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Marriage and Cohabitation

By: Arland Thornton,William G. Axinn,Yu Xie

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Marriage and Cohabitation

By: Arland Thornton,William G. Axinn,Yu Xie

In an era when half of marriages end in divorce, cohabitation has become more commonplace and those who do get married are doing so at an older age. So why do people marry when they do? And why do some couples choose to cohabit? A team of expert family sociologists examines these timely questions in Marriage and Cohabitation, the result of their research over the last decade on the issue of union formation. Situating their argument in the context of the Western world’s 500-year history of marriage, the authors reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where the end of adolescence is no longer signaled by entry into the marital home. While some people still choose to marry young, others elect to cohabit with varying degrees of commitment or intentions of eventual marriage. The authors’ controversial findings suggest that family history, religious affiliation, values, projected education, lifetime earnings, and career aspirations all tip the scales in favor of either cohabitation or marriage. This book lends new insight into young adult relationship patterns and will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and demographers alike.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226798682

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9780226798684

Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies

By: William G. Axinn,Lisa D. Pearce

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Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies

By: William G. Axinn,Lisa D. Pearce

Social scientists have long relied on a wide range of tools to collect information about the social world, but as individual fields have become more specialised, researchers are trained to use a narrow range of the possible data collection methods. This book, first published in 2006, draws on a broad range of available social data collection methods to formulate a set of data collection approaches. The approaches described here are ideal for social science researchers who plan to collect new data about people, organisations, or social processes. Axinn and Pearce present methods designed to create a comprehensive empirical description of the subject being studied, with an emphasis on accumulating the information needed to understand what causes what with a minimum of error. In addition to providing methodological motivation and underlying principles, the book is filled with detailed instructions and concrete examples for those who wish to apply the methods to their research.

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245

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Cambridge University Press

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1139458388

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9781139458382

Social Impact Analysis And Development Planning In The Third World

By: William Derman,Scott Whiteford

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Social Impact Analysis And Development Planning In The Third World

By: William Derman,Scott Whiteford

Although national governments and international agencies have committed vast sums of money to development, many projects have not only failed to improve the lives of the poor but in some cases have created additional social and economic problems. Such failures can often be traced to an inadequate understanding of the socio-cultural reality of the people most directly affected and to a lack of their participation in project planning, implementation, and evaluation. In this collection of essays, scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines examine many of the perplexing social issues of development planning from the perspective of social impact analysis. Drawing on national, regional, and local case studies, the authors demonstrate why sociocultural factors are seldom adequately understood and discuss how they can be effectively incorporated into the planning process.

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Routledge

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1000311767

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9781000311761

Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies

By: William G. Axinn,Lisa D. Pearce

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Marriage and Cohabitation

Marriage and Cohabitation

Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies

Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies

Social Impact Analysis And Development Planning In The Third World

Social Impact Analysis And Development Planning In The Third World

Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies

Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies

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