Associate Professor
(On Sabbatic Leave 2009-2010)
Stephen Leacock Building, Room 713
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7

Tel.: 514-398-2946
Fax: 514-398-3403
E-Mail: John (Jack) Sandberg
Office: Peterson Hall, Room 336

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• Research Areas
• Biography
• Publications
• Courses Taught

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Research Areas

Child development, children's time use, paternal involvement, social networks and social learning in demographic processes.

Biography

(Ph.D. University of Michigan 2002; B.A. Hunter College, CUNY 1996). Associate Professor, at McGill University since 2002. Professor Sandberg was trained as a Social Demographer at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. His areas of research include socialization and children's time and learning through social networks, specifically learning about demographic processes. In collaboration with colleagues he has published a number of works on children's time use in the United States using data from the 1997 Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID-CDS), including analyses of how American children spend their time and changes occurring in time use in the last 20 years, as well as determinants and patterns of children's time use with fathers in two parent families. His current research is exploring the relationship of children's time use to parental child-socialization values and gender role attitudes. Prof. Sandberg was awarded the Innovation in Social Research Dissertation award from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan for his work relating the experience of infant and child mortality in individuals' social networks to their fertility beliefs, desires and behaviors in a small village in Nepal. This research suggests that at least to some degree previous work finding a lack of association between aggregate infant and child mortality and individual fertility behavior may have been thwarted by imprecise measurement of this fundamentally social process at the core of classical demographic transition theory.

Selected Publications

Book

Hofferth, S. L. and J. F. Sandberg. 2001. "Changes in American Children's Use of Time, 1981-1997." In T. Owens and S. Hofferth (eds.) Children at the Millennium: Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Going?, Advances in Life Course Research Series. New York, Elsevier Science, pp. 193-229.

Articles

Sandberg, J. F. Forthcoming. "Modeling Multi-dimensionality of Involvement in Two Parent Families: a Test of Theoretical Conceptualizations of Paternal Responsibility."

Sandberg, J. F. and S. L. Hofferth. 2001. "Changes in Children's Time with Parents, U.S. 1981-1997." Demography, 38 (3) (August), pp. 423-436.

Hofferth, S. L. and J. F. Sandberg. 2001. "How American Children Use their Time." Journal of Marriage and Family, 62 (May), pp. 295-308.

Yeung, W. J., J. F. Sandberg, P. D. Kean and S. L. Hofferth. 2001. "Children's Time with Fathers in Intact Families." Journal of Marriage and Family, 63 (February), pp.136-154.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses:
SOCI 350 Statistics in Social Research
SOCI 461 Quantitative Data Analysis

Graduate Courses:
SOCI 504 Quantitative Methods I
SOCI 506 Quantitative Methods III
SOCI 688 Seminar in Social Statistics