The Class of '35
2001; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 29; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/rah.2001.0064
ISSN1080-6628
Autores Tópico(s)Australian History and Society
ResumoThe m.o. known as cohort analysis has been both popular and successful for generations. Eminent scientists, tweedy scholars, downtown artistes, and Grub Street hacks have all frequently employed the method, often to powerful effect. It is this method that links Boston University doctors and Howard Chudacoff, John Updike and Michael Apted, and, alas, David Wallechinsky and Michael Medved. Indeed, examples abound of researchers, writers and artists, who, in tracing individuals, groups, classes, or entire communities over time, have ensnared and implicated readers and viewers in the "stories" they wish to tell. Whether one is interested, let us say, in Framingham hearts and lungs or residential mobility in Omaha, the career paths of English children, Harry Angstrom's sexual adventures, or, gasp, the 1965 senior class at Palisades High, cohort analysis has proven a tried-and-true narrative strategy and method of research design.
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