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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, Howard Schuman was an American sociologist and professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. He is known for his work on survey research, such as the design of polling questions. Biography Howard Schuman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 16, 1928. He received his A.B. from Antioch College in philosophy in 1953, his M.S. in psychology from Trinity University in 1956, and his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1961. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1964 as an assistant professor, and became a full professor there in 1971. From 1982 to 1990, he directed the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. He retired from his positions at the University of Michigan in 1996; he has been an emeritus professor at the University of Michigan and an emeritus research scientist at their Survey Research Center until 2021. In 2017, Schuman received the Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research from the board of directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. Schuman died in Maine on April 18, 2021, at the age of 93.

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Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys: Experiments on Question Form, Wording, and Context (1996) (1664)
Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (1985) (1514)
Questions and answers in attitude surveys (1982) (866)
“Chocolate city, vanilla suburbs:” Will the trend toward racially separate communities continue? (1978) (481)
Public Beliefs About the Beliefs of the Public (1976) (310)
Racial attitudes in America: Trends and interpretations, Rev. ed. (1997) (283)
Generations and Collective Memory (2015) (282)
The Effect of the Question on Survey Responses: A Review (1982) (245)
THE EFFECTS OF BLACK AND WHITE INTERVIEWERS ON BLACK RESPONSES IN 1968 (1971) (231)
Attitude intensity, importance, and certainty and susceptibility to response effects. (1988) (224)
Effort and Reward: The Assumption that College Grades Are Affected by Quantity of Study (1985) (213)
WHITE RESPONDENTS AND RACE-OF-INTERVIEWER EFFECTS (1975) (201)
Improving Interview Method and Questionnaire Design: Response Effects to Threatening Questions in Survey Research. (1980) (192)
The Open and Closed Question (1979) (170)
Cohorts, Chronology, and Collective Memories (2004) (165)
RESPONSE RATES AND RESPONSE CONTENT IN MAIL VERSUS FACE-TO-FACE SURVEYS (1994) (155)
The random probe: a technique for evaluating the validity of closed questions. (1966) (152)
The Measurement of a Middle Position in Attitude Surveys (1980) (150)
Survey-Based Experiments on White Racial Attitudes Toward Residential Integration (1988) (146)
Historical Analogies, Generational Effects, and Attitudes Toward War (1992) (139)
Problems in the Use of Survey Questions to Measure Public Opinion (1987) (138)
Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities. (1969) (130)
EFFECTS OF A PREPAID NONMONETARY INCENTIVE ON RESPONSE RATES AND RESPONSE QUALITY IN A FACE-TO-FACE SURVEY (1995) (128)
History, Commemoration, and Belief: Abraham Lincoln in American Memory, 1945-2001 (2005) (127)
Question Wording as an Independent Variable in Survey Analysis (1977) (114)
Context Effects on Survey Responses to Questions About Abortion (1981) (113)
Generations and Collective Memories in Lithuania (1994) (112)
Public Opinion and Public Ignorance: The Fine Line Between Attitudes and Nonattitudes (1980) (103)
POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE, ATTRIBUTION, AND INFERRED INTEREST IN POLITICS: THE OPERATION OF BUFFER ITEMS (1997) (101)
The Portrayal of Blacks in Magazine Advertisements: 1950–1982 (1984) (97)
Generational Memory and the Critical Period Evidence for National and World Events (2012) (92)
Young White Adults: Did Racial Attitudes Change in the 1980s? (1992) (89)
Collective Knowledge of Public Events: The Soviet Era from the Great Purge to Glasnost (2000) (86)
ATTITUDES VS. ACTIONS VERSUS ATTITUDES VS. ATTITUDES (1972) (83)
Momentous Events, Vivid Memories: How Unforgettable Moments Help Us Understand the Meaning of Our Lives (1998) (77)
Social change in a metropolitan community (1973) (76)
Elite Revisionists and Popular Beliefs Christopher Columbus, Hero or Villain? (2005) (68)
Collective memories of Germans and Japanese about the past half-century. (1998) (67)
The Generational Basis of Historical Knowledge (1997) (64)
The Perceived Threat of Nuclear War, Salience, and Open Questions (1986) (62)
The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes (2005) (60)
