Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Part I. Multiple Intersections
Introduction. Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century / Erin Phelps and Anne Colby
Chapter 1. Longitudinal Studies and Life-Course Research: Innovations, Investigators, and Policy Ideas / Janet Zollinger Giele
Chapter 2. How It Takes Thirty Years to Do a Study / Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
Part II. Lives and Studies in Social Historical Context
Chapter 3. Looking Backward: Post Hob Reflections on Longitudinal Surveys / Frank L. Mott
Chapter 4. Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck's Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency Study: The Lives of 1,000 Boston Men in the Twentieth Century / John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson
Chapter 5. The Study of Adult Development / George E. Vaillant
Chapter 6. The PSID and Me / Greg J. Duncan
Part III. The Importance of Timing in Lives and in Studies of Lives
Chapter 7. Baltimore Beginning School Study in Perspective / Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson
Chapter 8. Historical Times and Lives: A Journey Through Time and Space / Glen H. Elder Jr.
Chapter 9. Phenomenological Perspectives on Natural History Research: The Longitudinal Harlem Adolescent Cohort Study / Ann F. Brunswick
Chapter 10. The Origin and Development of Preschool Intervention Projects / David P. Weikart
Part IV. Connecting Lives
Chapter 11. Plotting Developmental Pathways: Methods, Measures, Models, and Madness
Chapter 12. Looking for Trouble in Paradise: Some Lessons Learned from the Kauai Longitudinal Study / Emmy E. Werner
Chapter 13. Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children / Arland Thornton, Ronald Freedman and William G. Axinn
Part V. Reflections
Chapter 14. Generativity, Identity, and the Proclamation of Landmarks / John Modell
Index