Richard Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9974-8307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 96 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 938 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 95 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France
“He defies the law—and gets justice”: Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason skating on thin ice with the authorities of the democratic state
Erle Stanley Gardner’s most famous protagonist, Perry Mason, defends the innocent and serves justice, but often uses ethically questionable means. The presentation of this contradiction in the paratext is examined, along with its elaboration in the genesis in the novels, against the background of their underlying plot and means of creating suspense. Mason’s tricks and violations against norms of authority are considered in terms of the potential …
Catchment-based approach and formalisation of artisanal and small-scale mining for sustainable mining management in the Philippines
Right size, right place: Scale-dependency of managed realignment to mitigate flood hazards in urban estuaries
As home to ∼60% of the global population, low-lying coastal estuaries are increasingly vulnerable to storm tide flooding, especially under accelerating anthropogenic sea-level rise. Conventional approaches in estuarine flood mitigation have involved building and heightening hard-engineering structures. Recent evidence from small- to medium-sized estuaries highlights that managed realignment (MR)—relocating flood defences landward—is potentially m…
The King’s Poetic Body: Historical Record and Literary Aesthetics in Nineteenth-century Rajasthan
This article considers the relationships between poetry, comportment, and performativity in early-19th century Rajput courts. I argue that in their historical and textual representations, court intellectuals fashioned kings’ poetic bodies, which coded their behaviour through literary conventions—drawn from Sanskrit and Hindi poetics and more local traditions of Rajasthan—and modelled refined, aesthetically nuanced dispositions for later rulers. I…
Performing royal piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta
To this day, Wajid ‘Ali Shah (1822–1887), the last nawab of Awadh, is remembered either as a hedonist and political failure who was forced to surrender his kingdom to the British East India Company or as a musical genius and important patron of the arts. However, few accounts engage with his personal religiosity and public acts of Shī’ah piety. This article examines Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s own scholarship and poetry, and considers his mourning practice…
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…
They Take the Fear out of Failing: Children's and Parents’ Experiences of the Risky Kids Program in Australia
Risky Kids is an Australian community‐based program that seeks to build resilience in children and adolescents by teaching ‘risk intelligence’ through parkour, ninja, and free‐running skills, underpinned by psychological approaches. The aim of this study was to explore children's and parents’ experiences of the Risky Kids program. We interviewed 18 children aged 6–13 years and held three focus groups with 15 parents and caregivers across three si…
Doing Cities, Visually
It’s an unusually bright spring morning in Glasgow, and I am standing under the southern end of the Kingston Bridge, the colossal structure that carries the M8 across the River Clyde. If you know G
Treaty Rights as a Source for First Nation Social and Economic Development: The Marshall Decision in Atlantic Canada
In recent decades, First Nations across Canada have used a variety of instruments to rebuild their economies and societies, not without a struggle but also with measurable success. These instruments include levers like certain provisions of the Indian Act related to taxation on reserve, the pursuit of specific and comprehensive land claims, Treaty Land Entitlement settlements that have provided an avenue for the creation of urban-based reserves a…
Querying ‘Global’ Music History: Significant Geographies between Goswami Pannalal and Queen Victoria
Global music history projects have become increasingly popular in recent years. Going global has its advantages: it develops conversations between researchers working on disparate regions; it sheds light on larger frameworks that are less evident on smaller scales of analysis; it decentres how we teach music history; and it retraces a global hinterland for music systems that have conventionally been called ‘Western’. At the same time, the global …
Developing an equitable agenda for international capacity strengthening courses: Environmental pedagogies and knowledge co-production in the Philippines
Capacity strengthening activities – be that in the form of courses, workshops, seminars – have become embedded in research projects as a requirement for funding and as a means for researchers to demonstrate positive societal impacts. We apply qualitative research techniques including interviews, questionnaires and observations to scrutinise and document an international capacity strengthening course aimed at informing and supporting environmental…
Comparing Logit & Probit Coefficients Between Nested Models
Singing in tune with God: Bengali vaiṣṇava musical scholarship in the eighteenth century
Over the seventeenth century, scholars working for courtly patrons extensively produced new treatises on the theory and practice of music in Sanskrit, Persian, and vernacular languages. This arena of musicology grew through to the eighteenth century, when Bengali vaiṣṇava poets and lyricists began curating extensive song anthologies and expounding the aesthetic considerations derived from canonical works on poetics and the performing arts. This a…
A social model of secondary stressors in relation to disasters, major incidents and conflict: Implications for practice
The rāg that Burned down Delhi: Music and Memory between 1857 and 1947
