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Malcolm Williams Malcolm Williams
Role Professional membership Member British Sociological Association Member Philosophy of Science Association Full Professional Member Market Research Association Roles on external bodies Editorial Board Member International Journal of Social Research Methodology Joint Editor Methodological Innovation On Line Member ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods Panel
Teaching interests Survey method; research design; philosophy and methodology of science. Staff serving as external examiners MSc Social Research, City University, London. MSc Social Research, South Bank University MA Sociological Research, University of Sheffield. Research interests Method and Methodology in social research, especially issues of probability, representation and objectivity. Teaching quantitative methods Longitudinal analysis of household trends Publications Recent Selected Publications
Williams, M (2000) Science and Social Science: an introduction. London: Routledge May, T and Williams, M (Eds.) (1998) Knowing the Social World. Buckingham: Open University Press. Williams, M & May, T (1996) Introduction to Philosophy of Social Research. London, Routledge. Dale, A; Williams, M; Dodgeon, B (1996) Housing Deprivation and Social Change. London, HMSO. Williams, M (2009) Social Objects, Causality and Contingent Realism. Journal for the theory of Social Behavior (in press – March 2009) Williams, M and Dyer, W (2009) ‘Single Case Probabilities’ in Ragin, C and Byrne, D (eds) Case Based Methods London: Sage. In Press Williams, M (2009) ‘Robert MacIver’ Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology. In press. Williams, M ; Maconachie, M ;Ware, L; Chandler, J and Dodgeon, B (2008) ‘Living Alone in England and Wales 1971 – 2001’ in Edwards, R (ed) Researching Families, Community and Generational Change. London: Routledge. Williams, M (2008)‘An Orchestra of Soloists’ [Review Article] Sociology 42 5 1023-1028 Williams, M (2008) ‘MacIver and Causality’ Journal of Scottish Thought. Vol 1 1 pp67-88. Ware, L; Maconachie, M; Williams,M; Chandler, J and Dodgeon, B (2007) ‘Gender Life Course Transitions from the Nuclear Family in England and Wales 1981-2001’ Sociological Research Online, Volume 12, Issue 4, Williams, M(2006) ‘Can Scientists be Objective?’ Social Epistemology 20 2 163-180. Collett, T; Williams, M; Maconachie, M; Chandler, J and Dodgeon, B (2006) ‘Long Termness with regards to sickness and disability: an example of the value of longitudinal data for testing reliability and validity’ International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Theory and Practice. 9 3 224-243) Williams, M (2005) ‘Discourse and Social Science in Cornish Studies – A Reply to Bernard Deacon. Cornish Studies 2nd series 13 pp 14-22 Payne, G and Williams, M (2005) ‘Generalisation in Qualitative Research’. Sociology. 39 2 pp 295-314. Williams, M (2005) ‘Definition, Measurement and Legitimacy in Studies of Homelessness’ in Romero, M and Margolis, E Social Inequalities (Blackwell Companion to Sociology Series) Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp 190-210. Williams, M and Dyer, W (2004) ‘Realism and Probability’ New, C and Carter, B (eds.) Making Realism Work. London: Routledge. pp 67-86. Chandler, J; Williams, M; Maconachie, M; Collett, T and Dodgeon, B (2004)’Living Alone: Its Place in Household Formation and Change’ Sociological Research On Line Vol 9 3 http://www.socresonline.org.uk/9/3/chandler.html Williams, M; Hodgkinson, L; Payne, G. (2004) ‘A Crisis of Number? Some Recent Evidence from British Sociology’. Radical Statistics 85 Payne, G; Williams, M; Chamberlain, S (2004) ‘Methodological Pluralism in British Sociology’ Sociology Vol 38, 1.pp153-64. Williams, M (2003) ‘Why is Cornwall Poor? Poverty and Migration since the 1960s’. Journal of Contemporary History Vol 17 No 3 pp55-70 Williams, M (2003) The Problem of Representation: Realism and Operationalism in Survey Research. Sociological Research OnLine Vol 8 1 http://www.socresonline.org.uk/8/1/williams.html
Williams, M (2000) ‘Interpretivism and Generalisation Sociology Vol 33: 4 pp209-244 Williams, M (1999) 'Using 'Capture -recapture' to estimate the size of the homelessness population', in Aramove, D (Ed.) Coping with Homelessness: Issues to be Tackled and Best Practices in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate. Williams, M (1999) 'Single Case Probabilities and the Social World: The Application of Popper's Propensity Interpretation'. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 29:2 pp187-201.
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