Robin M Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 95223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin M Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1391-5846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 86 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 506 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Relative Deprivation
The basic concept of relative deprivation is deceptively simple: persons may feel that they are deprived of some desired state or thing, in comparison with some standard, or with the real or imagined condition of other people. Discussions of relative deprivation often deal at one and the same time with a complex cluster of related concepts. Relative deprivation as a social condition refers exclusively to the fact that one social unit as compared …
The Long Twentieth Century in American Sociology: A Semiautobiographical Survey
In this essay, I draw on a professional life history to suggest how sociological knowledge is generated by encounters with changing research opportunities, here called targets of opportunity. In my case, a study of rural communities led to unanticipated conclusions concerning buffering mechanisms that protected authorities by absorbing dissatisfactions and rebellions. Wartime research in a military setting identified sources of group solidarity a…
The Wars Within: Peoples and States in Conflict
In The Wars Within, Robin M. Williams Jr. brings together decades of thought about ethnic conflicts in an effort to better understand their dynamics and to lessen their disastrous consequences. Williams presents a worldwide perspective, conscious that many studies of ethnicity focus primarily on the United States. The stakes of struggles can involve both material resources, such as oil, diamonds, and gold, and sociocultural goods, such as group s…
Sticky Goo
Sticky Goo Get access James Elkins : Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing ( The Pennysylvania State University Press : University Park, Pennysylvania , 1997 ), 39 b&w illns., xvii + 297 pp., + index, ISBN 0-271-01630-2 . James Elkins : On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them ( Cambridge University Press : Cambridge and New York , 1998 ), 54 b&w illns., xix + 315 pp., + index, ISBN 0-521-57018-1 . James Elkins : Why Are O…
Dismissal of a Sociologist: The Aaup Report on Carl C. Taylor1
The dismissal in 1931 of a distinguished sociologist, Carl C. Taylor, after 11 years as an influential faculty member, and the investigation by the American Association of University Professors which followed has received little attention in the literature on the history of sociology. Taylor did not have the security of a tenure system. Years later, he received an honorary degree from the same institution, now North Carolina State University, fro…
Bloody Revenge: Emotions, Nationalism, and War
As violence erupts in endless cycles and old grievances reemerge throughout the world, we are challenged to examine the underpinnings of protracted conflict. In this bold new work, Thomas Scheff argues that the roots of protracted conflict lie in unacknowledged feelings of shame and rage. Scheff builds from the assumption that the social bond is a real and palpable phenomena and that in every type of human contact the bond is either built, mainta…
The Sociology of Ethnic Conflicts: Comparative International Perspectives
Oppositions and deadly conflicts among ethnic collectivities are important around the word. Ethnies (our term for ethnic groups) also strongly affect interstate relations. Both interethnic and ethnic-state conflicts tend to be severe, protracted, and intractable. At the extremes, the stakes are total: survival versus genocide Competition and rivalry for individualized economic and political goods are important, but the most intense conflicts are …
Successful Aging: A Life-Course Perspective on Women's Multiple Roles and Health
Panel data from a sample of 313 women who were wives and mothers in 1956 and were interviewed both in 1956 and in 1986 are used to consider the pathways that lead to health and social integration. Possible relationships were explored between the number, duration, timing, and episodes of various nonfamily roles throughout adult-hood and subsequent health and multiple-role occupancy. It was found that occupying multiple roles in 1956, participating…
Some reflections on sociological objectivity
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society
A Turbulent Field: Diversity and Divergence in American Sociology
Change in Societal Institutions
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society
Challenges of Racial Inequality versus Balanced Scholarship
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society
Journal Article A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society. Ed. by Gerald David Jaynes and Robin M. Williams, Jr. (Washington: National Academy Press, 1989. xvi + 608 pp. $35.00.) Get access Joe W. Trotter Joe W. Trotter Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 974–976, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079000 Published: 01 D…
Fifty Years of the Southern Sociological Society: Change and Continuity in a Professional Society
The American Soldier: An Assessment, Several Wars Later
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER: AN ASSESSMENT, SEVERAL WARS LATER Get access ROBIN M. WILLIAMS, JR. ROBIN M. WILLIAMS, JR. Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Science, Emeritus, at Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 53, Issue 2, Summer 1989, Pages 155–174, https://doi.org/10.1086/269501 Published: 01 January 1989
Social Integration and Longevity: An Event History Analysis of Women's Roles and Resilience
This paper investigates the implications of multiple roles for the longevity of women. Drawing on a two-wave 30-year panel study of 427 wives and mothers in upstate New York we use event history techniques to test the effects of both the number and the nature of roles on the duration of womens lives. We find that social integration defined by the number of roles occupied promotes longevity but that one form of integration--membership in a volunta…
