Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1177/07591063241236064
Tony Orival
L’intention de cet article est de partager une expérience méthodologique basée sur la simulation immersive et de voir comment et à quelles conditions cette dernière peut être utilisée comme une méthode de recherche qualitative innovante en sociologie. Après avoir distingué deux types de simulation – simulation de type I et de type II –, l’utilisation de cette méthode dans un programme de recherche sur les technologies numériques en santé sera exposée, et les coulisses de sa mise en œuvre et de la méthode discutées. Cette méthode est apparue particulièrement pertinente pour avoir accès à une réalité difficile à atteindre autrement et comme un outil fécond pour recueillir des données qualitatives par des voies différentes que l’entretien ou l’observation. Les apports proprement sociologiques de cette méthode sont à considérer et pourraient être discutés, appropriés, et réinvestis dans d’autres enquêtes.
本文旨在分享一项基于沉浸式模拟的方法论实验,并探讨如何以及在何种条件下将其用作社会学中一种创新的定性研究方法。在区分了 I 型和 II 型两种模拟之后,本文将介绍这种方法在数字健康技术研究计划中的应用,并讨论其实施和方法的幕后问题。我们发现,这种方法特别适用于接触到很难通过其他方式接触到的现实,也是通过访谈或观察之外的其他方式收集定性数据的有效工具。这种方法的纯社会学贡献值得考虑,可以在其他调查中讨论、借鉴和再投资。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1177/07591063241235165a
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Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1177/07591063241236071
Guillaume Wunsch
In the past few years, several demographers have pointed out the need to consider big data in population studies. Some are in favour of data-driven approaches, as statistical algorithms could discover novel patterns in the data. This paper examines some of the methods, both old and new, that have been developed for detecting patterns and associations in the data. It concludes with a discussion on how big data and big data analytics can contribute to improving the explanatory power of models in the social sciences and in demography in particular.
{"title":"Big data analytics. A demographer’s perspective","authors":"Guillaume Wunsch","doi":"10.1177/07591063241236071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07591063241236071","url":null,"abstract":"In the past few years, several demographers have pointed out the need to consider big data in population studies. Some are in favour of data-driven approaches, as statistical algorithms could discover novel patterns in the data. This paper examines some of the methods, both old and new, that have been developed for detecting patterns and associations in the data. It concludes with a discussion on how big data and big data analytics can contribute to improving the explanatory power of models in the social sciences and in demography in particular.","PeriodicalId":517384,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140585354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1177/07591063241236066
Matthias Penker, Anja Eder
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, surveys often could not be conducted in originally planned face-to-face mode, and switched to online modes or used different mixed-mode designs. A combination of CATI and CAPI was used for the Austrian ISSP survey on Environment 2020/2021 (N=1.261), which in the past had always been conducted face-to-face. Mixed-mode surveys facilitate field access in pandemic times and show potential to reduce non-response and coverage errors (desired selection effect). However, the combination of different modes comes along with a series of risks such as mode-effects causing bias due to measurement effects. From an analytical perspective, the challenge arising is to disentangle selection and measurement effects. Thus, we analyse differences in the factorial structure and response distributions of two social constructs using Bayesian multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and linear regression. These represent institutional trust and the willingness to sacrifice for environmental protection. The findings show support for scalar invariance and therefore the absence of CAPI vs. CATI mode-effects on the factorial structure for both constructs. However, despite adjusting for differences in sample composition we observe a higher average willingness within the CATI sample. Based on these results, we discuss implications for the interpretation of mode effects in mixed mode surveys.
{"title":"Analysing mixed-mode effects of computer assisted telephone and personal interviews: A case study based on survey data from the international social survey programme module on environment","authors":"Matthias Penker, Anja Eder","doi":"10.1177/07591063241236066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/07591063241236066","url":null,"abstract":"Due to Covid-19 restrictions, surveys often could not be conducted in originally planned face-to-face mode, and switched to online modes or used different mixed-mode designs. A combination of CATI and CAPI was used for the Austrian ISSP survey on Environment 2020/2021 (N=1.261), which in the past had always been conducted face-to-face. Mixed-mode surveys facilitate field access in pandemic times and show potential to reduce non-response and coverage errors (desired selection effect). However, the combination of different modes comes along with a series of risks such as mode-effects causing bias due to measurement effects. From an analytical perspective, the challenge arising is to disentangle selection and measurement effects. Thus, we analyse differences in the factorial structure and response distributions of two social constructs using Bayesian multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and linear regression. These represent institutional trust and the willingness to sacrifice for environmental protection. The findings show support for scalar invariance and therefore the absence of CAPI vs. CATI mode-effects on the factorial structure for both constructs. However, despite adjusting for differences in sample composition we observe a higher average willingness within the CATI sample. Based on these results, we discuss implications for the interpretation of mode effects in mixed mode surveys.","PeriodicalId":517384,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140585307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1177/07591063241236045
Karl M. van Meter
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Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1177/07591063241236069
Marie Barisaux, Pierre Gasselin, Lucette Laurens, Guillaume Ollivier
Literature reviews stand as familiar and relevant tools within the research community, as mean to produce a state of knowledge to justify the relevance of a research question. Among the many methods that can be used, systematic approaches are developing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). These review methodologies employ rigorous techniques in the identification, retrieval, and analysis of data. The overarching objective is to uphold transparency and replicability in research endeavours, elevating the overall quality and credibility of scholarly work in these disciplines. By presenting the two main systematic approaches to literature reviews – Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) and Scoping Reviews (SRs) –, we intend to clarify their respective objectives and methods, so that interested researchers can make an informed choice between them. We thus show that an SR aims to characterise the extent (or scope) of research on a subject or field, whereas an SLR aims to answer a specific question with a view to guiding practices. We also show the interest of these approaches for the HSS. We use a case study – free or unpaid labour in agriculture – to illustrate the different stages of a systematic approach to a literature review. We begin by justifying the choice of an SR over an SLR, and then test the former’s methodology through its various stages. The aim is to provide guidelines for researchers wishing to undertake this type of work. We reflect on this methodology, illustrating its advantages and disadvantages in the light of our experience. We show that systematic approaches to literature reviews are non-linear and time-consuming processes which require constant back-and-forth and reflection between the various stages. Nevertheless, their contributions in helping us understand complex subjects, develop expertise and achieve transparency show that they are suitable approaches for the HSS.
