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DRAFT PROGRAMDRAFT PROGRAM
Monday, September 1st Campus di Monte Sant'Angelo 13,00 – Registration
14,00 – 17,00 Tutorials
E4 Geometric Data Analysis B. Le Roux & Philippe Bonnet (Université Paris Descartes, France) E1 Statistical Tools for Data and Text Mining S. Balbi (Università di Napoli "Federico II") M. Misuraca (Università della Calabria) R. Verde (Seconda Università di Napoli) E2 The Qualitative Interview A. Ryen (Adger University College ‐ Kristiansand, Norway) E3 Video‐analysis of Social Situations: Approaches and Practices B. Schnettler (Technische Universität ‐ Berlin, Germany)
Monday, September 1st Centro Congressi Università "Federico II", via Partenope 36 18,30 – Welcome Cocktail
Tuesday, September 2nd Campus di Monte Sant'Angelo
8,00 – Registration
9,15 – 10,00 Sala Rossa Opening Ceremony
10,00 – 11,00 Sala Rossa Invited lecture Ludovic Lebart (Telecom‐ParisTech, C.N.R.S., France) Between Principal Axes Analysis and Clustering: the missing links
11,00 – 11,30 Coffee Break
11,30 – 13,00 Sessions
S1 Methodological challenges and opportunities for Applied Qualitative Research I
Organiser: Ian Shaw, University of York, England 1. Managing Risk in a High Blame Environment: Making a ‘Flight Deck’ Simulation in Childcare Social Work
Sue White, David Wastell, Sue Peckover, Chris Hall, Andy Pithouse, Karen Broadhurst 2. Realising the Potential of Q Methodology in Social Research: Patterned Subjectivity as 'Works of Thought'
David Shemmings 3. A Visual Turn: Self representation, Identity‐Work and Ethnographic Research
Wendy Luttrell 4. The ‘observation society’: a chance for applied ethnography
Giampetro Gobo
S2 Making sense of qualitative interview: Interviews with particular groups Organiser: Anne Ryen, University of Agder, Norway
1. Foster children’s family relations: Challenges in interviewing children Kati Hämäläinen
2. Researching families’ experiences – Challenges in interviewing families Susanna Rautio
3. Interviewing Traumatized People: Ethical and Technical Concerns Inci User
4. What researchers think when analysing qualitative interviews a think aloud report Hennie R. Boeije
S3 Non Linear Modeling I Organiser: Cor van Dijkum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
1. Non‐linear dynamic system theory put to test in various instances of language development Annemarie Peltzer‐Karpf
2. Question Difficulty and Type of Control by Interviewers; design and test of a nonlinear model Johannes van der Zouwen, Stasja Draisma and Johannes H. Smit
3. Chaos Control in Natural Systems Marcelo A. Savi, Aline S. de Paula
4. Non Linear Models for the Feedback between GP and Patients Niek Lam, Cor van Dijkum, William Verheul, Jozien Bensing
S4 Attitudes towards Surveys: Focus on longitudinal data Organisers: Claire Durand, Université de Montreal, Canada
John Goyder, University of Waterloo, Canada 1. Survey Attitude as Determinant for Panel Attrition: Development of instruments and first results
Edith de Leeuw, Joop Hox, Annette Scherpenzeel , Corrie Vis 2. The impact of attitudes towards surveys on data quality
Jon Burton, Emanuela Sala 3. Using subjective survey evaluation to reduce panel attrition
Peter Lugtig, Gerty Lensvelt‐Mulders 4. Are Polls Good for the Voters? On the Impact of Attitudes Toward Surveys in Electoral Campaigns
Claire Durand, John Goyder
S5 Social Network Analysis I Organiser/Chair: Ch. Steglich, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
1. Modeling Social Networks with Missing and Sampled Data Krista J. Gile, Mark S. Handcock
2. Comparing the network structures in teams among companies: Extensions of the MTML approach Filip Agneessens, Noshir Contractor
3. The statistical analysis of three‐way data Marijtje van Duijn, Christian Steglich, Emmanuel Lazega
4. Social capital and Small Worlds: theoretical and methodological investigations Christina Prell, Tom Snijders
S6 Issues on evaluating and measuring
Chair: Giancarlo Ragozini, Università “Federico II” di Napoli 1. Motivation and Ignorance: a Measurement of Healthy and Unhealthy Eating habits
Maren Geisler, Jofi Puspa and Rainer Kühl 2. Advantages and disadvantages of operationalization strategies of rational choice theory
Sebastian Sattler 3. Evaluation protocols at the crossroads of modernity: towards a model that integrates the relevant dimensions
and concerns of the intervention program Marc Alain
S7 The Use and Development of Optimal Matching Analysis
Organisers: Dick Wiggins, University of London, UK Peter Martin, City University, London, UK
1. Warping time in life courses: sequence analysis algorithms for continuous‐time life histories Brendan Halpin
2. Socioeconomic sequences and health in later life Juliet Stone
3. How useful is optimal matching for describing sequences of work and living arrangements in uneventful data? Bola Akinwale
4. Classification of sequences: ideal types and the stress measure Peter Martin
S8 Information and Communication Technologies in Data Collection Methods I Organisers: Mario Callegaro, Knowledge Networks, USA
Vasja Vehovar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 1. Studying pedestrian urban mobility flows with ICT aided surveys
Davide Diamantini, Massimo Ballerini, Andrea Pozzali 2. Online poll in study of incentives to participation of youth in innovative development
Elena S. Gvozdeva 3. ‘Don’t touch that..., you don’t know where it has been’: Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing and question
recycling Julie Gibbs, Graham Hughes, Martin Bulmer
4. Integration of the web into survey data collection: Balancing costs and errors Vasja Vehovar, Nejc Berzelak. Katja Lozar Manfeda
S9 Automatic Textual Analysis I
Organiser/Chair: Michelangelo Misuraca, Università della Calabria, Italy 1. Is that document communicative? Let machines analyses it
Bruno Bisceglia, Fabio Clarizia, Paolo Napoletano 2. Multilingual taxonomic and terminological structures of a domain
Roberto Guarasci, Elena Cardillo, Antonietta Folino, Maria Taverniti 3. Efficiency and accuracy of an innovative automated coding system based on different approaches of textual
analysis Loredana Mazza, Manuela Murgia, Valentina Talucci
4. A method proposal for elicitation of intensional ontological classes: Opposition Map Approach R. Serkan Albayrak, Ahmet K.
S10 Correspondence Analysis and related methods I Organiser: Joerg Balsius, University of Bonn, Germany
1. The effect of the number of categories when coding continuous data in multiple correspondence analysis Zerrin Aşan, Michael Greenacre
2. Scaling Rasch data with multiple correspondence analysis
Yasemin El Menouar, Jörg Blasius 3. Handling complexity of the stratification S&T space and gender discrimination in Europe using Multiple Corre‐
spondence Analysis Helena Carvalho, Luísa Oliveira
4. Principal axes methods for categorical variables. Some evidence from student motivation surveys K. Fernández‐Aguirre, M. A. Garín‐Martín
S11 Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Designing and Implementing Comparative Surveys I Organiser: Janet Harkness University of Nebraska‐Lincoln,USA and Gesis‐ZUMA, Germany
1. Quality Monitoring in Cross‐National Data Collection Beth‐Ellen Pennell
2. Cross‐Cultural Application Design: Ensuring Quality across Survey Implementations Sue Ellen Hansen
3. Applying the Total Survey Error Paradigm to Cross‐national Research Tom W. Smith
4. Translation Tools and Quality Enhancement in Multilingual Surveys Peter Mohler
S12 Sampling Methods Organiser: Siegfried Gabler, Gesis‐ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany
1. Design Effects in Cross‐National Survey Sampling Matthias Ganninger,Siegfried Gabler
2. Mixed Methods Sampling techniques: an example from sampling African migrant’s in Britain Vincent Okeleke‐Nezianya
3. Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles of London’s Eastern Europeans: a comparison of three methods of sampling hard‐to‐reach populations Alison Evans, Graham Hart, Catherine Mercer, Christopher Gerry, Richard Mole & Fiona Burns
4. Two‐level Model Small Domain Estimation using Reduction of Dimensionality Renato Salvatore, Daniela Cimillo, Maria Chiara Pagliarella
13,00 – 14,30 Neapolitan Lunch offered by Regione Campania 14,30 – 16,00 Sessions S1 Methodological challenges and opportunities for Applied Qualitative Research II
Organiser: Ian Shaw, University of York, England 1. ‘I know how I feel’. Exploring some challenges, lessons learnt and the future potential of using symbols to listen
to young people with life‐limiting conditions who have learning and communication impairments Wendy Mitchell
2. Methodology and Deafness: The Art of Observing Silence Ricardo Estee‐Wale
3. “Every time I ask a question, it raises twenty more!” Investigating sexuality in applied disciplines Stephen Hicks
4. Cooperation and conflict in qualitative research: A dialectical approach to knowledge production Guy Enosh, Adital Ben Ari
S2 Making sense of qualitative interview: Interview methods and challenges
