Introduction to Structural Equation Models prepares the reader to understand the recent sociological literature on the use of structural equation models in research, and discusses methodological questions pertaining to such models. The material in first seven chapters is almost entirely standard, with the remaining four introducing progressively more open-ended issues, seducing the reader into beginning to think for himself about the properties of models or even to suggest problems that may intrigue the advanced student.

Introduction to Structural Equation Models (Studies in Population)

Politics & Social Sciences

Duncan, Otis Dudley

Social Sciences

Academic Press

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Metropolis and Region

Scott, W. Richard

Duncan, Beverly

Leiberson, Stanley

Ams Pr Inc

Goodman, Leo A., Duncan, Otis Dudley

The Analysis of Cross-Classified Data Having Ordered Categories

Goodman, Leo A.

Harvard University Press

Statistical Geography: Problems in Analyzing Areal Data

Praeger

How has American society changed over the last fifteen years? Do we raise our children differently now than in 1953? Has women's liberation produced a shift in attitudes toward marriage or altered our idea about appropriate activities for women? Have our attitudes toward race undergone a significant revision? In this challenging volume, three eminent sociologists examine questions like these in the light of hard data which have become available, year by year, over the last two decades. The major purpose of the book is to demonstrate how measures of social change can be developed, capitalizing on past efforts in survey research. An omnibus survey, carried out in 1971, was designed almost entirely as a selective repitition of questions originally asked in the 1950s. It provides precise and reliable measures of change in such areas as marital and sex roles, social participation, child rearing, religious behavior, political orientations, and racial attitudes. Lucid and authoritative, Social Change in a Metropolitan Community presents a unique body of information on changes in public opinion, social norms, and institutional behavior. Its large number of statistical measurements are presented in an extremely accessible form—almost always as simple percentage comparisons. The research findings included here are unduplicated by any other study, and as a source of information on current social trends they provide fascinating reading for anyone who wishes to enlarge his understanding of the temper of our times.

Social Change in a Metropolitan Community

Schuman, Howard

Russell Sage Foundation

How has American society changed over the last fifteen years? Do we raise our children differently now than in 1953? Has women's liberation produced a shift in attitudes toward marriage or altered our idea about appropriate activities for women? Have our attitudes toward race undergone a significant revision?In this challenging volume, three eminent sociologists examine questions like these in the light of hard data which have become available, year by year, over the last two decades. The major purpose of the book is to demonstrate how measures of social change can be developed, capitalizing on past efforts in survey research. An omnibus survey, carried out in 1971, was designed almost entirely as a selective repitition of questions originally asked in the 1950s. It provides precise and reliable measures of change in such areas as marital and sex roles, social participation, child rearing, religious behavior, political orientations, and racial attitudes.Lucid and authoritative, Social Change in a Metropolitan Community presents a unique body of information on changes in public opinion, social norms, and institutional behavior. Its large number of statistical measurements are presented in an extremely accessible form—almost always as simple percentage comparisons. The research findings included here are unduplicated by any other study, and as a source of information on current social trends they provide fascinating reading for anyone who wishes to enlarge his understanding of the temper of our times.

Social change in a metropolitan community

"A richly erudite history of measurement and an account of its current state in the social sciences―fascinating, informative, provocative." ―James S. Coleman, Unversity of Chicago "Wise and powerful." ― American Journal of Sociology "Personal and provocative―an excellent set of historical and critical ruminations from one of social measurement's greatest contributors." ―Choice

Notes on Social Measurement: Historical and Critical

Metropolis and Region (RFF Urban and Regional Economics Set)

Lieberson, Stanley

Scott, William Richard

Duncan, Beverly Davis

Winsborough, Hal H.

RFF Press

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