Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) has now been collecting a range of data from its nationally representative sample of participants for 10 years. This significant ‘birthday’ offers a moment to reflect on its contribution to sociological research, and on its current and future potential for fundamental and cutting-edge sociological analysis. While the study shares many features with other longer-standing household panel studies, including its direct predecessor the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), it incorporated from the outset distinctive features that make it particularly valuable for analysis in specific fields, including biosocial research, ethnicity and migration studies, and analyses of the interplay between environmental, social and institutional contexts and individual characteristics. Understanding Society has incorporated methodological development and innovation since its inception, which has facilitated more extensive forms of data collection.

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十年了解社会

了解社会：10 年来，英国家庭纵向研究 (UKHLS) 一直在从具有全国代表性的参与者样本中收集一系列数据。这个重要的“生日”提供了一个时刻来反思它对社会学研究的贡献，以及它在基础和前沿社会学分析方面的当前和未来潜力。虽然该研究与其他长期存在的家庭小组研究具有许多特征，包括其直接前身英国家庭小组调查 (BHPS)，但它从一开始就融入了独特的特征，使其对特定领域的分析特别有价值，包括生物社会研究，族裔和移民研究，以及环境、社会和制度背景与个人特征之间相互作用的分析。