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Understanding Survey Methodology

Sociological Theory and Applications

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Philip S. Brenner

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA

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  • Applies a sociological lens to survey methodology
  • Draws a road map forward for a cohesive paradigm in the “sociological aspects of survey
  • Highlights research on a variety of social issues of current interest

Part of the book series: Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research (FSSR, volume 4)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Why Survey Methodology Needs Sociology and Why Sociology Needs Survey Methodology

    • Philip S. Brenner
    Pages 1-11

  3. Correction to: Power, Culture and Item Nonresponse in Social Surveys

    • Katharina M. Meitinger, Timothy P. Johnson
    Pages C1-C2

  5. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Stigma and the Meaning of Social Desirability: Concealed Islamophobia in the Netherlands

      • Mathew J. Creighton
      Pages 115-142

    3. Is Not Knowing the Same as Being Incorrect? An Examination of ‘Don’t Know’ Responses to Questions about Immigrant Population Size

      • Daniel Herda
      Pages 143-167

    4. Power, Culture and Item Nonresponse in Social Surveys

      • Katharina M. Meitinger, Timothy P. Johnson
      Pages 169-191

    5. The Measurement of Sexual Attraction and Gender Expression: Cognitive Interviews with Queer Women

      • Dana Garbarski, Dana LaVergne
      Pages 193-217

    6. How Do Interviewers and Respondents Navigate Sexual Identity Questions in a CATI Survey?

      • Jerry Timbrook, Jolene D. Smyth, Kristen Olson
      Pages 219-245

    7. Male/Female Is Not Enough: Adding Measures of Masculinity and Femininity to General Population Surveys

      • Jolene D. Smyth, Kristen Olson
      Pages 247-275

    8. Correlates of Differences in Interactional Patterns among Black and White Respondents

      • Jennifer Dykema, Dana Garbarski, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Isabel Anadon, Dorothy Farrar Edwards
      Pages 277-304

    9. Theories of Public Opinion Change Versus Stability and their Implications for Null Findings

      • Kevin H. Wozniak, Kevin M. Drakulich, Brian R. Calfano
      Pages 305-323

    10. Conclusions and Future Directions for Understanding Survey Methodology

      • Philip S. Brenner
      Pages 325-333

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 335-346
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About this book

This volume ambitiously applies sociological theory to create an understanding of aspects of survey methodology. It focuses on the interplay between sociology and survey methodology: what sociological theory and approaches can offer to survey research and vice versa. The volume starts with a focus on direct connections between sociological theories and their applications in survey research. It further presents cutting-edge, original research that applies the “sociological imagination” to substantive concerns important to sociologists, survey methodologists, and social scientists and includes issues such as health, immigration, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and criminal justice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA

    Philip S. Brenner

About the editor

Philip Brenner is a sociologist at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he works in the fields of survey methodology, health research, social psychology, and the sociology of religion. Brenner is particularly interested in the measurement of normative or socially-desirable behaviors, like church attendance and physical activity and exercise. His research has focused on the reasons survey respondents overreport these behaviors; that is, why they claim that they exercise when they don't or why they report that they attend church or pray more often than they do.


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