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Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al. 反对主流:论非不变诊断的局限性:对Fischer等人与Meuleman等人的回应。

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-04-07 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221091754

C. Welzel, S. Kruse, Lennart Brunkert

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引用次数: 3

Abductive Coding: Theory Building and Qualitative (Re)Analysis 溯因编码:理论建构与定性(再)分析

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-02-14 DOI: 10.1177/00491241211067508

L. Vila‐Henninger, C. Dupuy, Virginie Van Ingelgom, M. Caprioli, Ferdinand Teuber, Damien Pennetreau, Margherita Bussi, Cal Le Gall

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引用次数: 28

In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey 在世界价值观调查中寻找广义个人宗教信仰的可比衡量标准

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221077239

A. Remizova, M. Rudnev, E. Davidov

引用次数: 8

Visual Design and Cognition in List-Style Open-Ended Questions in Web Probing 网页探究中开放式问题的视觉设计与认知

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221077241

Katharina Meitinger, Tanja Kunz

引用次数: 0

Comparing Single- and Multiple-Question Designs of Measuring Family Income in China Family Panel Studies 中国家庭面板研究中衡量家庭收入的单题与多题设计比较

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221077238

Qiong Wu, Li-na Gu

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引用次数: 0

Do Different Devices Perform Equally Well with Different Numbers of Scale Points and Response Formats? A test of measurement invariance and reliability 不同的设备在不同的评分点和响应格式下表现一样好吗?测量不变性和可靠性的检验

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-02-07 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221077237

Natalja Menold, V. Toepoel

引用次数: 2

What's to Like? Facebook as a Tool for Survey Data Collection. 喜欢什么?Facebook作为调查数据收集的工具。

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/0049124119882477

Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett

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引用次数: 85

Moving Beyond Linear Regression: Implementing and Interpreting Quantile Regression Models With Fixed Effects 超越线性回归:具有固定效应的分位数回归模型的实现与解释

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/00491241211036165

Fernando Rios-Avila, Michelle Lee Maroto

引用次数: 0

Updating a Time-Series of Survey Questions: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in the General Social Survey 更新时间序列调查问题:综合社会调查中的堕胎态度个案

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.1177/00491241211043140

Sarah K. Cowan, M. Hout, Stuart Perrett

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引用次数: 6

Relevant, Irrelevant, or Ambiguous? Toward a New Interpretation of QCA’s Solution Types 相关、无关或模棱两可？QCA解类型的新解释

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1177/00491241211036153

Tim Haesebrouck

引用次数: 5