Organiser: Anne Ryen, University of Agder, Norway 1. “Was your father a problem drinker? “ The challenges of life story interviewing in researching adult sons of drink‐
ing fathers. Henna Pirskanen
2. Method for Exploring the Interaction Between Client and Social Worker Solveig Botnen Eide
3. Some Ethical Dimensions of Interviewing; Is there a balanced Situation Between Interviewer and Interviewee? F.Belkis Kumbetoglu
S3 Non Linear Modeling II
Organiser: Cor van Dijkum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 1. Non‐linear modelling for the association between type of alcohol and C‐reactive protein
Emanuela Falaschetti, Paola Zaninotto 2. Modeling a count outcome with excess zeros: an application to Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
Paola Zaninotto, Emanuela Falaschetti
3. Comparisons of Tobit, Linear Regression and Poisson‐gamma regression models: An application of time use data. Jude Brown, Peter K Dunn
4. Validation of Simulation Models in a Qualitative Way Cor van Dijkum, Yaman Barlas
S4 Attitudes towards Surveys: Focus on longitudinal data Organisers: Claire Durand, Université de Montreal, Canada
John Goyder, University of Waterloo, Canada 1. How Telemarketers Influenced Survey Attitudes and Data Quality
Patricia A. Gwartney 2. Attitude toward surveys and non‐response in Switzerland
Dominique Joye, Alexandre Pollien, Marlene Sapin, Nicole Schoebi, Sylvie Leunberger Zanetta 3. Understanding the decision to participate in a survey: motives for refusal and preferred forms of contact
Rosario M. Álvarez, Verónica Sevillano 4. Attitudes towards surveys, 1985 and 2005
John Goyder, Claire Durand
S5 Social Network Analysis II Organiser/Chair: Peter J. Carrington, University of Waterloo, Canada Anuska Ferligoj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
1. Key Word Network Structure of German & French Sociology Compared: Social Network Link Analysis Applied to Conference Texts Karl M. van Meter
2. Structural embeddedness and community building through collaborative network relationships between volun‐tary organizations Andrea Salvini, Dania Cordaz, Simone Gabbriellini
3. Brokerage roles within cliques: a secondary clique analysis Elisa Bellotti
S6 Aided Recall Techniques in Survey Interviews I
Organisers: Wander van der Vaart, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands Tina Glasner, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
1. Attitude Recall in Surveys: Possibilities and Biases Eva Jaspers, Marcel Lubbers
2. “Who did you reside with when you were a child?”. The Calendar Instrument on Childhood and Adolescence Klaus Pforr, Laura Castiglioni, Ulrich Krieger
3. Assessing Acquiescence among Participants in the National Longitudinal Survey Youth 1997 Alison Aughinbaugh, Rosella M. Gardecki
4. Personal Landmarks as Recall Aids in Survey Interviews Wander van der Vaart, Tina Glasner
S7 Sequence Analysis in the Social Sciences: theoretical under‐pinnings and applications I
Organisers: Man Yee Kan, University of Oxford, UK Laurent Lesnard, SciencesPo, France
1. Substitution Costs – Achilles' heel of Optimal Matching? Anna Schröder
2. Characterizing Spanish labour pathways of young people with vocational education Corrales Herrero, Helena, Rodríguez Prado, Beatriz
3. Time strategies of mobility Sequence analysis applied to the study of residential choices Matteo Colleoni, Clara Melzi
4. Tough on crime, tough on the life‐courses of crime: sequence analysis of criminal careers Duncan McVicar
S8 Information and Communication Technologies in Data Collection Methods II Organisers: Mario Callegaro, Knowledge Networks, USA
Vasja Vehovar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 1. Impact of new technologies in data collection methods
Mario Callegaro 2. Measuring and Comparing Avatars’ and Users’ Lifestyles an Empirical Feasibility Study in the Virtual World of ‘2nd
Life’ Andreas Mühlichen, Daniel Witte
3. Exploring word‐of mouth‐communication in tourism through the Internet An original data collection method and its application to the Italian blogs about wine and culinary tourism
Gabriella Polizzi S9 Automatic Textual Analysis II
Organiser/Chair: Simona Balbi, Università “Federico II” di Napoli, Italy 1. CCA of a series of frequency tables related to common instrumental variables
Mónica Bécue‐Bertaut, Karmele Fernández‐Aguirre,,Juan I. Modroño‐Herrán, Jérôme Pagès 2. The Modified Dirichlet compound Multinomial distribution for textual analysis
Paola Cerchiello, Elvio Concetto Bonafede 3. Weighted association rules for semi‐structured documents
Giorgio Infante, Michelangelo Misuraca 4. Word of Mouth in the Pharmaceutical Industry: a Network Textual Analysis Approach
Paolo Mariani, Emma Zavarrone and Paola Zappa
S10 Correspondence Analysis and related methods II Organiser: Jörg Blasius, University of Bonn, Germany
1. Investigating Theories of Survey Response Behaviour: A Multiple Correspondence Analysis Tor Korneliussen, Bjørn Willy Aamo
2. Three‐way analysis of categorical tables of different populations. The case of face‐to‐face and telephone survey. Elena Abascal, Vidal Díaz de Rada, Ignacio García Lautre, M. Isabel Landaluce
3. A Visual Method for Analysing Cross‐National Time Use Patterns Ken Reed, Guy Cucumel
4. Detecting facts and artifacts in cross‐national research by means of multiple correspondence analysis and cate‐gorical principal component analysis Jörg Blasius, Victor Thiessen
S11 Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Designing and Implementing Comparative Surveys
Organiser: Janet Harkness University of Nebraska‐Lincoln,USA and Gesis‐ZUMA, Germany 1. Language of Survey Administration as a Cause of Measurement Error
Emilia Peytcheva 2. Computer Audio‐Recorded Interviewing (CARI): A Tool for Data Quality Assessment on Comparative Surveys
Brad Edwards, Wendy Hicks, Karen Tourangeau, Brett McBride, Lauren Harris‐Kojetin and Abigail Moss 3. Comparing multi‐regional quality‐of‐life surveys: the case study of Fucecchio and Atri, two similar middle‐small
urban contexts. Maurizio Cappelli, Caterina Sciarra
4. How instrument quality affects translation: Insights from a film of a team translation review Janet Harkness
S12 School, Work and Occupational studies Chair: M. Gabriella Grassia, Università “Federico II” di Napoli
1. School segregation and middle‐class families’ strategies: how can we measure parental choice of schooling? Barbara Borlini, Francesco Memo
2. Employment Income in Europe. Is there Discrimination for Non‐National Workers? Claudio Ceccarelli, Andrea Cutillo, Davide Di Laurea
3. Interpretative process in qualitative data analysis assisted by software: examples from educational research on the informal learning in adult age Giancarlo Gola, Eugenio De Gregorio
4. Security Indices Application to Analyzing the World of Work Irina Soboleva, Liana Lakunina
16,00 – 16,30 Coffee Break 16,30 – 18,30 Sessions S1 Interpretative video‐analysis I
Organiser: Bernt Schnettler, Technical University Berlin, Germany 1. Figuring Prices: The interactional accomplishment of exchanges on markets
Dirk vom Leh, Christian Heath 2. The Endogenous Orderliness of Talk Shows: Making things invisible and making things visible at the Trisha Show
Mareike Barmeyer 3. The “professional vision” of the waitresses and of the video‐data analyst: Ability to interpret relevant details of
observable actions Barbara Pentimalli
4. Video analysis in a medical emergency dispatch centre Giolo Fele
5. Digital Video Ethnography: Paradigm Shift in Qualitative Research in SLA Martine Pellerin
6. Analysis of Video‐taped interactions in qualitative interviews. Collecting and Examining different data on differ‐ent Research levels Nicole Witte
S2 The Analysis of Qualitative Data Chair: Caterina Arcidiacono, Università “Federico II” di Napoli, Italy
1. Grounded theory and citizen narratives Caterina Arcidiacono, Fortuna Procentese
2. Developing Marital Instability Scale in Kuwaiti Society Hadi Mukhtar Ali Ridha Ashkanani
3. Methods of Evaluating the Quality of Data Collection in Surveys Lisa Danquah
4. Challenges in developing a new approach to the survey measurement of disability Fiona Glen, Roeland Beerten & Tom Howe
5. Individual determinants of public attitudes towards surveys in Spain, 2007 Marta Fraile, Monica Méndez, Joan Font
6. Community Trust As Significant Factor For The Development Of Local Community Caterina Arcidiacono, Immacolata Di Napoli
S3 Complexity, vagueness, fractals and fuzzy logic Organiser: Massimo Ampola, Università di Pisa, Italy
1. Complexity,vagueness, fractals and fuzzy logic Massimo Ampola
2. Indexes, Scales and Ideal Types – a Fuzzy Approach Marco Chiuppesi
3. Explicative models of complexity. The reconstructions of social evolution for Jürgen Habermas Luca Corchia
4. Paths Towards Addiction: a Fuzzy Model of Causal Relations Chiara Ferretti
5. Vague tendences: a review of fuzzy set theory comparative studies Talita Mc Clelland
6. Some Aspect of the Quality in a Living Complex System. A Preliminary Approach: "The Lichen Symbiosis" Paolo Pasquinelli
S4 Cognitive and Motivational Determinants for Response Effects in Survey Research I Organiser: Mirta Galesic, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Volker Stocké University of Mannheim, Germany 1. Interactive Interventions in Web Surveys Can Improve Data Quality
Frederick G. Conrad, Roger Tourangeau, Mick P. Couper, Courtney Kennedy 2. Psycholinguistic Determinants of Question Difficulty: A Web Experiment
Timo Faaß, Lars Kaczmirek 3. Response Non‐Differentiation and Response Styles in Web‐Based Studies: Causes and Consequences
Laurin T. Frisina, Randall K. Thomas 4. Communicative Channels, Cognitive Processes and Question Understanding: Results from a Randomized Field Ex‐
periment with Video‐Enhanced Web Surveys Marek Fuchs
5. How Likely Is ’Likely’? Subjective Perception and Communication of Victimization Probabilities Ivar Krumpal, Heiko Rauhut
6. Understanding Unconscious Aspects of Respondent Survey Behavior to Improve Reporting Kenneth A. Rasinski, Asia A. Eaton, Ting Yan, Roger Tourangeau
S5 Social Network Analysis
Organiser/Chair: Anuska Ferligoj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 1. Basic Human Values Depicting Value‐Fields and Community‐Networks of Europe
Indrek Tart 2. Non‐Symmetrical Correspondence Analysis to explore dependence structure in Social Networks
Domenico De Stefano, Giancarlo Ragozini, Maria Prosperina Vitale
3. Building a survey on ‘Capital, Strategies and Networks for Labour Market Careers Among Young People of Immi‐grant Background’ Susanne Urban, Alireza Behtoui, Martin Klinthäll, Anders Neergaard
4. Measuring Corporate Social Capital Beata Łopaciuk‐Gonczaryk
5. Network Methodology for Internet Advertising Planning Natasa Kejzar, Patricia Cucin, Samo Kropivnik
6. Measuring ties on online forums Ales Ziberna, Vasja Vehovar, Aleks Jakulin
S6 Data for Historical Sociology and for Analyzing Long‐Term Social Processes I
Organiser: Nina Baur, Technical University Berlin, Germany 1. Oral Sources As Data for Historical Sociology and the Analysis of Long‐Term Social Processes
Alexander Freund 2. Retrospective Cohort Data for Analyzing Long‐Term Social Processes: The German Life History Study
Joerg Luedicke, Hannah Brueckner, Karl Ulrich Mayer 3. Unlocking Historical Sources to the Social Sciences: The Case of Military Personnel Records
Christoph Rass 4. Genealogies of Noble Families as a Database for Research in Social Sciences? Potentialities and Limits
Christoph Franke 5. Individual‐ versus Family‐Level Analyses of Development: Results from the Intergenerational Studies
Constance Jones 6. Using a Large Scale Longitudinal Data Set. Media Competition and Audience Differentiation During the Introduc‐
tion of the German Dual Broadcasting System 1987‐1996 Jörg Hagenah, Heiner Meulemann
S7 Sequence Analysis in the Social Sciences: theoretical under‐pinnings and applications II
Organisers: Man Yee Kan, University of Oxford, UK Laurent Lesnard, SciencesPo, France
1. New life for old ideas: Comparing new developments in sequence analysis Silke Aisenbrey, Anette Eva Fasang
2. Distance measures in sequence analysis: the problem of substitution costs in Optimal Matching Analysis Brendan Halpin
3. The synchronisation of working times in dual earner couples: an Optimal Matching application D. Bruzzese, M.C. Romano
4. Optimal Matching and comparison of two Time use Surveys: the case of dinner in France Thibaut de Saint Pol
5. Analysing Social Rhythms by Optimal Matching: Working week schedules of France 1998‐99 and UK 2000‐01 Laurent Lesnard, Man Yee Kan
S8 Event History Analyis
Organiser: Ulrich Poetter, Ruhr‐Universitaet Bochum, Germany 1. Characterising Women and their Life Time Participation in the Mexican Labour Market. An example of a Model
Based Recursive Partitioning Ingrid Schockaert
2. Focussed Model Selection for Frailty Models Gilbert MacKenzie
3. Measurement Error in Event History Data from Panel Interviews Annette Jäckle
4. Analysing wage distributions using duration methods Andreas Behr
5. Business cycle effects on labour force transitions for older people in Spain Sergi Jimenez‐Martin, Judit Vall Castello
S9 Statistical modelling of ordinal data Organiser: Domenico Piccolo, Università “Federico II” di Napoli, Italy
1. Clustering CUB models for ordinal data Marcella Corduas
2. Evaluation of organized crime and waste collectionin an urban destination: a structural model Maria Iannario
3. Testing preference rankings Kar Yin Lam, Alex J. Koning, Philip Hans Franses
4. Early life influences on cognitive development in childhood: an application of multilevel models for a repeated ordinal categorical outcome Leah Li
5. Modelling qualitative assessment of final grades by ordinal variables Domenico Piccolo
6. Testing for Umbrella Alternatives with Application to the Evaluation of Degree‐Granting Sessions Luigi Salmaso
S10 Geometric Data Analysis: Political science
Organiser: Brigitte Le Roux, Université Paris Descartes, France 1. The political space of the French Electorate in 2007. Geometric data analysis applied on the presidential election
Jean Chiche, Viviane Le Hay Cevipof 2. «Espace social et espace politique en région PACA. Une analyse en composantes principales »
Joël Gombin 3. The Geometry of the Norwegian Electoral Space
Olav Korsnes Hjellbrekke 4. Class and vote. A geometric approach
Patrick Lehingue, Frédéric Lebaron 5. Class and politics in Denmark on the quest for (socio‐)logical patterns.
Gitte Sommer Harrits, Annick Prieur, Jakob Skjøtt‐Larsen, and Lennart Rosenlund 6. Latent structures in attitudes towards management and colleagues in the oil service industry
Kathrine Skoland
S11 Harmonization of Socio‐demographic Variables Organiser: J.H.P.Hoffmeyer‐Zlotnik, GESIS‐ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany
1. Background Variables in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) Evi Scholz
2. The Relevance of ‘Private Household’ for Cross‐Cultural Survey Comparison Uwe Warner
3. Europe’s young old from the perspective of social inequalities Kathrin Komp
4. New coding technique of the International Standard Classification of Occupations, ISCO‐88 Doris Hess
5. Harmonizing Survey Data Christof Wolf, Peter Granda, Reto Hadorn.
S12 Cross‐cultural Research Practice: Challenges and the way forward to credible
Organisers: Anne Ryen, University of Agder, Norway Giampietro Gobo, University of Milan, Italy
1. Crossing culture at home? How can the cross‐cultural research reshape the ways of doing "ordinary" social sci‐ences? Piotr Bielski
2. Interview skills in cross cultural contexts. Brigitte Smit
3. An Indigenous methodological research approach and the practical application of these principles. Gwen Gosek
4. Investigating the academic achievement of indigenous and ethnic groups with the cooperation of the students’ family and friends Camille Nakhid,
5. How do we know? On exploring truth – and missing out? Anne Ryen
Wednesday, September 3rd Campus di Monte Sant'Angelo 9,30 – 11,00 Sessions S1 Macrodata Analysis
Organiser: Peter Graeff, University of Bielefeld, Germany 1. The Problem of Variable Uncertainty in Cross‐Country Research on the Determinants of Trade Union Density
Bernd Brandl 2. Does social context matter? Dealing with problems while analyzing juvenile delinquency
Susann Kunadt 3. Predicting Economic Freedom with Hofstede’s National Cultural Indices: An Application of Extreme Bound Analy‐
sis Yih‐teen Lee
4. A Multitrait Multimethod analysis to pinpoint the validity of aggregated governance indicators Robert Neumann, Peter Graeff
S2 Ethnography and the Study of Situation Organiser: Giampietro Gobo, University of Milan, Italy
1. Broad or precise gaze in doing ethnography Elina Paju
2. Ethnography and direct observation to investigate his not‐open professional field: the newsrooms of the French daily hard news press. Matthieu Lardeau
S3 Cumulative Social Science
Organiser: Ray Pawson, University of Leeds, UK 1. The Four Sociologies and Social Stratification
Fabrizio Bernardi 2. Two Stages in the Institutionalisation of Empirical Social Research in the Field of Sociology
Hynek Jerabek 3. Reconciling evidence: A simulation model public opinion change in Nazi Germany
Robert B. Smith 4. Whatever happened to middle‐range theory?
Ray Pawson
S4 Mixed modes and Measurement Errors Organisers: Gerry Nicolaas, National Centre for Social Research, UK
Steven Hope, National Centre for Social Research, UK 1. Mixed Modes and Measurement Error: An Overview
Steven Hope, Gerry Nicolaas 2. Assessing mode effects in a national crime victimization study: social desirability bias and acquiescence
Dirk Heerwegh, Geert Loosveldt 3. Mixed Modes and Mode Effects in Institutional Surveys
Brian Kleiner, Izabella Zandberg, Laurie Lewis 4. Evaluating measurement error introduced by a mixed mode design.
Remco Feskens S5 Social Indicators: Subjective Well‐Being: Issues of Measurement
Organiser: Heinz‐Herbert Noll, GESIS‐ZUMA Mannheim, Germany 1. Approaching subjective well‐being by ambulatory assessment methods
Georgios Papastefanou 2. How to introduce the notion of happiness in the measurement of quality of work‐life?
Gilles Dupuis, Jean‐Pierre Martel 3. Justice Evaluations as an Indicator of Subjective Well‐Being: Measurement Issues.
Jan Künzler, Wolfgang Walter, Matthias Heurich 4. Uses of self‐anchoring scales in web surveys
Frederik Van Acker, Peter Theuns
S6 Aided Recall Techniques in Survey Interviews II Organisers: Wander van der Vaart, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
Tina Glasner, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands 1. Improving retrospective life course data by combining modularized self‐reports and event history calendars
Katrin Drasch , Britta Matthes 2. Using a combination of methods to evaluate ELSA’s Event History Calendar
Alice McGee , Joanne Pascale 3. Evaluating the Potential Impact of Using Different Words in a Question about Daily Activities
Mickey Galin, Julian Baim, Kerry Zarnitz 4. Cognitive processes in EHC interviews
Tina Glasner, Wander van der Vaart
S7 Analysis of Panel Data Based on Complex Longitudinal Surveys I Organiser: Martin Spiess, DIW Berlin, Germany
1. Individuals in Household Panel Surveys: The importance of person‐group clustering Paul Lambert, Vernon Gayle
2. Modelling Repeated Responses to Questions on Attitudes to Gender Roles: An Analysis of British Panel data 1991‐2005 Roger Penn, Damon Berridge
3. Latent class regression models – identification and estimation Anders Holm, Morten Pedersen
4. Analyses of Juvenile Shoplifting based on Panel Data: A Comparison of Estimation Methods Jochen Wittenberg
S8 Statistical issues on data
Chair: Giuseppe Giordano, Università di Salerno,Italy 1. Dependence of data fusion’s quality of Conditional Independence Assumption’s breaking
Bozsonyi Károly, Kmetty Zoltán 2. The Problem of Missing Observations in Paired Comparisons Experiments
Regina Dittrich, Brian Francis, Reinhold Hatzinger and Walter Katzenbeisser 3. Comparison of Optimal Restricted Designs
K. Özgür Peker, Sevil Bacanlı
S9 Statistical Methods for Measuring and Modelling Effectiveness in Higher Education System Organiser: Luigi Fabbris, University of Padua, Italy Discussants: Cristiana Martini, University of Padua, Italy
Muzio Gola, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 1. Do universities and job market speak the same language?
Simona Balbi, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Giorgio Infante 2. Competences as keys for determining the coherence between professional and higher education profiles
Giovanna Boccuzzo, Luigi Fabbris 3. A composite indicator dimension reduction procedure with application to university student satisfaction
Marco Marozzi 4. A Critical Assessment of International University Ranking Systems using Sensitivity Analysis Methods
Michaela Saisana, Beatrice D’Hombres
S10 Biplots Organiser: John Gower, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
1. Assessing and Displaying Fit in Principal Component and Canonical Variate Biplots John C. Gower
2. Constructing and interacting with biplots: The BiplotGUI package for R AM la Grange, NJ le Roux and S Lubbe
3. A new method to graph six‐dimensional biplots with calibrated geometric and colorimetric data spaces Drs Eric Melse MBA
4. Biplots, bagplots, α‐bags and more . . . S Lubbe and NJ le Roux
S11 Comparative Analysis of European Microdata I Organisers: Christof Wolf, Heike Wirth, GESIS‐ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany
1. The role of age, education and employment in explaining income inequalities in the EU Márton Medgyesi
2. A cross‐countries comparison about the intergenerational transmission of economic disadvantages: evidences from the EU‐SILC data Isabella Siciliani
3. Direct and indirect recipients of social benefits within households: a comparison across EU based on EU‐SILC har‐monized statistics Silvano Vitaletti
4. Welfare states, labour market institutions and the working poor: a comparative analysis of 20 European coun‐tries Henning Lohmann
S12 Issues in Network Analysis Chair: Francesca Odella, University of Trento, Italy
1. Network measures for power structure research Luciano Brancaccio
2. A Structural Equation Model with Relational Constraints to Model Collaborative Environments Maria Rosaria D'Esposito, Giuseppe Giordano, Maria Prosperina Vitale
3. Texture vs plot? Exploring theoretical and practical issues in collection and retrieval of network data. Francesca Odella
4. Measuring Social Networks: Costs of Parsimony Sebastian Sattler, Martin Diewald
11,00 – 11,30 Coffee Break
11,30 – 13,30 Sessions S1 Interpretative video‐analysis II
Organiser: Bernt Schnettler, Technical University Berlin, Germany 1. Film and Video Interpretation with the Documentary Method
Stefan Hampl 2. How to know what can be ignored
Larissa Schindler 3. Video‐observing communication. Harassment and respect in elementary and middle schools
Vittorio Iervese 4. Identifying different practices of decision making in committees based on a video‐analytical approach
Britta Baumgarten, Anne C. Weihe 5. Analysing video‐taped interactions in fantasy role‐playing games
Regine Herbrik 6. Instructed action and video analysis: learning lessons from the lab
Philippe Sormani
S2 Re‐discovering Grounded Theory. Forty Years of the Research Practice ‐ Foundations of GT Organiser: Krzysztof Konecki, Lodz University, Poland
1. ‘Carving out’ the data: The pragmatist legacy and its consequences for grounded theory Joerg Struebing
2. Revisiting the Philosophical Foundations of Classic Grounded Theory Judith A. Holton
3. The Grounded Theory as a Strategy of Social Research. A case of “multi‐perspective researches” Ireneusz Krzemiński
4. Why the Grounded Theory remains so problematic program of sociological research? Irena Szlachcicowa
5. Applying and teaching Situational analysis Gila Schnitzer, Gerrit Loots
6. Qualitative data analysis within GTM using NVivo7 Luca Ghirotto
S3 Causality Organiser: Ray Pawson, University of Leeds, UK
1. How much do you want to avoid Simpson's paradox? Rudas Tamas
2. Sociology of Poverty Reduction Compared with Growth Modelling: New Methods and New Results Wendy Olsen, Hisako Nomura
3. Because: exemplars of causal analysis and reporting Patricia Rogers
4. Causality and Indeterminacy in Evolutionary Models Georg Muller
5. Estimating Causal Effects from Non‐Experimental Data with Treatment Effect Selection Models Michael Gebel
6. Causality for Beginners Ray Pawson
S4 Multi‐Mode Survey Design and Practice
Organiser: Ken Reed, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia 1. Evaluating the impact of data collection mode upon response variation in subjective surveys: the MODE ARTS
systematic review. Kerenza Hood, Giles Greene, David Ingledew, Rhys Ivins, Mubasiru Lamidid, Mike Robling, Ian Russell, Lesley Sand‐er, Adrian Sayers, Chris Shaw, John Williams
2. Challenges in adapting face‐to‐face questionnaires for mixed mode data collection Caroline Roberts,Gillian Eva
3. Guidelines for Designing Questionnaires for Administration in Different Modes Jennifer Hunter Childs
4. Analysis of mode effects and measurement error between a face‐to‐face and self‐completion health survey Sarah Tipping, Steven Hope and Kevin Pickering
5. Parallel Phone and Web‐based Interviews: Effects of Sample and Weighting on Comparability and Validity. Randall K. Thomas, David Krane, Humphrey Taylor, George Terhanian
6. Survey mode effects in smoking status assessment Emily Burns, Arnold Levinson
S5 Social Indicators: Social Indicators and Subjective Well‐Being – Selected Issues Organiser: Heinz‐Herbert Noll, GESIS‐ZUMA Mannheim, Germany
1. Basic Cultural Values and Job Satisfaction Scott Fargher, Stefan Kesting, Thomas Lange, Gail Pacheco
2. Joint scientific, methodological and practical usefulness of multivariate interpretation of Laeken indicators in terms of subjective well‐being Karolina Keler
3. Measuring Poverty and Living Conditions in Italy through a Combined Analysis at a Sub‐National Level Claudio Quintano, Rosalia Castellano, Gennaro Punzo
4. Poverty Measurement in the Spanish Basque Country: New Statistic Indicators and Detection of Social Change Luis Sanzo González
5. Socio‐Demographic Vulnerability of Youth A. Busetta, A. M. Milito
6. Indexes for the monitoring of social cooperatives’ relational behaviour Laura Palombo, Luca Bartoli
S6 Data for Historical Sociology and for Analyzing Long‐Term Social Processes II
Organiser: Nina Baur, Technical University Berlin, Germany 1. Television Commercials as a Good Source for Tracking Socio‐Cultural Change. Methodological Notes on the Use of
Process generated Data, particularly with regard to Gatekeepers Stefan Bauernschmidt
2. How Historians Deal With Visual Process‐Generated Data: a Case Study Walter J. Fuchs
3. Using Internet Pages of Organisations as Data Source for Social Science Research Britta Baumgarten, Jonas Grauel
4. Discovering Long‐Term Social Processes: Content Analysis of Popular Literature Stefanie Ernst
5. Emotions of Commanders and Officers and their Control in War and Peace. Data and Problems of Data Collection in the Case of the Habsburg Army from 1800 to 1918 Helmut Kuzmics
6. Scientific Articles as Source for Social Science Research Markus Ziegler
S7 Analysis of Panel Data Based on Complex Longitudinal Surveys II
Organiser: Martin Spiess, DIW Berlin, Germany 1. Predicting Latino Youth Academic Success From A Normative Cultural‐Ecological Perspective
Cidhinnia M. Torres Campos 2. Stability of Constructs in Panel Studies – A PLS Path Analysis of Satisfaction with Life with Data from the German
Aging Survey Jörg Betzin
3. A Selection Model for Panel Data: The Prospects of Green Party Support Martin Spiess and Martin Kroh
4. Labor Market Outcomes of Spatially Mobile Couples: Who Gains, who Loses? Evidence on Germany (SOEP 1992‐2006) Natascha Nisic
S8 Children as Respondents in Surveys I
Organiser: Marek Fuchs, University of Kassel, Germany 1. Using a cognitive interviewing approach to understand adolescent self‐ and caregiver‐proxy reports about
asthma Christy Houle
2. ‘Your Old Man’s a Dustman?’ The accuracy of young people’s reports of parental occupations Iain Noble, Nick Moon
3. Children and their fathers: Different perspectives on the same family Claudia Zerle, Andreas Lange, Christian Alt
4. Interviewer‐respondent interactions in face‐to‐face interviews with children and juveniles. Results from a field‐experimental behavior coding study Marek Fuchs
5. Cognitive capacities and their influence on the response behaviour of primary school children in questionnaire surveys Daniela Schmeinck
6. Children as Respondents ‐ Results from the German Mobility Survey (MiD 2002) Birgit Jesske, Robert Follmer
S9 Stochastic Differential Equations Organiser: Hermann Singer, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany
1. SDE: a program package for the simulation, optimal filtering and maximum likelihood estimation of nonlinear Stochastic Differential Equations
Hermann Singer 2. Spatial econometric methods in continuous time modeling of panel data with latent variables
Han Oud, Henk Folmer and Roberto Patuelli, Peter N. Nijkamp 3. Bayesian estimation of an Ornstein‐Uhlenbeck process based hierarchical model
Zita Oravecz, Francis Tuerlinckx 4. Functional parameter estimation in SDE: On merging state space and FDA methodology
René Hempel, Lutz‐Michael Alisch
S10 Geometric Data Analysis: Culture and Education Organiser/Chair: Brigitte Le Roux, Université Paris Descartes, France Frédéric Lebaron
1. A Teacher Student Habitus? Homogeneity and Heterogeneity Investigated by Geometric Data Analysis Emil Bertilsson
2. Transnational Educational Strategies among Swedish Students in Paris How to Combine Survey Data with Inter‐view Material in the Framework of Geometric Data Analysis Mikael Börjesson
3. Heterogeneity in the expenditure behavior across households: the Italian case Francesco Chelli, Chiara Gigliarano, Elvio Mattioli
4. Using Geometric Data Analysis in Comparative Studies of Educational Spaces Ida Lidegran, Donald Broady
5. To Enter or Not to Enter the Stage. Geometric Data Analysis of Applicants to the National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm, 2007 Andreas Melldahl
6. Opera audience in Flanders. Cultural and/or economic elite? Henk Roose, Daan Vandenhaute
S11 Comparative Analysis of European Microdata II Organisers: Christof Wolf, Heike Wirth, GESIS‐ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany
1. Assessing the distributional impact of “imputed rent” and “non‐cash employee income” in microdata: Case stud‐ies based on EU‐SILC (2004) and SOEP (2002) Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka
2. Large Scale Samples for Small Areas: A critical assessment of EU‐SILC and LFS data for Austria, Denmark and Italy Matthias Till, Justus Henke
3. Using the European LFS to anticipate changing skill needs Rob Wilson
4. Migration Estimation based on the Labour Force Survey: An EU‐15 Perspective Mónica Martí, Carmen Ródenas
5. Methodology development using linked surveys to analyse ICT impact at firm and industry level in 13 EU National Statistics Institutes Tony Clayton, Eric Bartelsman, Mark Franklin
6. Impact of ICT indicators on productivity and growth across 33 industries in 13 EU countries Mark Franklin, Eric Bartelsman, Tony Clayton
S12 Making Qualitative Data More Re‐Usable: defining and capturing context and representation
Organisers: Louise Corti, UK Data Archive, UK Irena Medjedović, University Bremen, Germany
1. You say context, I say metadata… Libby Bishop
2. You say Secondary Analysis … Working & Re‐working Qualitative data through the Prism of Time Bren Neale
3. Approaching ‘project‐context’. Institutional and methodological effects of the project design on the issue of con‐text Irena Medjedović, Andreas Witzel
4. Representing qualitative data for secondary analysis: standardization versus paradigmatics Nigel Fielding
5. Limits for Contextual Information Arja Kuula
13,30 – 14,30 Lunch Break
14,30 – 16,00 Sessions
S1 The choice of indicators
Organisers: Alberto Marradi, Unversity of Florence, Italy Dora Gambardella, Università “Federico II” di Napoli, Italy
1. Context dependence and across group variability: their relevance for the choice of indicators and of their scalabil‐ity Maria Carmela Agodi, Giuseppe Giampaglia
2. Indicators to measure social inclusion: internationalisation ‐vs‐ localization. Biagio Aragona
3. Trust, a fuzzy proxy ? Towards the integration of social survey methods and sociology of knowledge Patrick Italiano, Frédéric Heselmans, Christophe Lejeune
4. Time budget analysis for the study of spatio‐temporal mobility. Results of empirical research in the Milan metro‐politan area Francesca Zajczyk, Matteo Colleoni
S2 Re‐discovering Grounded Theory. Forty Years of the Research Practice ‐ Application of GT in Sensitive contexts Organiser: Krzysztof Konecki, Lodz University, Poland
1. The Conflicts Between Grounded Theory Requirements and Institutional Requirements for Scientific Research Jason Luckerhoff
2. The grounded theory as the methodology of research on mobbing Piotr Chomczynski
3. Application of grounded theory methodology to study of difficult problems like prostitution Izabela Ślęzak
4. Application of GT procedures to the study of intellectual disability Jakub Niedbalski
S3 Information and Evaluation I Organisers: H. Peter Ohly, GESIS Social Science Information Centre, Bonn, Germany Maximilian Stempfhuber, GESIS Social Science Information Centre, Bonn, Germany
1. Quality and Information – an introduction H. Peter Ohly
2. An evaluation of Bradfordizing effects in multiple social science databases Philipp Mayr
3. PIM @ Academia: How Email is used by Scholars Eric Zimmerman, Judit Bar‐Ilan
4. Innovative Scientometric Methods for a Continuous Monitoring of Research Activities in Social Sciences
Werner Dees
S4 Cognitive Methods to Pretest Questionnaires: Combining Cognitive Interviews with Other Pretesting Methods Organisers: Gordon Willis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA
Ger Snijkers, Statistics Netherlands & Utrecht University, The Netherlands 1. Testing self‐administered questionnaires – views from the inside and outside
Karen Blanke, Britta Gauckler 2. Monitoring as a Method to develop, evaluate and improve Questionnaires
Pernilla Andersson, Anette Björnram 3. Statistics Finland’s cognitive laboratory’s experiences in pretesting EU Labour Force Survey 2010 Ad Hoc Module
Marjaana Järvensivu 4. Development of survey questions on sexual identity
Amanda Wilmot, Joe Traynor
S5 Social Indicators: Subjective Well‐Being: Issues of Data Analysis Organiser: Heinz‐Herbert Noll, GESIS‐ZUMA Mannheim, Germany
1. Choice of subjective weights for subjective variables: Identifying subjective/individualized weights for comparing well‐being among group and individuals Filomena Maggino, Elena Ruviglioni
2. Regional context of subjective and objective living conditions in Poland – a rationale for “inversely proportional” indexes Krzysztof Zagorski, L. Kozminski
3. A Functional Measurement Study into the Contribution of Life Domains in Ratings of Subjective Well‐Being Peter Theuns, Frederik Van Acker, Jande Beyst
S6 Process Generated Data: Measurement Quality, Triangulating Data and Mixing Methods Organiser: Nina Baur, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
1. Indian Trajectories to Portuguese Territory. Methodological Questions Helena Sant’ana 2. Triangulating Traditional (Census Data) and Novel Sources (Family Genealogy, Marriage Records and Oral Histo‐
ries) in Historical Sociology to Explore Behind a Paradigmatic „Wall” Janette Olivia Young
3. Social Web Data as a Source for Social Science Research. The Example of a German Online Dating Website Jan Skopek, Andreas Schmitz
4. The Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP):Description and Evaluation of the Manifesto Data Andrea Volkens, Judith Bara, Ian Budge
S7 Multidimensional scaling for visualization of longitudinal data Organiser: Mark de Rooij, Leiden University, The Netherlands
1. Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling of Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Akinori Okada
2. Multidimensional Scaling in Longitudinal Analysis: Investigating Growth Mixture. Cody Ding 3. Model Selection for Trend Vector Models with Longitudinal Multinomial Outcomes
Hsiu Ting Yu, Mark de Rooij 4. Transitional ideal point models for longitudinal multinomial outcomes
Mark de Rooij
S8 Mobile Phones and other ICT's for Survey Data Collection Organiser: Marek Fuchs, University of Kassel, Germany
1. DHS CAPI Data Collection Model Using PDAs Guillermo Rojas
2. Mobile Web Survey Design Andy Peytchev, Craig Hill
3. The relative Coverage Error in Telephone Surveys caused by Mobile‐Only Populations across Europe Marek Fuchs
4. Modern Telephony, the Web and Survey Management Randall J. Olsen
S9 Combining data from different sources Organiser: Susanne Rässler, University of Bamberg, Germany
1. Integration of survey and administrative data in official statistics Cristina Calizzani, Emilio Di Meglio
2. Multiple imputation of missing register data in record‐linked data sets Gerhard Krug
3. Data fusion as a missing data problem Julia Cielebak, Susanne Rässler
4. Transfer of variables between different data‐sets, or: Taking ‘previous research’ seriously Bojan Todosijević
S10 Measuring Human Capital Organisers: Giorgio Vittadini, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Piergiorgio Lovaglio, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy 1. On the Measurement of Wage Mobility and its Decomposition
Jacques Silber, Michal Weber 2. Human capital and work career: measurement methods
G. Vittadini, P. Lovaglio 3. Wage Volatility and Human Capital
Michael McAleer, Daniel Slottje
S11 Assessing Equivalence of Constructs in a Cross‐cultural or over Time Perspective I Organisers: Eldad Davidov, University of Cologne and of Mannheim
Bart Meuleman, University of Leuven, Belgium Peter Schmidt, University of Gießen, Germany
1. Cross‐national comparison of anti‐immigrant attitudes: Test of construct equivalence Peer Scheepers, William van der Veld, Marcel Coenders
2. Assessing cross‐national equivalence in survey measurement of tourist satisfaction: A comparative study of selected slovenian hotels Tanja Dmitrović, Maja Makovec Brenčič, Vesna Žabkar, Irena Ograjenšek
3. European attitudes towards immigration, 2002 ‐ 2007. A cross‐country and cross‐time comparison Bart Meuleman, Eldad Davidov
4. A suggestion for a technical possible solution to the technical problems of large multiple group models Daniel Oberski
S12 Computer aided analysis of human communication ‐ projects and methodology
Organiser: Harald Klein, University of Osnabrueck, Germany 1. Methodological Challenges and Novel Solutions to Document Analysis in the QUING Research Project
Tamas Dombos, Mieke Verloo 2. Value change in Germany from 1950 to 2005
Harald Klein 3. Integration of quantitative and qualitative analyses of text
Normand Peladeau 4. Software features for qualitative analysis. A methodological and epistemological experiment with Cassandre
Christophe Lejeune
16,00 – 16,30 Coffee Break
16,30 – 18,30 Sessions
S1 Postcolonial/Indigenous Research Methodologies: Philosophy and Theory in Postcolonial/Indigenous Research Methodologies Organisers: Bagele Chilisa, University of Botswana
Gert van der Weshuizen Johannersburg University, South Africa Donna Mertens, Gallaudet University, USA
1. Postcolonial Indigenous Research Methodologies: Theoretical and Philosophical Underpinnings Bagele Chilisa
2. Social Transformation and Research Ethics Donna M. Mertens
3. Being indigenous and in‐between a rock and a hard place: Parallel research processes in New Zealand. Hazel Phillips, Fiona Cram, Murray Parsons, Trina Taupo, Bevan Tipene‐Matua, Te Ari Prendergast
4. What colour is your theory? Helen Moewaka Barnes
5. From Theory to Practice: Indigenous Research Methodologies Alex Wilson
S2 Re‐discovering Grounded Theory. Forty Years of the Research Practice ‐ Transdisciplinarity and GT & Cultural con‐
text in GT applications Organiser/Chair: Krzysztof Konecki, Lodz University, Poland
Judith Holton, Mount Allison University, Canada 1. Grounded theory as interdisciplinary methodology
Markieta Domecka, Monika Rychtáriková, Gerrit Vermeir 2. Back to Basics of Coding Drudgery. How Plodding Through a Data Constructs Basis for Transdisciplinary
Grounded Theories Lukas T. Marciniak
3. Translating and doing GT in another language Massimiliano Tarozzi
4. GTM in Canada and European francophone research Alain Colsoul
5. Chinese studies’ methodological issues in light of Grounded Theory and Actor‐Network‐Theory Basile Zimmermann
S3 Information and Evaluation II
Organisers: H. Peter Ohly, GESIS Social Science Information Centre, Bonn, Germany Maximilian Stempfhuber, GESIS Social Science Information Centre, Bonn, Germany
1. Multi‐method approaches to research evaluation – experiences and results from the evaluation of the prestige DFG‐funding programme “Emmy Noether” Susan Böhmer, Stefan Hornbostel
2. Chaotic Web: The challenge of Misinformation and Disinformation Hamid Keshavarz
3. Evaluating knowledge work at the university‐industry interface Elena Chukhlantseva
4. Use of research results in policymaking – Preconditions & Challenges. Experiences from two policy fields in Aus‐tria Angela Wroblewski
5. CRIS as a means for supporting information quality in the context of evaluation Max Stempfhuber
6. A Semantic approach to optimize multimedia information retrieval; the value of annotation and information use context Maghrebi Hanene, David Amos
S4 Cognitive Methods to Pretest Questionnaires: Improving Cognitive Interviewing
Organisers: Gordon Willis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA Ger Snijkers, Statistics Netherlands & & Utrecht University, The Netherlands
1. Cognitive Interviewing: “State‐of‐the‐Art” Versus “State‐of‐the‐Science” Gordon Willis, Ger Snijkers
2. Analysis of the current state and future trends in “Cognitive Methods to Pretest Questionnaires” from a bibli‐ometric approach Castillo Miguel, Padilla, José‐Luis, Gómez, Juana
3. Cognitive interviewing in mixed‐ability contexts: pretesting a survey on arts attendance Astrid Van Steen, John Lievens
4. Identifying sources of error in cross‐national questionnaires: a new tool and scheme Michelle Gray, Rory Fitzgerald, Sally Widdop, Margaret Blake
5. How to organize different findings from cognitive interviews Andreas Persson
6. Does Cognitive Interviewing Matter? Testing the Effects of Cognitive Methods on Data Quality Astrid Schüßler, Peter Schmidt
S5 Sorting and Categorisation Organisers: Anthony P. M. Coxon, University of Edinburgh, UK
1. Adjusted Residuals as a process of visualising “distinction” among Categories Maria Vitoria Mourao
2. Evaluation of the professional profile of municipal directors using non‐parametric methods to measure concor‐dance between rankings
Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro, Mario Bolzan 3. Tribalism and Categorisation of the Other: A sorting study of Northern Irish Identity
Adrian Stringer, Tony Coxon
4. Sorting – methods, models and some perspectives Joachim Harloff
5. Subject variations in sorting data: Revisiting the Points‐of‐View model David Bimler
S6 Process Generated Data: Measurement Quality and Handling Production Bias of Administrational and Survey Data Organisers: Nina Baur, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
1. Social or Institutional Change? The Effects of Welfare State Reforms on the Rise and Decline of Unemployment and Care‐Giving in the Longitudinal Data of the German Pension Fund Tatjana Mika
2. Consequences of National and Temporal Differences in Definition of Concepts in Register Data. The Case of Un‐employment Thomas Kruppe
3. Applying Recent Occupation Concepts to Historical U.S. Census Data Peter Meyer
4. Testing and Constructing Ethnicity Variables in Late 19th Century Censuses from Northern Norway Gunnar Thorvaldsen
5. Effects of Changes in Data Collection Mode on Data Quality in Administrative Data. A Methodological Case Study based on German Labour Market Data Christian Seysen
6. The Effects of Different Scales in Fifty Years of German Readership Research – Using Media‐Analyse Data for Longitudinal Analysis Maria Ehrenberg, Maren Risel
S7 Panel Analysis Organisers: Jost Reinecke, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Christian Tarnai, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany 1. Exploring the Analysis of Panel Data in a Multilevel Modelling Framework
Alinne Veiga,Peter W F Smith, James J Brown 2. Comparing the effect of retrospective vs. longitudinal questionnaire design ‐ a capture‐recapture application in
panel survey Balogh Aniko
3. Multiple Membership Modelling of Changing Household Membership and Place of Residence in Poverty Panel Data Marc Callens
4. Iterative Estimation Correcting for Error Autocorrelation in Short Panels Rembert De Blander
5. The development of juvenile violence in a longitudinal perspective: Structural equation modeling with panel data using continuous and categorical latent variables Daniela Pollich
6. A growth curve model of quality of life among older: results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Paola Zaninotto, Emanuela Falaschetti
S8 Children as Respondents in Surveys II Organiser: Marek Fuchs, University of Kassel, Germany
1. Consequences of measurement errors in students' reports of parental socio‐economic status Stephanie Eckman, Frauke Kreuter, Maaz Kai, Rainer Watermann
2. What do children and young people think about taking part in surveys? Caroline Bryson, Rachel Ormston
3. Determinants of participation and response quality in the NLSY79 Child surveys Paula C. Baker
4. Children between the age of 5 and 11: Competent Respondents in Interviews? Susanne Vogl
5. Mode effect and the data quality when respondents are young children Barbara N. Brecko, Vasja Vehovar
6. Telephone interviews with children. A new approach in child research? Boris Geier, Andrea G. Müller
S9 Applications and Problems in the Application of the Autoregressive Latent Trajectory Model Organiser: Han Oud, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherland
1. Autoregressive latent trajectory models and problems of model complexity Manuel C. Voelkle
2. The use and interpretation of the ALT‐Model for the Analysis of Change in Adolescent Aggression
Marc Delsing, Johannes Landsheer 3. Analyzing reciprocal relationships by means of the continuous‐time autoregressive latent trajectory (CALT) mod‐
el Johan Oud
4. Generalized space time autoregressive canonical model Budi Nurani Ruchjana, Sutawanir Darwis
5. Three approaches to analyzing panel data: Latent growth curve models, autoregressive models and stochastic differential equations Peter Schmidt, Eldad Davidov
S10 Statistical methods for regulatory impact analysis Organiser: C. Lauro, Università “Federico II” di Napoli, Italy G. Scepi, Università “Federico II” di Napoli, Italy
1. Mapping of quantified categorical variables and their modalities in PLS Regression framework Giorgio Russolillo
2. Wine making and viticulture in Sicily: an empirical analysis Andrea Consoli, Rosario La Rosa, Maurizio Caserta, Maria Musumeci
3. PLS path modeling in the presence of multilevel data: application of the Balanced Scorecard in a corporate health. Riccardo Cirillo, Giorgio Vittadini
4. Some remarks on nonlinear relationships in PLS Path Modeling Salvatore Ingrassia, Laura Trinchera
5. ALS applied to PLS path modeling with qualitative variables Maria Gabriella Grassia, Raffaele Miele, Daniela Nappo
6. A Conjoint Analysis based strategy for the ex‐ante evaluation of regulatory impact Carlo Lauro, Germana Scepi
S11 Assessing Equivalence of Constructs in a Cross‐cultural or over Time Perspective II Organisers: Eldad Davidov, University of Cologne and of Mannheim
Bart Meuleman, University of Leuven, Belgium Peter Schmidt, University of Gießen, Germany
1. Measurement Equivalence and Extreme Response Bias in the Comparison of Attitudes across Europe. A Multi‐group Latent Class Factor Approach Miloš Kankaraš, Guy Moors
2. An extended multigroup latent class model for detecting of and correcting for extreme response style Meike Morren
3. Effect of the Response Scale on the Assessment of Behavioural Emotional Intelligence Joan Manel Batista‐Foguet, Laura Guillén, Willem Saris, Ricard Serlavós, Richard Boyatzis.
