Quantitative methods (i.e., statistics) are used often to answer important social questions. Sociologists, economists, political scientists, and other social researchers rely on large data sets built ...

Sociological methodology comprises an array of techniques designed to investigate the complexities of social life. Bridging the gap between quantitative rigour and qualitative depth, these research ...

As a sociologist, I am sometimes asked what I think of the approval ratings politicians and government officials get in opinion surveys. The interest, typically, is in the plausible reasons for the ...

This paper examines interviewer–respondent interaction in the collection of demographic data where interviewer and respondents speak the same first language. Conversation analysis (CA), or the ...