Sociological Methodology

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2026

7 papers

• Causal Inference with a Continuous Treatment: Addressing Positivity Constraints, Nonlinearity, and Effect Heterogeneity
  Lundberg & Brand · 2026
  method · regression method · causal inference causal inference effect heterogeneity
• Comparing Modularity Scores across Different Social Networks: Pitfalls, Illustrations, and Suggestions
  Ling et al. · 2026
  method · network analysis method · simulation social networks network analysis
• A New Framework for Estimation of Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects: The Residualized Quantile Regression (RQR) Model
  Borgen et al. · 2026
  method · regression method · simulation methodology treatment effects
• Surveying a Crowd: A Field Experiment Comparing Data Collection Techniques at Protest Events
  Azedi et al. · 2026
  data · experiment data · survey method · descriptive statistics field experiment social movements
• A Simulation-Based Slope Metric for Anchor List Reliability in Word Embedding Spaces
  Taylor et al. · 2026
  method · regression method · simulation simulation word embeddings
• Comparing Ecological Momentary Assessments and Time Diary Methods for Measuring Daily Life
  Peng et al. · 2026
  data · secondary survey analysis data · survey method · descriptive statistics measurement validity ecological momentary assessment
• [[_papers/Ma (2026) - Computational Basis of Large Language Models’ Decision Makin|Computational Basis of Large Language Models’ Decision Making in Social Simulation]]
  Ma · 2026

2025

8 papers

• Joint Text-and-Image Clustering for Social Science Research
  Zhang & Leung · 2025
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · machine learning method · embedding method · nlp social media computational social science
• Counterfactual Road Networks: A Method for Examining Social and Spatial Division in Road Networks
  Roberto et al. · 2025
  data · digital trace data method · network analysis method · simulation urban inequality residential segregation
• Equivalence and Clustering in Worker Flows: Stochastic Blockmodels for the Analysis of Mobility Tables
  Park · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis method · formal modeling method · simulation social networks occupational mobility
• Counterfactual Slopes and Their Applications in Social Stratification
  Yu & Zhao · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · causal inference causal inference social stratification
• The Measurement Properties of Aggregated Relational Data and NSUM-Estimated Network Size
  Lubbers et al. · 2025
  data · interview data · survey method · qualitative coding method · descriptive statistics test retest reliability convergent validity
• Reaching Incarcerated People in Jail: The Case of PrisonPandemic
  Rowland et al. · 2025
  data · archival records method · descriptive statistics sampling frame incarcerated population
• Explained Variance in Two-Level Models: A New Approach
  Holm et al. · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis method · multilevel modeling methodology multilevel modeling
• The Daily Lives of Crowdsourced U.S. Respondents: A Time Use Comparison of MTurk, Prolific, and ATUS
  Rinderknecht et al. · 2025
  data · secondary survey analysis data · survey method · descriptive statistics time use crowdsourcing

2024

15 papers

• What to Do with “Other, Describe”
  Wong et al. · 2024
  data · survey method · qualitative coding measurement survey methodology
• Multiple Imputation for Systematically Missing Partner Variables in Survey Data
  Haensch & Schunck · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · simulation survey methodology missing data
• Community-Driven Research with People Who Use Drugs: A Virtual Project During Multiple Epidemics
  Brothers et al. · 2024
  data · interview data · content analysis method · qualitative coding covid 19 community driven research
• Comparing the Accuracy of Univariate, Bivariate, and Multivariate Estimates across Probability and Nonprobability Surveys with Population Benchmarks
  Rohr et al. · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics survey methodology estimation accuracy
• Event-Centered Interviewing: Integrating Qualitative Interviews with Experience Sampling Technologies
  Kelly & Sennott · 2024
  data · experience sampling data · interview method · qualitative coding methodology experience sampling
• Can Human Reading Validate a Topic Model?
  Zhang et al. · 2024
  data · content analysis method · regression method · simulation method · nlp validation computational social science
• Contextual Embeddings in Sociological Research: Expanding the Analysis of Sentiment and Social Dynamics
  Mostafavi et al. · 2024
  data · content analysis method · machine learning method · embedding method · nlp sentiment analysis bert
• Using Relative Distribution Methods to Study Economic Polarization across Categories and Contexts
  Cheng et al. · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · descriptive statistics inequality economic polarization
• Question-Order Effect in the Study of Satisfaction with Democracy: Lessons from Three Split-Ballot Experiments
  Papp et al. · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis data · experiment method · descriptive statistics method · causal inference survey methodology democratic satisfaction
• Comparing the Robustness of Simple Network Scale-Up Method Estimators
  Kunke et al. · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · formal modeling method · simulation simulation hidden populations
• Multivariate Multinomial Logit Models with Associations among Dependent Variables
  Yamaguchi & Zhou · 2024
  method · regression method · formal modeling occupational attainment multivariate analysis
• Polygenic Indices (aka Polygenic Scores) in Social Science: A Guide for Interpretation and Evaluation
  Burt · 2024
  genetic epidemiology methodological guide
• Abductive Cross-Case Comparison in Qualitative Research: Methodological Lessons from the Teamwork Study of Professional Change
  Pedersen & Blok · 2024
  data · interview data · case study method · qualitative coding qualitative methods teamwork
• Micro-Macro Mediation Analysis in Social Networks
  Duxbury · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis method · mediation analysis method · network analysis causal inference social networks
• Incorporating Machine Learning into Sociological Model-Building
  Verhagen · 2024
  data · secondary survey analysis data · archival records method · regression method · machine learning method · simulation machine learning sociological methods

