Richard A Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3631998 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard A Williams |
| NOMBRES | Richard A |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS R A |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6333-9448 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 286 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Implications of Genetic Testing in Adoption
Genetic testing helps determine the risk an individual faces in developing genetic diseases. Understanding the risk can allow measures to be put in place to increase preparation for the potential onset of certain diseases. Adoptees and adopters are often provided with limited information on the mental and physical health of birth parents. Therefore, some individuals argue that genetic testing could provide adoptive parents with further informatio…
The Incomparable Jerry Ellig
Jerry Ellig was a unique character and a great economist. He believed in one thing, using economic analysis to help solve problems. He became an expert at Regulatory Impact Analyses and how they helped governments to choose the best option to do just that, all the while recognizing the problems that government has with necessarily much less information than markets. He believed in holding governments to account for achieving results including per…
If We’re Not Coping, What Chance Have we Got of Parenting Our Children Well?” Adopters’ Mental Health and Help-Seeking Experiences
Developmental and mental health challenges experienced by adopted children can manifest vicariously in adopters. Yet there is a perceived lack of consideration toward adopters’ mental health throughout the adoption process. Studies exist on birth-parental mental health and support needs, and mental illness and behavioral challenges in adopted children, yet comparatively little research explores the mental health experiences of adopters. This stud…
Exploring UK foundation doctors’ perceptions surrounding raising concerns in the workplace
This study aims to explore the perceptions of foundation doctors (FDs) in the United Kingdom (UK) surrounding raising concerns in the workplace. An online survey was sent to all FDs in the UK between February and March 2018. Respondents were asked what they had observed or experienced that had been ethically challenging during their foundation training. The qualitative responses were coded into themes. Reasons why FDs wished to raise concerns in …
Exploring “quality” in cord blood transfusion
Umbilical cord blood unit (CBU) “quantity” continues to grow internationally, while cord blood transplantation (CBT) “quality” remains poorly defined and subject to uncertainty. CBT “quality” is affected by both the product (i.e. CBUs) and CBT processes, with “best practice” varying across countries. To improve overall CBT “quality”, we need to better understand the uncertainty associated with CBUs and CBT processes and how staff manage it. In th…
Prepared for practice? UK Foundation doctors’ confidence in dealing with ethical issues in the workplace
This paper investigates the medical law and ethics (MEL) learning needs of Foundation doctors (FYs) by means of a national survey developed in association with key stakeholders including the General Medical Council and Health Education England. Four hundred sevnty-nine doctors completed the survey. The average self-reported level of preparation in MEL was 63%. When asked to rate how confident they felt in approaching three cases of increasing eth…
Proposing a sociology of donation
This article advances the case for a ‘sociology of donation’. We aim to establish that there is a need for such a sociology, to bring together the many, often disparate, elements that make up the theorizing, practice and experience of donation. We argue that bringing together different forms of donation illuminates the distinctive place both in social meaning and regulation that the body and its products hold. In developing this, we are primarily…
Diet and health
Racial, Economic, and Institutional Differences in Home Mortgage Loans
Numerous studies have documented racial and economic disparities in the home mortgage market. Almost all of these have been done in large urban areas, many of which have long histories of racial conflict and discrimination. Further, little attention has been paid to institutional disparities, i.e., the ways in which mortgage lenders differ among themselves in their community reinvestment performance. In this study, we profile the home mortgage le…
Potential health benefits of nutrition label changes
OBJECTIVES. The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 mandates the Food and Drug Administration to promulgate changes in nutrition labeling regulations. This study investigates the potential health benefits associated with expected changes in food consumption resulting from the act. METHODS. This paper provides four estimates of the potential health benefits from the dietary changes expected to occur as a result of the 1990 act. The upper …
Students' Characteristics and the Peer-Influence Process
Relying on Parsons's conceptualization of the influence process and using 20,000 friendship dyads from the High School and Beyond survey, the authors examine how characteristics of students and of students' close friends affect the students' college aspirations and attendance. This article describes their study, which focused on whether differences in the ascribed and achieved characteristicsgender, race, and other background characteristics, as …
Structural Modeling by Example
Preface List of contributors 1. Introduction Peter Cuttance and Russell Ecob 2. An overview of structural equation modeling Russell Ecob and Peter Cuttance 3. Field dependence and the differentiation of neurotic syndromes Katharine R. Parkes 4. High school seniors' reports of parental socioeconomic status: black-white differences Lee M. Wolfle 5. Modeling the hierarchical structure of learning Peter W. Hill 6. A study of longitudinal causal model…
Interracial Friendship Choices in Secondary Schools
We examine processes that govern the selection of cross-race and same-race friends among high school students. Relying on social psychological theories of interpersonal attraction, we predict that individualand school-level factors that affect the bases of attraction will influence the friendship choices. We test hypotheses using data from the sophomore and senior cohorts of the High School and Beyond Survey. Its large sample, national representa…
