John Allen Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3628698 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Allen Williams |
| NOMBRES | John Allen |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS J A |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5127-4608 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 138 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 559 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1960 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
A Pedagogy of Complexity
John Habgood has usually been seen as one of the last great Anglican liberals, a quintessential Establishment figure, firmly occupying the centre ground of the Church. Although there is truth in this, closer attention to Habgood’s published work, especially that intended for wider public consumption in the form of sermons, lectures, talks and diocesan letters, suggests that this portrait does not do him justice. This article suggests a more radic…
Intelligence in international society
Despite the recent prominence of intelligence in post‐Ukraine global policy, it is a Cinderella in international relations studies. Using English School (ES) theorisation, we locate intelligence within the constellation of primary and secondary institutions in international society. Through looking at the Five Eyes, we explore where intelligence sits within widespread claims of a crisis of the post‐1945 liberal international order (LIO) and what …
Investigating the role of self-selected STEM projects in fostering student autonomy and self-directed learning
Research in STEM education has focussed on integrated STEM projects that combine knowledge and skills across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These integrated STEM projects are typically designed by teachers or researchers addressing a limited range of topics that do not always cater well to the diversity of interest among children and adolescents. By contrast, self-selected projects where students have more choices and autonomy…
Implementing maternal and newborn health quality of care standards in healthcare facilities to improve the adoption of respectful maternity care in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania
INTRODUCTION: Many women worldwide cannot access respectful maternity care (RMC). We assessed the effect of implementing maternal and newborn health (MNH) quality of care standards on RMC measures. METHODS: We used a facility-based controlled before and after design in 43 healthcare facilities in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania. Interviews with women and health workers and observations of labour and childbirth were used for data collection. We est…
A Note Concerning the Relationship Between “Butcher Ding” and “Nourishing Life” in the Traditional Zhuangzi Commentaries
The present discussion aims to help corroborate recent claims that the link between nourishing life 養生 and the Butcher Ding 庖丁 vignette from chapter 3 of the Zhuangzi 莊子 (c. fourth to third century bce ) might be taken seriously, while at the same time falsifying recent claims that it is nonetheless uncommon for the connection to be taken seriously. This is achieved by supplying several pieces of textual evidence from leading figures from through…
The Normativity of Global Ordering Practices
This article integrates normative theoretical analysis into accounts of international order by connecting the study of international practice to debates about the nature and moral purpose of states’ social association. Combining English School and social practice theory with insights from scholarship on colonialism, race, and empire, we conceptualize international order as a dynamic, contested, but often stable and durable, set of patterns of pra…
Institutionalising maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards in Bangladesh, Ghana and Tanzania
INTRODUCTION: Facility interventions to improve quality of care around childbirth are known but need to be packaged, tested and institutionalised within health systems to impact on maternal and newborn outcomes. METHODS: We conducted cross-sectional assessments at baseline (2016) and after 18 months of provider-led implementation of UNICEF/WHO's Every Mother Every Newborn Quality Improvement (EMEN-QI) standards (preceding the WHO Standards for im…
Worlding war as a primary institution of international society
Through interaction with decolonial IR this paper develops a research agenda extending recent English School (ES) work engaging a Global IR agenda. It argues recent developments in ES work that look to world history and which substantially improve ES accounts of “primary institutions” of international society can be further enhanced by decolonial concepts and methods. By focusing on war as a major primary institution of international society, and…
Reframing God
This article draws upon the work of John Caputo to explore ways of reframing faith in God in a manner congruent with a postmodern sensibility. The heart of this shift lies in moving away from an ontological starting point that objectifies the being of God, towards an attempt to analyse the lived experience of faith in terms of an orientation to 'the impossible', an existential response to a call, and the embrace of radical uncertainty in pursuit …
Men's Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a 'New Age' of UK Women's Sport
