Early Life and Education
Spanier was born in South Africa and grew up near Chicago, in the suburb of Highland Park, where he graduated from high school. A family sociologist, demographer, and marriage and family therapist, he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Iowa State University, who honored him with the Distinguished Achievement Citation and an honorary doctorate. Then a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
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