Pub Date : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2022-02-07DOI: 10.1177/00491241211067512
Aprile D Benner, Shanting Chen, Celeste C Fernandez, Mark D Hayward
Discrimination is associated with numerous psychological health outcomes over the life course. The nine-item Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS) is one of the most widely used measures of discrimination; however, this nine-item measure may not be feasible in large-scale population health surveys where a shortened discrimination measure would be advantageous. The current study examined the construct validity of a combined two-item discrimination measure adapted from the EDS by Add Health (N = 14,839) as compared to the full nine-item EDS and a two-item EDS scale (parallel to the adapted combined measure) used in the National Survey of American Life (NSAL; N = 1,111) and National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) studies (N = 1,055). Results identified convergence among the EDS scales, with high item-total correlations, convergent validity, and criterion validity for psychological outcomes, thus providing evidence for the construct validity of the two-item combined scale. Taken together, the findings provide support for using this reduced scale in studies where the full EDS scale is not available.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01Epub Date: 2021-04-09DOI: 10.1177/0049124121995548
Kristian Bernt Karlson, Frank Popham, Anders Holm
This article presents two ways of quantifying confounding using logistic response models for binary outcomes. Drawing on the distinction between marginal and conditional odds ratios in statistics, we define two corresponding measures of confounding (marginal and conditional) that can be recovered from a simple standardization approach. We investigate when marginal and conditional confounding may differ, outline why the method by Karlson, Holm, and Breen recovers conditional confounding under a "no interaction"-assumption, and suggest that researchers may measure marginal confounding by using inverse probability weighting. We provide two empirical examples that illustrate our standardization approach.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1177/00491241231178275
Nicolas M. Legewie, Anne Nassauer
Video-based social science research is thriving. Across disciplines and topic areas, researchers use twenty-first century video data to gain novel insights into how social processes and events unfold on the ground. In recent years, “video data analysis” (VDA) has emerged as a methodological framework to facilitate this type of video-based research. The special issue “The Present and Future of Video-based Social Science Research: Innovations in Video Data Analysis” presents methodological innovations that speak to some of the most pressing debates around VDA. Contributions showcase the range of disciplines and research fields VDA is used in, from social interactions and collective behavior to neighborhoods, policing, and public health. This introductory article outlines two areas of growth in VDA methodology that the articles of this special issue speak to: taking advantage of scale and detail in VDA, and situating VDA in the canon of research methods.
{"title":"Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis","authors":"Nicolas M. Legewie, Anne Nassauer","doi":"10.1177/00491241231178275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241231178275","url":null,"abstract":"Video-based social science research is thriving. Across disciplines and topic areas, researchers use twenty-first century video data to gain novel insights into how social processes and events unfold on the ground. In recent years, “video data analysis” (VDA) has emerged as a methodological framework to facilitate this type of video-based research. The special issue “The Present and Future of Video-based Social Science Research: Innovations in Video Data Analysis” presents methodological innovations that speak to some of the most pressing debates around VDA. Contributions showcase the range of disciplines and research fields VDA is used in, from social interactions and collective behavior to neighborhoods, policing, and public health. This introductory article outlines two areas of growth in VDA methodology that the articles of this special issue speak to: taking advantage of scale and detail in VDA, and situating VDA in the canon of research methods.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"1107 - 1119"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42172410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1177/00491241231171945
Jackelyn Hwang, Nima Dahir, Mayuka Sarukkai, Gabby Wright
Visual data have dramatically increased in quantity in the digital age, presenting new opportunities for social science research. However, the extensive time and labor costs to process and analyze these data with existing approaches limit their use. Computer vision methods hold promise but often require large and nonexistent training data to identify sociologically relevant variables. We present a cost-efficient method for curating training data that utilizes simple tasks and pairwise comparisons to interpret and analyze visual data at scale using computer vision. We apply our approach to the detection of trash levels across space and over time in millions of street-level images in three physically distinct US cities. By comparing to ratings produced in a controlled setting and utilizing computational methods, we demonstrate generally high reliability in the method and identify sources that limit it. Altogether, this approach expands how visual data can be used at a large scale in sociology.
{"title":"Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery","authors":"Jackelyn Hwang, Nima Dahir, Mayuka Sarukkai, Gabby Wright","doi":"10.1177/00491241231171945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241231171945","url":null,"abstract":"Visual data have dramatically increased in quantity in the digital age, presenting new opportunities for social science research. However, the extensive time and labor costs to process and analyze these data with existing approaches limit their use. Computer vision methods hold promise but often require large and nonexistent training data to identify sociologically relevant variables. We present a cost-efficient method for curating training data that utilizes simple tasks and pairwise comparisons to interpret and analyze visual data at scale using computer vision. We apply our approach to the detection of trash levels across space and over time in millions of street-level images in three physically distinct US cities. By comparing to ratings produced in a controlled setting and utilizing computational methods, we demonstrate generally high reliability in the method and identify sources that limit it. Altogether, this approach expands how visual data can be used at a large scale in sociology.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"1155 - 1200"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41859082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-16DOI: 10.1177/00491241231168665
Yuanmo He, Milena Tsvetkova
The rise of social media has opened countless opportunities to explore social science questions with new data and methods. However, research on socioeconomic inequality remains constrained by limit...
