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Prediction-Based Adaptive Designs for Reducing Wave Nonresponse Rates and Bias in Panel Surveys 基于预测的自适应设计在小组调查中减少波浪无响应率和偏差

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261492217

John Collins, Saskia Bartholomäus, Tobias Gummer, Bernd Weiß, Christoph Kern

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Dynamics of Local Clustering in Temporal Social Networks 时间社会网络中局部聚类的动态

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261492189

Cheng Wang, Omar Lizardo, David S. Hachen

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A Replication Framework for Observational Research: From Specification Restriction to Specification Expansion 观察研究的复制框架：从规范限制到规范扩展

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261490850

Jonathan Ben-Menachem, Ari Galper, Nic Fishman

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How Model Choice and Memory Shape Preference Consistency in Large Language Models 模型选择和记忆形状偏好在大型语言模型中的一致性如何

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261492203

Yick Chung

{"title":"How Model Choice and Memory Shape Preference Consistency in Large Language Models","authors":"Yick Chung","doi":"10.1177/00491241261492203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241261492203","url":null,"abstract":"When a language model answers a sequence of questions, researchers report the model and temperature but rarely what or how it was told about its own earlier answers. I show that this underreported setting behaves as a mode effect. Testing four large language model (LLM) families with revealed preference theory (GARP) across moral, economic, and social tasks ( <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>5,926</mml:mn> </mml:math> ), I find that how prior choices re-enter the prompt, the memory condition , moves the share of internally consistent subjects by up to 48 percentage points, mostly where that share starts lowest. Memory also influences which preferences the models express and, in a silicon-sampling extension, it brings the answers closer to the human distribution. Nonetheless, gains in consistency and surface fidelity do not necessarily translate into representativeness: a consistent, human-looking model may not represent any human population. For LLMs as social-science instruments, this study offers promise, caution, and a method for testing the stability of sequential outputs.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Cognitive Housework Inventory: Developing Survey Questions to Measure the Division of Cognitive Housework 认知家务劳动量表：开发测量认知家务劳动分工的调查问题

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261491679

Jaclyn S. Wong, Jason Radford

{"title":"The Cognitive Housework Inventory: Developing Survey Questions to Measure the Division of Cognitive Housework","authors":"Jaclyn S. Wong, Jason Radford","doi":"10.1177/00491241261491679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241261491679","url":null,"abstract":"Housework is unequally shared in different-gender couples, leading to negative consequences for women and lowering couples’ relationship quality. Although qualitative research identifies cognitive housework as an important type of household labor, we lack validated measures of cognitive housework to use in survey settings, barring quantitative research on its division in broader populations and its effects on household members. We use an open-ended survey and cognitive interviews to develop the Cognitive Housework Inventory (CHI), a seven-item survey instrument to measure the division of cognitive housework among partnered individuals. We then validate the CHI using data from an online survey, along with pairwise correlations, exploratory factor analysis, and bivariate analyses by gender. Regression analyses estimating its associations with stress, burnout, and relationship satisfaction demonstrate how to use the CHI in empirical settings. Results indicate the CHI is a valid and parsimonious instrument that can be incorporated into larger surveys to ultimately generate additional quantitative data on the distribution of housework.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Do Respondents’ Commitments Improve Data Quality in Opt-in Online Surveys? An International Experiment on Participants’ Attentiveness, Cheating, Satisficing, and Skipping 在选择性在线调查中，受访者的承诺是否提高了数据质量？一项关于参与者注意力、作弊、满足和跳跃的国际实验

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-19 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261481205

Farsan Ghassim

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Insufficient Effort Responding and Adolescent Respondents: Measurement, Extent, and Prediction 努力不足与青少年受访者：测量、程度与预测

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-19 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261484518

Thomas Krause, Susanne Vogl, Christine Sälzer

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Forging Better Axes: Evaluating and Improving the Reliability of Semantic Dimensions in Word Embeddings 锻造更好的轴：评价和提高词嵌入中语义维度的可靠性

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-09-18 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261467930

