The Political Party Affiliation of College Professors
Journal Article The Political Party Affiliation of College Professors Get access D. Stanley Eitzen, D. Stanley Eitzen University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gary M. Maranell Gary M. Maranell University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 47, Issue 2, December 1968, Pages 145–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/47.2.145 Published…
The atrophy of social life
The Missing Safety Net and Families
This is an overview essay on the 1996 welfare legislation and its consequences. The paper is divided into five parts: (1) The basic elements of the legislation; (2) The conservative assumptions undergirding this legislation and the progressive responses to them; (3) The consequences of the legislation for individuals and families; (4) The missing elements in the new welfare legislation; and (5) The progressive solution to welfare
Transforming Sociology through Textbooks
We began by discussing structural differences between professors and students. We suggested that these can be neither denied nor ignored, and ought not be magnified; such tactics can jeopardize the pedagogical task. We argued that ethical teaching presumes acknowledging inequality and meritocratic elitism. It entails making and maintaining clear distinctions between roles. In our opinion, ethical teaching begins with honesty and avoids deceptive …
A Conflict Model for the Analysis of Majority-Monority Relations
The sociological study of majority-minority relations has been handicapped by the lack of models which stress the elements of power and conflict 0 The model presented in this paper begins with the assumptions that~(1) majorityminority relations are power relations, and (2) conflict and struggle are inherent in all power relations. The relationship between any majority and minority is viewed as a conflicting, changing relationship between two part…
Voluntary Association Memberships
studies of community power have shown that the particular form of power structure varies from connnunity to connnunity. It is generally agreed, however , that .informa.l "behind-the-scenes" decision-makers hold the ult.imate power in mast connnunities. This emphasis on infornial leaders overlooks the very real role played by two other elements of the power sttucture--the visible leadership (elected and appointed officials in various agencies and …
A Village in India
The problem. The discipline of sociology has been and is limited by the paucity of sociological theory amenable to empirical verification. Theory construction must be our goal, because our job is to logically and systematically explain social phenomena on higher and higher levels of abstraction. The general purpose of this paper is to explore the applicability of an organizational theory of social change — the process of increasing scale of socie…
The Political Party Affiliation of College Professors
Journal Article The Political Party Affiliation of College Professors Get access D. Stanley Eitzen, D. Stanley Eitzen University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gary M. Maranell Gary M. Maranell University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 47, Issue 2, December 1968, Pages 145–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/47.2.145 Published…
The Impact of Negro Voting
Status Inconsistency and Wallace Supporters in a Midwestern City
Wallace supporters are compared with a representative sample to test two hypotheses: (1) Wallace supporters are disproportionately status inconsistents, and (2) Wallace supporters tend to have higher incomes than their education and/or occupation ranks would appear to warrant. The data indicate that both hypotheses hold for the subject community
The Effect of Discipline, Region, and Rank on the Political Attitudes of College Professors
THIS STUDY examined the political attitudes of one social categorycollege professors. The intent was to ascertain the influence of particular variables (singly and in interaction) upon the political attitudes of this category. Since the focus was on the variables which affect political attitudes and not upon the distribution of such attitudes in the total population of college professors, a factorial sampling design was used (Rossi, 1959:45). The…
Status Consistency and Consistency of Political Beliefs
This article tests the generalization, often found in the literature, that people who occupy inconsistent statuses are more likely to hold consistent attitudes of either the or the right than those whose statuses are consistent. Using a technique which incorporates socioeconomic status in the analysis, Eitzen concludes that socioeconomic status-not status inconsistencyexplains consistently held liberal or conservative political attitudes. The aut…
Type of Status Inconsistency and Schizophrenia
A number of previous studies have called attention (typically ex post facto) to the finding that schizophrenics tend to have backgrounds with a particular type of status imbalance—their occupational level is lower than their years of education would seem to merit. The data from this study substantiated this finding. Moreover, we found that the greater the magnitude of this type of inconsistency, the higher the proportion of schizophrenia. Since s…
The Effect of Group Structure on the Success of Athletic Teams
Some Social and Demographic Correlates of Football Productivity
variation in the capacity of regions to produce players with enough talent to play on major college teams.2 Rooney chose a sample of 14,500 players, based on two mutually exclusive roster samples taken between 1961 and 1967 for each team,3 by means of an examination of the press brochures and game programs from the 136 major college teams (as rated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association). He used the 1960 census figures as a guide and fo…
Impact of Behavior Modification Techniques on Locus of Control of Delinquent Boys
A locus of control scale was given to 21 juvenile delinquent boys residing in a treatment setting using behavior modification techniques. The scores at the posttest were significantly more internal than those from the pretest phase
Social Structure and Social Problems in America
Beyond the Poll
The Perception of Societal Models of Power Distribution by Recent Male College Graduates
This study examines the perception of power among young adult males. A sampleof 1971 male graduates of a state university were asked in 1974 to choose from among pluralistic and elitist models of power in the U.S. The correlates of the various perceptions of power were elaborated using political attitudes, degree of political activism, change in political beliefs, locus of control, and status inconsistency. The findings were that: (1) the respond…
The Consequences of Objective and Subjective Status Inconsistency
The phenomenon of status inconsisitency, while having rich potential as an explanatory variable, has been beset with methodological problems and conflicting findings. Nelson has argued that the use of objective and subjective components of status inconsistency will allow for a more accurate test of its usefulness (1973). The present study, using a sample of 1971 male college graduates interviewed in 1974, analyzed the attitudinal and behavioral c…
Sociology of American Sport
The Consequences of Failure in Sport
Sport in Contemporary Society
Sociology of American Sport
The Future of the American Dream
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn R. BrouilletteJohn R. Brouillette is an assistant professor of sociology at Colorado State University. His research interests are the sociology of education, collective behavior, complex organizations, and research methods.D. Stanley EitzenStanley Eitzen is a professor of sociology at Colorado State University. His research interests include political sociology, ’social problems, and the sociology o…
The corporate inner group
The inner group of the economic elite is composed of those persons who are directors in more than one major corporation. Using government data on interlocking directorates among the top 130 corporations, this paper examines the frequency of interlocks among the 13 largest (holding one‐eighth of the nation's corporate assets). The data show that each of these 13 companies had an average of 4.5 direct and 122.5 indirect links with the others. Twent…
Social Problems in the Eighties
Organizational Linkages among the Inner Group of the Capitalist Class
This study investigates the non-corporate organizational linkages among the inner group of the capitalist class, defined as those who are interlocked with three or more corporations. To the extent that persons already linked through corporate ties also are connected through common memberships in business organizations, social clubs, and other voluntary organizations, the likelihood of a national cohesive power elite is increased. The corporate da…
Are Athletes Also Students? The Educational Attainment of College Athletes
Though the educational attainment of college athletes has become a major concern in the United States, there has been little research on the relationship between participation in college sports and educational attainment. We studied more than two thousand athletes over 10 years at a major western university and found that athletes were less prepared for college and achieved less academically in college than the general student population. All ath…
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