Introduction to Class

Study design from problem formulation to the analysis and interpretation of data.

Class Notes

• Jan 5: Research as Craft and Science
  
• Jan 10: "Problem Mongering" -- An example
  
• Jan 24: Conceptualization and Measurement
  
• Jan 31: Measurement Validity
  
• Feb 8: Experiments
  
• Feb 14: Causality
  
• March 7: Sampling
  

Files For Download

• Discussion Week Assignments
  

Readings

• March, "The Scholar's Quest."
  
• Davis, "That's Interesting!"
  
• King et. al, "The Science in Social Science."
  
• Booth et. al, "From Topics to Questions," and "From Questions to Problems."
  
• Cuba, "Literature Reviews."
  
• Budig and England, "The Wage Penalty for Motherhood"
  
• Tolnay et al., "Race, Regional Origin, and Residence"
  
• Dechter and Elder, "World War II Mobilization in Men's Work Lives."
  
• Whittier, "Political Generations, Micro-cohorts, and the Transformation of Social Movements."
  
• Rossi, "On Sociological Data."
  
• Lakoff, "Metaphors We Live By"
  
• Hirschman et al., "The Meaning and Measurement of Race."
  
• Pettit and Western, "Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course."
  
• Houtkoop-Steenstra, "Interaction and the Standardized Survey Interview."
  
• Alwin, "Information Transmission in the Survey Interview"
  
• Black et al., "Demographics of the Gay and Lesbian Population in the United States."
  
• Lareau, "Invisible Inequality."
  
• Travers and Milgram, "An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem."
  
• Correll et al., "Getting a Job: Is there a Motherhood Penalty?"
  
• Pager, "The Mark of a Criminal Record."
  
• Davis, "The Logic of Causal Order"
  
• Crutchfield and Pitchford, "Work and Crime: The Effects of Labor Stratification."
  
• Pfaff and Kim, "Exit-Voice Dynamics in Collective Action."
  
• Bernhardt et al., "Women's Gains or Men's Losses?"
  
• Stovel and Savage, "Mergers and Mobility: Organization Growth and Career Migration"
  
• Richardson, "Secrecy and Status"
  
• Jansen, "Resurrection and Appropriation"
  
• Fitzgerald et al., "An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data"
  
• Gamson, "The Strategy of Social Protest."
  
• Morrison and Ritualo, "Routes to Children's Economic Recovery after Divorce"
  
• Mario Small, "How Many Cases Do I Need?: Case Selection in Field-based Research
  
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