Sociological Methodology最新文献

Comparing Ecological Momentary Assessments and Time Diary Methods for Measuring Daily Life. 比较生态瞬间评价和时间日记法测量日常生活。

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1177/00811750261419100

Siyun Peng, Brea L Perry, Adam R Roth

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Using Relative Distribution Methods to Study Economic Polarization Across Categories and Contexts^. 用相对分布方法研究不同类别和背景下的经济极化。

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-25

Siwei Cheng, Andrew Levine, Ananda Martin-Caughey

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Community-Driven Research with People Who Use Drugs: A Virtual Project During Multiple Epidemics. 社区驱动的药物使用者研究：多重流行病期间的虚拟项目。

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-29 DOI: 10.1177/00811750241281063

Sarah Brothers, Caty Simon, Louise Vincent

{"title":"Community-Driven Research with People Who Use Drugs: A Virtual Project During Multiple Epidemics.","authors":"Sarah Brothers, Caty Simon, Louise Vincent","doi":"10.1177/00811750241281063","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00811750241281063","url":null,"abstract":"Sociological approaches to digital and community-engaged research experienced significant innovation in recent years. This article examines developing and implementing a primarily virtual community-driven research (CDR) project with the National Survivors Union, the American national drug-users union, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Relationships between researchers and directly impacted people, such as people who use drugs, face many barriers. These issues were exacerbated during COVID-19 when in-person research decreased while drug-related harms increased. In response, this project modified the CDR model for drug-use research. The CDR model is particularly beneficial for studies with marginalized populations who may mistrust researchers. In CDR, impacted community members are fundamental project drivers. This project's data are based on 29 months of weekly group meetings in National Survivors Union online spaces, group and individual text conversations, phone calls, and shared-document group work. The project co-developed methods for CDR with directly impacted people, including community-initiated research questions, low-threshold methods, collaborative writing strategies, coauthorship practices foregrounding directly impacted perspectives, and multiple dissemination forms. Modified CDR expands sociological methods for digital research, citizen science, and community-engaged research with vulnerable, criminalized groups. This approach may aid inclusive, innovative sociological scholarship and effective public health policy for reducing morbidity and mortality during multiple crises.","PeriodicalId":48140,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methodology","volume":"55 1","pages":"155-181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12629304/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145565963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Daily Lives of Crowdsourced U.S. Respondents: A Time Use Comparison of MTurk, Prolific, and ATUS. 众包美国受访者的日常生活：MTurk、多产和ATUS的时间使用比较

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1177/00811750241312226

R Gordon Rinderknecht, Long Doan, Liana C Sayer

{"title":"The Daily Lives of Crowdsourced U.S. Respondents: A Time Use Comparison of MTurk, Prolific, and ATUS.","authors":"R Gordon Rinderknecht, Long Doan, Liana C Sayer","doi":"10.1177/00811750241312226","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00811750241312226","url":null,"abstract":"Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and Prolific are popular online platforms for connecting academic researchers with respondents. A broad literature has sought to assess the extent to which these respondents are representative of the U.S. population in terms of their demographic background, yet no work has assessed the representativeness of their daily lives. The authors provide this analysis by collecting time diaries from 136 MTurk and 156 Prolific respondents, which they compare with diary responses from 468 contemporaneous responses to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). Responses from MTurk and Prolific respondents include several notable differences relative to ATUS responses, including doing less housework and care work, spending less time traveling, spending more time at home, and spending more time alone. In general, MTurk respondents worked more than ATUS respondents, and Prolific respondents spent more time in leisure. These differences persist even after adjusting for demographic differences. The present findings highlight time use as a potential major source of differences across samples that go beyond demographic differences. Thus, scholars interested in these samples should consider how time use may moderate processes of interest.","PeriodicalId":48140,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12221264/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144692052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Can Human Reading Validate a Topic Model? 人类阅读能否验证主题模型？

IF 3 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/00811750241265336

Bolun Zhang, Yimang Zhou, Dai Li

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Contextual Embeddings in Sociological Research: Expanding the Analysis of Sentiment and Social Dynamics 社会学研究中的情境嵌入：扩展情感和社会动力分析

