The aim of the Indian American Family Study (IAFS) is to investigate (Asian) Indian Americans’ views and experiences of family life with a focus on marriage, childbearing, and intergenerational relationships. 

This project examines how social science ideas become public ideas, and in doing so it develops a sociology of public social science. The project asks, what are public ideas and how do they come to be?

This mixed-methods project focuses on the framing of immigrants in the media, and the construction of collective identities and activism among immigrants, providing insights into how social boundaries are asserted, bolstered, and transformed.

The Social Networks and Parenting Study is a longitudinal, mixed-methods study of parents, their social networks, and their parenting decisions.

This project investigates the social factors that encourage individuals to pursue either forgiveness or revenge through a nationally-representative survey and laboratory experiments.

This study investigates the experiences of college students on the autism spectrum.

This study investigated the link between status, consumption, and life satisfaction through a nationally-representative survey of U.S. residents.

This nationwide survey gauged public opinion regarding how “family” is conceptualized and assessed public views regarding higher education in the United States.

This study examined how hospitals monitor and prevent hospital-acquired infections.

This study investigates the dynamics of attitudes formation on issues relating to job hiring and workplace evaluations, public social provision, social justice, and counterterrorism in the contemporary United States.

This study focused on the link between status, styles of cultural consumption, and life satisfaction. Through a nationally-representative survey, this research examined how processes of social comparison and reference groups might vary by social location across a range of visible, positional goods and how styles of consumption and reference groups affect life satisfaction.  

This study investigated the motivations, experiences, and support-giving strategies of peer support providers through surveys and semi-structured telephone interviews with Mended Hearts Visitors.

This survey gauged public opinion regarding how the family is conceptualized.

This study, the third wave of a telephone survey of United States residents, gauged public opinion regarding government policies, specifically aimed at measuring the public's feelings toward what changes should or should not be made.

This telephone survey of United States residents from six metropolitan areas was aimed at measuring the public’s feelings toward immigration policies, current legal and illegal or documented and undocumented immigrants living in the United States, and whether changes should or should not be made to existing laws. 

The purpose of this study was to gauge public opinion regarding government policies, specifically aimed at measuring the public’s feelings toward what changes should or should not be made, through a second wave of data collection.

This survey gauged public opinion regarding how the family is conceptualized.

The purpose of the survey was to gauge public opinion regarding government policies, specifically aimed at measuring the public's feelings toward what changes should or should not be made.

This study explored a variety of issues at the intersection of family, work, and health through in-person and telephone interviews.

This survey gauged public opinion regarding how the family is conceptualized.

This study gauged public opinion regarding educational policy, specifically aimed at measuring the public's feelings toward educational equality in the school system.

The TAME Study focused on foster children's transitions into adulthood through telephone surveys and in-depth interviews with teenagers who are currently in the foster care system in Indiana; a mail survey of Division of Family and Children case managers; and a telephone survey of Indiana residents (the Indiana poll).

This study focused on the issue of health care reform and examined the importance of items on "quality of life" instruments in the arena of mental health across different socioeconomic and racial and ethnic groups.

This study sought to better understand the transition period and to help design programs and policies to ease problems and promote children's social and intellectual development through surveys and interviews with parents.

The ISWIPE focused on experiences of job insecurity, including contingent work, layoffs, downsizing, organizational changes, and part-time work. The telephone survey collected data from 972 Indiana workers and included questions about their jobs, employers, and attitudes about their work.

This research investigated how survey research is done as a concrete, practical activity through a study of the Center for Survey Research at Indiana University.

The IQES was a telephone survey of 705 Indiana workers in which they were asked questions about their jobs, employers, and attitudes about their work.

This study examined how households and individuals in households in two Tokogawa Era villages adjusted their patterns of marriage, birth, death, migration and household formation in response to changes in population growth rates, local disasters, and household difficulties.

This study explored school desegregation issues and changes from 1970 to 1990, through data collected from 1591 school districts in 15 U.S. cities.

This study focused on the organization of the mental health delivery system in Indianapolis, Indiana, as a component of a broader project examining the lives of people with serious mental illness.

This study included (1) a telephone survey of workers and (2) reading of workplace ethnographies and coding information about each organization and its workers.