This article offers an original contribution as the first to focus empirically on men football fans' attitudes towards women's sport in a 'new age' of UK media coverage, in which women's sport has experienced a significantly increased and more positive media profile. We draw on online survey responses from 1950 men football fans of different age groups from across the UK. Our methodological approach used techniques emerging out of the principles …
Effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) in Ghana
INTRODUCTION: Ghana adopted the revised WHO recommendation on intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy using sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) in 2012. This study has assessed the effectiveness and safety of this policy in Ghana. METHODS: A total of 1926 pregnant women enrolled at antenatal care (ANC) clinics were assessed for birth outcomes at delivery, and placental histology results for malaria infection were obtained from 1642 partici…
Locating Laws
This paper analyzes the excessive epistemic narrowing of debate about lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), and specifically the concept of meaningful human control, which has emerged as central to regulatory debates in both the scholarly literature and policy fora. Through reviewing work drawing on international relations, security studies, international law and ethics, and technology policy, I argue all share a common epistemological positio…
Drones, Afghanistan, and beyond
Afghanistan is one of the most drone-affected states, however, very few scholarly studies of drone use there exist. This article uses original fieldwork data in a strategically important area of Afghanistan, eastern Nangarhar province, to analyse drone effects in context. It raises important concerns about the ability of the US to attain stated counterterrorism and counterinsurgency goals. Our results show contextualised analysis of drone use nec…
English School—“Chinese IR” Engagements
This article addresses ongoing discussions across the English School (ES) of International Relations (IR) theory and IR theory drawing on Chinese philosophical traditions and Chinese history as exemplifying a “Global IR” approach. However, common interests in long-run history, non-material forms of power, and an international social structure have not yet led to sustained discussion of normative issues important to both approaches. Showing how an…
I Do Worry That Football Will Become Over-Feminized”
This article draws on the responses of 2,347 football fans (male = 83.4%; female = 16.6%) collected via an online survey from September 2015 to January 2016 regarding the position of women (as fans, coaches, referees, journalists, board members, and administrators) in the gender order in men’s professional association football in the United Kingdom. Engaging with the theoretical framework of hegemonic masculinity, the authors addressed two recurr…
A good girl is worth their weight in gold
The culture of horseracing is rather under researched by social scientists. It may seem a highly progressive site for gender equality in sport because, unusually, men and women compete directly against each other as owners, trainers and jockeys. But gender inequalities are deeply rooted and persistent in British racing. Our interview-based study suggests that ingrained patterns of sexism, chauvinism and paternalism reproduce patriarchal assumptio…
The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities
The International Society – World Society Distinction
The English School, or society of states approach, is a threefold method for understanding how the world operates. According to English School logic, there are three distinct spheres at play in international politics, and two of these are international society and world society—the third being international system. On the one hand, international society (Hugo Grotius) is about the institutionalization of shared interest and identity amongst state…
Ecclesianarchy’
The author has previously argued that in recent times the mainstream churches in the uk have tended to co-opt elements of a postmodern analysis of contemporary culture in support of a mission strategy focused on presentational innovations and limited structural adjustments, without allowing the implications radically to challenge ecclesiological or theological foundations. This article conducts an experiment in pursuing the logic of a postmodern …
Dental safety net capacity
Our findings have implications for state Medicaid policymakers by enabling access to data regarding dental providers' level of participation in Medicaid in addition to identifying factors predictive of such participation. This information will inform Medicaid program plans and provider recruitment efforts
Domestic Abuse and Elder Abuse in Wales
The abuse of older people in domestic settings is both a public health problem and a human rights issue. In 2013, the Welsh government used its new legislative powers and embarked upon two initiatives in the areas of adult safeguarding and domestic abuse, leading to the introduction of two pieces of primary legislation. The first was the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, which placed safeguarding ‘adults at risk’ on a statutory bas…
Moskos, Charles (1934–2008)
Charles C. Moskos (1934–2008) was a highly influential and internationally recognized sociologist who helped develop the field of military sociology through his scholarship, teaching, mentorship, prolific writing, organizational leadership, public policy engagement, and lectures in numerous civilian and military institutions in the United States and abroad. Moskos's most significant research focused on the American enlisted experience, social int…
God Needs Salvation
Must We Wait ‘Til Doomsday?’