4. Latent Growth Curve and Gompertz Function: testing the measurement invariance Marisa Civardi, Emma Zavarrone
5. Analyzing Relationships between Individualism, Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and Authoritarianism in Flanders by Means of the Continuous Time EDM/SEM Model Toni Toharudin, Henk Folmer, Jaak B. Billiet
6. Visual Analogue Scales in Cross Cultural Web Surveys Randall K. Thomas, Ulf‐Dietrich Reips, Frederik Funke
S12 Trust and Trustworthiness Organisers: Patrick Sturgis, University of Surrey, UK
1. Exploring the Moderating Effect of Gender on Predictors of Social Trust Sarah Bulloch
2. Unobserved differences in the meaning and measurement of generalised political trust Daniel Oberski, Willem Saris, Jacques Hagenaars.
3. How do Interaction Effects Explain Political Trust? A Comparative Approach Kyrre T. Moe, Maria Bakke Orvik, and Åse Gilje Østensen,
4. Citizens' evaluations of biotechnology actors: generalised or particularised trust? Nick Allum
5. The sour grapes of the digital‐divided people: Information and communication technologies and the construction of trust Anna Fici and Gianna Cappello
6. Ethnic Diversity and Trust in the UK: exploring the moderating effect of economic deprivation Patrick Sturgis, Sanna Read
Thursday, September 4th Campus di Monte Sant'Angelo 9,30 – 11,00 Sessions
S1 Postcolonial/Indigenous Research Methodologies: Representation and Voice in Postcolonial Indigenous Research Organisers: Bagele Chilisa, University of Botswana
Gert van der Weshuizen Johannersburg University, South Africa Donna Mertens, Gallaudet University, USA
1. Giving Voice in Representing the other: Challenges from research experiences in Botswana Peggy Gabo Ntseane
2. Toward an autonomous African sociology: Are qualitative methods worthy for a better understanding of con‐temporary African societies? Ibrahima Amadou Dia
3. Proposal: Researching Alutiiq Mask as Alutiiq descendant Nadia Jackinsky‐Horrell
4. Feeling like a rock in a fast river: conceptualising societal privilege in Aotearoa/New Zealand within an indige‐nous knowledge paradigm Belinda Borell
S2 Re‐discovering Grounded Theory. Forty Years of the Research Practice ‐ Practical aspects of GT developments I Organiser/Chair: Krzysztof Konecki, Lodz University, Poland Lukas Marciniak, Lodz University, Poland
1. Codes and categories in rock climbers’ social world analysis Anna Kacperczyk
2. The use of Grounded Theory in Entrepreneurship research” Beata Glinka, Svetlana Gudkova
3. What do we study studying body? Methodological problems in embodiment research Dominika Byczkowska
4. Flexy‐interview strategies and Grounded Theory Method Matteo Artoni
S3 Graphical Modeling
Organiser: Nanny Wermuth, Chalmers/Gothenburg University, Sweden 1. Models for life course analysis
Bianca L De Stavola 2. Multiple Imputation of Missing Data using Chained Equations: A Simulation Study on a Binary Response
Jochen Hardt 3. Graphical models of multivariate regression for discrete variables
Monia Lupparelli, Giovanni M. Marchetti 4. On distortions induced by selection in graphical Gaussian models and binary response models
Elena Stanghellini
S4 Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction Organiser: Andreas Pöge, University of Bielefeld, Germany
1. Open Source Clustering Arne Bethmann, Knut Wenzig
2. Cluster‐Weighted Modeling versus Finite Mixtures of Regression Models for Modelling Homogenous Sub‐Populations Simona C. Minotti, G. Vittadini
3. Wavelets and Principal Components Regression Salwa Ben Ammou, Nabiha Haouas, and Zied Kacem
4. Correspondence Analysis with Incomplete Paired Data: A Bayesian approach Jules J. S. De Tibeiro and Duncan J. Murdoch
S5 Visualization of Social Network Data Organiser: Lothar Krempel , MPI Cologne, Germany
1. Networks of Science in the 18th Century Lothar Krempel, Stefan Hächler, Marion Ruisinger, Martin Stuber
2. Community and Task Structures in Open Source Projects Sam Zeini
3. Visualization Techniques for Ensembles of Social Networks Juergen Lerner, Ulrik Brandes, Miranda J. Lubbers, Chris McCarty, Jose Luis Molina
4. Globalization and Sports: the Case of Soccer Wolfgang Neurath
S6 Archiving, Accessing and Sampling Data for Longitudinal Analysis Organiser: Nina Baur, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
1. Preserving Data for Long Term Analyses Marc Abrahamson, Ken Bollen, Myron Gutmann, Gary King, Amy M Pienta
2. Oral History As Process Generated Data: Subjectivity, Memory, Retrospectivity, and Narrativity Alexander Freund
3. Working with Intermediate Structures as a Condition for Easy Building of Datasets from Historical Longitudinal Databases Kees Mandemakers
4. Making Archives Available to Public and Archival Tools to Support Research Spyridoula Arathymou
S7 Time Series Analysis
Organisers: Rainer Metz, GESIS‐ZA, Cologne, Germany Christoph Birkel, Martin‐Luther‐Universität Halle‐Wittenberg, Germany
1. The Control of Factors in the Impact Evaluation with Time Series Analysis Francisco Alvira, Francisca Blanco
2. From Non‐stationary Time Series to Non‐stationary Panels: An Overview with an Application to the Analysis of Crime Rates
Christoph Birkel 3. Analyzing Regimes Changes in Time Series with Regression Trees
Carmela Cappelli; Francesca Di Iorio 4. Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates: The Impact of Sentence Reforms in Virginia
Sunčica Vujić, Siem Jan Koopman
S8 The Use of the Internet in Social Research Organisers: Dick Wiggins, University of London, UK
Jonathan Elford, City University, London, UK 1. Use of the Internet as a data collection tool: a methodological investigation of online synchronous interviews
Alison Evans, Jonathan Elford, Dick Wiggins 2. Open‐ended questions and online surveys: the mode effect in relation to length of responses and item non‐
responses rates Martyn Denscombe
3. Example of Web Query Log Based Sociology: Japan through Queries of Russian and U.S. Searchers Nikolai Buzikashvili
4. New survey strategies for radio: the RFM's "Ouvinte Mais" case study Paulo Cordeiro
S9 Non response on Surveys I
Organiser: John Goyder, University of Waterloo, Canada 1. ISSP participation, Citizenship 2004, and National Identity 2003: Drop‐off questionnaires within the German
General Social Survey (ALLBUS 2004) Volker Hüfken 2. The Effects of Interviewer Attitudes toward Surveys on Unit Nonresponse: A Mode Comparison
Su‐hao Tu 3. The Effect of Non‐response on Survey Estimates in a National Survey of Gambling Behaviour and Attitudes in
Britain Heather Wardle, Bob Erens and Shaun Scholes.
4. Response and Non‐response in a Two‐nation Business Survey Karsten Boye Rasmussen, Heiko Thimm
S10 PLS – Path Modelling Organiser: Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, ESSEC Business School, France
1. Projection properties of the PLS path model approach and conclusions to interpretations – is formative or reflec‐tive modeling possible? Jörg Betzin
2. A Partial Least Squares comprehensive environment: The contribution of PLS Regression to PLS Path Modelling via a software implementation
Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi 3. A global optimization approach toformative‐reflective path modelling Marco Fattore, Matteo Pelagatti, Giorgio Vittadini 4. Clustering Units in Formative PLS Path Modeling
Laura Trinchera
S11 Testing criteria for the equivalence of measurement instruments Organiser: Willem Saris, ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain
1. The Cross‐National Incomparability of the Trust in People scale William M. van der Veld
2. An assessment of cross‐cultural measurement of political trust using specialized software Daniel Oberski 3. Testing criteria for the equivalence of measurement instruments for cross cultural research
Willem Saris 4. Testing measurement invariance on Interest in Political Issues in the Media.