2023

15 papers

• Marginal-Preserving Imputation of Three-Way Array Data in Nested Structures, with Application to Small Areal Units
  Thomas et al. · 2023
  data · archival records method · simulation method · markov chain monte carlo data imputation small area estimation
• Micro Effects on Macro Structure in Social Networks
  Duxbury · 2023
  method · network analysis method · simulation social networks network effects
• Networked Participants, Networked Meanings: Using Networks to Visualize Ethnographic Data
  Hanson & Theis · 2023
  data · interview data · ethnography method · network analysis social network analysis qualitative methods
• Trend Analysis with Pooled Data from Different Survey Series: The Latent Attitude Method
  Wang et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · factor analysis survey methodology trend analysis
• Choosing an Optimal Method for Causal Decomposition Analysis with Continuous Outcomes: A Review and Simulation Study
  Park et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · simulation health disparities method comparison
• A Model of Dynamic Flows: Explaining Turkey’s Interprovincial Migration
  Aksoy & Yıldırım · 2023
  data · archival records method · regression method · formal modeling migration dynamics gravity model
• From Sequences to Variables: Rethinking the Relationship between Sequences and Outcomes
  Helske et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · simulation methodological comparison sequence analysis
• Comparing the Incomparable? Issues of Lacking Common Support, Functional-Form Misspecification, and Insufficient Sample Size in Decompositions
  Hamjediers & Sprengholz · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · causal inference method · simulation matching sample size
• Multivariate Small Area Estimation of Social Indicators: The Case of Continuous and Binary Variables
  Moretti · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · simulation survey methodology social indicators
• Strategies for Multidomain Sequence Analysis in Social Research
  Ritschard et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · descriptive statistics methodological comparison sequence analysis
• Evaluation of Respondent-Driven Sampling Prevalence Estimators Using Real-World Reported Network Degree
  Avery & Rotondi · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · simulation hidden populations respondent driven sampling
• Systematic Social Observation at Scale: Using Crowdsourcing and Computer Vision to Measure Visible Neighborhood Conditions
  Hwang & Naik · 2023
  data · digital trace data data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics method · machine learning computer vision street view imagery
• The Anatomy of Cohort Analysis: Decomposing Comparative Cohort Careers
  Fosse & Winship · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · descriptive statistics method · formal modeling methodology life course
• Modeling Partitions of Individuals
  Hoffman et al. · 2023
  data · case study method · formal modeling method · simulation self organization statistical modeling
• Evaluating Substitution as a Strategy for Handling U.S. Postal Service Drop Points in Self-Administered Address-Based Sampling Frame Surveys
  Lewis et al. · 2023
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics survey methodology address based sampling

2022

12 papers

• Sparse Data Reconstruction, Missing Value and Multiple Imputation through Matrix Factorization
  Sengupta et al. · 2022
  data · secondary survey analysis method · machine learning method · simulation methodology missing data
• Hyperscanning and the Future of Neurosociology
  TenHouten et al. · 2022
  social interaction eeg
• Data Quality and Recall Bias in Time-Diary Research: The Effects of Prolonged Recall Periods in Self-Administered Online Time-Use Surveys
  Braak et al. · 2022
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · descriptive statistics survey methodology data quality
• A New RCM Approach to Survival Analysis: The Conditional-Incidence-Rate Model
  Yamaguchi · 2022
  data · secondary survey analysis method · time series analysis method · causal inference method · simulation causal inference event history
• Bayesian Multistate Life Table Methods for Large and Complex State Spaces: Development and Illustration of a New Method
  Lynch & Zang · 2022
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · simulation health expectancy bayesian multistate life table
• REDI for Binned Data: A Random Empirical Distribution Imputation Method for Estimating Continuous Incomes
  King · 2022
  data · secondary survey analysis method · simulation inequality measurement nonparametric methods
• Survey Methods for Estimating the Size of Weak-Tie Personal Networks
  Feehan et al. · 2022
  data · survey method · formal modeling method · simulation survey methodology aggregate relational data
• An Implausible Virtual Interview: Conversations with a Professional Research Subject
  Owens · 2022
  data · interview data · case study method · qualitative coding data quality methodological reflection
• Decomposing Ethnic Achievement Gaps across Multiple Levels of Analysis and for Multiple Ethnic Groups
  Cordoba et al. · 2022
  data · secondary survey analysis method · multilevel modeling method · mediation analysis ethnicity multilevel analysis
• Lorenz Interpolation: A Method for Estimating Income Inequality from Grouped Income Data
  Carr · 2022
  data · secondary survey analysis method · descriptive statistics method · simulation income inequality measurement
• Asking about the Worst First: An Examination of Contextual Effects in Factorial Vignettes
  Pedneault & Willits · 2022
  data · survey method · descriptive statistics survey methodology context effects
• Surveying Spontaneous Mass Protests: Mixed-mode Sampling and Field Methods
  Yuen et al. · 2022
  data · survey method · descriptive statistics social movements survey methodology

