Sociology research methods

Dr. Bettina Langfeldt is Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Helmut Sehmidt University in Hamburg (Germany). Her main research interests are in the fields of empirical research methods, higher education, sociology of work and the family, gender studies. 

Students of these matters will perhaps wonder why I have not dealt with the simplification of time. The rationalization and commoditization of linear time in work and administration do indeed form a companion story, which I did not take up here because it would have made this chapter too long and because it has already been imaginatively treated by, among others, E. P Thompson in Time, Work, Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism, Past and Present 38 (December 1967). For a fine survey, see Ronald Aminzade, Historical Sociology and Time, Sociological Methods and Research 20, no. 3 (May 1992) 456-80. 

Allison, P.D. Multiple imputation for missing data A cautionary tale. Sociological Methods and Research 2000 28 301-309. 

Gerty J.L.M., Lensvelt-Mulders J.J.H. Peter G. M. Meta-Analysis of Randomized Response Research Thirty-Five Years of Validation. Sociological Methods Research, 2004, 33 319-348. 

Eariy journalistic accounts of disasters have given way to more sophisticated methods of data collection and theorization. The body in the USA most responsible for this development is the Disaster Research Group of the National Academy of Science, National Research Council. The most comprehensive accounts of their findings and other research are to be found in G. W. Baker and D. W. Chapman, Man and Society in Disaster (New York Basic Books, 1962) and A. H. Barton, Social Organisation Under Stress A Sociological Review of Disaster Studies (Washington, DC National Academy of Sciences, 1963). See also A. H. Barton, Communities in Disaster (London Ward Lock, 1970). 

Bryman, A. (1984), "The debate about quantitative and qualitative research a question of method or epistemology ," The British Journal of Sociology, 35 (1), 75-92. 

Denzin, N. K. (1970], The research act in sociology a theoretical introduction to sociological methods. London Butterwoiths. 

Elisabeth Gunther is Junior Researcher at the Institute of Management Science of Vienna University of Technology. She studied Sociology and Political Science at the University of Vienna and the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Her current research addresses aeeess barriers to science and scientific organizations, using quantitative and qualitative methods. 

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