IF 3 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/00811750241260729

Moeen Mostafavi, Michael D. Porter, Dawn T. Robinson

{"title":"Contextual Embeddings in Sociological Research: Expanding the Analysis of Sentiment and Social Dynamics","authors":"Moeen Mostafavi, Michael D. Porter, Dawn T. Robinson","doi":"10.1177/00811750241260729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750241260729","url":null,"abstract":"The authors introduce BERTNN (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Neural Network), a novel methodology designed to expand affective lexicons, a critical component in sociological research. BERTNN estimates the affective meanings and their distribution for new concepts, bypassing the need for extensive surveys by leveraging their contextual usage in language. The cornerstone of BERTNN is the use of nuanced word embeddings from Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. BERTNN uniquely encodes words within the framework of synthesized social event sentences, preserving their meaning across actor-behavior-object positions. The model is fine-tuned on the basis of the implied sentiment changes, providing a more refined estimation of affective meanings. BERTNN outperforms previous approaches, setting a new standard in deriving multidimensional affective meanings for novel concepts. It efficiently replicates sentiment ratings that traditionally require extensive survey hours, demonstrating the power of automated modeling in sociological research. The expanded affective lexicons that can be produced with BERTNN cater to shifting cultural meanings and diverse subgroups, demonstrating the potential of computational linguistics to enrich the measurement tools in sociological research. This article underscores the novelty and significance of BERTNN in the broader context of sociological methodology.","PeriodicalId":48140,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methodology","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141774322","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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Using Relative Distribution Methods to Study Economic Polarization across Categories and Contexts 使用相对分布法研究不同类别和背景下的经济两极分化问题

IF 3 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/00811750241260731

Siwei Cheng, Andrew Levine, Ananda Martin-Caughey

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Question-Order Effect in the Study of Satisfaction with Democracy: Lessons from Three Split-Ballot Experiments 民主满意度研究中的问题顺序效应：三项分票实验的启示

IF 3 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1177/00811750241254363

Zsófia Papp, Pál Susánszky, Andrea Szabó

{"title":"Question-Order Effect in the Study of Satisfaction with Democracy: Lessons from Three Split-Ballot Experiments","authors":"Zsófia Papp, Pál Susánszky, Andrea Szabó","doi":"10.1177/00811750241254363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750241254363","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines question-order effects in measuring satisfaction with democracy (SWD). Particularly, the authors are interested in whether the relative position of the question regarding satisfaction with the state of the economy (SWE) in the questionnaire affects responses to the SWD item. The authors conducted three independent split-ballot experiments in Hungary between March 2021 and May 2022. They report a significant and substantial negative priming effect that possibly leads to a systematic underestimation of SWD. Importantly, the authors find no question-order effect in the measurement of SWE. The analysis further reveals a contrast effect: when the SWD question is primed, the difference between SWE and SWD means increases. The authors’ final recommendation is that researchers either put the SWD question before the SWE item to avoid question-order bias or randomize question order. These findings should assist future data collection efforts (comparative or single-country studies) in developing and integrating a battery of satisfaction items into questionnaires and help users assess data quality.","PeriodicalId":48140,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methodology","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141171538","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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Comparing the Robustness of Simple Network Scale-Up Method Estimators 比较简单网络扩展法估算器的稳健性

IF 3 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/00811750241242791

Jessica P. Kunke, Ian Laga, Xiaoyue Niu, Tyler H. McCormick

{"title":"Comparing the Robustness of Simple Network Scale-Up Method Estimators","authors":"Jessica P. Kunke, Ian Laga, Xiaoyue Niu, Tyler H. McCormick","doi":"10.1177/00811750241242791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00811750241242791","url":null,"abstract":"The network scale-up method (NSUM) is a cost-effective approach to estimating the size or prevalence of a group of people that is hard to reach through a standard survey. The basic NSUM involves two steps: estimating respondents’ degrees and estimating the prevalence of the hard-to-reach population of interest using respondents’ estimated degrees and the number of people they report knowing in the hard-to-reach group. Each of these two steps involves taking either an average of ratios or a ratio of averages. Using the ratio of averages for each step has so far been the most common approach. However, the authors present theoretical arguments that using the average of ratios at the second, prevalence-estimation step often has lower mean squared error when the random mixing assumption is violated, which seems likely in practice; this estimator was proposed early in NSUM development but has largely been unexplored and unused. Simulation results using an example network data set also support these findings. On the basis of this theoretical and empirical evidence, the authors suggest that future surveys that use a simple estimator may want to use this mixed estimator, and estimation methods based on this estimator may produce new improvements.","PeriodicalId":48140,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methodology","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140588665","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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Multivariate Multinomial Logit Models with Associations among Dependent Variables 依赖变量之间存在关联的多变量多项式 Logit 模型

IF 3 2区社会学

Sociological Methodology Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1177/00811750241239049

Kazuo Yamaguchi, Jesse Zhou

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