Looking at lives : American longitudinal studies of the twentieth century / Erin Phelps, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Anne Colby, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phelps, Erin.

Furstenberg, Frank F.

Colby, Anne, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research--United States--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Longitudinal studies.

Social sciences--Research.

Methodology.

United States.

Genre:

Longitudinal studies.

Physical Description:

x, 378 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2002]

Contents:

Longitudinal studies and life-course research: innovations, investigators, and policy ideas / Janet Zollinger Giele

How it takes thirty years to do a study / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.

Looking backward: post hoc reflections on longitudinal surveys / Frank L. Mott

Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck's unraveling juvenile delinquency study: the lives of 1,000 Boston men in the twentieth century / John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson

The study of adult development / George E. Vaillant

The PSID and me / Greg J. Duncan

Baltimore beginning school study in perspective / Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson

Historical times and lives: a journey through time and space / Glen H. Elder, Jr.

Phenomenological perspectives on natural history research: the longitudinal Harlem adolescent cohort study / Ann F. Brunswick

The origin and development of preschool intervention projects / David P. Weikart

Plotting developmental pathways: methods, measures, models, and madness / Robert B. Cairns and Beverley D. Cairns

Looking for trouble in paradise: some lessons learned from the Kauai longitudinal study / Emmy E. Werner

Intergenerational panel study of parents and children / Arland Thronton, Ronald Freedman and William G. Axinn

Generativity, identity, and the proclamation of landmarks / John Modell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0871546604

OCLC:

48475379