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Coach Duncan began his coaching career in 1968 - in Newport News. VA for the Glendale Gators. He used his education and his experiences to craft a coaching career over 51 years, retiring from coaching in January 2019. He credits swimmers, colleagues and volunteers for his coaching successes - and his family for allowing him the unusual working hours & days, the weekends & weeks away from home and the level of focus he gave to his work. The A...

A volume of Social Science Frontiers, a series of publications reviewing new fields for social development, aimed at foundation executives, administrators of research grant programs, directors of research organizations, and others concerned with making contemporary social science more useful for the function of social reporting.

A richly erudite history of measurement and an account of its current state in the social sciences--fascinating, informative, provocative." --James S. Coleman, Unversity of Chicago "Wise and powerful." -- American Journal of Sociology "Personal and provocative--an excellent set of historical and critical ruminations from one of social measurement's greatest contributors." --Choice

How has American society changed over the last fifteen years? Do we raise our children differently now than in 1953? Has women's liberation produced a shift in attitudes toward marriage or altered our idea about appropriate activities for women? Have our attitudes toward race undergone a significant revision? In this challenging volume, three eminent sociologists examine questions like these in the light of hard data which have become availabl...

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.