There is ample evidence of religious decline in Western Europe but no general consensus
on the situation in the East. Analysis of three waves of the European Values Study (from …

In the five decades since its inception in 1971, the General Social Survey (GSS) project has
prospectively recorded the current characteristics, backgrounds, behaviors, and attitudes of …

In the nationally representative General Social Survey, US Adults (N= 33,380) in 2000–2012
(vs. the 1970s and 1980s) had more sexual partners, were more likely to have had sex with …

Twenty percent of American adults claimed no religious preference in 2012, compared to 7
percent twenty-five years earlier. Previous research identified a political backlash against …

" This is the most important study ever written on motherhood and marriage among low-
income urban women. Edin and Kefalas's timely, engaging, and well-written book is a …

It happens every weekend: In a haze of hormones and alcohol, groups of male and female
college students meet at a frat party, a bar, or hanging out in a dorm room, and then hook up …

Cohort Analysis, Second Edition covers the basics of the cohort approach to studying aging,
social, and cultural change. This volume also critiques several commonly used (but flawed) …

In 1939, George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion published a pamphlet
optimistically titled The New Science of Public Opinion Measurement. At the time, though …

'Believing without belonging'has become the catchphrase of much European work on
religion in the past decade. The thesis that religious belief is fairly robust even if churchgoing …

This chapter presents a literature review expanding research on political socialization to
development of political attitudes and behavior over the full life course. The fundamental …