Sociological Methods & Research

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Volume 52, issue 4, 2023

Using Interviews to Understand Why: Challenges and Strategies in the Study of Motivated Action pp. 1591-1631

Mario L. Small and Jenna M. Cook

Surprising Causes: Propensity-adjusted Treatment Scores for Multimethod Case Selection pp. 1632-1680

Daniel J. Galvin and Jason N. Seawright

The Social Autopsy pp. 1681-1706

Stefan Timmermans and Pamela J. Prickett

Uncertainty, Possibility, and Causal Power in QCA pp. 1707-1736

Roel Rutten

Relevant, Irrelevant, or Ambiguous? Toward a New Interpretation of QCA’s Solution Types pp. 1737-1764

Tim Haesebrouck

Marginal and Conditional Confounding Using Logits pp. 1765-1784

Kristian Bernt Karlson, Frank Popham and Anders Holm

Estimating the Uncertainty of a Small Area Estimator Based on a Microsimulation Approach pp. 1785-1815

Angelo Moretti and Adam Whitworth

How bad could it be? Worst-case bounds on bias in multistate models due to unobserved transitions pp. 1816-1837

Christian Dudel and Daniel C. Schneider

Coping With Plenitude: A Computational Approach to Selecting the Right Algorithm pp. 1838-1882

Ramina Sotoudeh and Paul DiMaggio

Path Analysis for Binary Random Variables pp. 1883-1915

Martina Raggi, Elena Stanghellini and Marco Doretti

Applying Responsive Survey Design to Small-Scale Surveys: Campus Surveys of Sexual Misconduct pp. 1916-1946

William G. Axinn, James Wagner, Mick Couper and Scott Crawford

A Tale of Twin Dependence: A New Multivariate Regression Model and an FGLS Estimator for Analyzing Outcomes With Network Dependence pp. 1947-1980

Weihua An

Open-ended versus Closed Probes: Assessing Different Formats of Web Probing pp. 1981-2015

Cornelia E. Neuert, Katharina Meitinger and Dorothée Behr

Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences pp. 2016-2049

Gilbert Ritschard

Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models pp. 2050-2082

Bert Weijters, Eldad Davidov and Hans Baumgartner

Volume 52, issue 3, 2023

Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis pp. 1107-1119

Nicolas M. Legewie and Anne Nassauer

Video Data Analysis and Police Body-Worn Camera Footage pp. 1120-1154

John D. McCluskey and Craig D. Uchida

Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery pp. 1155-1200

Jackelyn Hwang, Nima Dahir, Mayuka Sarukkai and Gabby Wright

3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision pp. 1201-1238

Yoav Goldstein, Nicolas M. Legewie and Doron Shiffer-Sebba

Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing pp. 1239-1287

Wim Bernasco, Evelien M. Hoeben, Dennis Koelma, Lasse Suonperä Liebst, Josephine Thomas, Joska Appelman, Cees G. M. Snoek and Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard

Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling pp. 1288-1320

Michael Baumgartner and Mathias Ambühl

A Partial Simulation Study of Phantom Effects in Multilevel Analysis of School Effects: The Case of School Socioeconomic Composition pp. 1321-1339

Hao Zhou and Xin Ma

Surveys in Communities Divided by Ethnicity and Conflict: Challenges, Possible Solutions, and Lessons Learned from a Survey in Jos, Nigeria pp. 1340-1367

Peter Rudloff and Laura Thaut Vinson

Non-invariance? An Overstated Problem With Misconceived Causes pp. 1368-1400

Christian Welzel, Lennart Brunkert, Stefan Kruse and Ronald F. Inglehart

Why Measurement Invariance is Important in Comparative Research. A Response to Welzel et al. (2021) pp. 1401-1419

Bart Meuleman, Tomasz Żółtak, Artur Pokropek, Eldad Davidov, Bengt Muthén, Daniel L. Oberski, Jaak Billiet and Peter Schmidt

Evidence of Validity Does not Rule out Systematic Bias: A Commentary on Nomological Noise and Cross-Cultural Invariance pp. 1420-1437

Ronald Fischer, Johannes Alfons Karl, Johnny R. J. Fontaine and Ype H. Poortinga

Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al pp. 1438-1455

Christian Welzel, Stefan Kruse and Lennart Brunkert

Taking Causal Heterogeneity Seriously: Implications for Case Choice and Case Study-Based Generalizations pp. 1456-1492

Steffen Hertog

A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Performance of the Crosswise Model pp. 1493-1518

Rainer Schnell and Kathrin Thomas

Response Behavior and Quality of Survey Data: Comparing Elderly Respondents in Institutions and Private Households pp. 1519-1555

Jan-Lucas Schanze

What Do We Mean By a “Hard-to-reach†Population? Legitimacy Versus Precarity as Barriers to Access pp. 1556-1586

