Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream, 1989-1990 (doi:10.7910/DVN/XOOGPN)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream, 1989-1990

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/XOOGPN

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2007-11-28

Version:

2

Bibliographic Citation:

Newman, Katherine S., 2004, "Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream, 1989-1990", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XOOGPN, Harvard Dataverse, V2

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream, 1989-1990

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/XOOGPN

Identification Number:

00134

Authoring Entity:

Newman, Katherine S.

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Murray Research Archive

Date of Distribution:

2004

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XOOGPN

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences

Topic Classification:

mra, 101-500, female,male, 27-38, mixed, middle, 2, Special aspects of education, Divorce, Single parents, Unemployment

Abstract:

This was a study about the Baby Boom generation in pursuit of "the American dream." The study was focused on the experiences of sixty men and women who graduated from high school in 1970 and 1980 from one typical, suburban, northern New Jersey town. Over the course of two years, the graduates, their parents, high school teachers and guidance counselors were interviewed, for a total of 150 respondents. Participants came from a variety of economic and religious backgrounds, and were predominantly white with college educations. They spoke about downward mobility, job loss, divorce, single parenthood and family structure, also giving outlines of their life stories. <br/><br /><b>Audio Data Availability Note:</b> This study contains audio data that have been digitized. There are 178 audio files available.

Time Period:

1989-

Date of Collection:

1989-1990

Country:

United States

Unit of Analysis:

individual

Kind of Data:

interview

Methodology and Processing

Mode of Data Collection:

case study/oral history

Sources Statement

Data Access

Archive Where Study was Originally Stored:

Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University

Availability Status:

Available

Special Permissions:

Submission of the following <a href= "http://www.murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study.

Restrictions:

I will use these data solely for the purposes stated in my application to use data, detailed in a written research proposal. I will honor all agreements and conditions made between the Contributor of the Data and the study participants, and between the Contributor of the Data and the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Harvard University, as specified in the Memorandum of Agreement.

Access Authority:

<a href="mailto:mra@help.hmdc.harvard.edu">Manager of Operations</a>, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Citation Requirement:

I will include a bibliographic citation acknowledging the use of these data in any publication or presentation in which these data are used. Such citations will appear in footnotes or in the reference section of any such manuscript. I understand the guideline in "How to Cite This Dataset" described in the Summary of this study.

Deposit Requirement:

Murray Research Archive will list my publication and manuscripts on the Archive website when I submit a bibliographic citation or title of the manuscript, and indicate the Henry A. Murray Research Archive data used. Doing this will also help Henry A. Murray Research Archive to provide funding agencies with essential information about use of archival resources, to fulfill requirements of some memoranda of agreement, and to promote the broader exchange of information about research activities.

Conditions:

The data are available without additional conditions other than those stated in the "Restrictions" Terms of Use above.

Disclaimer:

<b>Follow-up of the data is not allowed. </b>

Notes:

<div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul style="list-style-type: decimal;" ><li> The Murray Archive (the Distributor) has granted me a revocable license to use this dataset solely for the purposes of conducting research, and the Distributor may terminate this license at any time and for any reason. </li> <li> I will use the dataset solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations, except when identification is authorized in writing by the Distributor. </li> <li>I will produce no links among the Distributor’s datasets or among the Distributor’s data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. </li> <li>I represent that neither I, nor anyone I know, has any prior knowledge of the possible identities of any study participants in any dataset that I am being licensed to use. </li> <li> I will not knowingly divulge any information that could be used to identify individual participants in the study, nor will I attempt to identify or contact any study participant, and I agree to use any precautions necessary to prevent such identification. </li> <li> I will make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. If I suspect that I might recognize or know a study participant, I will immediately inform the Distributor, and I will not use or retain a copy of data regarding that study participant. If these measures to resolve an identity disclosure are not sufficient, the Distributor may terminate my use of the dataset. </li> <li> I will not reproduce the dataset except as is necessary for my scholarly purposes. I will destroy the dataset upon the completion of my scholarly work with it. </li> <li> I will not share data from the dataset (in any form or by any means) with any third party, including other members of my research team, as I understand that all users of data must obtain the data directly from the Distributor. </li> <li> I will make appropriate acknowledgement of the contributor of the dataset as well as the Distributor in any manuscript or presentation (published or unpublished) using the citation standard documented here: <a href="http://thedata.org/citation"> http://thedata.org/citation</a> </li> <li> THE DISTRIBUTOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING OR RELATING TO THE DATASET. </li> </ul> </div>

Submission of the following <a href= "https://murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study. <br /><br /> <b>Follow-up of the data is not allowed. </b>

Other Study Description Materials

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

00134Newman-Declining-MemoOfAgreement.pdf

Text:

Legal agreement between the data depositor and the Murray Archive

Notes:

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