文献综述是研究界耳熟能详的相关工具,是为证明研究问题的相关性而提供知识状态的手段。在可以使用的众多方法中,系统性方法正在人文和社会科学(HSS)领域得到发展。这些审查方法在识别、检索和分析数据时采用了严格的技术。其总体目标是维护研究工作的透明度和可复制性,提高这些学科学术工作的整体质量和可信度。通过介绍文献综述的两种主要系统方法--系统文献综述 (SLR) 和范围综述 (SR),我们希望阐明它们各自的目标和方法,以便感兴趣的研究人员在两者之间做出明智的选择。因此,我们要说明的是,文献综述的目的是描述某个主题或领域的研究程度(或范围),而范围界定研究的目的是回答某个具体问题,以指导实践。我们还说明了这些方法对人文科学的意义。我们用一个案例研究--农业中的免费或无偿劳动--来说明系统性文献综述方法的不同 阶段。我们首先说明了选择 SR 而不是 SLR 的理由,然后通过各个阶段对前者的方法进行了测试。目的是为希望开展此类工作的研究人员提供指导。我们对这种方法进行了反思,并根据我们的经验说明了它的优缺点。我们表明,文献综述的系统方法是一个非线性、耗时的过程,需要在各个阶段之间不断地往返和反思。尽管如此,它们在帮助我们理解复杂的课题、发展专业知识和实现透明度方面所做的贡 献表明,它们是适用于人文科学的方法。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1177/07591063241236068
Boris Attencourt
This article reports on an investigation into the channels through which intellectuals have gained public recognition since the 1970s (quality press, intellectual journals, think tanks, conference venues, cultural radio and TV programs, publishing houses, etc.). Through the prism of field theory, we explored a space – that of the visibility of ideas – situated at the crossroads of several institutionally established fields (academic, intellectual, media, political, and economic). While the number of studies devoted to this type of interstitial space has multiplied since the 2000s, the focus has mainly been on their heteronomy through comparisons with autonomous fields. This approach tends to lose sight of the fact that they could neither emerge nor endure in the absence of stability. Based on the notion of the space of visibility of ideas, the present paper attempts to show that it is possible to apprehend the stability of these labile spaces by adopting an ethnographic approach, conducive to the articulation of micro/meso/macro levels and the mixing of methods. In so doing, we put forward the idea that interstitial spaces can ultimately be analyzed in terms of perimeters and capital, in other words, as fields.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1177/07591063241236067
Nancy Venel
En France, contrairement aux Etats-Unis, l’usage de l’entretien répété a été peu discuté. Cet article propose de revenir sur les apports de cet outil, à partir des enseignements tirés de deux enquêtes menées sur des terrains religieux : la première consacrée à l’étude de l’évolution du rapport à la religion des détenu·e·s au cours de leur incarcération et la deuxième portant sur l’analyse des trajectoires de conversion de l’islam vers le christianisme. Ces expériences d’enquête rappellent la nécessité d’adapter nos manières de faire tant à l’objet de recherche qu’aux particularités du terrain. L’entretien répété n’est pas un passage obligé mais son utilisation témoigne d’un attachement à un esprit ethnographique qui essaye peu ou prou de se donner du temps sur le terrain. Sur les terrains religieux mobilisés dans cet article, son usage s’est avéré convaincant à plus d’un titre que ce soit pour gagner la confiance des enquêté·e·s, travailler la densité des données produites, la reconstruction de données biographiques ou la compréhension de processus en train de se faire. En outre, en multipliant les rencontres et ainsi les possibilités de croiser les données, le·la chercheur·euse se donne des garanties pour éviter myopie empirique et autres malentendus.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1177/07591063231215443
Soazig Dollet
Cet article interroge la relation d’enquête qui s’est nouée avec des personnes bénéficiant de la protection internationale prises en charge par un opérateur de l’État, dans le cadre d’une thèse en Cifre. Il questionne ce que le recours à des entretiens biographiques a pu induire comme formes de docilités et résistances de la part des personnes enquêtées, que ce soit dans le récit d’elles-mêmes mais aussi dans la possibilité (ou non) de refuser l’interaction et par conséquent l’injonction à se raconter.
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