In the Belly of the Beast: The Modern State as Mass Murderer
The Military, Militarism, and the Polity: Essays in Honor of Morris Janowitz. Michel L. Martin , Ellen Stern McCrate
Looking before we leap
Challenges and opportunities
Field Observations and Surveys in Combat Zones
Sociological Tropes: A Tribute to Erving Goffman
Racial Inequality: A Political-Economic Analysis.Michael Reich
Successful Aging: A Life-Course Perspective on Women's Multiple Roles and Health
Panel data from a sample of 313 women who were wives and mothers in 1956 and were interviewed both in 1956 and in 1986 are used to consider the pathways that lead to health and social integration. Possible relationships were explored between the number, duration, timing, and episodes of various nonfamily roles throughout adult-hood and subsequent health and multiple-role occupancy. It was found that occupying multiple roles in 1956, participating…
Social Integration and Longevity: An Event History Analysis of Women's Roles and Resilience
This paper investigates the implications of multiple roles for the longevity of women. Drawing on a two-wave 30-year panel study of 427 wives and mothers in upstate New York we use event history techniques to test the effects of both the number and the nature of roles on the duration of womens lives. We find that social integration defined by the number of roles occupied promotes longevity but that one form of integration--membership in a volunta…
The Sociology of Ethnic Conflicts: Comparative International Perspectives
Oppositions and deadly conflicts among ethnic collectivities are important around the word. Ethnies (our term for ethnic groups) also strongly affect interstate relations. Both interethnic and ethnic-state conflicts tend to be severe, protracted, and intractable. At the extremes, the stakes are total: survival versus genocide Competition and rivalry for individualized economic and political goods are important, but the most intense conflicts are …
American society: A Sociological Interpretation.
Strangers Next Door. Ethnic Relations in American Communities
Culture and Social Character: The Work of David Riesman Reviewed
Individual and Group Values
Because values, defined as generalized criteria of desirability, are deeply involved in all of the specialized areas treated in this volume, much of the needed analysis is implicit in other articles. There remains a need to render explicit the first-order tasks for making data on values a viable part of societal self-awareness and self-direction, in an age of Great Societies. Values are important causal compo nents in individual conduct and in th…
The American Soldier: Adjustment During Army Life
The Reduction of Intergroup Tension: A Survey of Research on Problems of Ethnic, Racial and Religious Group Relations
Sociology: A Text with Adapted Readings
The Wars Within: Peoples and States in Conflict
In The Wars Within, Robin M. Williams Jr. brings together decades of thought about ethnic conflicts in an effort to better understand their dynamics and to lessen their disastrous consequences. Williams presents a worldwide perspective, conscious that many studies of ethnicity focus primarily on the United States. The stakes of struggles can involve both material resources, such as oil, diamonds, and gold, and sociocultural goods, such as group s…
Situational Patterning in Intergroup Relations
THERE is now abundant research evidence of situational variability in intergroup behavior: an ever-accumulating body of research demonstrates that allegedly prejudiced persons act in a thoroughly egalitarian manner in situations where that is the socially prescribed mode of behavior, and that allegedly unprejudiced persons discriminate in situations where they feel it is socially appropriate to do so.1 It is also well known that patterns of appro…
Continuity and Change in Sociological Study
Sociological Tropes: A Tribute to Erving Goffman
Stratification in the Ante-Bellum South
ENEWED interest among sociologists in well-documented historical materials as a basis for comparative study of social systems has recently turned attention to the backgrounds of the American treatment of the Negro during the period of slavery. Such materials, however, can be of maximum utility to the science only through careful and systematic analysis in terms of basic elements and relationships as a foundation for general theory. The present pa…
American Society: A Sociological Interpretation
The Long Twentieth Century in American Sociology: A Semiautobiographical Survey
In this essay, I draw on a professional life history to suggest how sociological knowledge is generated by encounters with changing research opportunities, here called targets of opportunity. In my case, a study of rural communities led to unanticipated conclusions concerning buffering mechanisms that protected authorities by absorbing dissatisfactions and rebellions. Wartime research in a military setting identified sources of group solidarity a…
The American Soldier: An Assessment, Several Wars Later
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER: AN ASSESSMENT, SEVERAL WARS LATER Get access ROBIN M. WILLIAMS, JR. ROBIN M. WILLIAMS, JR. Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Science, Emeritus, at Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 53, Issue 2, Summer 1989, Pages 155–174, https://doi.org/10.1086/269501 Published: 01 January 1989
Race and Ethnic Relations
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Attitudes Toward the Korean War
Journal Article Attitudes Toward the Korean War Get access EDWARD A. SUCHMAN, EDWARD A. SUCHMAN The authors are all in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROSE K. GOLDSEN, ROSE K. GOLDSEN The authors are all in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBIN M. WILLIAMS, JR. ROBIN …
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society
Schools in Transition: Community Experiences in Desegregation
Resolving Social Conflicts: Selected Papers on Group Dynamics
Some Further Comments on Chronic Controversies