Citation counts and social comparisons: Scientists' use and evaluation of citation index data (1990) (60)
Black Racial Attitudes: Trends and Complexities (1974) (60)
THE NORM OF EVEN-HANDEDNESS IN SURVEYS AS IN LIFE* (1983) (59)
Conversations at Random Survey Research As Interviewers See It (1974) (59)
The Religious Factor in Detroit: Review, Replication, and Reanalysis (1971) (56)
Attitude Strength and Social Action in the Abortion Dispute (1988) (54)
The Impact of City on Racial Attitudes (1970) (52)
Context and Contiguity in Survey Questionnaires (1983) (52)
``Silent Majorities'' and the Vietnam War (1970) (50)
The Ultimate Values of the American Population. (1977) (49)
Keeping the Past Alive: Memories of Israeli Jews at the Turn of the Millennium (2003) (47)
SYMPATHETIC IDENTIFICATION WITH THE UNDERDOG (1963) (45)
Prejudice and the Norm of Rationality (1964) (45)
Two Sources of Antiwar Sentiment in America (1972) (45)
Attitude Measurement and the Gun Control Paradox (1977) (41)
Context Effects: State of the Past/State of the Art (1992) (39)
A Historical Note on Whites' Beliefs about Racial Inequality (1999) (38)
Ordinary Questions, Survey Questions, and Policy Questions (1986) (37)
The Assessment of "No Opinion" in Attitude Surveys (1979) (37)
Pens and Polls in Nicaragua: An Analysis of the 1990 Preelection Surveys (1992) (36)
Some Social Psychological Effects and Noneffects of Literacy in a New Nation (1967) (36)
Comparing Iraq to Vietnam Recognition, Recall, and the Nature of Cohort Effects (2006) (35)
Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys (2008) (34)
Attitude and Action: A Field Experiment Joined to a General Population Survey (1973) (34)
QUESTIONS ABOUT ATTITUDE SURVEY QUESTIONS (1973) (32)
Collective Memories in the United States and Lithuania (1994) (32)
A Telescope on Society: Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond (2004) (32)
Collective memory and autobiographical memory: Similar but not the same (2014) (31)
The Attitude-Action Connection and the Issue of Gun Control (1981) (30)
Social change and the validity of regional stereotypes in East Pakistan. (1966) (28)
Authoritarianism in the general population: the education interaction hypothesis (1992) (28)
Sense and Nonsense about Surveys (2002) (25)
Collective Memory and Collective Memories (1992) (25)
Autobiographical Misremembering: John Dean Is Not Alone (1997) (23)
Comment. Students' Effort and Reward in College Settings. (2001) (21)
Effects of Question Wording and Context: An Experiment with Religious Indicators (1980) (17)
Discriminatory behavior in New York restaurants: 1950 and 1981 (1983) (16)
Transformative Events and Generational Memory: A Case Study Over Time in Lithuania (2013) (16)
RESEARCH SYNTHESIS: THE PRACTICE OF COGNITIVE INTERVIEWING PAULC.BEATTY GORDONB.WILLIS (2007) (15)
Some Undercurrents in the Prestige of Physicians (1963) (15)
Racial Attitudes, Educational Level, and a Personality Measure (1976) (14)
A Note on the Rapid Rise of Mass Bengali Nationalism in East Pakistan (1972) (13)
Response Effects Over Time: (1989) (13)
ARTIFACTS ARE IN THE MIND OF THE BEHOLDER (2016) (12)
Approaches to Developing Questionnaires (Statistical Policy Working Paper 10).@@@Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys. (1985) (9)
The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls. By George F. Bishop. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Pp. xx+223. $80.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). (2006) (9)
The Conversion of Generational Effects into Collective Memories (2016) (9)
Commemoration Matters The Anniversaries of 9/11 and Woodstock (2013) (8)
Improving Interview Method and Questionnaire Design: Response Effects to Threatening Questions in Survey Research.By Norman M. Bradburn, Seymour Sudman, Edward Blair, William Locander, Carrie Miles, Eleanor Singer, and Carol Stocking. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1979. 214 pp. $13.95 (1980) (8)
Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (2000) (8)
Survey Research and the Fundamental Attribution Error (1983) (8)
Framing Variations and Collective Memory (2012) (7)
Economic development and individual change;: A social-psychological study of the Comilla experiment in Pakistan (1973) (7)
Open Survey Questions as Measures of Personal Concern with Issues: A Reanalysis of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties (1991) (7)
Social Change in a Metropolitan Community. (1977) (6)
The complexity of ignorance (1996) (6)
The Validity of the 2004 "Moral Values" Question (2006) (6)
We and they: Pronouns as measures of political identification and estrangement (1975) (6)
