In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, and Change
Some 80 years ago, Jean Macfarlane and others at the UC Berkeley's Institute of Human Development (IHD) began an ambitious longitudinal study. The interviews they conducted in the late 1920s soon were followed by similar ones with preteens, conducted by Harold Jones and Herbert Stolz. Later com...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 461-462 |
| Review of: | In the course of a lifetime (Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : Univ. of California Press, 2007) (Nielsen, Michael)
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| Summary: | Some 80 years ago, Jean Macfarlane and others at the UC Berkeley's Institute of Human Development (IHD) began an ambitious longitudinal study. The interviews they conducted in the late 1920s soon were followed by similar ones with preteens, conducted by Harold Jones and Herbert Stolz. Later combined, these projects launched a study that has generated what may be the most impressive collection of data regarding individuals and American society. Nearly 200 interviewees, most now in their 70s, continue to be interviewed approximately every 12 years. Their interviews have been a valuable source of information to scholars across the social sciences interested in understanding people and U.S. society throughout the twentieth century. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp059 |