The Urdu litterateur Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (1906–1967) recorded a series of reflections and reminiscences about Delhi, its culture, and how that culture was brought to an end by the violence of Partition in 1947. In his essays on music, he documented the performances and personal histories of a range of singers, dancers, and instrumentalists based in Delhi in the first half of the 20th century and considered their plight after Independence. In this…
Endurance or decline of emergent groups following a flood disaster: Implications for community resilience
An evaluation of percentile measures of citation impact, and a proposal for making them better
Percentiles are statistics pointing to the standing of a paper’s citation impact relative to other papers in a given citation distribution. Percentile Ranks ( PR s) often play an important role in evaluating the impact of researchers, institutions, and similar lines of study. Because PR s are so important for the assessment of scholarly impact, and because citations differ greatly across time and fields, various percentile approaches have been pr…
An Open Label Pilot Study of a Brief Psychosocial Intervention for Disaster and Trauma Survivors
This study provides preliminary evidence that the delivery of the SOLAR program after disaster by trained, frontline workers with little or no mental health experience is feasible, acceptable, safe, and beneficial in reducing psychological symptoms and impairment among disaster survivors. Randomized controlled trials of the SOLAR program are required to advance evidence of its efficacy
Phoenix Rising: The Whirlwind Story of Success While at the Poles
Research Article| October 01 2020 Phoenix Rising: The Whirlwind Story of Success While at the Poles Richard Williams Richard Williams RICHARD WILLIAMS is a multiracial, gay, first-generation, mentally ill scholar working on a PhD at Capella University and a graduate certificate in qualitative research methods at the University of Georgia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Women, Gender, and Families of Color (2020) 8 (2):…
Dreams, songs and letters: Sectarian networks and musical archives in eighteenth-century North India
Early modern poets conventionally began their compositions by praising and invoking the blessings of their higher authorities, be they their gods, gurus or courtly patrons. In the eighteenth century, North Indian society was particularly unstable, and the relationships between these different power brokers proved volatile. This article considers how intellectuals attached to religious households navigated the challenges of the period, particularl…
Scribal service people in motion: Culture, power and the politics of mobility in India’s long eighteenth century, c. 1680–1820
A decade after IESHR’s Special Issue of 2010, ‘Munshis, Pandits and Record-Keepers: Scribal communities and historical change in India’, we return again to the challenges and dilemmas that scribes, bureaucrats, intellectuals and literati of different kinds faced during the early modern centuries. Building on recent advances in our understanding of these key communities, this Special Issue turns the focus to the eighteenth century. We explore the …
A Link Between the 1780s Blast Furnaces at Coalbrookdale and Staveley: The Note of Mr Chas. Hornblower
In what appears to be the divulging of trade secrets to a potential rival, a Coalbrookdale Company employee provided the lessors of the Staveley furnace in Derbyshire with an account of blast furnace practice. A hurried draft by Charles Hornblower lists in considerable detail the raw materials and their proportions for charging the furnace, transport and labour costs, and advice about building the furnace hearth. Further analysis of the note prov…
Reflecting in the Vernacular
In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and “vernacular” languages. This article examines the processes of multilingual knowledge transmission through an analysis of a Brajbhasha (classical Hindi) music treatise, the Sangitadarpana (“Mirror of Music”) of Harivallabha (ca. 1653). Harivallabha was translating a recent Sanskrit work of the same name: an old-fashioned treatise that nonetheless p…
Chinese Water Systems: Volume 1: Liaohe and Songhuajiang River Basins
Understanding and interpreting generalized ordered logit models
When outcome variables are ordinal rather than continuous, the ordered logit model, aka the proportional odds model (ologit/po), is a popular analytical method. However, generalized ordered logit/partial proportional odds models (gologit/ppo) are often a superior alternative. Gologit/ppo models can be less restrictive than proportional odds models and more parsimonious than methods that ignore the ordering of categories altogether. However, the u…
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…
Using Heterogeneous Choice Models to Compare Logit and Probit Coefficients Across Groups
Allison (1999) notes that comparisons of logit and probit coefficients across groups can be invalid and misleading, proposes a procedure by which these problems can be corrected, and argues that ''routine use [of this method] seems advisable'' and that ''it is hard to see how [the method] can be improved.'' In this article, the author argues that as originally proposed, Allison's method can have serious problems and should not be applied on a rou…
Maximum Likelihood for Cross-lagged Panel Models with Fixed Effects
Panel data make it possible both to control for unobserved confounders and allow for lagged, reciprocal causation. Trying to do both at the same time, however, leads to serious estimation difficulties. In the econometric literature, these problems have been solved by using lagged instrumental variables together with the generalized method of moments (GMM). Here we show that the same problems can be solved by maximum likelihood (ML) estimation imp…
The Changing Face of Inequality in Home Mortgage Lending
American homeownership has long been characterized by racial, ethnic, and geographic inequality. In-equality in homeownership, in turn, has contributed to racial and class segregation and inequality in other aspects of American life. Recently, however, there have been signs of dramatic change, as minorities and low-income groups have achieved all-time record high rates of homeownership. To explain these developments, we compare and contrast neocl…
