User:Thelmadatter/Robin Wiliams (Sociologist)

Robin Murphy Williams ( 11th of Otober 1914 - 3rd of june 2006)

Life
Robin Murphy Williams was born on October 11th 1914 in the city of Hillsborough, North Carolina. He was a graduate from the college of North Carolina in 1933 at the age of 19 before going on earn an M.A at the University of Harvard in 1939 and his PhD from the same establishment in 1943 ).

Following the work and studies Robin Williams undertook on soldiers during the second World War ) Williams would go on to take up a role as a professor in the university of Cornell where he served 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. Robin Williams passed away at the age of 91 following complications that arose from bowel surgery which was undertaken by his daughter, Dr Susan Williams. ( 3) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/10/us/10williams.html)

Career/Works
As Phillip Kasinitz words it "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." ( 4 Robin Williams, Race and American Sociology Phillip kasinitz page 373) 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. ( 1) http://www.asanet.org/about-asa/asa-story/asa-history/past-asa-officers/past-asa-presidents/robin-m-williams-jr) this would go on to feed his first publication The American Soldier: adjustment during army life. In this piece he comes to the realization that what kills 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 "essentially created the social science foundations for the way military infantry are trained."" http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jun/09/local/me-williams9

'''Robin William's 12 core American Values ''' Perhaps his most influential and pivotal work with regards to the effect on the sociological spheres, Robin William's established what he believed encompassed the 9 core values that drove the american individuals in 1970 before adding 3 more in 1975. He presented them in this manner (http://www.nyu.edu/classes/persell/aIntroNSF/Documents/List%20of%20American%20Values.htm): Core values added after 1975 (http://nbhsjustice.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/4/8/22483264/american_values_culture_student_notes.pdf):
 * Equal Opportunity
 * Achievement and Success
 * Material Comfort
 * Activity and Work
 * Practicality and Efficiency
 * Progress
 * Science
 * Democracy and Enterprise
 * Freedom
 * Religiosity
 * Education
 * Religious love and monogamy