Direct and Indirect Effects for Neighborhood-Based Clustered and Longitudinal Data

Tyler J. VanderWeele, Direct and Indirect Effects for Neighborhood-Based Clustered and Longitudinal Data, Sociological Methods & Research 2010 38: 515-544.

 

Definitions of direct and indirect effects are given for settings in which individuals are clustered in groups or neighborhoods and in which treatments are administered at the group level. A particular intervention may

Visual Sociology Reframed: An Analytical Synthesis and Discussion of Visual Methods in Social and Cultural Research

Luc Pauwels, Visual Sociology Reframed: An Analytical Synthesis and Discussion of Visual Methods in Social and Cultural Research, Sociological Methods & Research 2010 38: 545-581.

Visual research is still a rather dispersed and ill-defined domain within the social sciences. Despite a heightened interest in using visuals in research, efforts toward a more unified conceptual and methodological framework for dealing vigilantly with the specifics of this (relatively) new way

Multiple Informant Methodology: A Critical Review and Recommendations

Stephan M. Wagner, Christian Rau, and Eckhard Lindemann, Multiple Informant Methodology: A Critical Review and Recommendations, Sociological Methods & Research 2010 38: 582-618.

The value of multiple informant methodology for improving the validity in determining organizational properties has been increasinglyrecognized. However, the majority of empirical research

Decomposing the Change in the Wage Gap Between White and Black Men Over Time, 1980-2005: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Method

ChangHwan Kim, Decomposing the Change in the Wage Gap Between White and Black Men Over Time, 1980-2005: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Method, Sociological Methods & Research 2010 38: 619-651.

This article extends the Blinder—Oaxaca decomposition method to the decomposition of changes in the wage gap between white and black men over time. The previously implemented technique, in which the contributions of two decomposition components areestimated by