Linda is a Senior Research Associate in the Survey Research Center's Family and Demography Program and is responsible for the overall coordination and implementation of research staff activities associated with program data collections, data analysis projects, and archival activities. She is a key collaborator with Arland Thornton and other researchers on projects dealing with development and people's ideas of development around the world.
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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