In 1974, the lofty ambition of a BBC drama producer to manufacture a ‘prestige’ international hit along the lines of Elizabeth R (BBC2, 1971) came unstuck. In this case study, the authors consider the plight of Churchill’s People (BBC1, 1974–75) during a time of economic strife in the UK and industrial unrest at the BBC, and ask how a series which combined so many skilled writers, directors and actors could result in such a poorly received end pr…
Origins of Tolerance
This report presents findings from a nationwide replication of Stouffer's classic study of attitudes toward civil liberties. Central to Stouffer's interpretation of the origins of tolerance is his idea that exposure to social and cultural diversity encourages an appreciation of the importance of civil liberties for democracy. Trends in the 1950s suggested that Americans would increasingly be exposed to diversity with the result that the populatio…
Community issues and resident opinions of tourism
Voluntary Associations and Minority Status
The study focused on the voluntary associations of Anglo, Black, and Mexican Americans in Austin, Texas. A sample of 380 respondents provided the data. An information interview was used; trained interviewers coming from the same ethnic background as the respondent were employed. Ethnicity proved to be an important variable in predicting social participation, with Blacks having the highest and Mexican Americans having the lowest participation rate…
The Postmodern Military
Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability
There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture (SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be defined and translated into an operational framework for agricultural development. We argue that this paradigm must now be defined-at all scales-in the context of rapidly rising global environmental changes in the Anthropocene, while focusing on eradicating poverty and hu…
Ford Versus 'Fordism
This article questions the stereotypes of Fordism and mass production. It does so by demonstrating that there is a contradiction between the stereotypes and the reality of Henry Ford's manufacturing practice in production of the Model T at the Highland Park factory between 1909 and 1919. Highland Park was not an inflexible factory which combined dedicated equipment, Taylorised semi-skilled workers and a standardised product. More positively, the …
Against lean production
The Local and the Global in English Soccer and the Rise of Satellite Television
This article is concerned with unpacking some of the important dimensions of the developing relationship in Britain between satellite television and sport. The article discusses (a) the rise of Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB network and the central role of Sky’s exclusive deal with the new Football Association Premier League for soccer in cementing the future for satellite broadcasting in Europe, and (h) the role of sport and television in constructing n…
Soccer Crowd Disorder and the Press
Distant Intimacy
This article argues that the use of just war theory as the principal framework for ethical assessment of the use of drones for targeted killing is hampered by the absence of a spatial dimension. Drawing on critical political geography, the article develops a concept of “distant intimacy” that explores the spatial characteristics of the relationship between drone deployers and their targets, revealing that the asymmetry of this relationship extend…
Rethinking Sports Fandom
By locating them within wider debates about changes in sports fandom and late‐modern identity construction around sport, this paper explores, as a case study, the new relationships and tensions that are evolving between domestic and trans‐national soccer competitions in late‐modern Europe. It argues that recent academic work on sports fandom in Europe challenges the old binaries and taxonomies of earlier accounts and also the distinctions that ha…
The hollowing out of British manufacturing and its implications for policy
This article presents new evidence of the 'hollowing out' of British manufacturing. It shows that large British firms are building up their overseas activities while the manufacturing operations which remain in Britain are increasingly sheltered and low tech. The authors argue that these developments set limits on the effectives of national industrial policy. Britain's peculiar national problems must in any case be seen as part of a larger Europe…
I Do Worry That Football Will Become Over-Feminized”
This article draws on the responses of 2,347 football fans (male = 83.4%; female = 16.6%) collected via an online survey from September 2015 to January 2016 regarding the position of women (as fans, coaches, referees, journalists, board members, and administrators) in the gender order in men’s professional association football in the United Kingdom. Engaging with the theoretical framework of hegemonic masculinity, the authors addressed two recurr…