Adolescent Mothers in Later Life
List of tables and figures Preface 1. Reassessing adolescent parenthood 2. Experience in adulthood 3. Pathways to success in adulthood 4. The children's experience 5. The intersecting life courses of adolescent mothers and their children 6. The life course of adolescent mothers: implications for public policy Appendices Bibliography Index
The Stability of Students' Interracial Friendships
In this paper we study the determinants of the stability of schoolchildren's interracial and same-race friendships. We argue that classroom organizational features and student characteristics affect the cohesiveness of social ties with consequences for friendship stability. The hypotheses are tested on longitudinal data from 375 fourththrough seventh-grade students in 16 desegregated classrooms. Descriptive and inferential analyses show that inte…
Ability Grouping and Contextual Determinants of Educational Expectations in Israel
Previous studies reveal small effects of school contexts on educational outcomes and tend to dismiss their importance in the educational attainment process. During the '60s, Israeli primary schools were very dissimilar in their student-body compositions. In addition, about half the schools practiced ability grouping, whereas the others did not group students. Analyzing data for the population of Jewish male students who attended the last grade of…
Interracial Friendship Choices in Secondary Schools
We examine processes that govern the selection of cross-race and same-race friends among high school students. Relying on social psychological theories of interpersonal attraction, we predict that individualand school-level factors that affect the bases of attraction will influence the friendship choices. We test hypotheses using data from the sophomore and senior cohorts of the High School and Beyond Survey. Its large sample, national representa…
The Stability of Students' Interracial Friendships
In this paper we study the determinants of the stability of schoolchildren's interracial and same-race friendships. We argue that classroom organizational features and student characteristics affect the cohesiveness of social ties with consequences for friendship stability. The hypotheses are tested on longitudinal data from 375 fourththrough seventh-grade students in 16 desegregated classrooms. Descriptive and inferential analyses show that inte…
Students' Characteristics and the Peer-Influence Process
Relying on Parsons's conceptualization of the influence process and using 20,000 friendship dyads from the High School and Beyond survey, the authors examine how characteristics of students and of students' close friends affect the students' college aspirations and attendance. This article describes their study, which focused on whether differences in the ascribed and achieved characteristicsgender, race, and other background characteristics, as …
Ability Grouping and Contextual Determinants of Educational Expectations in Israel
Previous studies reveal small effects of school contexts on educational outcomes and tend to dismiss their importance in the educational attainment process. During the '60s, Israeli primary schools were very dissimilar in their student-body compositions. In addition, about half the schools practiced ability grouping, whereas the others did not group students. Analyzing data for the population of Jewish male students who attended the last grade of…
Potential health benefits of nutrition label changes
OBJECTIVES. The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 mandates the Food and Drug Administration to promulgate changes in nutrition labeling regulations. This study investigates the potential health benefits associated with expected changes in food consumption resulting from the act. METHODS. This paper provides four estimates of the potential health benefits from the dietary changes expected to occur as a result of the 1990 act. The upper …
Racial, Economic, and Institutional Differences in Home Mortgage Loans
Numerous studies have documented racial and economic disparities in the home mortgage market. Almost all of these have been done in large urban areas, many of which have long histories of racial conflict and discrimination. Further, little attention has been paid to institutional disparities, i.e., the ways in which mortgage lenders differ among themselves in their community reinvestment performance. In this study, we profile the home mortgage le…
Proposing a sociology of donation
This article advances the case for a ‘sociology of donation’. We aim to establish that there is a need for such a sociology, to bring together the many, often disparate, elements that make up the theorizing, practice and experience of donation. We argue that bringing together different forms of donation illuminates the distinctive place both in social meaning and regulation that the body and its products hold. In developing this, we are primarily…
Diet and health
Ability Grouping and Contextual Determinants of Educational Expectations in Israel
Previous studies reveal small effects of school contexts on educational outcomes and tend to dismiss their importance in the educational attainment process. During the '60s, Israeli primary schools were very dissimilar in their student-body compositions. In addition, about half the schools practiced ability grouping, whereas the others did not group students. Analyzing data for the population of Jewish male students who attended the last grade of…
The Stability of Students' Interracial Friendships
In this paper we study the determinants of the stability of schoolchildren's interracial and same-race friendships. We argue that classroom organizational features and student characteristics affect the cohesiveness of social ties with consequences for friendship stability. The hypotheses are tested on longitudinal data from 375 fourththrough seventh-grade students in 16 desegregated classrooms. Descriptive and inferential analyses show that inte…
Adolescent Mothers in Later Life
List of tables and figures Preface 1. Reassessing adolescent parenthood 2. Experience in adulthood 3. Pathways to success in adulthood 4. The children's experience 5. The intersecting life courses of adolescent mothers and their children 6. The life course of adolescent mothers: implications for public policy Appendices Bibliography Index
