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David R. Johnson
Other affiliations: Rice University, University of Georgia
Bio: David R. Johnson is an academic researcher from University of Nevada, Reno. The author has contributed to research in topics: Legislation & Religiosity. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 30 publications receiving 489 citations. Previous affiliations of David R. Johnson include Rice University & University of Georgia.
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed narratives of science outreach and found that women are more likely than men to participate in outreach, a commitment that often results in peer-based informal sanctions, and revealed how the cultural properties of disciplines, including the status of women, shape the meaning and experience of science outreach.
Abstract: Using data from interviews with 133 physicists and biologists working at elite research universities in the United States, we analyze narratives of outreach. We identify discipline-specific barriers to outreach and gender-specific rationales for commitment. Physicists view outreach as outside of the scientific role and a possible threat to reputation. Biologists assign greater value to outreach, but their perceptions of the public inhibit commitment. Finally, women are more likely than men to participate in outreach, a commitment that often results in peer-based informal sanctions. The study reveals how the cultural properties of disciplines, including the status of women, shape the meaning and experience of science outreach.
68 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that remote interviews, such as tele-conferences, are inferior to conducting qualitative interviews in-person, with other modes being seen as inferior.
Abstract: Conducting qualitative interviews in-person is usually presented as the gold standard, with other modes being seen as inferior. There have been arguments, however, that remote interviews, such as t...
67 citations
01 Sep 2016
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that scientists have long been associated with religion's decline around the world, and little data permit analysis of the religiosity of scientists or their perceptions of the science-faith interface.
Abstract: Scientists have long been associated with religion’s decline around the world. But little data permit analysis of the religiosity of scientists or their perceptions of the science-faith interface. ...
66 citations
TL;DR: Scholarship on technological change in academe suggests that the adoption of instructional technologies will erode professional control as mentioned in this paper, and researchers have documented the pervasiveness of new technol...
Abstract: Scholarship on technological change in academe suggests that the adoption of instructional technologies will erode professional control. Researchers have documented the pervasiveness of new technol...
55 citations
TL;DR: The authors found that religiosity has no significant association with interest in or knowledge of science, but does have a significant negative association with confidence in science, and that the lack of faith in science held by religious individuals is not a product of interest or ignorance, but is instead based on theological or institutional reservations.
Abstract: The religion-science relationship has been the focus of a growing body of research. Such analyses have often suffered from poorly specified concepts related to religion and to science. At the individual level, scholars often assume that an individual’s religiosity will affect her orientation towards science. But an orientation towards science consists of several sub-concepts, each of which may have a unique relationship, or lack thereof, with religiosity. We use observed measures from the 2008 General Social Survey to build latent variables representing science orientation sub-concepts and assess their relationships using structural equation modeling. We find that religiosity has no significant association with interest in or knowledge of science. Religiosity does, however, have a significant negative association with confidence in science. This suggests that the lack of faith in science held by religious individuals is not a product of interest or ignorance, but is instead based on theological or institutional reservations.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
Abstract: What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.
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TL;DR: The Social Contexts of Research as mentioned in this paper is a collection of articles about the social context of research in the 1970s and 1980s, edited by Saad Z. Nagi and Ronald G. Corwin. Pp. xii + 409.
Abstract: The Social Contexts of Research. Edited by Saad Z. Nagi and Ronald G. Corwin. Pp. xii + 409. (John Wiley: New York and London, August 1972.) £5.65.
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05 Dec 2016
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