Andrei Boutyline, Elle Johnston

{"title":"Forging Better Axes: Evaluating and Improving the Reliability of Semantic Dimensions in Word Embeddings","authors":"Andrei Boutyline, Elle Johnston","doi":"10.1177/00491241261467930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241261467930","url":null,"abstract":"Word embeddings are a powerful tool for measuring cultural meaning using large text corpora. In sociology, applications commonly estimate the meanings of concepts by projecting keywords onto axes constructed from pairs of opposing anchor keywords. At present, there are no established metrics for assessing axis reliability from embedding data. We investigate three potentially relevant forms of reliability: parallelism between offsets, synonymy between same-endpoint anchors, and antonymy between opposed anchors. Using an original <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mn>750</mml:mn> </mml:math> survey of respondents’ ratings of several hundred terms along 36 semantic dimensions plus existing ratings for 3 more, we find that parallelism robustly outperforms the other metrics in predicting the accuracy of 39,000 axes that operationalize these dimensions. Our decomposition of the parallelism–accuracy relationship between and within latent dimensions and anchor sets further shows that, while reliability is robustly related to axis accuracy at all levels, it provides a relatively weak guide for selecting specific keywords. Instead, the primary utility of parallelism may lie at higher levels of methodological decision-making: strongly identifying the most empirically tractable semantic dimension and, secondarily, suggesting the best embedding model for an anchor set.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Marginal Structural Effects for Exponential Random Graph Models 指数随机图模型的边际结构效应

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-07-31 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261467919

Scott W. Duxbury

{"title":"Marginal Structural Effects for Exponential Random Graph Models","authors":"Scott W. Duxbury","doi":"10.1177/00491241261467919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241261467919","url":null,"abstract":"Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are now a staple for social network analysis due to their ability to parameterize effects from endogenous network structures, such as two stars and triangles. However, interpreting coefficients for structural ERGM terms poses two problems. First, it is not possible to change the value of a structural term “holding all else constant” in models with nontrivial dyadic dependencies. Second, parameters for structural ERGM terms may be affected by scaling (noncollapsibility), which can alter the direction, size, and significance of structural coefficients. While the first issue is known in the literature, the second has not been previously reported. This study introduces a methodological framework based on marginal structural effects (MSEs) to address both problems. MSEs capture the discrete marginal effect of an endogenous network structure by calculating the difference in probability when comparing two potential ties that differ only by the value of a structural term. MSEs provide an intuitive interpretation for structural network effects and are robust to the effects of scaling. Extensions to comparisons between models, interactions with exogenous covariates, and analysis of samples of networks are discussed. An example is provided using the largest AddHealth school network to demonstrate how the framework can be applied.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148650572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Micro Effects on Macro Structure: Identification, Interpretation, Mediation, and Sensitivity Analysis for Model Selection 微观对宏观结构的影响：模型选择的识别、解释、中介和敏感性分析

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2026-07-06 DOI: 10.1177/00491241261461250

Jenna Wertsching, Scott W. Duxbury

{"title":"Micro Effects on Macro Structure: Identification, Interpretation, Mediation, and Sensitivity Analysis for Model Selection","authors":"Jenna Wertsching, Scott W. Duxbury","doi":"10.1177/00491241261461250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241261461250","url":null,"abstract":"How do social network interactions at the micro level generate novel network structures at the macro level? While recent methodological advancements have enabled the statistical analysis of micro–macro network effects, the current literature says little about the conditions sufficient to draw causal inference, how to evaluate indirect pathways that generate macro-level structures, or how to assess the sensitivity of empirical estimates to model choice. We address each of these problems in the micro effects on macro structure (MEMS) framework for micro–macro network analysis. We first report new formal results showing that the MEMS is nonparametrically identified under the conditional ignorability assumption and that, when identified, the MEMS can be interpreted under the “causes of effects” framework. We then show that the MEMS can be decomposed into direct and indirect effects to conduct mediation analysis when the interest is in multimechanistic pathways, where micro mechanisms shape macro outcomes by acting indirectly via intervening micro mechanisms. Finally, we build on these results to introduce a simple sensitivity test for the robustness of empirical estimates to model selection. We illustrate the utility of the methods in an empirical analysis of direct and indirect pathways linking in-group preference, out-group avoidance, and triadic closure to network segregation.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"223 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148393952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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