Leisure as a Resource in Transcending Negative Life Events: Self-Protection, Self-Restoration, and Personal Transformation
Negative life events, such as the unexpected loss of a loved one, a disabling accident or a natural disaster, are inevitably distressing and disruptive. Coping with and recovering from such events generally requires a variety of personal and social resources. Previous research on leisure and coping has suggested that leisure orientations and relationships can be important in reducing the likelihood that stress becomes debilitating in some way. Bu…
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 …
Residential Segregation and the Transformation of Home Mortgage Lending
This article shows that, after decades of inequality, the 1990s saw sudden and dramatic increases in lending to low income and minority groups. Drawing in part on the work of Williams, Nesiba and McConnell (2005), we argue that government deregulation, industry restructuring and government-insured loans all fueled this growth by increasing the sources of loans to minorities. We further argue that this increased lending had small but perceptible e…
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…
Emergent social identities in a flood: Implications for community psychosocial resilience
Although the mobilization of pre‐existing networks is crucial in psychosocial resilience in disasters, shared identities can also emerge in the absence of such previous bonds, due to survivors sharing a sense of common fate. Common fate seems to operate in sudden‐impact disasters (e.g., bombings), but to our knowledge, no research has explored social identity processes in “rising‐tide” incidents. We interviewed an opportunity sample of 17 residen…
From Hierarchy to Networks? Sub‐central Government and EU Urban Environment Policy
This article examines the role of networking as a mode of interaction between sub‐central government and the EU, and as a medium for policy development. Evidence from research into EU urban environmental policy‐making is analysed to argue that a shift in the policy‐making style is being adopted by DG XI, moving away from top‐down legislating, to a more responsive and participatory style, and that networking provides the non‐tangible infrastructur…
European Urban Planning Systems: Diversity and Convergence
This paper explores pressures on planning systems and practices in Europe for change in response to the economic development and environmental policy concerns arising as
Can spouses be trusted? A look at husband/wife proxy reports
This paper examines biases that may occur when models of couple behavior are estimated using one partner’s report of own and of spouse’s desired family size rather than independent reports obtained from both partners. When estimates of random measurement error are incorporated in a model of couple fertility expectations, proxy reports are valid indicators of spouse desires. In particular, there is little evidence that proxy reports are affected b…
Beyond Wives' Family Sociology: A Method for Analyzing Couple Data
Elizabeth Thomson, Richard Williams, Beyond Wives' Family Sociology: A Method for Analyzing Couple Data, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 4, Methodology: The Other Side of Caring (Nov., 1982), pp. 999-1008
Comparing Logit & Probit Coefficients Between Nested Models
Inter-Personal and Critical-Thinking Capabilities in Those about to Enter Qualified Social Work: A Six-Centre Study
The ‘process’ of intervention is understood to be fundamental to social work—evident in, for example, the literature on reflexivity. Little work, though, has focused on the detailed excavation of the cognitive processes of reasoning in decision making. This is widely recognised as requiring considerable analytic and critical abilities. Although this is long established, its importance is contemporarily apparent at the policy level from the ration…
Comparing Possible 'Child-Abuse-Related-Deaths' in England and Wales with the Major Developed Countries 1974-2006: Signs of Progress
This paper explores ‘child abuse-related deaths’ (CARD) and possible CARD rates of children aged from birth to fourteen years over the period 1974–2006. It uses the latest available WHO mortality data to compare England and Wales outcomes with the other major developed countries (MDC), to see how much progress has been made in reducing actual and possible CARD in England and Wales and the other MDC. The results tell a relative ‘success story’ for…
Racial, Economic, and Institutional Differences in Home Mortgage Loans: St. Joseph County, Indiana
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…
A Note on Correlated Measurement Error in Wife-Husband Data
The potential effects of correlated measurement errors among responses of wives and their husbands are examined using data from 349 couples on the utility of and expectations for another child. No significant between-partners error correlations were found, which may be due to the absence of common nonrandom method errors in partners' responses to the same survey item. On the other hand, positive within-partner error correlations were found; when …
Who Kills Children? Re-Examining the Evidence
Violent children's deaths have become a surrogate indicator of effective child protection but can those who kill children be better identified? A decade-long study of child homicide assailants (population of 2.5 million) is re-examined in the context of nineteen Western nations' child mortality rates and child-abuse-related deaths, correlated with four international measures of relative poverty, focusing on income inequality. Child mortality rate…
Reflecting in the Vernacular
In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and “vernacular” languages. This article examines the processes of multilingual knowledge transmission through an analysis of a Brajbhasha (classical Hindi) music treatise, the Sangitadarpana (“Mirror of Music”) of Harivallabha (ca. 1653). Harivallabha was translating a recent Sanskrit work of the same name: an old-fashioned treatise that nonetheless p…
