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A Telescope on Society - Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond (Paperback)
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A Telescope on Society - Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond (Paperback)
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A Telescope on Society seeks to convey the development of social
science in the twentieth century through its interaction with a
major new instrument for gathering data about society-survey
research. The story of survey research and social science is
largely told by social scientists affiliated with the Survey
Research Center (SRC) and Institute for Social Research (IRS) at
the University of Michigan about work done there. But the book also
places this story in the broader context of survey-based social
science in the United States and the world, to which many
individuals and institutions beyond SRC, ISR, and Michigan have
also contributed. The chapters of this volume illustrate the impact
that developments in survey research have had and continue to have
on a broad range of social science disciplines and
interdisciplinary areas ranging from political behavior and
electoral systems to macroeconomics and individual income dynamics,
mental and physical health, human development and aging, and
racial/ethnic diversity and relationships. The volume will speak to
a wide audience of social science and survey research professionals
and students interested in learning more about the broad history of
survey-based social science and its contributions to understanding
ourselves as social beings. It also seeks to convey how crucial
institutional and public support are to the development of social
science and survey research, as they have been to development in
the natural, biomedical, and life sciences. The five editors of
this book are longtime research professors and colleagues in the
Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research at the
University of Michigan. James S. House is also Professor in the
Department of Sociology; F. Thomas Juster is Professor Emeritus in
the Department of Economics; Robert L. Kahn is Professor Emeritus
in the Department of Psychology and Department of Health Management
and Policy; and Howard Schuman is Professor Emeritus in the
Department of Sociology; Eleanor Singer is Research Professor in
the Survey Research Center, all at the University of Michigan.
Professors House (1991-2001), Kahn (1970-76), and Schuman (1982-90)
have each served as Director of the Survey Research Center;
Professor Juster served (1976-86) as Director of the Institute for
Social Research; and Professor Singer served (1999-2002) as
Associate Director of the Survey Research Center.
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