Mansoor Moaddel

Mansoor Moaddel

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
M.A., Western Michigan University
B.A., Shiraz University

Dr. Moaddel studies culture, ideology, political conflict, revolution and social change. His work currently focuses on the causes and consequences of values and attitudes of the Middle Eastern and Islamic publics. He has carried out values surveys in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia. He has also carried out youth surveys in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. His previous research project analyzed the determinants of ideological production in the Islamic world. He teaches sociology of religion, ideology, revolution, Islam and the Middle East. He also teaches statistics and research methods. He is the PI on the Youth and Violence project.

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© 2008
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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