This project focused on the planning and design of three new laboratory buildings for biotechnological research, using interviews, archival materials, and ethnographic observations.

This project used telephone interviews and ethnographic observations to explore childcare policies and children’s peer interaction and culture in the United States, as part of a broader comparative study of the United States and Italy.

This historical project examined racial inequality in education in the southern United States in the early twentieth century, using data from the 1910 Census of Population and a dataset on all counties within 12 southern states in 1910.

This study drew on identity theory and stress theory and investigated stress in everyday life through structured face-to-face interviews with a stratified sample of Indianapolis-area residents.

This project was a quantitative historical study of manufacturing firms and their products and used archival materials to examine the impact of (1) technological changes associated with industrialization, (2) sectoral differences between industries, and (3) economic climate and business cycles on the work lives of men, women and children in Indianapolis from 1850 to 1930.

This project was a historical analysis of work and family life, based on random samples of individuals who were drawn from the U.S. Censuses of Indianapolis in 1860 and 1900 and then followed through subsequent historical records.

This study focused on small businesses, their owners, and entrepreneurship through data collected from a telephone survey of small business owner-operators in five Indiana cities.

This project was a quantitative historical study of the rise and fall of the Populist movement in the deep South during the period 1880-1900, drawing on historical data on population characteristics, agricultural productivity, and voting and other political activity for counties across 11 Southern states.

This telephone survey collected information about respondents’ knowledge and views about a variety of social issues, as well as information about their general life values, media use, and demographic characteristics.

The Indianapolis/Tokyo Work Commitment study examined the feelings and motivations that workers in different industries in the U.S. and Japan have toward their jobs and workplaces, and the role of management and industrial relations practices in shaping employee work attitudes. Researchers obtained data from managers at 52 manufacturing plants in Central Indiana, and questionnaires from 4,567 production workers and managers at those firms.

The Youth Service Network Study investigated how youth-serving professionals and their agencies communicate, refer clients, and share resources among themselves. Researchers conducted interviews with 52 youth service agency directors and gathered data from 454 agency staff through self-administered questionnaires.

This study examined the process and consequences of housing rehabilitation through a survey of residents sampled from twelve study areas within Indianapolis.

This survey of Marion County residents focused on the social psychology of inequality, including attitudes and beliefs about social inequality and respondents’ evaluations and explanations of their socioeconomic attainment.

This survey of Indianapolis residents examined social psychological concepts, including commitment, identity, and role performance.

This study examined commitment processes within social influence associations through interviews with 820 leaders, members, and volunteers from 32 voluntary associations from Marion County, Indiana.

This study examined sex roles and fertility control through a survey of 765 respondents.

This study used interviews and informal observations to examine factors affecting hiring decisions, job performance, and employer rewards such as promotions and pay raises.

This study focused on work, employment, and education through a survey of 344 respondents.

This study examined high school students’ and their mothers’ attitudes and orientations toward higher education and employment, drawing on a survey of 2,067 Louisville high school seniors, data from school records, and interviews with students’ mothers.

This survey of adult Indianapolis residents focused on criminality and punitiveness. Researchers collected data on respondents’ reactions to descriptions of hypothetical situations of criminal activity, as well as other attitudinal and demographic information.

This research project investigated the relationship of local church congregations to higher levels of authority within their respective dominations. Interviews were conducted with 604 members of 12 Protestant congregations in Marion County, Indian, about background characteristics, religious background and beliefs, and attitudes on a range of social issues.

This study examined generation gaps through a survey of teenage boys and their parents. Survey questions explored relationships between teenage sons and their parents and differences and perceived disagreements between them about lifestyle and a range of attitudes.

The Gary Area Project focused on political attitudes and orientations through a survey of 800 residents of Gary, Indiana.

This study investigated rates and patterns of participation in a variety of political, social, occupational, religious, and other activities through a survey of 750 respondents from Indianapolis and its surrounding suburbs.

This study explored marriage and the family in modern society through a survey of residents of the greater Indianapolis area.

The first Indianapolis Area Project drew a systematic random sample of households in the Indianapolis area and surveyed 759 respondents about a range of attitudes, preferences, and activities. The Indianapolis data also contributed to a broader, comparative study of six communities from two contrasting regions of the United States.