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最近有越来越多的朋友对社会学定量研究感兴趣,但不知道要如何入门学习。
我们往往从基础统计方法入手,比如多元回归、对数方程。但是,也有不少朋友希望更进一步,不只是学习方法,还希望了解这些方法如何与理论、研究设计和分析结果有机结合。
有没有书单可以参考呢?有!斯坦福大学社会学系的周雪光教授的《社会学量化研究赏析》课程大纲中的书单对于想要了解社会学定量研究的朋友们来说是非常好的学习资料!其中既包含社会学定量研究的经典作品的系统学习,又有定量研究论文,帮助我们对于定量研究的方法和过程有深入的了解。
让我们一同跟随这份书单开启定量研究的学习吧!
* 斯坦福大学社会学系教授周雪光
课程介绍
这一课程的目的是通过介绍评介社会学定量研究的作品,帮助从事社会学领域学习和研究的学生了解(1)定量研究的基本研究模式、程序、报告方式;(2)研究课题、理论思路、研究设计、分析方法以及结果表述之间的关系。学生在授课老师的指导下,对指定的研究作品做深入的分析和讲评,并有选择地进行重复分析,以便提高理解和动手的能力。要求选课的学生有基本的统计分析知识(多元回归、对数方程)。
第一讲:走进社会科学的学术研究
1. Merton, Robert. 1968. “On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range.” Pp. 39-72 in Social Theory and Social Structure, by R. Merton. New York: the Free Press.
2. 彭玉生《洋八股与社会科学规范》
3. *谢宇《社会学方法与定量研究》
第二讲:理论的想象力和分析力度
4. Sutton, Robert L. and Barry M. Staw. 1995. “What Theory is Not.” Administrative Science Quarterly 40: 371-384.
5. DiMaggio, Paul & Walter Powell. 1984. “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality.” American Sociological Review 42: 726-43.
6. Podolny, Joel M. 1993. “A Status-based Model of Market Competition.” American Journal of Sociology 98: 829-72.
7. Han, ShinKap. 1994. “Mimetic Isomorphism and Its Effect on the Audit Services Market.” Social Forces 73: 637-663.
8. *Breiger, Ronald. “The Social Class Structure of Occupational Mobility.” American Journal of Sociology 87: 578-611.
第三讲:研究的起点在哪里?推演与归纳的逻辑
9. Morgan, S. Philip, Diane N. Lye, and Gretchen A. Condran. 1988. “Sons, Daughters, and the Risk of Marital Disruption.” American Journal of Sociology 94: 110-29.
10. Peng, Yusheng. 2001. “Chinese Villages and Townships as Industrial Corporations: Ownership, Governance and Market Discipline.” American Journal of Sociology 106(5): 1338-1370.
11. *Zhou, Xueguang, Wei Zhao, Qiang Li, and He Cai. 2003. “Embeddedness and Contractual Relatioships in China’s Transitional Economy.” American Sociological Review 68: 75-102.
第四讲:理论思路与统计模式的选择
12. Walder, Andrew G., Li, Bobai, and Donald J. Treiman. 2000. “Politics and Life Chances in a State Socialist Regime: Dual Career Paths into the Urban Chinese Elites,1949-1996.” American Sociological Review 65: 191-209.
13. Zhou, Xueguang, Nancy Tuma, and Phyllis Moen. 1996. “Stratification Dynamics under State Socialism: The Case of Urban China, 1949-1994.” Social Forces 74: 759-796.
第五讲:关于论文写作和审稿过程-一个信号理论
14. Uzzi, Brian. 1999. “Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Financing.” American Sociological Review 64: 481-505.
15. Zhou, Xueguang. 2005. “The Institutional Logic of Occupational Prestige Ranking: Reconceptualization and Reanalyses.” American Journal of Sociology, 110: 90-140.
第六讲:个案讲析
(一)宗教与文化:
16. Hout, Michael, and Claude S. Fischer. 2002. “Why More Americans have No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations.” American Sociological Review 67: 165-190.
(二)社会关系网络与劳动力市场:
17. Mouw, Ted. 2003. “Social Capital and Finding a Job: Do Contacts Matter?” American Sociological Review 68: 868-898.
(三)城市社会学与犯罪学:
18. Sampson, Robert J. and Stephen W. Raudenbush. 1999. Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods. American Journal of Sociology 105: 603-651.
第七讲:超越“量化研究”
19. Hirsch, Paul, and Michaels S, Friedman R. 1987. “Dirty hands' versus 'clean models': is sociology in danger of being seduced by economics?” Theory and Society 16: 317-336.
20. 周雪光:“方法·思想·社会科学研究” 《读书》2001年第7期。
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