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Minghui Yao; Yunjie Xu – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
As a crucial method in organizational and social behavior research, self-report surveys must manage method bias. Method biases are distorted scores in survey response, distorted variance in variables, and distorted relational estimates between variables caused by method designs. Studies on method bias have focused on "post hoc"…
Descriptors: Statistical Bias, Social Science Research, Questionnaires, Test Bias
Bignami-Van Assche, Simona; Boulet, Virginie; Simard, Charles-Olivier – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
How household-level data from censuses and surveys are analyzed to study household structure is an issue that has received little attention. The present study proposes a new methodological approach to address this gap. Specifically, we introduce the idea of the household configuration as a mathematical representation of observations from the…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Census Figures, Surveys, Indigenous Populations
Small, Mario L.; Cook, Jenna M. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This article examines an important and thorny problem in interview research: How to assess whether what people say motivated their actions actually did so? We ask three questions: What specific challenges are at play? How have researchers addressed them? And how should those strategies be evaluated? We argue that such research faces at least five…
Descriptors: Interviews, Qualitative Research, Barriers, Deception
Oliveira, Nuno; Secchi, Davide – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Researchers increasingly take advantage of the comparative case design to build theory, but the degree of case dependence is occasionally discussed and theorized. We suggest that the comparative case study design might be subject to an often underappreciated threat--dependence across cases--under certain conditions. Using research on innovation…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Research Design, Innovation
Muurlink, Olav; Gould, Anthony M.; Joullié, Jean-Etienne – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Development of graphical methods for representing data has not kept up with progress in statistical techniques. This article presents a brief history of graphical representations of research findings and makes the case for a revival of methods developed in the early and mid-twentieth century, notably ISOTYPE and Chernoff's faces. It resurrects and…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Visualization, Data Analysis, Research Methodology
Cornesse, Carina; Blom, Annelies G. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Recent years have seen a growing number of studies investigating the accuracy of nonprobability online panels; however, response quality in nonprobability online panels has not yet received much attention. To fill this gap, we investigate response quality in a comprehensive study of seven nonprobability online panels and three probability-based…
Descriptors: Probability, Sampling, Social Science Research, Research Methodology
Katz, Jack – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Taking a sociological view, we can investigate the empirical consequences of variations in the rhetoric of sociological methodology. The standards advocated in Qualitative Literacy divide communities of qualitative researchers, as they are not explicitly connected to an understanding of social ontology, unlike previous qualitative methodologies;…
Descriptors: Sociology, Rhetoric, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research
Jerolmack, Colin – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Ethnographic and interview research have made significant contributions to cumulative social science and influenced the public conversation around important social issues. However, debates rage over whether the standards of positivistic social science can or should be used to judge the rigor of interpretive methods. I begin this essay by briefly…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Ethnography, Evaluation Criteria
Reiber, Fabiola; Pope, Harrison; Ulrich, Rolf – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Randomized response techniques (RRTs) are useful survey tools for estimating the prevalence of sensitive issues, such as the prevalence of doping in elite sports. One type of RRT, the unrelated question model (UQM), has become widely used because of its psychological acceptability for study participants and its favorable statistical properties.…
Descriptors: Surveys, Responses, Cheating, Deception
Sharafizad, Fleur; Brown, Kerry; Jogulu, Uma; Omari, Maryam – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
This article presents an adaptation of an arts-based research method usually reserved for child-focused research to examine organizational processes. We developed Draw, Write, Reflect (DWR), advancing a known method, Draw and Write, for investigating phenomena relating to child participants, to explore a new context: adults engaging in academic…
Descriptors: Art, Research Methodology, Freehand Drawing, Writing (Composition)
Poschmann, Philipp; Goldenstein, Jan – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
Despite the recent and ongoing progress in using text-mining tools to automatically analyze large text corpora, there remains significant potential to facilitate the study of social action in social science research. In this context, particularly the disambiguation (who is referred to in a text?) and specification (which demographic…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Collaborative Writing, Reliability, Accuracy
Tong, Guangyu; Guo, Guang – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
Meta-analysis is a statistical method that combines quantitative findings from previous studies. It has been increasingly used to obtain more credible results in a wide range of scientific fields. Combining the results of relevant studies allows researchers to leverage study similarities while modeling potential sources of between-study…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Social Science Research, Regression (Statistics), Statistical Bias
Zapata, Zakry; Sedory, Stephen A.; Singh, Sarjinder – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
In this article, we consider the use of the zero-truncated binomial distribution as a randomization device while estimating the population proportion of a sensitive characteristic. The resultant new estimator based on the zero-truncated binomial distribution is then compared to its competitors from both the efficiency and the protection point of…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis
Demarest, Leila; Langer, Arnim – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
While conflict event data sets are increasingly used in contemporary conflict research, important concerns persist regarding the quality of the collected data. Such concerns are not necessarily new. Yet, because the methodological debate and evidence on potential errors remains scattered across different subdisciplines of social sciences, there is…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Research Methodology, Conflict, Social Science Research
Elwert, Felix; Pfeffer, Fabian T. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
Conventional advice discourages controlling for postoutcome variables in regression analysis. By contrast, we show that controlling for commonly available postoutcome (i.e., future) values of the treatment variable can help detect, reduce, and even remove omitted variable bias (unobserved confounding). The premise is that the same unobserved…
Descriptors: Bias, Regression (Statistics), Evaluation Methods, Research