Rachel Ellis

Volume 52, issue 2, 2023

Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse pp. 561-586

Matthijs Kalmijn

A New Methodological Approach to Study Household Structure From Census and Survey Data pp. 587-605

Simona Bignami- Van Assche, Virginie Boulet and Charles-Olivier Simard

Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-methods Approach for Large-scale Textual Data pp. 606-641

Matty Lichtenstein and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana

A Theory of Higher Order Interactions Between Sensitive Variables: Empirical Evidences and an Application to a Variety of Smoking pp. 642-763

Oluwaseun L. Olanipekun, JuLong Zhao, Rongdong Wang, Stephen A.Sedory and Sarjinder Singh

The Problem of Scaling in Exponential Random Graph Models pp. 764-802

Scott W. Duxbury

Methodological Issues When Interpreting Changes in Social Phenomena Over Time: Perceptions of Relative Difference, Absolute Difference, and Time Distance pp. 803-840

Katja Prevodnik and Vasja Vehovar

Coverage Error in Data Collection Combining Mobile Surveys With Passive Measurement Using Apps: Data From a German National Survey pp. 841-878

Florian Keusch, Sebastian Bähr, Georg-Christoph Haas, Frauke Kreuter and Mark Trappmann

Response Quality in Nonprobability and Probability-based Online Panels pp. 879-908

Carina Cornesse and Annelies G. Blom

Early and Late Participation during the Field Period: Response Timing in a Mixed-Mode Probability-Based Panel Survey pp. 909-932

Tobias Gummer and Bella Struminskaya

Effects of Partner Presence During the Interview on Survey Responses: The Example of Questions Concerning the Division of Household Labor pp. 933-955

Jette Schrö der and Claudia Schmiedeberg

Clustered Iconography: A Resurrected Method for Representing Multidimensional Data pp. 956-992

Olav Muurlink, Anthony M. Gould and Jean-Etienne Joullié

Theory Building, Case Dependence, and Researchers’ Bounded Rationality: An Illustration From Studies of Innovation Diffusion pp. 993-1042

Nuno Oliveira and Davide Secchi

Deceptively Approachable: Translating Standards in Qualitative Research pp. 1043-1047

Iddo Tavory

Cognitive Plausibility and Qualitative Research pp. 1048-1058

John Levi Martin

What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency? pp. 1059-1072

Colin Jerolmack

Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research pp. 1073-1085

Stefanie DeLuca

The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric pp. 1086-1102

Jack Katz

Volume 52, issue 1, 2023

A Method for Studying Differences in Segregation Across Time and Space pp. 5-42

Benjamin Elbers

Fixed Effects Individual Slopes: Accounting and Testing for Heterogeneous Effects in Panel Data or Other Multilevel Models pp. 43-84

Tobias Rüttenauer and Volker Ludwig

The Structure of Academic Achievement: Searching for Proximal Mechanisms Using Causal Discovery Algorithms pp. 85-134

Rafael Quintana

How to Borrow Information From Unlinked Data? A Relative Density Approach for Predicting Unobserved Distributions pp. 135-175

Siwei Cheng

Robustness and Model Selection in Configurational Causal Modeling pp. 176-208

Veli-Pekka Parkkinen and Michael Baumgartner

Is the Acknowledgment of Earned Entitlement Effect Robust Across Experimental Modes and Populations? pp. 209-230

Abigail Barr, Luis Miller and Paloma Ubeda

How to Interpret the Effect of Covariates on the Extreme Categories in Ordinal Data Models pp. 231-267

Maria Iannario and Claudia Tarantola

Combining Multiple Organizational-level Databases: An Empirical Evaluation of Different Matching Methods pp. 268-298

Tim de Leeuw and Steffen Keijl

Interpersonal Perceptions and Interviewer Effects in Face-to-Face Surveys pp. 299-334

Simon Kühne

An Improved Two-stage Randomized Response Model for Estimating the Proportion of Sensitive Attribute pp. 335-355

Ghulam Narjis and Javid Shabbir

Transforming Family Resemblance Concepts into Fuzzy Sets pp. 356-388

Francesco Veri

Cheater Detection Using the Unrelated Question Model pp. 389-411

Fabiola Reiber, Harrison Pope and Rolf Ulrich

Practical Methods for Imputing Follower Count Dynamics pp. 412-437

C. Ben Gibson, Jeannette Sutton, Sarah K. Vos and Carter T. Butts

Letting a Picture Speak a Thousand Words: Arts-based Research in a Study of the Careers of Female Academics pp. 438-479

Fleur Sharafizad, Kerry Brown, Uma Jogulu and Maryam Omari

Critical Event Analysis in Case Study Research pp. 480-524

Laura García-Montoya and James Mahoney

Measuring and Visualizing Coders’ Reliability: New Approaches and Guidelines From Experimental Data pp. 525-553

Iasonas Lamprianou