Sociological racism (1969) (5)
A Telescope on Society (2004) (5)
Bregje Holleman, The Forbid/Allow Asymmetry: On the Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Wording Effects in Surveys. (2001) (4)
Context Effects and Social Change (2009) (3)
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People (review) (2005) (3)
Race Relations: Some Policy Implications, Proximate and Remote, of a Negative Finding (1975) (3)
Social conformity and relative prestige. (1969) (3)
Keeping the Past Alive: Israeli Memories at the Turn of the Millennium (2003) (3)
The roots of collective memory: Public knowledge of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson (2011) (3)
Josiah C. Trent Collection in the History of Medicine (1957) (2)
Editorial Statement: 1987 (1987) (2)
CHANGES IN BLACK ATTITUDE: 1968–1971 (1972) (2)
Race, Racism, and Power Around the World@@@Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations.@@@Racial Conflict in Contemporary Society. (1986) (2)
A STUDY OF FAR RIGHT RESSENTIMENT IN AMERICA (1996) (2)
The Gun Control Paradox (2013) (2)
Making It Abroad: The International Job Hunting Guide (1988) (2)
Framing Variations and Collective Memory: "Honest Abe" versus "the Great Emancipator" (2012) (2)
Possible science, impossible discipline (1994) (2)
Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines, Reaching beyond Race (1998) (2)
A note on changes in black racial attitudes in Detroit: 1968–1976 (1979) (2)
Sample Surveys: Survey Design Issues and Strategies (2001) (2)
Alan Clarke in it for life (1998) (2)
A dream come true: the Lawrence Reynolds Collection. (1959) (1)
Do most professorssupport the war? (1967) (1)
Mass Informed Consent: Evidence on Upgrading Democracy with Polls and New Media by Adam F. Simon. Lanham, MD (2012) (1)
Racial attitudes in fifteen American cities: Black data file documentation tape 3598 (1973) (1)
Feedbackfrom our readers (1968) (1)
On Deprivation and Identity. (1966) (1)
Preface: Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys (2008) (1)
History, C Commemoration, a and B Belief: Abraham L Lincoln iin A American M Memory, 1945-2001 (2005) (1)
Open and Closed Structure (1967) (1)
The American Physician as Poet. (1944) (1)
A NOTE ON CHANGES IN BLACK RACIAL (1979) (1)
REYNOLDS FARLEY, SHIRLEY HATCHETT AND HOWARD SCHUMAN A NOTE ON CHANGES IN BLACK RACIAL (2004) (0)
Racial attitudes in fifteen American cities: White data file documentation, frequencies addendum (1973) (0)
Comment on David Moore’s “What Single Polls and Their Marginals Tell Us (Or Not!)”* (2012) (0)
THE TIMES'S ISRAELI POLL ON THE EVE OF SHARMIR'S 1989 VISIT (1990) (0)
Taeku Lee, Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era (2003) (0)
23. Collective Memory (2014) (0)
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People. By Scott L. Althaus. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 370 pp (2005) (0)
Pens, Polls, and Theories: The 1990 Nicaraguan Election Revisited: A Reply to Anderson (1994) (0)
Sociology and Its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization.Terence C. Halliday , Morris Janowitz (1994) (0)
THE POLLS—A REVIEW THE TIMES'S ISRAELI POLL ON THE EVE OF SHAMIR'S 1989 VISIT (2004) (0)
Old and new. (1984) (0)
Vietnam and Michigan: A Study of Faculty Opinion (1967) (0)
Free Will and Determinism in Public Beliefs about Race (2019) (0)
THE POLLS—A REVIEW THE TIMES'S ISRAELI POLL ON THE EVE OF SHAMIR'S 1989 VISIT (2004) (0)
SOME PROBLEMS IN INTERPRETING SURVEY OF RACIAL ATTITUDES IN 1968 (2015) (0)
Reflections on One POQ Editor's Term 1987–1993 (2011) (0)
Strength of Opinion and the Gun Control Paradox (2011) (0)
A Brief Comment on David Moore’s Article (2011) (0)
Book Review:Beyond the Barricades: The Sixties Generation Grows Up. Jack Whalen, Richard Flacks (1991) (0)
Irving Crespi, The Public Opinion Process: How the People Speak (1998) (0)
Feedback from our readers (1968) (0)
WAR, PRESIDENTS AND PUBLIC OPINION. By John E. Mueller. New York: Wiley, 1973. 300 pp (1975) (0)
Feedback from our readers (1972) (0)
Conversations at Random: Survey Research as Interviewers See It.@@@Doing Field Research. (1976) (0)
Black Racial Attitudes: Trends and Complexities. (1976) (0)
When the Past Is Another Country: The Impact of Emigration on Memories (2007) (0)
Prejudice, Politics, and the American Dilemma. Edited by Paul M. Sniderman, Philip E. Tetlock, and Edward G. Carmines. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. 339p. $45.00 (1994) (0)
The District as an Ethnic Unit in East Pakistan (1967) (0)
contexts summer 2002 40 sense and nonsense about surveys feature article (0)

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