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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents1. Why Survey Methodology Needs Sociology and Why Sociology Needs Survey Methodology.- Part I : Sociological Theory and Survey Methodology.- 2 Towards Survey Response Rate Theories That No Longer Pass Each Other Like Strangers in the Night.- 3. Advancing Theories of Socially Desirable Responding: How Identity Processes Influence Answers to “Sensitive Questions”.- 4. Culture and Response Behavior: An Overview of Cultural Mechanisms Explaining Survey Error.- 5. Translating Lessons from Status Characteristics and Expectation States Theory to Survey Methods.- Part II; Applications.- 6. Stigma and the Meaning of Social Desirability: Concealed Islamophobia in the Netherlands.- 7. Is Not Knowing the Same as Being Incorrect? An Examination of ‘Don’t Know’ Responses to Questions about Immigrant Population Size.- 8. Power, Culture and Item Nonresponse in Social Surveys.- 9. The Measurement of Sexual Attraction and Gender Expression: Cognitive Interviews with Queer Women.- 10. How Do Interviewers and Respondents Navigate Sexual Identity Questions in a CATI Survey?.- 11. Male/Female Is Not Enough: Adding Measures of Masculinity and Femininity to General Population Surveys.- 12. Correlates of Differences in Interactional Patterns among Black and White Respondents.- 13. Theories of Public Opinion Change Versus Stability and their Implications for Null Findings.- Conclusions and Future Directions for Understanding Survey Methodology.
