Sociology 205a: Electronic Course Pac.

This page pulls together a set of readings for Sociology 205a. Most of these are available as links to JSTOR. Here you will find all of the articles we read for class, plus a good set of the supplementary readings.

Text Chapters: (These are kept online only until the bookstore gets the text)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Class articles:

Class 3: DiMaggio, Evans & Bryson (1996) “Have American’s Social Attitudes Become More Polarized?” American Journal of Sociology 102:690-755

Class 4: Curtis. Nd. “Are histograms giving you fits?” (ECP)

Mason. Nd. “Introduction to SAS Graph” (ECP)

Class 5: Budig & England. 2001. “The Wage penalty for Motherhood” American Sociological Review 66:204-225

Class 7: Rytina and Morgan. 1982. “Arithmetic of Social Relations” American Journal of Sociology 88:88-113

Class 9: Hout & Fischer (2002). “Why More Americans Have No Religions Preference: Politics & Generations” American Sociological Review 67:165-190

Class 11: Bearman & Bruckner (2002) “Opposite-Sex Twins and Adolescent Same-Sex Attraction” American Journal of Sociology 107:1179-1205

Class 13: Gould (2000) “Revenge as Sanction and Solidarity Display: An analysis of Vendettas in Nineteenth-Century Corsica” American Sociological Review 65:682-704

Class 15: Fox (2004) “The Changing Color of Welfare? How Whites’ Attitudes toward Latinos Influence their Support for Welfare” American Journal of Sociology 110:580-625

Class 17: Loftus (2001) “America’s Liberalization in Attitudes toward Homosexuality, 1973 – 1998” American Sociological Review. 66:762-782

Class 19: Eegebeen (2005) “Cohabitation and Exchanges of Support” Social Forces 83:1097-1110.

Supplementary & Other Sundry Stuff:

· Abbott. 1998. "The Causal Devolution" Sociological Methods and Research 27:148-181

· Berk, Western & Weiss (1995) “Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations” Sociological Methodology 25:421-458

· Berk, Western & Weiss “Reply to Bollen, Firebaugh and Rubin” SM 481-485

· Bollen “Apparent and nonapparent Significance Tests” SM 25:459-468

· Firebaugh “Will Bayesian Inference Help? A Skeptical View” SM 25: 469-472

· Frank (2000). “Impact of a Confounding Variable on the Inference of a Regression Coefficient.” Sociological Methods and Research, 29(2), 147-194.

· Goodman & Hout (2001) “Statistical Methods and Graphical Displays for Analyzing How the Association between Two Qualitative Variables Differes Among Countries, Among Gorups or over time. Part II” Sociological Methodology 31:189-221

· Goodman (1996) “A Single General Method for the Analysis of Cross-Classified Data” Journal of the American Statistical Association 91:408-428

· Handcock & Morris. 1998. “Relative Distribution Methods” Sociological Methodology.28:53-97

· Leifer, Eric. “Denying the data: Learning from the Accomplished Sciences” Sociological Forum 7:283-299

· Levine, John H. 1983. Exceptions are the Rule: An Inquiry into Methods in the Social Sciences Westview Press, Chapter 2 is particularly salient.

· Lieberson (1997) “Modeling Social Processes: Some Lessons from Sports” Sociological Forum 12:13-65

· Lieberson, Stanley (1991) "Small N's and Big Conclusions: An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases" Social Forces, 71:307-320

· Lieberson, Stanley. 1992. “Einstein, Renoir, and Greeley: Some thoughts About Evidence in Sociology” American Sociological Review. 57:1-15.

· Long, J. Scott and Laurie H. Ervin. 2000. "Using Heteroscedasticity Consistent Standard Errors in the Linear Regression Model." The American Statistician 54:217-224

· Moody, McFarland, & Bender deMoll (2005) "Dynamic Network Visualization: Methods for Meaning with Longitudinal Network Movies” American Journal of Sociology 110:1206-1241

· Pan & Frank (2004). “A probability index of the robustness of a causal inference.” Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 28: 315-337

· Raftery (2001) “Statistics in Sociology, 1950-2000: A selective Review” Sociological Methodology 31:1-45

· Rubin “Bayes, Neyman and Calibration” SM 25:473-479

· Sloane & Morgan (1996) “An introduction to Categorical Data Analysis” Annual Review of Sociology 22:351-375

· Sobel, Becker & Minick “Origins, Destinations, and Association in Occupational Mobility” American Journal of Sociology 104:687-721

· Tufte Visual Display of Quantitative Data

· White (1997) “Can Mathematics Be Social? Flexible Representations for Interaction Process and Its Sociocultural Constructions” Sociological Forum 12: 53-71.

· Yamaguchi “Models for Comparing Mobility Tables: Toward Parsimony and Substance” American Sociological Review 52:482-494