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Yuanmo He; Milena Tsvetkova – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
The rise of social media has opened countless opportunities to explore social science questions with new data and methods. However, research on socioeconomic inequality remains constrained by limited individual-level socioeconomic status (SES) measures in digital trace data. Following Bourdieu, we argue that the commercial and entertainment…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Web Sites, Social Media, Reputation
Anders Holm; Anders Hjorth-Trolle; Robert Andersen – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Lagged dependent variables (LDVs) are often used as predictors in ordinary least squares (OLS) models in the social sciences. Although several estimators are commonly employed, little is known about their relative merits in the presence of classical measurement error and different longitudinal processes. We assess the performance of four commonly…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Scores, Error of Measurement, Predictor Variables
Juan F. Muñoz; Pablo J. Moya-Fernández; Encarnación Álvarez-Verdejo – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
The Gini index is probably the most commonly used indicator to measure inequality. For continuous distributions, the Gini index can be computed using several equivalent formulations. However, this is not the case with discrete distributions, where controversy remains regarding the expression to be used to estimate the Gini index. We attempt to…
Descriptors: Bias, Educational Indicators, Equal Education, Monte Carlo Methods
Markus Gangl – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Rating scales are ubiquitous in the social sciences, yet may present practical difficulties when response formats change over time or vary across surveys. To allow researchers to pool rating data across alternative question formats, the article provides a generalization of the ordered logit model that accommodates multiple scale formats in the…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Surveys, Responses, Models
Ulf Liebe; Sander van Cranenburgh; Caspar Chorus – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Empirical studies on individual behaviour often, implicitly or explicitly, assume a single type of decision rule. Other studies do not specify behavioural assumptions at all. We advance sociological research by introducing (random) regret minimization, which is related to loss aversion, into the sociological literature and by testing it against…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Neighborhood Schools, Decision Making, Individual Differences
Eric W. Schoon – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
This article explores how researchers adapt to disruptions that cost them access to their field sites, advancing a uniquely sociological perspective on the dynamics of flexibility and adaptation in qualitative methods. Through interviews with 31 ethnographers whose access was preempted or eliminated, I find that adaptation varied systematically…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Researchers, Ethnography, Attitudes
Sven Banisch; Hawal Shamon – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
We combine empirical experimental research on biased argument processing with a computational theory of group deliberation to overcome the micro-macro problem of sociology and to clarify the role of biased processing in debates around energy. We integrate biased processing into the framework of argument communication theory in which agents…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Energy, Group Dynamics, Opinions
Julian Schuessler; Peter Selb – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are now a popular tool to inform causal inferences. We discuss how DAGs can also be used to encode theoretical assumptions about nonprobability samples and survey nonresponse and to determine whether population quantities including conditional distributions and regressions can be identified. We describe sources of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Graphs, Error of Measurement, Statistical Bias
Patricia Hadler – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Probes are follow-ups to survey questions used to gain insights on respondents' understanding of and responses to these questions. They are usually administered as open-ended questions, primarily in the context of questionnaire pretesting. Due to the decreased cost of data collection for open-ended questions in web surveys, researchers have argued…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Discovery Processes, Test Items, Data Collection
Myoung-jae Lee; Goeun Lee; Jin-young Choi – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
A linear model is often used to find the effect of a binary treatment D on a noncontinuous outcome Y with covariates X. Particularly, a binary Y gives the popular "linear probability model (LPM)," but the linear model is untenable if X contains a continuous regressor. This raises the question: what kind of treatment effect does the…
Descriptors: Probability, Least Squares Statistics, Regression (Statistics), Causal Models
Daniel Kasper; Katrin Schulz-Heidorf; Knut Schwippert – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
In this article, we extend Liao's test for across-group comparisons of the fixed effects from the generalized linear model to the fixed and random effects of the generalized linear mixed model (GLMM). Using as our basis the Wald statistic, we developed an asymptotic test statistic for across-group comparisons of these effects. The test can be…
Descriptors: Models, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment
Richard Breen; John Ermisch – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
We consider the problem of bias arising from conditioning on a post-outcome collider. We illustrate this with reference to Elwert and Winship (2014) but we go beyond their study to investigate the extent to which inverse probability weighting might offer solutions. We use linear models to derive expressions for the bias arising in different kinds…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistical Bias, Weighted Scores, Least Squares Statistics
Philip Dawid; Macartan Humphreys; Monica Musio – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Suppose "X" and "Y" are binary exposure and outcome variables, and we have full knowledge of the distribution of "Y," given application of "X." We are interested in assessing whether an outcome in some case is due to the exposure. This "probability of causation" is of interest in comparative…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Intervals, Probability, Qualitative Research
Ioana-Elena Oana; Carsten Q. Schneider – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
The robustness of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) results features high on the agenda of methodologists and practitioners. This article aims at advancing this debate on several fronts. First, in line with the extant literature, we take a comprehensive view on robustness arguing that decisions on calibration, consistency, and frequency…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
Victoria Reyes; Elizabeth Bogumil; Levin Elias Welch – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Transparency is once again a central issue of debate across types of qualitative research. Work on how to conduct qualitative data analysis, on the other hand, walks us through the step-by-step process on how to code and understand the data we've collected. Although there are a few exceptions, less focus is on transparency regarding…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Guides, Databases