Buckle up, readers, because we’re about to do a deep dive into an important but difficult-to-grasp concept in the social sciences. It’s called age-period-cohort (APC) effects. Let me start by showing you a simple graph. All I’m doing here is comparing attendance in the first year of the General Social Survey (1972) to its most recently released data fro…
The Generational Collapse of American Religion
An Age–Period–Cohort Story Told Through the GSS
