Understanding Survey Methodology
Sociological Theory and Applications
Editors: Brenner, Philip S. (Ed.)
Free Preview- Applies a sociological lens to survey methodology
- Draws a road map forward for a cohesive paradigm in the “sociological aspects of surveymethodology”
- Highlights research on a variety of social issues of current interest
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- About this Textbook
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Why Survey Methodology Needs Sociology and Why Sociology Needs Survey Methodology
Pages 1-11
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Towards Survey Response Rate Theories That No Longer Pass Each Other Like Strangers in the Night
Pages 15-44
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Advancing Theories of Socially Desirable Responding: How Identity Processes Influence Answers to “Sensitive Questions”
Pages 45-65
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Culture and Response Behavior: An Overview of Cultural Mechanisms Explaining Survey Error
Pages 67-86
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Translating Lessons from Status Characteristics and Expectation States Theory to Survey Methods
Pages 87-112
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Understanding Survey Methodology
- Book Subtitle
- Sociological Theory and Applications
- Editors
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- Philip S. Brenner
- Series Title
- Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research
- Series Volume
- 4
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-47256-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-47256-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-47255-9
- Series ISSN
- 2523-3424
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 346
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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