Robin williams sociologist biography summary
Robin Murphy Williams
American sociologist (1914–2006)
Robin Murphy Williams (October 11, 1914 – June 3, 2006) was an American sociologist who is primarily known for identifying and defining 15 core values that are central to the American way of life.
Life
Williams was born on October 11, 1914, in the city of Hillsborough, North Carolina. He graduated from North Carolina State College in 1933 at the age of 19 before going on earn an M.A. at Harvard University in 1939 and his PhD from the same establishment in 1943.
Following the work and studies he did on soldiers during the Second World War, Williams went on to take up a role as a professor at Cornell University, where he taught from 1946 to 1985. In 1990 he joined the University of California at Irvine, where he would continue to publish books until the very end of his life. His sister Helen Coble reveals that his final publication was made when he reached the age of 89. Williams died at the age of 91.
Career/works
As Philip Kasinitz states "From his earliest academic work to his chairing the committee in 1989, Robin Williams Jr insisted on confronting the centrality of race in the U.S society." Fresh out of Harvard University, Robin Williams found his way to the war torn battlefields from where he would begin his analysis on the reasons that push soldiers to fight in the war. This would give him the sufficient data needed for his first publication The American Soldier: adjustment during army life. In this work he comes to the realization that what pushes man to participate in the violence of war is not the protection of the abstract notion of a nation, but rather the concrete idea which is direct protection of his comrades in the battlefield and the indirect protection of their loved ones at home. "People fought to save their buddies, because of relational solidarity," The study offered key findings that "essential
School of Social and Political Science
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MyPath Consortium, Kaasa S. Integrating patient-centered and tumour-centred cancer care: the EU-MyPath implementation project offers an innovative digital solution with care pathways. Palliative Care and Social Practice. 2024 Oct 10.
Cresswell K, de Keizer N, Magrabi F, Williams R, Rigby M, Prgomet M et al. Evaluating Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Settings-Let Us Not Reinvent the Wheel. Journal of medical Internet research. 2024 Aug 7;26:e46407. doi: 10.2196/46407
Cresswell K, Hinder S, Sheikh A, Watson N, Price D, Heed A et al. Complex Hospital-Based Electronic Prescribing-Based Intervention to Support Antimicrobial Stewardship: Qualitative Study. JMIR formative research. 2024 Jul 26;8:e54458. doi: 10.2196/54458
Cresswell KM, Sullivan C, Theal J, Mozaffar H, Williams R. Concerted adoption as an emerging strategy for digital transformation of healthcare - lessons from Australia, Canada, and England. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2024 May 1;31(5):1211-1215. ocae034. Epub 2024 Feb 23. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocae034
Williams R, Anderson S, Cresswell K, Kannelønning MS, Mozaffar H, Yang X. Domesticating AI in medical diagnosis. Technology in Society. 2024 Mar;76:1-14. 102469. Epub 2024 Jan 26. doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102469
Stiefel L, Currie M, Musiani F, Sandoz A, Silvast A, Williams R. Preface. First Monday. 2024 Feb 11;29(2). doi: 10.5210/fm.v29i2.13559
Vidmar M, Fleck J, Williams R. AI and data in engineering and innovation: Towards a sustainable future? In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Engineering, T Blackwell, James E. and Morris Janowitz (eds.) 1974. Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Google Scholar Blumer, Herbert. 1958.“Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position,” The Pacific Sociological Review, Spring. Cole, William E. 1952. Review of American Society, 1951 edition, Social Forces, 30: 351. Article Google Scholar Demerath, N. J. 1949. Review of The American Soldier, by S. A. Stouffer et al., Social Forces, 28: 87–89. Article Google Scholar Eisinger, Peter K. 1978. Review of Mutual Accommodation, by R. M. Williams Political Science Quarterly, 93: 344–345. Article Google Scholar Goldsen, Rose K., Morris Rosenberg, Robin M. Williams, and Edward A. Suchman. 1960. What College Students Think, Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand. Google Scholar Grimshaw, Allen D. 1964.“Research on Intergroup Relations and Conflict: A Review of Strangers Next Door,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 8: 492–503. Article Google Scholar Hauser, Robert M., Gerald D. Jaynes and Robin M. Williams 1990.“Understanding Black-White Differences,“The Public Interest, Spring, 99:110–119. Google Scholar Herrnstein, R.J. 1990.“Still an American Dilemma,” The Public Interest, Winter, 3–17. Hertzberg, J. O. 1952. Review of American Society, 1951 edition, American Journal of Sociology, 57: 531–532. Article Google Scholar Hickey, Philip and James A. Scott. 1955.“Growing Together,” review of Schools in Transition by R. M. Williams and Margaret W. Ryan in Christian Century, 72: 792–793. Google Scholar Jaynes, Gerald David and Robin M. Williams, (eds.) 1989. A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. Google Scholar —. 1987.“Challenges and Opportunities,” Society, Jan–Feb, 24:3–7. Google Scholar —. 1987.“Looking Bef A two-day symposium, "American Society: Diversity and Consensus," will be held at Cornell Oct. 20-21, both to honor Robin W. Williams Jr., the Henry Scarborough Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Cornell, and to consider a key challenge in contemporary American society. Sunday's talks will be in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., and Monday's will be in the Statler Hotel Amphitheater, 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The talks are free to members of the Cornell community and open to the public for a nominal fee As a nation of immigrants, we have exalted "out of many, one." But as the inequality gap across racial and ethnic groups has widened, the American working consensus on core beliefs, expectations and aspirations appears to be unraveling the American fabric with the theme "out of many, many" echoing throughout the nation, says Phyllis Moen, director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center at Cornell and a symposium co-organizer. "In the past, dominant values of American society, as discussed in Williams' own pathbreaking book, American Society: A Sociological Interpretation, have mirrored Judea-Christian values of tolerance and concern for others, along with the values of rationality and achievement," said Moen. "But cleavages, such as counter-themes of racist particularism and anti-cosmopolitanism, among others, have come to the fore recently and sharp polarizations raise questions regarding our severe ideological conflicts." The symposium, which is co-sponsored by Cornell, the colleges of Human Ecology and Arts and Sciences, the departments of Sociology and Rural Sociology, the Peace Studies Program and the sociology department at the University of California at Irvine, is to acknowledge and build on the contributions of Williams, a renowned scholar and social scientist, who for over a half-century has focused on the problems and potentials of diversity and consensus in values, beliefs and the
Toward a more perfect union: The career and contributions of Robin M. Williams
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