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Rogers applied it to the healthcare setting to address issues with hygiene, cancer prevention, family planning, and drunk driving. Using his synthesis, Rogers produced a theory of the adoption of innovations among individuals and organizations. [12] Diffusion of Innovations and Rogers' later books are among the most often cited in diffusion ...
Rogers was born on his family's Pinehurst Farm in Carroll, Iowa, in 1931.His father loved electromechanical farm innovations, but was highly reluctant to utilize biological–chemical innovations, so he resisted adopting the new hybrid seed corn, even though it yielded 25% more crop and was resistant to drought.
In diffusion of innovation theory, a pro-innovation bias is a belief that innovation should be adopted by the whole society without the need for its alteration. [1] [2] The innovation's "champion" has a such strong bias in favor of the innovation, that they may not see its limitations or weaknesses and continue to promote it nonetheless.
Martha Elizabeth Rogers (May 12, 1914 – March 13, 1994) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and author. While professor of nursing at New York University , Rogers developed the "Science of Unitary Human Beings", a body of ideas that she described in her book An Introduction to the Theoretical Basis of Nursing .
John A. Rogers (born August 24, 1967) is an American physical chemist and a materials scientist. He is currently the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurological Surgery at Northwestern University .
Rogers was born on June 21, 1900, in Toronto, Ontario.During his childhood, his family lived at 49 Nanton Avenue in the Rosedale neighbourhood of Toronto. [2] [3]His father, businessman Albert Stephen Rogers (1860–1932), [4] was a director of Imperial Oil (after his Queen City Oil Company was bought out) and formerly a partner in Samuel and Elias Rogers Coal Company (later Elias Rogers and ...
William Hazen Rogers (born May 13, 1801) was an American master silversmith and a pioneer in the silver-plate industry and whose work and name have survived to the present day. Rogers – together with his two brothers and, later, his son – was responsible for more than 100 patterns of silver and silver-plated cutlery and serving dishes.
Rogers Brubaker (/ ˈ b r uː b eɪ k ər /; born 1956) is professor of sociology at University of California, Los Angeles and UCLA Foundation Chair. [2] He has written academic works on social theory , immigration , citizenship , nationalism , ethnicity , religion , diasporas , gender , populism , and digital hyperconnectivity.