SGER: Collective Memories Over The Life Course

SES-0206472PI(s): Howard Schuman University of Michigan， Ann arbor探索性研究小额资助将支持在2001年12月和2002年1月由密歇根大学调查研究中心月刊完成的调查中纳入关键问题。每月对300名新受访者进行调查，并对6个月前参加调查的200名受访者（2002年6月和7月调查）进行重新访谈。这个项目建立在最近完成的一项研究的基础上，增加了9 / 11之后的数据，以评估恐怖袭击对美国集体记忆的影响。之前的项目SES-0001844，“集体记忆：15年的持续和变化”，通过复制1985年完成的一项研究，在2000年调查了美国的集体记忆。本研究探索的主要假设是，每一代人都从其青年时期发生的重大政治和社会事件中获得了独特的印记，这种印记的影响贯穿整个生命历程。也就是说，所有年龄段的人回忆起来特别重要的过去事件和变化往往是那些发生在他们青春期或成年早期的事情。使用开放式问题来获取有关重大事件的信息，并将回答编码为事件类别（例如，第二次世界大战，1973年肯尼迪遇刺，越南战争，登月，伊朗人质）。研究人员对结果进行了分析，以确定1985年首次发现的公共事件记忆在2000年的持续程度。这些新数据将使PI能够评估恐怖袭击的影响，随后的经济影响，以及炭疽的威胁和其他大规模杀伤性武器的迹象对受访者回答他们认为911事件后重要事件的影响。这些答复将与2001年6月和7月收集的答复进行比较。

SES-0206472PI(s): Howard Schuman University of Michigan, Ann ArborThe Small Grant for Exploratory Research will support the inclusion of key questions in December 2001 and January 2002 surveys done by the Survey Research Center Monthly at the University of Michigan. Surveys are administered each month to 300 new respondents and reinterviews are completed with 200 respondents who participated in surveys six months earlier (June and July 2002 surveys). This project builds on a recently completed study by adding post-September 11 data in order to assess the effects of the terrorist attacks on American collective memory. The previous project, SES-0001844, " Collective Memory: Persistence and Change Over Fifteen Years," examined American collective memories by replicating in 2000 a study completed in 1985. The primary hypothesis explored in this research is that each generation receives a distinctive imprint from the major political and social events that occur during its youth and the effects of this imprint persist throughout the life course. That is, past events and changes that people of all ages recall as especially important tend to be those that occurred during their adolescence or young adulthood. Open-ended questions were used to obtain information about significant events and responses were coded into event categories (e.g., World War II, the 1973 Kennedy assassination, Vietnam War, the Moon landing, Iran hostages). Results were analyzed to determine the extent to which memories of public events that were first discovered in 1985 persisted in 2000.These new data will allow the PI to gauge the impact of the terrorist attacks, the subsequent economic impact, and the threat of anthrax and other omens of weapons of mass destruction on respondents answers to questions about events they consider important post-September 11th. These will be compared to responses collected in June and July 2001.