{"title":"Studying women's lives: research questions, strategies and lessons.","authors":"Elder Gh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The last 20 years have witnessed major changes both in the methodology of social science and in the questions being asked. The author sees a tendency today to discount data or archives, particularly longitudinal archives, which appear limited or unsystematic. Using his life course studies of women in relation to the family, the author discusses some of the advantages of longitudinal research and the importance of creative use of archive material.</p>","PeriodicalId":85536,"journal":{"name":"Social Science News Letter","volume":"70 3","pages":"152-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing gender roles of Egyptian females.","authors":"J Gulick","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A high population growth rate in the Middle East is prompting investigators to look for cultural conditions and attitudes that can be encouraged to facilitate lower fertility rates. Population researchers find an inverse relationship between the educational level of females and their fertility, especially in Third World countries. This suggests that education can become an internal cultural mechanism for population control. The author explores this notion using data collected from interviews with 750 teenage girls and their mothers in Cairo, Egypt.</p>","PeriodicalId":85536,"journal":{"name":"Social Science News Letter","volume":"70 3","pages":"159-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trajectories of development in Third World societies.","authors":"G Lenski","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85536,"journal":{"name":"Social Science News Letter","volume":"70 2","pages":"61-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22007537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directory of social science researchers at UNC-CH 1984-85.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85536,"journal":{"name":"Social Science News Letter","volume":"69 4","pages":"129-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directory of social science researchers at UNC-CH 1983-84.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85536,"journal":{"name":"Social Science News Letter","volume":"68 4","pages":"93-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}