Overview
- Offers an essential introduction to the sociological and social psychological exploration of how people’s attitudes and beliefs mediate institutional settings and their actions
- Provides an up-to-date guide to statistical methods for survey data analysis, including multidimensional scaling, latent class analysis, loglinear analysis, and multilevel analysis
- Uses real-world examples such as the relationship between life satisfaction and social status, and configuration of attitudes toward child-rearing
Part of the book series: Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior (BQAHB, volume 26)
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Keywords
- Social Attitudes
- Regression Analysis
- Multidimensional Scaling
- Latent Class
- Loglinear Model
- Multilevel Analysis
About this book
This book advocates an exploratory approach to survey data analysis, rather than confirmatory approaches, which many other textbooks explicitly or implicitly recommend.
Most survey data, especially attitudinal data, might not be suitable for causal analysis. Descriptive analyses of survey data will, however, expand our understanding of the social mechanisms in which people’s attitudes and beliefs mediate institutional settings and their actions. Thus, we should pursue an exploratory approach when studying social processes in terms of survey data analysis. In this approach, hypothesis tests, significance tests, or statistical modeling should be used in a way that serves to continually expand on and refine our theoretical hypotheses on social mechanisms.
This book presents essential tools for this approach. It summarizes key statistical methods including multidimensional scaling, latent class analysis, loglinear analysis, and multilevel analysis. It also highlights representative analyses concerning sociological and social psychological topics, such as the relationship between life satisfaction and social status, configuration of attitudes toward child-rearing, moral judgment in developmental processes, gender role attitudes through different life stages, and subjective social position in the era of globalization.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Social Processes
Book Subtitle: Statistical Methods for Sociological Research
Authors: Kunihiro Kimura
Series Title: Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0730-0Due: 11 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0731-7Due: 11 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2524-4027
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4035
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 300
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations