Arland Thornton
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arland Thornton is an American sociologist who specializes in the study of marriage and family. He was the director of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan from 2004-2008. He received his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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Published Works
- Four Decades of Trends in Attitudes Toward Family Issues in the United States: The 1960s Through the 1990s (2001) (1030)
- THE LIFE HISTORY CALENDAR: A RESEARCH AND CLINICAL ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR COLLECTING RETROSPECTIVE EVENT‐HISTORY DATA (1996) (558)
- Changing Attitudes toward Family Issues in the United States. (1989) (476)
- Reciprocal Effects of Religiosity, Cohabitation, and Marriage (1992) (402)
- The influence of school enrollment and accumulation on cohabitation and marriage in early adulthood. (1995) (370)
- Religious Participation and Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Attitudes. (1989) (341)
- Social Change And The Family In Taiwan (1994) (326)
- Influence of the Marital History of Parents on the Marital and Cohabitational Experiences of Children (1991) (311)
- Mothers, Children, and Cohabitation: The Intergenerational Effects of Attitudes and Behavior (1993) (269)
- The developmental paradigm, reading history sideways, and family change (2001) (250)
- The relationship between cohabitation and divorce: Selectivity or causal influence? (1992) (215)
- Social change and the family: Comparative perspectives from the west, China, and South Asia (1987) (214)
- Economic potential and entry into marriage and cohabitation (2003) (202)
- Changing Attitudes Toward Separation and Divorce: Causes and Consequences (1985) (199)
- The influence of parental resources on the timing of the transition to marriage (1992) (190)
- Social Change, Premarital Nonfamily Experience, and Spouse Choice in an Arranged Marriage Society1 (2006) (187)
- Family influences on family size preferences (1994) (187)
- Reciprocal relationships between attitudes about gender and social contexts during young adulthood. (2005) (172)
- FAMILY ORIGINS AND THE SCHOOLING PROCESS: EARLY VERSUS LATE INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL CHARACTERISTICS* (1984) (170)
- Parent-Child Relationships During the Transition to Adulthood (1995) (159)
- The Courtship Process and Adolescent Sexuality (1990) (157)
- Marriage and Cohabitation (2007) (155)
- The influence of the family on premarital sexual attitudes and behavior (1987) (141)
- Sweeping Changes in Marriage, Cohabitation and Childbearing in Central and Eastern Europe: New Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework (2009) (139)
- The influence of parents’ marital dissolutions on children’s attitudes toward family formation (1996) (135)
- Reciprocal Influences of Family and Religion in a Changing World (1985) (123)
- Religious Identity and Family Ideologies in the Transition to Adulthood (2007) (117)
- The well-being of children and families : research and data needs (2001) (115)
- The value of children to parents in the United States (1978) (112)
- Adolescent Religiosity and Contraceptive Usage. (1987) (109)
- Reading History Sideways: The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life (2005) (104)
- Separations, Reconciliations, and Living Apart in Cohabiting and Marital Unions. (2003) (93)
- Helping out the kids: Expectations about parental support in young adulthood (2001) (87)
- Children and marital stability (1977) (86)
- The influence of parents’ marital quality on adult children’s attitudes toward marriage and its alternatives: Main and moderating effects (2006) (82)
- Decomposition of Differences (1975) (81)
- Family Integration and Children's Self‐Esteem1 (1999) (70)
- Developmental Idealism: The Cultural Foundations of World Development Programs. (2015) (70)
- The Microdemographic Community-Study Approach (1991) (70)
- International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights From the Developmental Idealism Framework (2012) (69)
- The influence of first generation fertility and economic status on second generation fertility (1980) (65)
- International Family Change : Ideational Perspectives (2012) (65)
- The long-term impact of parents' childbearing decisions on children's self-esteem (1998) (63)
- Adjustment and Hybridity in Turkish Family Change (2013) (58)
- Maintaining Response Rates In Longitudinal Studies (1980) (56)
- A portrait of the nest-leaving process in early adulthood (1993) (51)
- Caste and Choice: The Influence of Developmental Idealism on Marriage Behavior1 (2015) (51)
- Knowledge and beliefs about national development and developmental hierarchies: The viewpoints of ordinary people in thirteen countries. (2012) (51)
- Social and economic change, intergenerational relationships, and family formation in Taiwan (1984) (48)
- The Influence of Union Transitions on White Adults’ Attitudes Toward Cohabitation (2005) (48)
- The Impact of Marital Quality, Divorce, and Remarriage on the Relationships Between Parents and Their Children (2000) (47)
- Societal projection: Beliefs concerning the relationship between development and inequality in China. (2012) (45)
- The influence of individual and historical time on marital dissolution (1987) (45)
- Religion and fertility: the case of Mormonism. (1979) (44)
- Changes in fertility expectations and preferences between 1962 and 1977: Their relation to final parity (1980) (39)
- The Influences of Parents' and Offsprings' Experience with Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce on Attitudes Toward Divorce in Young Adulthood (2006) (39)
- Marital dissolution, remarriage, and childbearing (1978) (37)
- Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity (2009) (36)
- Marriage, Social Inequality, and Women's Contact with Their Natal Families in Alliance Societies: Two Tamang Examples (1993) (34)
- Developmental Idealism and Cultural Models of the Family in Malawi (2014) (34)
- Perceptions of societal developmental hierarchies in Europe and beyond: A Bulgarian Perspective. (2013) (34)
- Changing patterns of first marriage in the United States (1985) (34)
- Income and fertility: The elusive relationship (1982) (33)
- Mother-Child Relations and Adolescent Sexual Attitudes and Behavior (1989) (32)
- Cohabitation and marriage in the 1980s (1988) (32)
- Knowledge and use of developmental thinking about societies and families among teenagers in Argentina. (2006) (31)
- Obtaining Respondent Cooperation in Family Panel Studies (1982) (30)
- Leaving the Parental Nest: The Experience of a Young White Cohort in the 1980s. (1993) (30)
- The measurement and prevalence of an ideational model of family and economic development in Nepal (2012) (28)
- Marital Instability Differentials and Interactions: Insights from Multivariate Contingency Table Analysis. (1978) (28)
- The making of family values: developmental idealism in Gansu, China. (2015) (26)
- Migrant Values and Beliefs: How Are They Different and How Do They Change? (2014) (25)
- The influence of educational experiences on cohabitation and marriage in early adulthood. (1994) (24)
- The family contexts of marriage timing in Nepal (1993) (19)
- Fertility, Sex Role Attitudes, and Labor Force Participation (1979) (19)
- The Well-Being of Children and Families (2001) (19)
- Family organization and the wage labor transition in a Tamang community of Nepal (1990) (18)
- Early Women, Late Men: Timing Attitudes and Gender Differences in Marriage. (2017) (17)
- Intergenerational relations and reproductive behavior in Taiwan (1986) (16)
- Influences on the knowledge and beliefs of ordinary people about developmental hierarchies (2013) (15)
- The perception of global hierarchies: South-Eastern European patterns in comparative perspectives (2016) (15)
- Creating Questions and Protocols for an International Study of Ideas About Development and Family Life (2010) (15)
- Direct and Indirect Influences of Parents' Marital Instability on Children's Attitudes Toward Cohabitation in Young Adulthood (2007) (14)
- Netting in Nepal: Social Change, the Life Course, and Brideservice in Sangila (1998) (14)
- Developmental Idealism and Beliefs About Marriage and Fertility in Turkey (2020) (14)
- Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. (1995) (13)
- Influences of Material Aspirations on Migration (2018) (13)
- When Does Social Capital Matter for Migration? A Study of Networks, Brokers, and Migrants in Nepal (2020) (11)
- Developmental idealism in China (2016) (10)
- Middle Eastern Beliefs about the Causal Linkages of Development to Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights (2017) (9)
- International networks ideas and family change. (2004) (9)
- International family change and continuity: the past and future from of the developmental idealism perspective (2010) (8)