The Long‐Term Fertility Impact of the Navrongo Project in Northern Ghana
This study assesses the long‐term fertility impact of the Community Health and Family Planning Project of the Navrongo Health Research Centre in Ghana and addresses policy debates concerning the role of family planning programs in rural Africa. Conducted in a remote traditional area on Ghana's northern border, the study tests the hypothesis that convenient family planning service delivery can induce and sustain reproductive change in a societal c…
Beyond irrationality and the ultras
In the Academy, female fandom is often conceived of in ways which consciously exclude sport, and women are often marginalised by research on sports fandom. There is also little convincing qualitative research on the experience of mainstream female sports spectators, despite competing claims about the meaning and nature of today’s alleged ‘feminised’ sports crowds. Much of the qualitative work which does exist in this field focuses on younger male…
In Whose Backyard
Proponents of hazardous and nuclear waste depositories label opponents to local siting of such facilities 'NIMBYs' (Not In My Backyard). This study assesses the extent to which the NIMBY label and the strategies of industry proponents to reduce opposition function on a reasonable set of assumptions. Using survey data and multiple regression techniques, the levels of concern of residents living in the county selected as the site of a low level rad…
The Culture of Poverty Debate
In this paper we briefly review relevant research on the culture of poverty and set our findings within the general context of culture of poverty arguments. Data from a community survey in a Southwestern city are analyzed using Oscar Lewis' four major culture of poverty dimensions: 1) the individual, 2) the family, 3) the slum community, and 4) the community's relation to society. In our study a sample of 271 black respondents was divided into tw…
Values and Organizations
Do Labour Costs Really Matter
This article examines the size and significance of labour costs in modern manufacturing industry. Labour costs are doubly salient because wages are both part of the input costs of production and a way of distributing net output. The evidence on British manufacturing shows that labour accounts for less than half of production costs and two-thirds or more of net output. When profit is a relatively small residual claimed by capital, labour costs det…
Men's Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a 'New Age' of UK Women's Sport
This article offers an original contribution as the first to focus empirically on men football fans' attitudes towards women's sport in a 'new age' of UK media coverage, in which women's sport has experienced a significantly increased and more positive media profile. We draw on online survey responses from 1950 men football fans of different age groups from across the UK. Our methodological approach used techniques emerging out of the principles …
New Labour, racism and ‘new’ football in England
Bradbury and Williams begin by examining aspects of the genealogy of incidents of fan racism at the Spain v. England international football match in Madrid on 17 November 2004, and the public outcry in Britain that followed. They raise questions about the possible 'strategic mobilization' by Spanish fans of apparently racist epithets as a response to the use, by the English football authorities before the match, of prominent anti-racism symbolism…
Territorial Borders, International Ethics and Geography
The article surveys and summarises recent literature in political geography and normative international relations theory to highlight how territorial borders are increasingly regarded as social phenomena, rather than material facts, and how this opens them to ethical and normative critique. The article suggests this is a line of enquiry that has yet to be fully developed. In order to do so, though, it is necessary to recognise the ontological sed…
Isidore, Orosius and the Beatus Map
Beatus of Liébana's Commentary on the Apocalypse (Spain, 776) drew heavily on Tyconius’ Commentary (North Africa, late fourth century), which is a probable source for the world map Beatus used to show the apostolic dissemination of the Faith. A map based on Orosius’ Historiarum adversus paganos libri VII (Seven Books of History against the Pagans) is another possible model for Beatus’ map, and it would have differed only slightly from one followi…
A good girl is worth their weight in gold
The culture of horseracing is rather under researched by social scientists. It may seem a highly progressive site for gender equality in sport because, unusually, men and women compete directly against each other as owners, trainers and jockeys. But gender inequalities are deeply rooted and persistent in British racing. Our interview-based study suggests that ingrained patterns of sexism, chauvinism and paternalism reproduce patriarchal assumptio…