2021

11 papers

• Small-Area Analyses Using Public American Community Survey Data: A Tree-Based Spatial Microsimulation Technique
  Graetz et al. · 2021
  data · secondary survey analysis method · machine learning method · simulation neighborhood effects small area estimation
• Language Models in Sociological Research: An Application to Classifying Large Administrative Data and Measuring Religiosity
  Jensen et al. · 2021
  data · secondary survey analysis data · archival records method · machine learning method · nlp text classification language models
• What Goes Up Might Not Come Down: Modeling Directional Asymmetry with Large- N , Large- T Data
  Thombs et al. · 2021
  data · secondary survey analysis method · panel data analysis method · fixed effects modeling method · simulation heterogeneity panel data
• Validating Sequence Analysis Typologies Using Parametric Bootstrap
  Studer · 2021
  data · secondary survey analysis method · descriptive statistics method · simulation typology sequence analysis
• A General Panel Model for Unobserved Time Heterogeneity with Application to the Politics of Mass Incarceration
  Duxbury · 2021
  data · secondary survey analysis method · panel data analysis method · fixed effects modeling panel data fixed effects
• Can You Really Study an Army on the Internet? Comparing How Status Tasks Perform in the Laboratory and Online Settings
  Manago et al. · 2021
  data · experiment method · descriptive statistics experimental methods status characteristics
• Using Social Networks to Supplement RDD Telephone Surveys to Oversample Hard-to-Reach Populations: A New RDD ^+RDS Approach
  Agans et al. · 2021
  data · experiment data · survey method · descriptive statistics method · network analysis social networks respondent driven sampling
• Uncovering Sociological Effect Heterogeneity Using Tree-Based Machine Learning
  Brand et al. · 2021
  data · secondary survey analysis method · causal inference method · machine learning machine learning sociological methods
• Reconsidering the Reference Category
  Johfre & Freese · 2021
  data · content analysis method · descriptive statistics sociological methods research practices
• Multigroup Segregation Analyses with Covariates
  Yamaguchi · 2021
  method · formal modeling method · causal inference occupational segregation causal decomposition
• Uncertain Choices: The Heterogeneous Multinomial Logit Model
  Tutz · 2021
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · formal modeling heterogeneity uncertainty

2020

13 papers

• Multigenerational Social Mobility: A Demographic Approach
  Song · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis data · archival records method · formal modeling method · simulation social reproduction markov models
• Explanatory Item Response Models for Dyadic Data from Multiple Groups
  Murphy · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · multilevel modeling method · factor analysis multilevel modeling network analysis
• Comparing Groups of Life-Course Sequences Using the Bayesian Information Criterion and the Likelihood-Ratio Test
  Liao & Fasang · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · formal modeling method · simulation life course sequence analysis
• Theory and the Replication Problem
  Willer & Emanuelson · 2020
  method · formal modeling experimental design research methods
• A Forced Critique of the Intergenerational Elasticity of the Conditional Expectation
  Mitnik & Grusky · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · descriptive statistics method · formal modeling measurement intergenerational mobility
• Comment: Summarizing Income Mobility with Multiple Smooth Quantiles Instead of Parameterized Means
  Lundberg & Stewart · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression measurement quantile regression
• Calibrating Questionnaires with Weekly Diaries: An Application in Religious Behavior, Netherlands 1975 to 2005
  Scappini · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · descriptive statistics measurement error netherlands
• Estimating Contextual Effects from Ego Network Data
  Smith & Gauthier · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · multilevel modeling method · network analysis method · simulation contextual effects network sampling
• Network Autocorrelation Modeling: Bayesian Techniques for Estimating and Testing Multiple Network Autocorrelations
  Dittrich et al. · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · network analysis method · simulation social networks hypothesis testing
• Retrospective Network Imputation from Life History Data: The Impact of Designs
  Yu et al. · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · network analysis method · simulation survey design missing data
• Constraints in Random Effects Age-Period-Cohort Models
  Luo & Hodges · 2020
  method · formal modeling identifiability age period cohort models
• Intergenerational Income Elasticities, Instrumental Variable Estimation, and Bracketing Strategies
  Mitnik · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · regression method · formal modeling intergenerational mobility instrumental variables
• The Intergenerational Elasticity of What? The Case for Redefining the Workhorse Measure of Economic Mobility
  Mitnik & Grusky · 2020
  data · secondary survey analysis method · descriptive statistics method · formal modeling measurement error economic mobility