Hello colleagues, I just discovered a source of classic data in development and social change, and having fun getting lost in this rich resource. I don't recall mention of this on TIPS before . . . thought some of you might find this of interest: "The Henry A. Murray Research Center of Radcliffe is a center for the study of lives. The center's primary purpose is to promote the use of existing social science data to explore human development and social change. To this end the center has established a national archive of over 270 studies that it makes available for new research. This archive is an integral part of an active research center that offers staff assistance to data users, seminars and conferences on methods for using existing data, research grants to doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars, and a visiting scholars-in-residence program. Murray Center staff researchers work in the areas of sociology (social stratification, sociology of the life course, and sociology of the family) and psychology (cognitive, social, and personality development). Researchers at the center are interested in exploring the nature and meaning of successful human development, including the development of personal strengths and positive values, social responsibility, and social, intellectual and emotional adaptation and competence. The center stresses the importance of understanding individual lives in their social, historical, and cultural context, studying people holistically across the course of their lives; and recognizing multiple paths of development. Founded in 1976, the center is named in honor of personality theorist Henry A. Murray, whose emphasis on the in-depth, multidisciplinary study of individual lives informs the center's approach. The data archive is unique in that it includes not only computer-accessible quantitative data, but also qualitative materials such as case histories, open-ended interviews, and responses to projective tests. Many of the data sets are longitudinal in design, following the same people over many years." <A HREF="http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/overview/index.htm"> Click here: Murray Research Center: Overview</A> http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/overview/index.htm Sandra Sandra Nagel Randall, Ph.D. officially of, as in contract and 'all': =) Psychology - 166 Brown Saginaw Valley State University 7400 Bay Road University Center, MI 48710 517.249.4635 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
