Peter H. Rossi

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The Denominational Society: A Sociological Approach to Religion in America
by Andrew M. Greeley, Peter H. Rossi. 266 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction

Chapter 1: The Nature of Religion

Chapter 2: The Origins and Functions of Religion

Chapter 3: Religion as an Organization

Chapter 4: The Present Condition of American Religion

Chapter 5: Religion as an Ethnic Phenomenon

Chapter 6: The Secularization Myth

Chapter 7: The Civil Religion

Chapter 8: Diversity Within Unity

Chapter 9: Religion, Prejudice, and Conflict

Chapter 10: Growing Up Religious

Chapter 11: Theories and Predictions

Bibliography

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Evaluation: A Systematic Approach
by Peter H. Rossi, Howard E. Freeman, Sonia R. Wright. 336 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter 1: Uses of Evaluation Research

Chapter 2: Program Requirements for Evaluation

Chapter 3: Research for Program Planning

Chapter 4: Monitoring Program Implementation

Chapter 5: A Framework for Impact Assessment

Chapter 6: Rigorous Methods of Impact Assessment

Chapter 7: Approximate Methods for Impact Assessment

Chapter 8: Measuring Efficiency

Chapter 9: The Context of Evaluation Research

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Using Theory to Improve Program and Policy Evaluations
by Huey-Tsyh Chen, Peter H. Rossi. 282 pgs.

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This collection of essays underscores the importance of theory in program evaluation and analyzes the nature and implications of theory-driven evaluations. Scholars from different disciplines cover a wide range of issues, such as functions of program theory, the interface between theory and methods, strategies for formulating theory, cost and resource constraints, different types of theory-driven evaluations, and the future implications of such evaluations. This broad-based analysis is designed for inter-disciplinary audiences in policy studies and all the social sciences.

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Introduction: Integrating Theory into Evaluation Practice

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Part I Concepts and Nature of Theory-Driven Evaluations

Chapter 1 Four Types of Theory That Can Guide Treatment Evaluations

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Chapter 2 Theory-Driven Metaevaluation

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Part II Research Strategies and Methods

Chapter 3 Pattern Matching in Theory-Driven Evaluation: a Field Example from Psychiatric Rehabilitation

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Chapter 4 Testing Theories in Theory-Driven Evaluations: (tests Of) Moderation in All Things

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Chapter 5 Theory-Driven Meta-Analysis: Practices and Prospects

Conclusion

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Chapter 6 the Role of Theory in Doing Case Study Research and Evaluations

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Chapter 7 Theory in Evaluation: We Think, Therefore We Theorize (an Ethnographer's Perspective)

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Part III Applications in Program/Policy Planning and Implementation

Chapter 8 Using Research and Theory in Developing Innovative Programs for Homeless Individuals

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Chapter 9: Evaluating New Dawn and Pegasus Using the Chen and Rossi Multigoal, Th eory-Driven Approach

Chapter 10 Using Program Theory in Quality Assessments of Children's Mental Health Services

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Part IV Applications in Impact Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Chapter 11 the Importance of Theory in Selection Modeling: Incorrect Assumptions Mean Biased Results

Chapter 11 the Importance of Theory in Selection Modeling: Incorrect Assumptions Mean Biased Results

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Chapter 12: Quasi-Experiments and Causation Probing

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Chapter 13 Research-Based Theory for Educational Planning and Evaluation

Conclusion

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Chapter 14 Meta-Analysis in Evaluation Research: Moving from Description to Explanation

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Chapter 15 Theory-Driven Approaches to Benefit-Cost Analysis: Implications of Program Theory

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About the Editors and Contributors

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Ghetto Revolts
by Peter H. Rossi. 326 pgs.

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I. Cause and Complaints

Cleveland's Crisis Ghetto

White Institutions and Black Rage

Newark: Ghetto or City?

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Free Will and Determinism in Public Beliefs About Race

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Ii. Why Riots Occur

Breakdown in Law and Order

Open Letter on White Justice and the Riots

Looting in American Cities

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Iii. American React

Iii. American React

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Riot Commission Politics

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Where Rumor Raged

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Whitewash Over Watts

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The "Liberation"Of Gary, Indiana

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Newark: Political Brokers

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The Uses of Controversy in Sociology (Chap. 2 "Conventional Wisdom, Common Sense, and Empirical Knowledge: The Case of Stratification Research and Views of American Society" by Peter H. Rossi)
by Lewis A. Coser, Otto N. Larsen. 398 pgs.

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Part I: To Provoke Concern for Societal Trends

1: Some Questions About Discontinuities in American Society

2: Conventional Wisdom, Common Sense, and Empirical Knowledge: The Case of Stratification Research and Views of American Society

Part II: To Detect Overlooked Cleavages in the Social Structure

3: Conflict Within the Working Class: The Skilled as a Special-Interest Group

4: Politics, Conflict, and Young Blue-Collarites: Old Dissensus and New Consciousness

5 Old Issues and New Directions for Research

Part III To Challenge the Meaning of Modernity for Person and Society

6 Understanding and Misunderstanding Individual Modernity

7: Modernization: Requiescat in Pace

Part IV: To Reorient Theories of Conflict And Revolution

8: Introduction to a Formal Theory of Political Conflict

9: Explaining Revolutions: In Quest of a Social-Structural Approach

Part V: To Appraise the Resurgence of Ethnicity

10: The Power Basis of Ethnic Conflict in American Society

11: Ethnicity in Complex Societies: Structural, Cultural, and Characterological Factors

Part VI: To Post the Limits of Labeling and Redirect the Study of Deviance

12: Deviant Behavior, Social Intervention, and Labeling Theory

13: A Reassessment of Labeling Theory: A Constructive Response to Criticism

14: Response to Critics: Feedback and Choice

Part VII: To Disentangle and Reassemble the Links Between Knowledge and Policy

15: The Emergence of Sociology as a Policy Science

16: Competent Authority: Reality and Legitimating Model

17: Law and the Distribution of Power

18: Local Control of Community Services

Part VIII: To Spur the Development of the Discipline by Pinpointing Theoretical and Methodological Deficiencies

19: Marxist Theories of Power and Empirical Research

20: Hermeneutics, Ethnomethodology, And Problems of Interpretative Analysis

21: Two Methods in Search of a Substance

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The Multi-Goal, Theory-Driven Approach to Evaluation: A Model Linking Basic and Applied Social Science, in Social Forces
by Huey-Tsyh Chen, Peter H. Rossi. 17 pgs.

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The Structure of Punishment Norms: Applying the Rossi-Berk Model, in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
by Joseph E. Jacoby, Francis T. Cullen. 68 pgs.

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