期刊名称：SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Sociological Methodology is a compendium of new and sometimes controversial advances in social science methodology. Contributions come from diverse areas and have something useful - and often surprising - to say about a wide range of topics. Recent volumes have included:
- A symposium by four legal scholars about some practical but remarkably complex legal and ethical issues that occur whenever researchers collect private information about individuals. Common practice may be the worst thing a researcher can do to protect data confidentiality, or it might be the right thing to do anyway, say these authors.
- Proposals by three authors for improved measures of geographic segregation. These new measures provide tools for examining increasingly-complex ethnic and racial residential patterns in the United States and elsewhere, and for exploiting recent improvements in the quantity and quality of geographic information about survey respondents.
- Contributions to the methodology of theory construction. Theory and method are often seen as polar opposites in sociology, but there are methods for theory-building and theories of how to make new methods. Four authors present new techniques for using formal logic to construct sociological theories and for using research findings to modify formal theories.
- New ideas about statistical methods, and new methods for combining qualitative analysis of field studies with quantitative analysis of survey. Three authors make significant contributions to statistical methodology, and another author presents a systematic method for combining field research methods with survey techniques.
- Tools and techniques for network research. Four authors contribute to the growing literature on network analysis methods.
In short, Sociological Methodology holds something of value - and an interesting mix of lively controversy, too - for nearly everyone who participates in the enterprise of sociological research.
Indexed / Abstracted in
The contents of this journal are indexed or abstracted in the following: Academic Search Premier; Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts; CatchWord; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Science; EBSCO Online; Ingenta; International Bibliography of Sociology; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; International Political Science Abstracts; JCR Social Sciences Edition; Research Alert; SRM Abstracts; Social Planning, Policy, and Development Abstracts; Social Sciences Citation Index; Social SciSearch; Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; Sociological Collection; and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Instructions to Authors
Sociological Methodology is an annual compendium of advances in the methodology of social research. These articles promise to advance the quality and efficiency of sociological research, or to make accessible to sociologists recent methodological advances in related disciplines. Sponsored by the American Sociological Association, its mission is to disseminate material that advances empirical research in sociology and related disciplines. Chapters present original methodological contributions, expository statements on and illustrations of recently developed techniques, and critical discussions of research practice.
Sociological Methodology seeks contributions that address the full range of problems confronted by empirical work in the contemporary social sciences, including conceptualization and modeling, research design, data collection, measurement, and data analysis. Work on the methodological problems involved in any approach to empirical social science is appropriate for Sociological Methodology.
The content of each annual volume of Sociological Methodology is driven by submissions initiated by authors; the volumes do not have specific annual themes. Editorial decisions about manuscripts submitted are based on the advice of expert referees. Criteria include originality, breadth of interest and applicability, and expository clarity. Discussions of implications for research practice are vital, and authors are urged to include empirical illustrations of the methods they discuss.
Please send a Word file or combination of .tex/pdf files of the manuscript to SMeditor@umich.edu.
Manuscripts should include an informative abstract of not more than one double-spaced page and should not identify the author within the text. Please put the title page in a separate file for submission. Formatting information is available at http://www.sm.psc.isr.umich.edu/instruction.htm. Submission of a manuscript for review by Sociological Methodology implies that it has not been previously published and that it is not under review elsewhere.
Inquiries concerning the appropriateness of material and editorial policies and procedures are welcome. Prospective authors should contact the editor by email at SMeditor@umich.edu.
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Editorial Board
Editor
Yu Xie
Managing Editor
Cindy Glovinsky, MA, MSW
Editorial Board
Jennifer S. Barber
David Firth
John D. Fox
Andrew E. Gelman
Jack A. Goldstone
Guang Guo
Melissa Hardy
Jon A. Krosnick
Ross L. Matsueda
Ted Mouw
Philippa E. Pattison
Howard Schuman
Judith M. Tanur
Nancy Brandon Tuma
Jeroen Vermunt
Murray Webster, Jr.
Raymond Sin-kwok Wong
Ke-Hai Yuan
Kazuo Yamaguchi
Editorial Assistants
Haiyan Zhu
Debra Hevenstone
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