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Understanding Survey Methodology: Sociological Theory and Applications: 4 (Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, 4) - Hardcover

Book 4 of 7: Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research
 
9783030472559: Understanding Survey Methodology: Sociological Theory and Applications: 4 (Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, 4)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3030472558 ISBN 13: 9783030472559
Publisher: Springer, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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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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.  

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3030472558
ISBN 13 
9783030472559
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
356
Editor
Brenner Philip S.