Introduction: Challenges to the homogenization of “African American
Scribal service people in motion: Culture, power and the politics of mobility in India’s long eighteenth century, c. 1680–1820
A decade after IESHR’s Special Issue of 2010, ‘Munshis, Pandits and Record-Keepers: Scribal communities and historical change in India’, we return again to the challenges and dilemmas that scribes, bureaucrats, intellectuals and literati of different kinds faced during the early modern centuries. Building on recent advances in our understanding of these key communities, this Special Issue turns the focus to the eighteenth century. We explore the …
Songs between cities: Listening to courtesans in colonial north India
In the aftermath of 1857, urban spaces and cultural practices were transformed and contested. Regional royal capitals became nodes in a new colonial geography, and the earlier regimes that had built them were recast as decadent and corrupt societies. Demolitions and new infrastructures aside, this transformation was also felt at the level of manners, sexual mores, language politics, and the performing arts. This article explores this transformati…
Trade Unions in Africa
The following address was given before a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Empire Society on June 30, 1955. The Rt. Hon. James Griffiths, M.P., and former Colonial Secretary, took the Chair
Blacks and American medical care
The influence of performance feedback in appraisal interviews
Studies on the effects of discussing an individual's strengths and weaknesses in job performance during appraisal interviews have come to widely differing conclusions. Some of the possible reasons for this are discussed and taken account of in this investigation of appraisal interviews in a government department. Interviews perceived as containing varying degrees of performance feedback (both positive and negative, positive only, negative only an…
A horse race around a M bius strip: A review and a test of utility-maximizing and organizational-process models of public expenditure decisions
Disclosures to a Stranger: Adolescent values in an advanced industrial society, Tom Kitwood, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1980. No. of pages: vii & 291. Price: £11.50
Notes on the political and organisational offensive in Mozambique and its relationship to agricultural policy
In the article ‘Mozambique's’ Presidential Offensive — We are declaring war on the enemy within ( Peoples’ Power, No. 16, 1980) Richard Williams made an interpretation of the organisational and political offensive launched at the beginning of 1980 in Mozambique. The main aim of the article was to argue against the simplistic views prevalent in the British press at that time that Mozambique was lurching to the right. Marcelino dos Santos and Jorge…
Beyond Wives' Family Sociology: A Method for Analyzing Couple Data
Elizabeth Thomson, Richard Williams, Beyond Wives' Family Sociology: A Method for Analyzing Couple Data, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 4, Methodology: The Other Side of Caring (Nov., 1982), pp. 999-1008
A Note on Correlated Measurement Error in Wife-Husband Data
The potential effects of correlated measurement errors among responses of wives and their husbands are examined using data from 349 couples on the utility of and expectations for another child. No significant between-partners error correlations were found, which may be due to the absence of common nonrandom method errors in partners' responses to the same survey item. On the other hand, positive within-partner error correlations were found; when …
Can spouses be trusted? A look at husband/wife proxy reports
This paper examines biases that may occur when models of couple behavior are estimated using one partner’s report of own and of spouse’s desired family size rather than independent reports obtained from both partners. When estimates of random measurement error are incorporated in a model of couple fertility expectations, proxy reports are valid indicators of spouse desires. In particular, there is little evidence that proxy reports are affected b…
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…
Normalization Issues in Latent Variable Modeling
Structural equation models with latent variables have been popular in the social sciences for some time. Recently such models have been used to make comparisons between groups, within dyads, and across time. However, possible problems with establishing meaningful metrics for unobservable variables in such situations are not universally known and acknowledged. It is shown that, when parameter comparisons are a central focus of the research, the me…
Volcanic activity on Heard Island
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Problems Needing Solutions or Solutions Needing Problems: Final Thoughts on the Normalization Controversy
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: Applications in Educational, Sociological, and Behavioral Research
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 …
Two Historic Storms the Convinced the Japanese Divine that they were Wind Invincible in War
Hierarchical Structures and Social Value: The Creation of Black and Irish Identities in the United States
Hierarchical Structures and Social Value: The Creation of Black and Irish Identities in the United States
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
European Urban Planning Systems: Diversity and Convergence
This paper explores pressures on planning systems and practices in Europe for change in response to the economic development and environmental policy concerns arising as
Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview
What's Behind the Research? Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences
This book explores the main assumptions upon which behavioural science theories are based, offers alternatives and challenges the reader to serious critical thought
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