Sociological Methods & Research

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Volume 55, issue 1, 2026

Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables pp. 3-50

Chris Felton and Brandon M. Stewart

Causal Decomposition Analysis With Time-Varying Mediators: Designing Individualized Interventions to Reduce Social Disparities pp. 51-84

Soojin Park, Namhwa Lee and Rafael Quintana

Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to the Multiple Multistate Method (MMM) pp. 85-119

Tianyu Shen, Collin F. Payne and Maria Jahromi

Seeded Topic Models in Digital Archives: Analyzing Interpretations of Immigration in Swedish Newspapers, 1945–2019 pp. 120-156

Miriam Hurtado Bodell, MÃ¥ns Magnusson and Marc Keuschnigg

Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions pp. 157-185

Jiwon Lee

The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research pp. 186-218

Lion Behrens and Ingo Rohlfing

Aligning Interviewing with Process Tracing1 pp. 219-267

Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos and Juan Masullo

Promises and Limits of Using Targeted Social Media Advertising to Sample Global Migrant Populations: Nigerians at Home and Abroad pp. 268-298

Thomas Soehl, Zhenxiang Chen and Aaron Erlich

Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments pp. 299-339

Erin Macke, Claire Daviss and Emma Williams-Baron

Sharing Big Video Data: Ethics, Methods, and Technology pp. 340-372

Joanne W. Golann, Lori Bougher, Richard Hall and Thomas J. Espenshade

Volume 54, issue 4, 2025

Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research pp. 1247-1251

Yoosoon Chang, Steven N. Durlauf, Fabian T. Pfeffer and Xi Song

Absolute and Relative Mobility: Two Frameworks for Connecting Intergenerational Mobility in Absolute and Relative Terms pp. 1252-1288

Deirdre Bloome

Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes pp. 1289-1338

Pablo A. Mitnik

Beyond the Diagonal Reference Model: Critiques and New Directions in the Analysis of Mobility Effects pp. 1339-1395

Ethan Fosse and Fabian T. Pfeffer

Immobility as Memory: Some New Approaches to Characterizing Intergenerational Persistence via Markov Chains pp. 1396-1434

Lawrence Blume, Neil A. Cholli, Steven N. Durlauf and Aleksandra Lukina

The Causal Effect of Parent Occupation on Child Occupation: A Multivalued Treatment with Positivity Constraints pp. 1435-1462

Ian Lundberg, Daniel Molitor and Jennie E. Brand

Social Mobility as Causal Intervention pp. 1463-1504

Lai Wei and Yu Xie

Accounting for Individual-Specific Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Income Mobility pp. 1505-1531

Yoosoon Chang, Steven N. Durlauf, Bo Hu and Joon Y. Park

Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility pp. 1532-1575

Martin Nybom and Jan Stuhler

Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model pp. 1576-1593

Xi Song and Xiang Zhou

Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions pp. 1594-1623

Esfandiar Maasoumi, Le Wang and Daiqiang Zhang

Deep Learning With DAGs pp. 1624-1682

Sourabh Balgi, Adel Daoud, Jose M. Peña, Geoffrey T. Wodtke and Jesse Zhou

Social Rigidity Across and Within Generations: A Predictive Approach pp. 1683-1725

Haowen Zheng and Siwei Cheng

Volume 54, issue 3, 2025

Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation pp. 775-793

Thomas Davidson and Daniel Karell

From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models pp. 794-848

Oscar Stuhler, Cat Dang Ton and Etienne Ollion

Updating “The Future of Codingâ€: Qualitative Coding with Generative Large Language Models pp. 849-888

Nga Than, Leanne Fan, Tina Law, Laura K. Nelson and Leslie McCall

Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery pp. 889-932

Tina Law and Elizabeth Roberto

Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages pp. 933-983

Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Anton Shirikov, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett and Joshua A. Tucker

Correcting the Measurement Errors of AI-Assisted Labeling in Image Analysis Using Design-Based Supervised Learning pp. 984-1016

Alessandra Rister Portinari Maranca, Jihoon Chung, Musashi Hinck, Adam D. Wolsky, Naoki Egami and Brandon M. Stewart

Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions pp. 1017-1073

Austin C. Kozlowski and James Evans

The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations pp. 1074-1109

David Broska, Michael Howes and Austin van Loon

Balancing Large Language Model Alignment and Algorithmic Fidelity in Social Science Research pp. 1110-1155

Alex Lyman, Bryce Hepner, Lisa P. Argyle, Ethan C. Busby, Joshua R. Gubler and David Wingate

Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?1 pp. 1156-1196

Julien Boelaert, Samuel Coavoux, Étienne Ollion, Ivaylo Petev and Patrick Präg

Generative AI Meets Open-Ended Survey Responses: Research Participant Use of AI and Homogenization pp. 1197-1242

Simone Zhang, Janet Xu and Alvero Aj

Volume 54, issue 2, 2025

Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status pp. 355-396

Xi Song and Yu Xie

A Primer on Deep Learning for Causal Inference pp. 397-447

Bernard J. Koch, Tim Sainburg, Pablo Geraldo Bastías, Song Jiang, Yizhou Sun and Jacob G. Foster

High-Dimensional Imputation for the Social Sciences: A Comparison of State-of-The-Art Methods pp. 448-499

Edoardo Costantini, Kyle M. Lang, Tim Reeskens and Klaas Sijtsma

Addressing Non-ignorable Panel Attrition Using External Population Data: Analysis of Demographic Events From Survey Data pp. 500-533

John Ermisch

How Valid Are Trust Survey Measures? New Insights From Open-Ended Probing Data and Supervised Machine Learning pp. 534-564

Camille Landesvatter and Paul C. Bauer

A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis pp. 565-604

Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor and Jennifer S. K. Dudley

Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework pp. 605-645

Jonas Gejl Kaas, Mathilde Cecchini and Derek Beach

Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition pp. 646-705

Carla Rowold, Emanuela Struffolino and Anette Eva Fasang

Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses pp. 706-738

Ari Decter-Frain, Pratik Sachdeva, Loren Collingwood, Hikari Murayama, Juandalyn Burke, Matt Barreto, Scott Henderson, Spencer Wood and Joshua Zingher

Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study pp. 739-771

Martyna Daria Swiatczak and Michael Baumgartner

Volume 54, issue 1, 2025

Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites pp. 3-37

Eric W. Schoon

A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users pp. 38-73

Yuanmo He and Milena Tsvetkova

Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference pp. 74-105

Julian Schuessler and Peter Selb

The Effects of Open-Ended Probes on Closed Survey Questions in Web Surveys pp. 106-139

Patricia Hadler

Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate pp. 140-172

Anders Holm, Anders Hjorth-Trolle and Robert Andersen

Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified pp. 173-186

Myoung-jae Lee, Goeun Lee and Jin-young Choi

Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate pp. 187-236

Sven Banisch and Hawal Shamon

Exploring and Correcting the Bias in the Estimation of the Gini Measure of Inequality pp. 237-274

Juan F. Muñoz, Pablo J. Moya-Fernández and Encarnación à lvarez-Verdejo

Maximizing Utility or Avoiding Losses? Uncovering Decision Rule-Heterogeneity in Sociological Research with an Application to Neighbourhood Choice pp. 275-314

Ulf Liebe, Sander van Cranenburgh and Caspar Chorus

A Generalized Ordered Logit Model to Accommodate Multiple Rating Scales pp. 315-350

Markus Gangl