{"title":"A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users","authors":"Yuanmo He, Milena Tsvetkova","doi":"10.1177/00491241231168665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241231168665","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of social media has opened countless opportunities to explore social science questions with new data and methods. However, research on socioeconomic inequality remains constrained by limit...","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"51 27","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1177/00491241231156972
Thomas Suesse, David Steel, Mark Tranmer
Multilevel models are often used to account for the hierarchical structure of social data and the inherent dependencies to produce estimates of regression coefficients, variance components associat...
多层模型通常用于解释社会数据的层次结构和固有的依赖关系，以产生回归系数，相关的方差成分…
{"title":"The Effects of Omitting Components in a Multilevel Model With Social Network Effects","authors":"Thomas Suesse, David Steel, Mark Tranmer","doi":"10.1177/00491241231156972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241231156972","url":null,"abstract":"Multilevel models are often used to account for the hierarchical structure of social data and the inherent dependencies to produce estimates of regression coefficients, variance components associat...","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"43 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1177/00491241231155883
Richard A. Berk, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
In the United States and elsewhere, risk assessment algorithms are being used to help inform criminal justice decision-makers. A common intent is to forecast an offender’s “future dangerousness.” S...
{"title":"Improving Fairness in Criminal Justice Algorithmic Risk Assessments Using Optimal Transport and Conformal Prediction Sets","authors":"Richard A. Berk, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen","doi":"10.1177/00491241231155883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241231155883","url":null,"abstract":"In the United States and elsewhere, risk assessment algorithms are being used to help inform criminal justice decision-makers. A common intent is to forecast an offender’s “future dangerousness.” S...","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"42 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-20DOI: 10.1177/00491241231156968
John D. McCluskey, Craig D. Uchida
Video data analysis (VDA) represents an important methodological framework for contemporary research approaches to the myriad of footage available from cameras, devices, and phones. Footage from police body-worn cameras (BWCs) is anticipated to be a widely available platform for social science researchers to scrutinize the interactions between police and citizens. We examine issues of validity and reliability as related to BWCs in the context of VDA, based on an assessment of the quality of audio and video obtained from that platform. Second, we compare the coding of BWC footage obtained from a sample of police-citizen encounters to coding of the same events by on-scene coders using an instrument adapted from in-person systematic social observations (SSOs). Findings show that there are substantial and systematic audio and video gaps present in BWC footage as a source of data for social science investigation that likely impact the reliability of measures. Despite these problems, BWC data have substantial capacity for judging sequential developments, causal ordering, and the duration of events. Thus, the technology should open theoretical frames that are too cumbersome for in-person observation. Theoretical development with VDA in mind is suggested as an important pathway for future researchers in terms of framing data collection from BWCs and also suggesting areas where triangulation is essential.
{"title":"Video Data Analysis and Police Body-Worn Camera Footage","authors":"John D. McCluskey, Craig D. Uchida","doi":"10.1177/00491241231156968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241231156968","url":null,"abstract":"Video data analysis (VDA) represents an important methodological framework for contemporary research approaches to the myriad of footage available from cameras, devices, and phones. Footage from police body-worn cameras (BWCs) is anticipated to be a widely available platform for social science researchers to scrutinize the interactions between police and citizens. We examine issues of validity and reliability as related to BWCs in the context of VDA, based on an assessment of the quality of audio and video obtained from that platform. Second, we compare the coding of BWC footage obtained from a sample of police-citizen encounters to coding of the same events by on-scene coders using an instrument adapted from in-person systematic social observations (SSOs). Findings show that there are substantial and systematic audio and video gaps present in BWC footage as a source of data for social science investigation that likely impact the reliability of measures. Despite these problems, BWC data have substantial capacity for judging sequential developments, causal ordering, and the duration of events. Thus, the technology should open theoretical frames that are too cumbersome for in-person observation. Theoretical development with VDA in mind is suggested as an important pathway for future researchers in terms of framing data collection from BWCs and also suggesting areas where triangulation is essential.","PeriodicalId":21849,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Methods & Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"1120 - 1154"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42377767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1177/00491241221147495
Yoav Goldstein, Nicolas M. Legewie, Doron Shiffer-Sebba
Video data offer important insights into social processes because they enable direct observation of real-life social interaction. Though such data have become abundant and increasingly accessible, they pose challenges to scalability and measurement. Computer vision (CV), i.e., software-based automated analysis of visual material, can help address these challenges, but existing CV tools are not sufficiently tailored to analyze social interactions. We describe our novel approach, “3D social research” (3DSR), which uses CV and 3D camera footage to study kinesics and proxemics, two core elements of social interaction. Using eight videos of a scripted interaction and five real-life street scene videos, we demonstrate how 3DSR expands sociologists’ analytical toolkit by facilitating a range of scalable and precise measurements. We specifically emphasize 3DSR's potential for analyzing physical distance, movement in space, and movement rate – important aspects of kinesics and proxemics in interactions. We also assess data reliability when using 3DSR.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1177/00491241221140142
Alina Arseniev-Koehler
Measuring meaning is a central problem in cultural sociology and word embeddings may offer powerful new tools to do so. But like any tool, they build on and exert theoretical assumptions. In this p...
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