Synopses & Reviews
Sociological Methodology 1999 is a valuable aid to the understanding and application of methodologies in the social sciences. Its chapters include presentations of new techniques for gathering and analyzing data, as well as discussions giving perspectives on current research practices. All can be used to strengthen sociological and other types of social science reasoning.
The journal is of interest to those involved in the study of statistics, psychometrics, econometrics, and political methodology, as well as to methodologists in sociology. Each annual volume is an important record of the current state of social science methodology and a crucial addition for social research libraries worldwide.
Synopsis
This annual volume, sponsored by the American Sociological Association, focuses on methods of research in the social sciences.
Table of Contents
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1. Ecometrics: Toward a Science of Assessing Ecological Settings, with Application to the Systematic Social Observation of Neighbourhoods (Stephen W. Raudenbush and Robert J. Sampson).
2. Simulating the Micro-Macro Link: New Approaches to an Old Problem and an Application to Military Coups (Nicole J. Saam).
3. A Goodness-of-Fit Test for the Latent Class Model When Expected Frequencies Are Small (Mark Reiser and Yiching Lin).
4. Algebraic Representations of Beliefs and Attitudes: Partial Order Models for Item Responses (John Levi Martin and James A. Wiley).
5. On a Relation Between Joint Correspondence Analysis and Latent Class Analysis (Peter G.M. van der Heijden, Zvi Gilula, and L. Andries van der Ark).
6. A General Class of Nonparametric Models for Ordinal Categorical Data (Jeroen K. Vermunt).
7. Testing Transivity in Digraphs (Martin Karleburg).
8. Logit Models for Affiliation Networks (John Skvoretz and Katherine Faust).
9. A New Model for Information Diffusion in Heterogeneous Social Networks (Vincent Buskens and Kazuo Yamaguchi)