Images from Vietnam

these calendars are the only decoration for the walls of a house in a remote rural village
These calendars are the only decoration for the walls of a house in a remote rural village inhabited by the Khmu ethnic minority group in Vietnam. 2005.
Khmu school children, 2005
Khmu mother and child, 2005
Vietnamese woman in Hoi An, 2006
Khmu children and their buffalo, 2005

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Developmental Idealism Studies
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan

Recent Events

The Developmental Idealism Studies Group presented their paper on "Processes and Methods for Creating Questions and Protocols for an International Study of Ideas about Development and Family Life" at 3MC, Berlin, June 2008.

Book Award

Arland Thornton's book Reading History Sideways wins the William J. Goode Book Award of the ASA Section on the Sociology of the Family.

New Data Collection

Developmental Idealism questionnaire supplements added to May and November 2007 Surveys of Consumer Attitudes.

Reading History Sideways

The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton.

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