scholarship on social groups, exploring the politics of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, class and other dimensions of identity and structural disadvantage.
Publishes important theoretical contributions to opinion and communication research, analyses of current public opinion, and investigations of methodological issues involved in survey validity..
Adopting a psychologically distanced perspective enhances wisdom, new U-M research shows. And getting that distance may be easier than we think.
Read more at http://www.sampler.isr.umich.edu/2011/research/cultivating-wisdom-u-m-studies-identify-a-promising-way..
This video gives an overview of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), which has followed American families and measured aspects of economic and demographic behavior for more than 40 years. The PSID is conducted by the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
PSID website: http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/.
Since 1948, researchers at the U-M Institute for Social Research have studied why Americans vote the way they do in U.S. Presidential elections. Here Phil Converse discusses with Bill Jacoby some of what they've learned..
Compilation of Pew Research's public opinion surveys from around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people's lives to views about the current state of the world..
