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USC Autobiographies, 1952-1970

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Title USC Autobiographies, 1952-1970
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SFTDBW
 
Creator McFadden, Susan H.
Peterson, James A.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description
These autobiographies were collected as a class assignment for several undergraduate classes at the University of Southern California from 1952-1970. The purpose of the assignment was to ask the students to reflect on marriage in the context of their life histories.



Students were asked to write detailed autobiographies based on an outline which covered specific areas of their lives including their parents' marriages, their own infancy (they often interviewed their parents for this information), childhood and adolescence, up to current dating activities. They were also asked to reflect on their own ideals about marriage and a possible marriage partner, as well as their social class positions and their ambitions for making money.



The Murray Archive holds additional analogue materials for this study [307 (77 men, 230 women) dated original autobiographies]. If you would like to access this material, please apply to use the data.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Date 2009-03-25
 
Type cross-sectional, field study