- The Consumption Aspirations of Adolescents (1990) (7)
- The Reliability of Measurement and the Cross‐Time Stability of Individual and Family Variables (2001) (7)
- Perceptions of developmental hierarchies in Taiwan: Conceptual, substantive, and methodological insights (2016) (6)
- Strategies for origin-based surveying of international migrants (2017) (6)
- The Influence of Developmental Idealism on Marital Attitudes, Expectations, and Timing (2019) (6)
- The Reciprocal Relationship between College Major and Values : Family , Careers and Society (2009) (6)
- A Good Age to Marry? An Intergenerational Model of the Influence of Timing Attitudes on Entrance into Marriage (2020) (5)
- Developmental idealism and changing models of marriage. (2006) (5)
- Fatalistic Beliefs and Migration Behaviors: A Study of Ideational Demography in Nepal (2019) (5)
- The measurement and prevalence of developmental thinking about the family: evidence from Nepal. (2004) (5)
- The Reliability and Stability of Measures of Individuals' Values and Beliefs Concerning Developmental Idealism in Nepal (2019) (5)
- Evaluating the measurement reliabilities and dimensionality of developmental idealism measures (2016) (5)
- Fertility and income, consumption aspirations, and child quality standards (1979) (5)
- Framework for Interpreting Long‐Term Trends in Values and Beliefs Concerning Single‐Parent Families (2009) (5)
- Mothers' Reports of Children's Family Formation Behavior (2002) (4)
- The Spread of Ideas Related to the Developmental Idealism Model in Albania (2019) (4)
- The Multifaceted Impact of Religiosity on Adolescent Sexual Experience and Contraceptive Usage: A Reply to Shornack and Ahmed (1989) (4)
- The family contexts of marriage timing: womens entry into first marriage in a central Himalayan village of Nepal. (1993) (3)
- Family economy and changing life course transitions: evidence from the agriculture to wage labor transition in Nepal. (1989) (3)
- Developmental Idealism and Family Life in Malawi (2011) (3)
- Tamang Family Research Project Report (1991) (3)
- 1. Historical and Cross- Cultural Perspectives on Marriage (2009) (2)
- Perceived impact of financial considerations on childbearing in the United States (1980) (2)
- Robert Malthus, the Developmental Paradigm, Reading History Sideways, and Family Myths (2006) (2)
- Views of the Interrelationships of the Dimensions of Developmental Idealism and Family Life: Evidence from Nepal (2012) (2)
- New Research on Developmental Idealism (2019) (2)
- Developmental Idealism and a Half Century of Family Attitude Trends in the United States (2021) (2)
- Migrant Labor in the Gulf Summary Report (2011) (2)
- Consistency of sex role attitudes of women, 1962-1977 (1979) (2)
- Family Obligation Attitudes, Gender, and Migration (2020) (2)
- Ethno-Caste Influences on Migration Rates and Destinations. (2020) (2)
- Knowledge and Beliefs Concerning Development and Income Inequality in China and the United States (2009) (1)
- College Major and Preferences: The Case of Religion (2006) (1)
- Further reflections on changes in fertility expectations and preferences (1984) (1)
- Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing (review) (2008) (1)
- Chinese People ’ s Beliefs about the Relationship between Economic Development and Social Inequality (2008) (1)
- A Good Age to Marry? Marital Timing Values and Their Influence on Marriage (2015) (1)
- The Reliability and Stability of Measures about People's Values and Beliefs Concerning Family Life and Social Change (2012) (1)
- Lay Accounts of “Modern” and “Traditional” Family in Greater Cairo (2017) (1)
- IV. MARITAL DISRUPTION AND PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS: INTERVENTIONS AND POLICIES ON FATHERHOOD The Impact of Marital Quality, Divorce, and Remarriage on the Relationships Between Parents and Their Children (2000) (1)
- Modernization, World System, and Clash of Civilization Perspectives in Lay Views of the Development–Morality Nexus in the United States and the Middle East (2017) (1)
- Knowledge and Beliefs about Development and Developmental Hierarchies: Viewpoints of Ordinary People in Thirteen Counties (2011) (1)
- The influence of developmental idealism on marriage: evidence from Nepal. (2006) (1)
- A Good Age to Marry? An Intergenerational Model of the Influence of Timing Attitudes on Entrance into Marriage (2020) (1)
- The Fragile Family (1986) (1)
