Methods Exam Reading List

August 2016

Creswell, John. 2014. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches. Sage 94th edition).

Emerson, Robert, Rachel Fretz and Linda Shaw. 2011. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Second Edition). Univ. of Chicago Press.

Ragin, Charles. 1987. The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Univ. of California Press.

Liamputtong, Pranee. 2011. Focus Group Methodology Principle and Practice. Sage Publishing.

Weiss, Robert. 1994. Learning from Strangers: The Art and Methods of Qualitative Interview Studies. Free Press.

Chamblis, D.F. and Schutt, R.K. 2016. Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation. Los Angeles: Sage. Chapter 11: Unobtrusive Measures.

Groves, R., F. Fowler, M. Couper, J Lepkowski, E. Singer and R Tourangeau. 2004. Survey Methodology. Wiley

Maines, D.R. 1993. “Narrative’s Moment and Sociology’s Phenomena: Toward a Narrative Sociology.” The Sociological Quarterly 34(1): 17-38.

Pampel, F.C. 2000. Logistic Regression: A Primer. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publication.

Small, Mario. 2011. How to Conduct a Mixed Methods Study: Recent Trends in a Rapidly Growing Literature. Annual Review of Sociology 37:57-86.

Tight, M. 2015. Case Studies. Sage Publications.

Corbin, Juliet A., and Anselm Strauss. 2015. Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lieberson, Stanley. 1985. Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

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Ragin, Charles C., and Howard S. Becker. 1992. What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1968. Constructing Social Theories. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

Symposium: Words, Narratives, Analyses, Agency. 2012. Main articles by Roberto Franzosi et al., and Michael White et al., followed by comments and rejoinders. Editor Tim F. Liao, Sociological Methodology 42, American Sociological Association/Sage.

Znaniecki, Florian. 1934. The Method of Sociology. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. (Focus on only the part relevant for Analytic Induction)

Liao, Tim F. 2002. Statistical Group Comparison. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. New York: Wiley-Interscience.

Liao, Tim F. 2013. “Group Differences in Generalized Linear Models.” Pp. 153-166 (Chapter 9) in Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, edited by Stephen L. Morgan, New York: Springer.

Logan, John R. 2012. “Making a Place for Space: Spatial Thinking in Social Science.” Annual Review of Sociology 38:507-524.

Golder, Scott A. and Michael W. Macy. 2014. “Digital Footprints: Opportunities and Challenges for Online Social Research.” Annual Review of Sociology 40:129-152.

Marin, Alexandra and Barry Wellman. 2011. “Social Network Analysis: An Introduction” Pp. 11-25 in The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Ed. John Scott and Peter J. Carrington. London: Sage Publications.

Lewis-Beck, Colin and Michael Lewis-Beck. 2015. Applied Regression. 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lofland, John and Lyn H. Lofland. 1995. Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis. Boston: Wadsworth.

Melrose, M.J. 2001. “Maximizing the rigor of action research: Why would you want to? How could you?” Field Methods 13:160-180.

Bryman, Alan. 2006. “Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research: How Is It Done?” Qualitative Research 6:97.

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Culture. New York: Basic. Chapter 1.

Gangli, M. 2010 “Causal inference in Sociological Research,” Annual Review of Sociology. 36: 21-47.

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Davidov. E. B. Meuleman, J. Cieciuch, P Schmidt and J. Billiet, 2014 “Measurement Equivalence in Cross-National Research,” Annual Review of Sociology. 40:55-75

Bollen, K. J. Glanville and G. Steklov. 2001 “Socioeconomic Status and Class in Studies of Fertility and Health in Developing Countries,” Annual Review of Sociology. 27: 153-185.

Lamont, M. 2012. “Towards a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation,” Annual Review of Sociology. 38: 201-221.

Rowland, D. 2003 Demographic methods and concepts. Oxford University Press.

Yang, Y. and K. Land. 2013 Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods and Empirical Applications. CRC Press.

Ricketts, T. “Geographic information systems and public health,” Annual Review of Public Health. 24:1-6.

Boardman, Jason D. 2004. "Stress and physical health: The role of neighborhoods as mediating and moderating mechanisms." Social Science & Medicine 58(12):2473-83.

Williams, M. and W. Vogt. 2011. The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods. Sage.

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