Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences

✍ Scribed by Samuel Salzborn, Eldad Davidov, Jost Reinecke (auth.), Samuel Salzborn, Eldad Davidov, Jost Reinecke (eds.)

• Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volume addresses major features in empirical social research from methodological and theoretical perspectives. Prominent researchers discuss central problems in empirical social research in a theory-driven way from political science, sociological or social-psychological points of view. These contributions focus on a renewed discussion of foundations together with innovative and open research questions or interdisciplinary research perspectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-8
Introduction....Pages 9-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Politics, evidence, treatment, evaluation, responsibility – The models PETER and PETER-S....Pages 13-18
The Research Program of the Rational Choice Approach: A Reconstruction....Pages 19-26
Critique as Premise. Reflections on methodological commonalities between critical rationalism and critical theory....Pages 27-32
Values, Attitudes, and Behavior....Pages 33-38
Toward Refining the Theory of Basic Human Values....Pages 39-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Faked Interviews....Pages 49-56
Modeling traits and method effects as latent variables....Pages 57-65
The Empirical Study of Ethical Issues in Survey Participation....Pages 67-74
Mixture Models for Longitudinal Analysis: Applications of Adolescents’ Development of Delinquency....Pages 75-82
The Application of the Reasoned Action Approach to Survey Nonresponse....Pages 83-89
Multigroup and Multilevel Approaches to Measurement Equivalence....Pages 91-96
When are item intercept differences substantively relevant in measurement invariance testing?....Pages 97-104
The impact of response format on attitude measurement....Pages 105-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Anomia and Discrimination....Pages 117-125
Personal Threat, Collective Threat, and Discriminatory Attitudes. The Case of Foreign Workers in Israel....Pages 127-135
“Islamophobia” in France: old prejudice in new clothes?....Pages 137-143
Minority Views of Competition: Attitudes of Israeli Arabs toward Labor Migrants and Noncitizen Palestinians....Pages 145-150
The effect of individual characteristics on reports of socially desirable attitudes toward immigration....Pages 151-157
Anti-Semitism in Austria and Germany – Commonalities and differences....Pages 159-168
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Being Jewish in Germany: Fragments from the analysis of a second-generation Holocaust survivor....Pages 169-174
‘Ten years after’ – authoritarianism and ethnocentrism in Germany, 1996 and 2006....Pages 175-183
Authoritarianism Research and the Role of Socialization....Pages 185-191
Measuring Authoritarianism with Different Sets of Items in a Longitudinal Study....Pages 193-201
The Relationship of Religious Fundamentalism, Right- Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Prejudice Against Homosexuals – An Empirical Test of a Causal Model....Pages 203-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
What do citizens expect from a democracy? An invariance test and comparison between East and West Germany with the ISSP 2004....Pages 213-219
Turnout in new democracies....Pages 221-226
Emotions toward the nation....Pages 227-234
The Concept of European Identity: Overused and Underspecified?....Pages 235-248
European Identity as a Contrast or an Extension of National Identity? On the Meaning of European Identity....Pages 249-254
Constructions of EU Europe and National EU Concepts – A Research Agenda....Pages 255-261
The Role of Fear in the Surveillance State in Times of Terrorism: Explaining Attitudes towards New Governmental Security Measures....Pages 263-270
Culture of anxiety or culture of trust? Identity research in the bipolarity of aggression and peace....Pages 271-278
Diversity in the Relationship between Perceived Ethnic Threat, Islamophobia, and (sub)national identity in Belgium: a combination of two approaches....Pages 279-289
How national identification enhances anti-immigrant prejudice: Development and empirical test of individual-, contextual-, and cross-level explanations....Pages 291-299
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
To what extent family planning can be seen as a rational decision making process?....Pages 303-307
Theoretical and Empirical Background for the Description of Residential Areas....Pages 309-314
Evidenced-based approach to program evaluation for the next generation in Sweden....Pages 315-324
Social inequality in German higher education during the 20th century....Pages 325-333
The Incidence of the Need for Personal Assistance and Care: Objective Living Conditions and Subjective Assessments....Pages 335-342
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
A Plea for Subject-Oriented and Gender-Sensitive (Quantitative) Research in Industrial Sociology....Pages 343-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-351

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences, general