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Title A telescope on society : survey research and social science at the University of Michigan and beyond / James S. House ... [et al.], editors ; with a foreword by David L. Featherman.

Imprint Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  300.72309 T236 2004    ---  Available
Description xix, 490 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Development and contribution of survey research as a scientific instrument and social institution / James S. House ... [et al.] -- Survey methodology / Robert M. Groves ... [et al.] -- Voting and electoral behavior / Philip E. Converse and Donald R. Kinder -- Survey research and political socialization / M. Kent Jennings -- Psychology and macroeconomics / Richard T. Curtin -- Evolution and change in family income, wealth, and health : the panel study of income dynamics, 1968-2000 and beyond / Greg J. Duncan, Sandra L. Hofferth, and Frank P. Stafford -- Survey research in the study of organizations / Robert L. Kahn -- Understanding and improving the mental health of populations / Richard H. Price -- Psychosocial nature of physical health / James S. House and George A. Kaplan -- Social demography of fertility : some contributions of American surveys / Arland Thornton and William G. Axinn -- Studying the transition from youth to adulthood : impacts on substance use and abuse / Patrick M. O'Malley ... [et al.] -- Research on aging / A. Regula Herzog, Robert J. Willis, and David R. Weir -- Racial attitudes : developments and divisions in survey research / Donald R. Kinder and Howard Schuman -- Surveying the black American population / James S. Jackson and David R. Williams -- Survey research and social science : retrospected and prospect / James S. House ... [et al.].
Subject Social surveys -- United States -- History.
University of Michigan. Survey Research Center -- History.
University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research -- History.
Added Author House, James S., 1944-
ISBN 0472068482 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0472098489 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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