Contents -- Foreword / David L. Featherman -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Development and Contribution of Survey Research as a Scientific Instrument and Social Institution / James S. House, Eleanor Singer, Robert L. Kahn, Howard Schuman, and F. Thomas Juster -- 2. Survey Methodology / Robert M. Groves and Eleanor Singer, with James M. Lepkowski, Steven G. Heeringa, and Duane F. Alwin -- Part 1. Political Behavior and Systems -- Introduction / William Zimmerman -- 3. Voting and Electoral Behavior / Philip E. Converse and Donald R. Kinder -- 4. Survey Research and Political Socialization / M. Kent Jennings -- Part 2. The Behavioral Study of Economics -- Introduction / F. Thomas Juster -- 5. Psychology and Macroeconomics / Richard T. Curtin -- 6. Evolution and Change in Family Income, Wealth, and Health: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1968-2000 and Beyond / Greg J. Duncan, Sandra L. Hofferth, and Frank P. Stafford -- Part 3. From the Study of Organizations to the Study of Health -- Introduction / Robert L. Kahn -- 7. Survey Research in the Study of Organizations / Robert L. Kahn -- 8. Understanding and Improving the Mental Health of Populations / Richard H. Price -- 9. The Psychosocial Nature of Physical Health / James S. House and George A. Kaplan -- Part 4. Developments in the Study of Family and the Life Course -- Introduction / Duane F. Alwin -- 10. The Social Demography of Fertility: Some Contributions of American Surveys / Arland Thornton and William G. Axinn -- 11. Studying the Transition from Youth to Adulthood: Impacts on Substance Use and Abuse / Patrick M. O'Malley, Jerald G. Bachman, Lloyd D. Johnston, and John Schulenberg -- 12. Research on Aging / A. Regula Herzog, Robert J. Willis, and David R. Weir -- Part 5. Surveying the Subtleties and Complexities of Race -- Introduction / Maria Krysan.

13. Racial Attitudes: Developments and Divisions in Survey Research / Donald R. Kinder and Howard Schuman -- 14. Surveying the Black American Population / James S. Jackson and David R. Williams -- 15. Survey Research and Social Science: Retrospect and Prospect / James S. House, Eleanor Singer, Robert L. Kahn, Howard Schuman, and F. Thomas Juster -- Contributors -- Index -- Illustrations.