Colter is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and a Population Studies Center trainee at the University of Michigan. Currently his research focuses the relationship between attitudes, values and beliefs on family, religious and educational behavior both within the United States and internationally. One aspect of his dissertation looks at Developmental Idealism's connection to modernization theory across the domains of wealth, development and education.
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.
Arland Thornton's book Reading History Sideways wins the William J. Goode Book Award of the ASA Section on the Sociology of the Family.
Developmental Idealism questionnaire supplements added to May and November 2007 Surveys of Consumer Attitudes.
The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton.
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