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63
Citations
26169
World Ranking
1146
National Ranking
530

Overview

Duane F. Alwin is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Health, Software, Gender Studies, and Statistics and Probability. Their research spans multiple key topics such as Religion and Society Interactions, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Religion, Society, and Development, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, and Health disparities and outcomes.

Alwin has contributed to the academic literature through various recent papers, including:

  • Class and Conformity: Thirty Years of Adult Child-rearing Values in the U.S (2021, Sociological Forum)
  • Review of "Living on the Edge: An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century" (2021, Social Forces)

Their work includes book publication with Rutgers University Press, where they authored Religion, Families, and Health in 2020.

Frequent collaboration has been an aspect of Alwin's research approach. Notable co-authors include Paula A. Tufiș, with whom they share four collaborative counts, as well as Jacob Felson, Christopher G. Ellison, Robert A. Hummer, and John P. Bartkowski.

Their publications have appeared in varied venues such as Sociological Forum, Social Forces, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Alwin's work addresses several interdisciplinary domains, linking sociological perspectives with aspects of health and software reliability. The diverse topics covered reflect a broad scope engaging with social dynamics, family, and health issues alongside technical methodological concerns.

Best Publications

  • Assessing Reliability and Stability in Panel Models

    Blair Wheaton;Bengt Muthen;Duane F. Alwin;Gene F. Summers

  • The Decomposition of Effects in Path Analysis

    Duane F. Alwin;Robert M. Hauser

  • Beliefs About Inequality: American's Views of What Is and What Ought To Be

    John A. Fleishman;James R. Kluegel;Eliot R. Smith

  • AN EVALUATION OF A COGNITIVE THEORY OF RESPONSE-ORDER EFFECTS IN SURVEY MEASUREMENT

    Jon A. Krosnick;Duane F. Alwin

  • The life history calendar: a technique for collecting retrospective data.

    Deborah Freedman;Arland Thornton;Donald Camburn;Duane Alwin

  • Aging, Cohorts, and the Stability of Sociopolitical Orientations Over the Life Span

    Duane F. Alwin;Jon A. Krosnick

  • Causes and Consequences of Sex-Role Attitudes and Attitude Change.

    Arland Thornton;Duane F. Alwin;Donald Camburn

  • Political Attitudes over the Life Span: The Bennington Women after Fifty Years

    Duane Francis Alwin;Ronald Lee Cohen;Theodore Mead Newcomb

  • Aging and susceptibility to attitude change.

    Jon A. Krosnick;Duane F. Alwin

  • The Reliability of Survey Attitude Measurement: The Influence of Question and Respondent Attributes

    Duane F. Alwin;Jon A. Krosnick

  • The Measurement of Values in Surveys: A Comparison of Ratings and Rankings

    Duane F. Alwin;Jon A. Krosnick;Jon A. Krosnick;Jon A. Krosnick

  • Feeling Thermometers Versus 7-Point Scales: Which are Better?

    Duane F. Alwin

  • Generations, Cohorts, and Social Change

    Duane F. Alwin;Ryan J. McCammon

  • High School Context Effects on Aspirations.

    Duane F. Alwin;Luther B. Otto

  • FAMILY ORIGINS AND THE SCHOOLING PROCESS: EARLY VERSUS LATE INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL CHARACTERISTICS*

    Duane F. Alwin;Arland Thornton

  • Athletics, Aspirations, and Attainments.

    Luther B. Otto;Duane F. Alwin

  • The Separation of Work and the Family: Attitudes Towards Women's Labour-Force Participation in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States

    Duane F. Alwin;Michael Braun;Jacqueline Scott

  • A TEST OF THE FORM-RESISTANT CORRELATION HYPOTHESIS RATINGS, RANKINGS, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF VALUES

    Jon A. Krosnick;Duane F. Alwin

  • High School Effects on Achievement

    Robert M. Hauser;William H. Sewell;Duane F. Alwin

  • Trends in Parental Socialization Values: Detroit, 1958-1983

    Duane F. Alwin

  • Political Attitudes over the Lifespan: The Bennington Women after Fifty Years

    Joseph E. McGrath;Duane F. Alwin;Ronald L. Cohen;Theodore M. Newcomb

  • Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory.

    Duane F. Alwin;Stanley Lieberson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
Scott M. Hofer
Scott M. Hofer University of Victoria
Frank P. Stafford
Frank P. Stafford University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Arland Thornton
Arland Thornton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Diane Felmlee
Diane Felmlee Pennsylvania State University
Melvin L. Kohn
Melvin L. Kohn Johns Hopkins University
Robert M. Hauser
Robert M. Hauser University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard T. Campbell
Richard T. Campbell University of Illinois at Chicago
Joseph Veroff
Joseph Veroff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William H. Sewell
William H. Sewell University of Wisconsin–Madison

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