Friendship and Social Values in a Suburban Community: An Exploratory Study
Stratification in the Ante-Bellum South
ENEWED interest among sociologists in well-documented historical materials as a basis for comparative study of social systems has recently turned attention to the backgrounds of the American treatment of the Negro during the period of slavery. Such materials, however, can be of maximum utility to the science only through careful and systematic analysis in terms of basic elements and relationships as a foundation for general theory. The present pa…
Some Observations on Sociological Research in Government During World War II
T HIS discussion is based in considerable part upon experience in an organization charged with the study of attitudes and morale in the United States Army: Research Branch, Information and Education Division, War Department. Our analysis is based upon observations drawn from work in this country and from operations in the European Theater. Certain conclusions arise from wider observation of several other governmental research organizations. The i…
The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions: A Survey of Research on Problems of Ethnic, Racial and Religious Group Relations
The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions: A Survey of Research on Problems of Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Group Relations
Resolving Social Conflicts: Selected Papers on Group Dynamics
The Reduction of Intergroup Tension: A Survey of Research on Problems of Ethnic, Racial and Religious Group Relations
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath, Vol II
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath, Vol. II. By Samuel A. Stouffer, Arthur A. Lumsdaine, Marion Harper Lumsdaine, Robin M. Williams, Jr., M. Brewster Smith, Irving L. Janis, Shirley A. Star, Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr. Get access Richard A. Newhall Richard A. Newhall Williams College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 1949, Pages 550–551, http…
The American Soldier: Adjustment During Army Life. Volume I
The American Soldier: Adjustment During Army Life. Volume I. By Samuel A. Stouffer, Edward A. Suchman, Leland C. DeVinney, Shirley A. Star, and Robin M. Williams, Jr. Foreword by Frederick Osborn. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. xii + 599 pp. Graphs and tables. $7.50.) Get access Richard A. Newhall Richard A. Newhall Williams College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History…
The American Soldier: Adjustment During Army Life
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath
The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath was the first comprehensive study ever undertaken of the attitudes of combat infantrymen in war. Working from large survey samples taken among infantrymen who fought in World War II, Samuel Stouffer and his associates presented the first data available on individual men’s feelings about their performance and motivation in combat. This volume became the essential source of data on soldiers for scholar…
Wartime Shipyard
The Social Structure of Values
Research Methods in Social Relations: With Especial Reference to Prejudice. Part One: Basic Processes
Attitudes Toward the Korean War
Journal Article Attitudes Toward the Korean War Get access EDWARD A. SUCHMAN, EDWARD A. SUCHMAN The authors are all in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROSE K. GOLDSEN, ROSE K. GOLDSEN The authors are all in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBIN M. WILLIAMS, JR. ROBIN …
Application of Research to Practice in Intergroup Relations
IN this paper, the subject to be discussed is the use of scientific research for socially important ends. It is assumed that our primary aim as scientists is to maximize the power of generalization, and that a primary question with reference to application is that of the degree of generalization compatible with application of research to concrete social problems. Whether the intention of the research is applied or pure is, from this point of view…
Student Reaction to Impending Military Service
and technical conditions where land cannot hold permanent value, and even here there appears to be a tendency toward bringing land to an important place wherever conditions permit. Our proposition is not proved but is promising: there is a requisite functional relationship between land as a value symbol and the character of the economy-negative in the case of hunting-gathering peoples and positive in the case of folk or peasant communities. And i…
American Life: Dream aud Reality. W. L loyd W arner
Schools in Transition: Community Experiences in Desegregation
Sociology: A Text with Adapted Readings
Schools in Transition
Community Experiences with Desegregation
Religion, Value‐Orientations, and Intergroup Conflict
Educational Desegregation as a Context for Basic Social Science Research
the location of industrial activity outside a central city. Empirical investigation may show less centralization and concentration of industrial activity in the entire complex than formerly, but this requires an historical demonstration. There is a real need to combine studies of the gross movement and location of industries within metropolitan areas with studies of the reasons for selecting particular locations to clarify our description of popu…
Situational Patterning in Intergroup Relations
THERE is now abundant research evidence of situational variability in intergroup behavior: an ever-accumulating body of research demonstrates that allegedly prejudiced persons act in a thoroughly egalitarian manner in situations where that is the socially prescribed mode of behavior, and that allegedly unprejudiced persons discriminate in situations where they feel it is socially appropriate to do so.1 It is also well known that patterns of appro…
The State of the Social Sciences: Papers Presented at the 25th Anniversary of the Social Science Research Building, the University of Chicago, November 10-12, 1955. Leonard D. White
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