Sampling Social Movement Organizations

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2016-07-07 DOI:10.17813/1086-671X-21-2-231

K. Andrews, Bob Edwards, Akram Al-Turk, A. Hunter

引用次数: 9

Abstract

Scholars of nonprofits, interest groups, civic associations, and social movement organizations employ samples of organizations derived from directories or other available listings. In most cases, we are unable to evaluate the representativeness of these samples. Using data on the population of environmental organizations in North Carolina, we assess the methodological strengths and weaknesses of widely used strategies. We find that reliance on any single source yields bias on theoretically important characteristics of organizations. We show that scholars can reduce bias significantly by combining sources, creating what we call a “peak list” compiled from different types of sources. Compared to any single source, our peak list differed less from the population on the thirty-one organizational characteristics including geographical coverage, issues, discursive frames, targets, and organizational demographics such as age, organizational form, and resources. From these analyses, we offer methodological recomm...

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抽样社会运动组织

非营利组织、利益集团、公民协会和社会运动组织的学者使用来自目录或其他可用列表的组织样本。在大多数情况下，我们无法评估这些样本的代表性。利用北卡罗来纳州环境组织的人口数据，我们评估了广泛使用的策略的方法优势和劣势。我们发现，对任何单一来源的依赖都会对理论上重要的组织特征产生偏差。我们表明，学者们可以通过结合来源，创建我们所谓的“峰值列表”，从不同类型的来源编译显著减少偏见。与任何单一来源相比，我们的高峰列表在31个组织特征上与人口差异较小，包括地理覆盖范围、问题、话语框架、目标和组织人口统计(如年龄、组织形式和资源)。根据这些分析，我们提出了方法学上的建议。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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3.80

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.