Pluralism, Solidarism and the Emergence of World Society in English School Theory
This article argues that the debate between pluralism and solidarism in English School theory has been cast in such a way as to hand the progressive cause to solidarism, taking for granted that moves towards the emergence of world society further a solidarist normative agenda. This article suggests this is because of assumptions about the nature and location of such changes within English School theory. However, an alternative understanding of ch…
From social settlement to household lottery
This article proposes a new appoach to the problems of late capitalism, focused on circuits of production and consumption. It presents empirics on the growth of services in four advanced economies and examines the distributive implications in the UK. The argument is that, for the UK case, the changing composition of employment and the composition of demand feed into a vicious circle whereby the pattern of demand reinforces employment-generated in…
Jeanne Demessieux
Folk Song
Bishops Giffard and Ellis and the Western Vicariate, 1688–1715
The history of the English Vicars-Apostolic was traced some years ago by Dom Basil Hemphill, O.S.B. and also occupied much of an earlier book, first published in Rome in 1877, Annals of the Catholic Hierarchy by W. Maziere Brady. It may, however, be of interest to look more closely at a critical phase in the history of the most unfortunate of the vicariates, the Western, and to amplify the existing accounts from sources unexplored by these two wr…
John Henry Newman's consideration of physical education as a “liberal pursuit”
Britain and the Labor Trade in the Southwest Pacific
Dostoevsky
Values and Organizations
Satire and Alienation in Soulsville
State Papers of Vermont
Britain and Australia, 1831-1855
Protest and Prejudice
Interviewer Biasing Effects
Songs from the Chinese
Spatial system design and fast calibration of activity interaction-allocation models
Batty M., Foot D. et al. (1973) Spatial system design and fast calibration of activity interaction-allocation models, Reg. Studies 7, 351–366. This paper explores certain questions of model design relating to activity interaction-allocation models. A major problem concerns the spatial definition and required number of zones in such models, and an elementary theoretical analysis of this zoning problem is attempted. The effect of space on the model…
Voluntary Associations and Minority Status
The study focused on the voluntary associations of Anglo, Black, and Mexican Americans in Austin, Texas. A sample of 380 respondents provided the data. An information interview was used; trained interviewers coming from the same ethnic background as the respondent were employed. Ethnicity proved to be an important variable in predicting social participation, with Blacks having the highest and Mexican Americans having the lowest participation rate…
The New Avant-Garde
The Culture of Poverty Debate
In this paper we briefly review relevant research on the culture of poverty and set our findings within the general context of culture of poverty arguments. Data from a community survey in a Southwestern city are analyzed using Oscar Lewis' four major culture of poverty dimensions: 1) the individual, 2) the family, 3) the slum community, and 4) the community's relation to society. In our study a sample of 271 black respondents was divided into tw…
Compensatory and Ethnic Community Theories
Origins of Tolerance
Journal Article “Origins of Tolerance”: Reply to Crockett Get access J. Allen Williams, Jr., J. Allen Williams, Jr. University of Nebraska—Lincoln Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Clyde Z. Nunn, Clyde Z. Nunn Center for Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Louis St. Peter Louis St. Peter Iowa State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Origins of Tolerance
Journal Article Origins of Tolerance: Findings from a Replication of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties Get access J. Allen Williams, Jr., J. Allen Williams, Jr. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Clyde Z. Nunn, Clyde Z. Nunn Center for Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Louis St. Peter Louis St. Peter Iowa…
Romantic Love as a Basis for Marriage
A Classic Updated
Football Hooliganism
History and the Sociology of Education
(1980). History and the Sociology of Education. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 333-346
American Business Organizations and Redistributive Preferences
In 30 investigated cities, business groups tend not to support leaders who favor poor- oriented redistributive policies, but the degree to which this is so varies greatly from city to city. Although business groups tend to be less supportive of leaders favoring redistributive policies than other city groups are, business groups sometimes support more moderate leaders in cities where organizational opposition to redistributively oriented leaders i…
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