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Kenneth Macdonald

Emeritus Fellow

Research Interests: The mapping between quantitative analyses and substantive, theoretical, statements. Also theoretical puzzles in the normative assessment of actions over time. Also the correct reading of Adam Smith on the poor (he is not an egalitarian - see the 'Research Projects' link).  And working on an armchair  paper with the provisional title of 'Are adult sibs other than friends: assessing lateral kin'

Kenneth Macdonald
  • T:  +44 1865 278500
    E:  kenneth.macdonald@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
  • Nuffield College
    New Road
    Oxford
    OX1 1NF

  • Research Projects

Publications

Selected titles:

‘The marginal adjustment of mobility tables, revisited.’  (2024) https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/z4u2d

‘Adventitious Sociology: dispassion and insight in the Scottish Enlightenment’ pp. 46-81 in Tamás Demeter  (ed)  The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment  (2024, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

‘Sociology within the Statistical Account of Scotland’ pp. 153-195 in Demeter, T (ed) The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment  (2024, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

‘Stata’s mishandling of missing values in logical and relational expressions; and a solution’.  Academia Letters,   Article 3622   (2021)  https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3622 

 ‘Did British sociology begin with the Scottish Enlightenment?’ p37-69 in Panayotova, P (ed.) (2019) The History of Sociology in Britain: New Research and Revaluation  Palgrave Macmillan

 ‘Of Shame and Poverty; and on Misreading Sen and Adam Smith’. Adam Smith Review, 11, 111–262   2019

 ‘Family Investments in Children: What the Interactions and the Data Do Not Say 2011 European Sociological Review 27:281-286

‘Russia and Youth Crime: A Comparative Study of Attitudes and their Implications’
  (with M McAuley) British Journal of Criminology 47:2-22  2007