Introduction: Beyond the Identification Problem

William M. Mason and Stephen E. Fienberg
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William M. Mason: The University of Michigan, Department of Sociology and the Population Studies Center
Stephen E. Fienberg: Carnegie-Mellon University, Departments of Statistics and Social Sciences

Chapter 1 in Cohort Analysis in Social Research, 1985, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The term “cohort” was in common use during Roman antiquity, when it referred to a division within a legion. Since then, cohort has come to refer to considerably more, and in fact the original meaning of the word has been lost in everyday colloquy. The use of cohorts to refer to groups or aggregates defined by point of entry into a social system has long been present in the social sciences, but cohort analysis as a focus in its own right has fluctuated in its visibility, due, perhaps, to swings of interest in the study of social change.

Keywords: Identification Problem; Cohort Analysis; American Sociological Review; Accounting Framework; Social Science Research Council (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8536-3_1

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