- Work, Earnings Potential, and Career Aspiration* (2007) (1)
- Distinguishing between Old and New Developmental Idealism and among Beliefs about Correlation, Causation, and Expectations (2022) (1)
- Developmental Idealism and Beliefs About Marriage and Fertility in Turkey (2019) (1)
- Changing patterns of marital formation and dissolution in the United States: demographic implications. (1989) (0)
- Comparing Marriage, Cohabitation, and Being Single (2007) (0)
- Caste and Choice: The Influence of Developmental Idealism on Intercaste Marriage (2014) (0)
- Social Change and the Family in Taiwan . By Arland Thornton and Hui-Sheng Lin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ix, 456 pp. $29.95. (1996) (0)
- Social Change and the Family: Comparative Perspectives from the West, China, and South Asia Author(s): Arland Thornton and Thomas E. Fricke Source: Sociological Forum, Vol. 2, No. 4, Special Issue: Demography as an Interdiscipline (2007) (0)
- Influence of Parental Factors During Childhood and Adolescence of the Children (2007) (0)
- Preliminary Draft John Millar and Other Scholars of the 1700s and 1800s Using the Developmental Paradigm, Reading History Sideways, and International Cross-Sectional Data to Reach Conclusions about Changes in Family Relationships and Processes by (2012) (0)
- Modern loves: the anthropology of romantic courtship and companionate marriage – Edited by Jennifer S. Hirsch & Holly Wardlow (2008) (0)
- Republican Elites, Employer Mobilization, and the Politics of State Fair Employment Practices Legislation in the North, 1945-1964 (2004) (0)
- Social change community context and the transformation of marriage alliance among the Tamang of Nepal. (1994) (0)
- André Turmel . A Historical Sociology of Childhood: Developmental Thinking, Categorization and Graphic Visualization . New York : Cambridge University Press . 2008 . Pp. xii, 362. Cloth $110.00, paper $39.99. (2010) (0)
- Migrants and Their Values and Beliefs: How Are They Different and How Do They Change? (2011) (0)
- Mapping societal developmental hierarchies in Europe: A Bulgarian perspective (2010) (0)
- American Families and Households.James A. Sweet , Larry L. Bumpass (1989) (0)
- Erratum to: “Economic Potential and Entry Into Marriage and Cohabitation” (2003) (0)
- Religious Affiliation and Commitment (2007) (0)
- America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage. By Daniel R. Pinello. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 211pp. $19.95 paper (2007) (0)
- Preliminary Draft John Millar and Other Scholars of the 1700 s and 1800 s Using the (2006) (0)
- 1. Population Structures (2014) (0)
- The Courtship Process and Union Formation (2007) (0)
- Developmental idealism and migration: theorizing their relationship and an empirical example from Nepal (2021) (0)
- How Family Myths Fuel Worldwide Family Change (2006) (0)
- Developmental Idealism and Worldwide Family Change (2005) (0)
- Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing By Paul R. Amato, Alan Booth, David R. Johnson and Stacy F. Rogers Harvard University Press. 2007. 323 pages. $45 cloth (2008) (0)
- Obtaining respondent cooperation in panel studies and studies involving multiple family members. (1981) (0)
- The Influence of the Parental Family on the Attitudes and Behavior of Children (2019) (0)
- Influence of Parental Youth Factors before Birth of Study Child (2007) (0)
- Introduction to Special Issue (2016) (0)
- A MIGRATION SYSTEMS APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING MIGRANT SOCIAL CAPITAL September 2015 (2015) (0)
- Developed and less developed societies (2012) (0)
- Entering Marital and Cohabiting Unions (2007) (0)
- 76 GEORGINA (2008) (0)
- Developmental Idealism and Cultural Models of the Family in Malawi (2014) (0)
- The Beliefs of Citizens in Middle Eastern Countries about the Relationship Between Development and Personal Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights (2016) (0)
- Historical Perspectives on Marriage (2007) (0)
- The Family, Social Change, and Governmental Policy@@@Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies. (1990) (0)
- Indian prime minister launches effort to end discrimination against baby girls. (1997) (0)
- and Brideservice in Sangila (1998) (0)
- The Influence of Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs* (2007) (0)
- Fostering Familism in Contemporary America. (1992) (0)
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