Structural Modeling by Example
Preface List of contributors 1. Introduction Peter Cuttance and Russell Ecob 2. An overview of structural equation modeling Russell Ecob and Peter Cuttance 3. Field dependence and the differentiation of neurotic syndromes Katharine R. Parkes 4. High school seniors' reports of parental socioeconomic status: black-white differences Lee M. Wolfle 5. Modeling the hierarchical structure of learning Peter W. Hill 6. A study of longitudinal causal model…
Interracial Friendship Choices in Secondary Schools
We examine processes that govern the selection of cross-race and same-race friends among high school students. Relying on social psychological theories of interpersonal attraction, we predict that individualand school-level factors that affect the bases of attraction will influence the friendship choices. We test hypotheses using data from the sophomore and senior cohorts of the High School and Beyond Survey. Its large sample, national representa…
Students' Characteristics and the Peer-Influence Process
Relying on Parsons's conceptualization of the influence process and using 20,000 friendship dyads from the High School and Beyond survey, the authors examine how characteristics of students and of students' close friends affect the students' college aspirations and attendance. This article describes their study, which focused on whether differences in the ascribed and achieved characteristicsgender, race, and other background characteristics, as …
Potential health benefits of nutrition label changes
OBJECTIVES. The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 mandates the Food and Drug Administration to promulgate changes in nutrition labeling regulations. This study investigates the potential health benefits associated with expected changes in food consumption resulting from the act. METHODS. This paper provides four estimates of the potential health benefits from the dietary changes expected to occur as a result of the 1990 act. The upper …
Racial, Economic, and Institutional Differences in Home Mortgage Loans
Numerous studies have documented racial and economic disparities in the home mortgage market. Almost all of these have been done in large urban areas, many of which have long histories of racial conflict and discrimination. Further, little attention has been paid to institutional disparities, i.e., the ways in which mortgage lenders differ among themselves in their community reinvestment performance. In this study, we profile the home mortgage le…
Diet and health
Proposing a sociology of donation
This article advances the case for a ‘sociology of donation’. We aim to establish that there is a need for such a sociology, to bring together the many, often disparate, elements that make up the theorizing, practice and experience of donation. We argue that bringing together different forms of donation illuminates the distinctive place both in social meaning and regulation that the body and its products hold. In developing this, we are primarily…
Prepared for practice? UK Foundation doctors’ confidence in dealing with ethical issues in the workplace
This paper investigates the medical law and ethics (MEL) learning needs of Foundation doctors (FYs) by means of a national survey developed in association with key stakeholders including the General Medical Council and Health Education England. Four hundred sevnty-nine doctors completed the survey. The average self-reported level of preparation in MEL was 63%. When asked to rate how confident they felt in approaching three cases of increasing eth…
Exploring UK foundation doctors’ perceptions surrounding raising concerns in the workplace
This study aims to explore the perceptions of foundation doctors (FDs) in the United Kingdom (UK) surrounding raising concerns in the workplace. An online survey was sent to all FDs in the UK between February and March 2018. Respondents were asked what they had observed or experienced that had been ethically challenging during their foundation training. The qualitative responses were coded into themes. Reasons why FDs wished to raise concerns in …
Exploring “quality” in cord blood transfusion
Umbilical cord blood unit (CBU) “quantity” continues to grow internationally, while cord blood transplantation (CBT) “quality” remains poorly defined and subject to uncertainty. CBT “quality” is affected by both the product (i.e. CBUs) and CBT processes, with “best practice” varying across countries. To improve overall CBT “quality”, we need to better understand the uncertainty associated with CBUs and CBT processes and how staff manage it. In th…
The Incomparable Jerry Ellig
Jerry Ellig was a unique character and a great economist. He believed in one thing, using economic analysis to help solve problems. He became an expert at Regulatory Impact Analyses and how they helped governments to choose the best option to do just that, all the while recognizing the problems that government has with necessarily much less information than markets. He believed in holding governments to account for achieving results including per…
If We’re Not Coping, What Chance Have we Got of Parenting Our Children Well?” Adopters’ Mental Health and Help-Seeking Experiences
Developmental and mental health challenges experienced by adopted children can manifest vicariously in adopters. Yet there is a perceived lack of consideration toward adopters’ mental health throughout the adoption process. Studies exist on birth-parental mental health and support needs, and mental illness and behavioral challenges in adopted children, yet comparatively little research explores the mental health experiences of adopters. This stud…
The Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Implications of Genetic Testing in Adoption
Genetic testing helps determine the risk an individual faces in developing genetic diseases. Understanding the risk can allow measures to be put in place to increase preparation for the potential onset of certain diseases. Adoptees and adopters are often provided with limited information on the mental and physical health of birth parents. Therefore, some individuals argue that genetic testing could provide adoptive parents with further informatio…
Psychology (9 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Developmental psychology (4 obras) · School Choice and Performance (4 obras) · Business (3 obras) · Economics (3 obras) · Friendship (3 obras)