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Ellis, Rachel – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Numerous articles and textbooks advise qualitative researchers on accessing "hard-to-reach" or "hidden" populations. In this article, I compare two studies that I conducted with justice-involved women in the United States: a yearlong ethnography inside a state women's prison and an interview study with formerly incarcerated…
Descriptors: Population Groups, Barriers, Institutionalized Persons, Females
Welzel, Christian; Brunkert, Lennart; Kruse, Stefan; Inglehart, Ronald F. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Scholars study representative international surveys to understand cross-cultural differences in mentality patterns, which are measured via complex multi-item constructs. Methodologists in this field insist with increasing vigor that detecting "non-invariance" in how a construct's items associate with each other in different national…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Social Science Research, Factor Analysis, Measurement Techniques
Hwang, Jackelyn; Dahir, Nima; Sarukkai, Mayuka; Wright, Gabby – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Visual data have dramatically increased in quantity in the digital age, presenting new opportunities for social science research. However, the extensive time and labor costs to process and analyze these data with existing approaches limit their use. Computer vision methods hold promise but often require large and nonexistent training data to…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Visual Aids, Sanitation, Municipalities
Moretti, Angelo; Whitworth, Adam – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Spatial microsimulation encompasses a range of alternative methodological approaches for the small area estimation (SAE) of target population parameters from sample survey data down to target small areas in contexts where such data are desired but not otherwise available. Although widely used, an enduring limitation of spatial microsimulation SAE…
Descriptors: Simulation, Geometric Concepts, Computation, Measurement
Galvin, Daniel J.; Seawright, Jason N. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Scholarship on multimethod case selection in the social sciences has developed rapidly in recent years, but many possibilities remain unexplored. This essay introduces an attractive and advantageous new alternative, involving the selection of extreme cases on the treatment variable, net of the statistical influence of the set of known control…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Predictor Variables, Statistics, Labor Legislation
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
Raggi, Martina; Stanghellini, Elena; Doretti, Marco – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
The decomposition of the overall effect of a treatment into direct and indirect effects is here investigated with reference to a recursive system of binary random variables. We show how, for the single mediator context, the marginal effect measured on the log odds scale can be written as the sum of the indirect and direct effects plus a residual…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Student Attitudes, Museums, Error of Measurement
Rutten, Roel – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Uncertainty undermines causal claims; however, the nature of causal claims decides what counts as relevant uncertainty. Empirical robustness is imperative in regularity theories of causality. Regularity theory features strongly in QCA, making its case sensitivity a weakness. Following qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) founder Charles Ragin's…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Causal Models, Ethics
Sotoudeh, Ramina; DiMaggio, Paul – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Sociologists increasingly face choices among competing algorithms that represent reasonable approaches to the same task, with little guidance in choosing among them. We develop a strategy that uses simulated data to identify the conditions under which different methods perform well and applies what is learned from the simulations to predict which…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Simulation, Prediction, Correlation
Haesebrouck, Tim – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
The field of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is witnessing a heated debate on which one of the QCA's main solution types should be at the center of substantive interpretation. This article argues that the different QCA solutions have complementary strengths. Therefore, researchers should interpret the three solution types in an integrated…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Dudel, Christian; Schneider, Daniel C. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Multistate models are often used in social research to analyze how individuals move between states. A typical application is the estimation of the lifetime spent in a certain state, like the lifetime spent in employment, or the lifetime spent in good health. Unfortunately, the estimation of such quantities is prone to several biases. In this…
Descriptors: Models, Computation, Bias, Disabilities
DeLuca, Stefanie – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Increasingly, the broader public, media and policymakers are looking to qualitative research to provide answers to our most pressing social questions. While an exciting and perhaps overdue moment for qualitative researchers, it is also a time when the method is coming under increasing scrutiny for a lack of reliability and transparency. The…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Reliability, Standards, Participant Observation
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
Quintana, Rafael – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Causal search algorithms have been effectively applied in different fields including biology, genetics, climate science, medicine, and neuroscience. However, there have been scant applications of these methods in social and behavioral sciences. This article provides an illustrative example of how causal search algorithms can shed light on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Causal Models, Algorithms, Social Problems