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Maryland Population Research Center
2003-2004 Seminar Series

SPEAKER:	Arland Thornton Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan. Director/Sr. Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research - PSC
TITLE:	"Developmental Idealism and Family Change"
DATE:	Fri. March 19, 2004
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	1101 Art-Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Campus
Arland Thornton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, where he is also Senior Research Scientist at the Survey Research Center, and Research Associate at the Population Studies Center. His research focuses on trends, causes, and consequences of marriage, cohabitation, divorce, fertility, gender roles, adolescent sexuality, and intergenerational relationships. He is interested in behavioral, attitudinal, and cultural elements of these dimensions of family life and their intersections with economic, educational, and religious institutions. He conducts research on these topics in Taiwan, Nepal, and the United States. He is director of the eight wave thirty-one year Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children. He is co-author of Social Change and the Family in Taiwan, published in 1994 by the University of Chicago Press. This book is the winner of the 1995 William J.Goode Book Award and the Otis Dudley Duncan Award of the American Sociological Association.

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/spring2004.shtml