Ideational Factors

In recent decades scholars have increasingly come to appreciate the role of ideational influences on everyday life. Important research is conducted at Michigan on how values, attitudes, and beliefs shape union formation and fertility behavior, childrearing and child well-being, intergenerational dynamics, education and labor force participation, health risk behavior, the well-being of the elderly, migration and assimilation, and residential segregation. These influences have been investigated in many regions of the world and across history as well as in contemporary society.

Funded Research and Affiliated Programs

A Post-Crisis Analysis of the Attitudes and Value Orientations of the Islamic Publics in Egypt, Iran, and Morocco (Moaddel)

An Examination of the Social and Cultural Influences on Adolescent Literacy Motivation and Development

An In-depth Analysis of the Worldviews of Egyptians (Moaddel)

Beliefs About Genes and Environment as Causes of Behavior (Singer)

Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life (CEEL) (Fricke)

Determinants of Marriage and Childbearing Attitudes (Thornton)

Developmental Idealism Studies (Thornton)

IGERT Structure, Adaptation, and Performance in Economic and Political Institutions

In Search of a Sociopolitical Community: The Cases of Egypt, Iran, and Jordan (Moaddel)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (Gutmann)

Iraqi Perception of the Past, Present, and Future (Moaddel)

Measuring Developmental Idealism and Family Life (Thornton)

Social Identity in Context: Behavioral Engagement and Commitment to Educational and Other Institutions (Eccles)

The Human Component of Social Change (Inglehart)


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Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report

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