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When your research depends on the very latest information on the collection, measurement and analysis of data, turn to Sociological Methods & Research (SMR). Each issue of SMR presents new techniques and innovative approaches to recurring research challenges and clarifies existing methods. The journal also provides state-of-the-art tools that researchers and academics need to increase the validity of your research findings. View full journal description

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What Works for Measuring Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Series of List Experiments and Self-Administered Surveys

  • Emil Kamalov
  • Ivetta Sergeeva
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Treatment Effect on the Association Between Outcomes

  • Lai Wei
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A Machine Learning Approach to Preferential Attachment and Status Advantage in a Hip-Hop Collaboration Network

  • Jaemin Lee
  • Yujie Li
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Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions

  • Clara Vandeweerdt
  • Gregory Eady
  • Frederik Hjorth
  • Peter Thisted Dinesen
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Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms

  • Sarah Thébaud
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  • Leah Ruppanner
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Inter-Rater Reliability Methods in Qualitative Case Study Research

  • Rosanna Cole
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Abductive Coding: Theory Building and Qualitative (Re)Analysis

  • Luis Vila-Henninger
  • Claire Dupuy
  • Virginie Van Ingelgom
  • Mauro Caprioli
  • Ferdinand Teuber
  • Damien Pennetreau
  • Margherita Bussi
  • Cal Le Gall
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A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls

  • Carlos Cinelli
  • Andrew Forney
  • Judea Pearl
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Inter-Rater Reliability Methods in Qualitative Case Study Research

  • Rosanna Cole
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Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning

  • Youngjin Chae
  • Thomas Davidson
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The Effects of Open-Ended Probes on Closed Survey Questions in Web Surveys

  • Patricia Hadler
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Updating “The Future of Coding”: Qualitative Coding with Generative Large Language Models

  • Nga Than
  • Leanne Fan
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  • Laura K. Nelson
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