Is it getting harder to get ahead?

On the frontier of adulthood : emerging themes and new directions / Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., RubĂ©n G. Rumbaut, and Richard A. Settersten Jr. — The transition to adulthood during the twentieth century : race, nativity, and gender / Elizabeth Fussell and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. — American women’s transition to adulthood in comparative perspective… Continue reading Is it getting harder to get ahead?

Cues of communication difficulty in telephone interviews

New frontiers in standardized survey interviewing

Envisioning the survey interview of the future

Survey interviews and new communication technologies / Michael F. Schober and Frederick G. Conrad — The contemporary standardized survey interview for social research / Nora Cate Schaeffer and Douglas W. Maynard — Technology and the survey interview/questionnaire / Mick P. Couper — Mobile web surveys : a preliminary discussion of methodological implications / Marek Fuchs… Continue reading Envisioning the survey interview of the future

Using expert systems to model and improve survey classification processes

Customizing survey procedures to reduce measurement error

Jencks,Christopher

This entirely new second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences highlights the growing influence of economics and sociology in social science research. Featuring 2,990 commissioned essays contributed by thousands of scholars from around the world, the set also covers the disciplines of political science, anthropology, and psychology, offering current perspectives on a… Continue reading Jencks,Christopher

Images and preferences: A feelings-as-information analysis

Introduction to visual marketing / Michel Wedel and Rik Pieters — Eye movements during reading, scene perception, visual search, and while looking at print advertisements / Keith Rayner and Monica S. Castelhano — Informativeness of eye movements for visual marketing: six cornerstones / Rik Pieters and Michel Wedel — The effect of selecting and ignoring… Continue reading Images and preferences: A feelings-as-information analysis

From job loss to reemployment: Field experiments in prevention-focused coping

Dead-end jobs and youth unemployment