Lluis Coromina
S12 Mixed Methods Chair: Susan Berkowitz, Westat, USA
1. To Mix and Not to Mix Methods? That is the Question “ Susan Berkowitz, Izabella Zandberg
2. The Quantitative Methods in Sociology: Difficulties of a Research Methodology Jaime Fonseca
3. Sampling Method in Surveys a Function of Socio‐political Sphere More Accuracy of Parameter Estimation by Non‐probability Sampling Methods Vahid Ghasemi
11,00 – 11,30 Coffee Break
11,30 – 13,30 Sessions
S1 Managing "Vulnerability" in Social Research Organiser: Carole Truman, University of Bolton, UK
1. Perspectives on Vulnerability in Social Research Carole Truman
2. Elicitation of user perspectives regarding past events through ’active listening’: necessity, risky business, pana‐cea? Sirkka Komulainen
3. Respondent ‘Vulnerability', Moral Gatekeeping and Social Responsibility: Reflections on Doing Samsui Women Research Kelvin E.Y. Low
4. On the ‘Vulnerability’ of the Social Researcher Noorman Abdullah
5. The stories of adoptive gay parents about acceptance and discrimination in the pre‐school of their child or child‐ren Qui Leong, Stanley Pon, Dunbar Krge, Gert van der Westhuizen
S2 Re‐discovering Grounded Theory. Forty Years of the Research Practice ‐ Practical aspects of GT developments II Organiser/Chair: Krzysztof Konecki, Lodz University, Poland Lukas Marciniak, Lodz University, Poland
1. Coding Families for Visual Analysis. Visual Grounded Theory applications in the research of everyday live Konecki Krzysztof
2. The writing Method in Grounded theory Enrica Tedeschi
3. Research Process as a Trajectory Marek Gorzko
4. Grounded Theory: An interpretative device for measuring frames Eduard Moreno Gabriel, Jordi Sanz Porras, Gemma Flores Pons, Rosa Deulofeu i Vilarnau, Margarita Sanromà Fernàndez
5. Case study and the grounded theory Beata Pawłowska
6. Grounded Theory Research on How Researchers Use Electronic Spaces for Synchronous Dialogue
François Guillemette, Ann Dale
S3 Issues in Statistical Modelling Chair: Claudio Quintano, Università “Parthenope”, Napoli, Italy
1. The Use of Survey Variables in Explanatory Statistical Models of Non‐Adequate Response Behavior Frank Faulbaum
2. Comparing methods of parameter estimation for Coxian phase –type distribution Marshall A.H., Zenga MA
3. Diffusion processes as models in social sciences. A review and some new challenges Ilia Negri
4. “Goodness of fit tests for the extreme value distribution based on Regression, EDF and the Stabilized probability plot” Mir Nabi Pirouzi Fard
5. A fuzzy clustering approach to improve the accuracy of Italian student data. An experimental procedure to cor‐rect the impact of the outliers on assessment test scores Claudio Quintano, Rosalia Castellano, Sergio Longobardi
S4 New developments in Randomized Response
Organiser: P. van der Heijden, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 1. Randomized response, statistical disclosure control and e‐commerce
Peter G.M. van der Heijden, Ulf Bockenholt 2. Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Randomized Response Technique and the Item Count Method in the Tele‐
phone Survey Mode Ivar Krumpal
3. The randomized response loglinear model as a composite link model Ardo van den Hout, Robert Gilchrist, Peter G.M. van der Heijden
4. Trend analysis for repeated cross‐sectional randomized response data Laurence E. Frank, Ardo van den Hout, Peter G. M. van der Heijden
5. Randomized response models that account for self‐protective answers Maarten Cruyff
S5 Network Dynamics: Models, Methods, Results
Organisers: Tom A.B. Snijders, University of Oxford, UK Christian Steglich, University of Groningen The Netherlands
1. Scale‐free properties and dynamics of large social networks Fruzsina Albert, Károly Bozsonyi, Beáta Dávid
2. Dynamics of political polarization Delia Baldassari, Peter Barman
3. Evolution of Brokerage Roles among Agenda Setters Dimitris Christopoulos
4. Modelling co‐authorship network data Giulia Rivellini, Susanna Zaccarin
5. Models for analysing dynamics of valued networks Christian Steglich, Tom A.B. Snijders
6. Similarity, Perceived Similarity and Selection: Tie generation mechanisms in an evolving social network Vanina Torlo’, Pietro Panzarasa
S6 Modelling Macro‐behavior Chair: Guido Martinotti, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
1. Theories, models and tools for the analysis of human behaviour in meta‐cities Armando Bazzani, Bruno Giorgini, Guido Martinotti, Sandro Rambaldi
2. Legal policies for the sustainability of the Information Society Noemi Olivera, Araceli N. Proto , Francisco Redelico
3. Counterfactuals and Punctuated Equilibrium Theory: Finding Evidence of Entrepreneurship in Non‐market Con‐
texts Gordon E. Shockley
4. Simulating Labour Supply: A Lifetime Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension Jinjing Li, Denisa Maria
S7 Methodological Innovations in ongoing Household Panel Studies
Organisers: Juergen Schupp, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany Peter Lynn, University of Essex, UK
1. “Methodology of Household Panel Surveys in Latin America: the State of the Art and the Next Steps” José R. Zubizarreta
2. Claims versus evidence. An evaluation of dependent interviewing Emanuela Sala, S. C. Noah Uhrig
3. Measuring Trust: Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination – Empirical Evidence from SOEP and BHPS Michael Naef, Jürgen Schupp, Tom Siedler
4. Beyond the household ‐ accessibility of Partners and Parents outside of the household for panel studies Laura Castiglioni, Ulrich Krieger, Klaus Pforr
5. Imputation of annual income in panel surveys with partially non‐responding households Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh‐Samberg
S8 Issues in Survey Methodology Chair: Germana Scepi, Università “Federico II” di Napoli, Italy
1. Assessing the relative influence of interviewer and area differences on reported levels of fear of crime: A cross‐classified multilevel analysis of the British Crime Survey Ian Brunton‐Smith
2. Challenges in developing a new approach to the survey measurement of disability Fiona Glen, Roeland Beerten & Tom Howe
3. Effect of question‐structure on survey results of sensitive questions Zoltán Kmetty, Gábor Jelenfi, Gergely Rosta
4. The Analysis of large‐scale retail trade groups customer satisfaction: a comparison between CAPI and PAPI data collection methods Antonino Mario Oliveri, Anna Maria Parroco
S9 Non response on Surveys II Organiser: John Goyder, University of Waterloo, Canada
1. How Many Mailouts? Could Attempts to Increase the Response Rate in the Iraq War Cohort Study be Counter‐Productive? A Rosemary Tate, M..Jones , R. Rona , S. Wessely , M. Hotopf.
2. Regional Variation in Survey Nonresponse: The Case of Germany Nina Baur
3. Using Seed Samples to Estimate Response Propensity among a Low Incidence Population Stacey Bielick, Lina Guzman
4. An Investigation of Interviewer Effects on Household Nonresponse in Six UK Government Surveys Gabriele B. Durrant
5. Methods for Avoiding Non‐Response Bias in Academic Business Surveys Ezgi Akpinar, Tony Hak
6. Mode of Sampling Design and Accessibility Effects in ESS Menold, Natalja
S10 Unfolding and IRT
Organiser: W. H. van Schuur, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 1. The circumplex: a nonparametric circular unfolding model for polytomous data
Van Schuur 2. A Random Variable Finite Mixture Approach to Multidimensional Multinomial IRT
Fernando Cartwright 3. A Comparison of Latent Trait Models for Speed Tests with Different Distributional Assumptions Margo G.H. Jansen 4. Two types of single‐peaked data: correspondence analysis as an alternative to principal component analysis Marike Polak, Willem J. Heiser and Mark de Rooij 5. A class of folded quasi‐symmetry models for unfolding response data
Matthew S. Johnson 6. Performing direct probabilistic tests of Coombs’s theory of unidimensional unfolding Andrew Kyngdon
S11 Different Character of Rating Scales and Response Behaviour Organiser: Dagmar Krebs, University of Giessen, Germany
1. How to pop the question? The effect of response formats on extreme response style in attitude measurement. Natalia D. Kieruj, Guy Moors
2. Number of Response Categories and Scale Compression: Effects on Validity and Reliability Randall K. Thomas, Jon A. Krosnick
3. Effects of Response Scale Formats in Comparative Survey Research Juergen H.P. Hoffmeyer‐Zlotnik
4. Labels or no labels – that’s the question? Rammstedt, Beatrice
5. Assessing Semantic Differentials with Visual Analogue Scales in Web Surveys Frederik Funke, Ulf‐Dietrich Reips
S12 Mixing Methods and Triangulation Research Organisers: Udo Kelle, Philipps University Marburg, Germany Uwe Flick, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany
1. Attitude, discourse or ideology? Mixing methods in racism research Peter Martin
2. Triangulation of Interviews and Survey Data in Gender Research. The Case of the Debate on the Household Divi‐sion of Labor Nina Baur
3. Mixed methods in online evaluation: benefits and problems Udo Kuckartz
4. Mixing methods when studying quarrels: contrasting or overlapping perspectives? David Wästerfors
5. Triangulation of Micro‐Perspectives on a Policy Problem: Homelessness and Health Uwe Flick
13,30 – 14,30 Lunch Break
14,30 – 15,30 Sala Rossa Invited lecture Willem E. Saris (ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain) Tests of structural equation models do not work: what to do?
15,30 – 16,00 Coffee Break
16,00 – 18,00 Sessions
S1 Postcolonial/Indigenous Research Methodologies: Methodologies in the Postcolonial and Indigenous Framework
Organisers: Bagele Chilisa, University of Botswana Gert van der Weshuizen Johannersburg University, South Africa Donna Mertens, Gallaudet University, USA
1. Methodologies in the Postcolonial and indigenous framework Gert van der Westhuizen 2. Post‐Colonial/Indigenous Research Methodologies: Global and African Perspectives
Patricia H. Karimi‐Taleghani 3. The role of language in researching indigenous knowledge Dudu Jankie 4. The Effects of Texts on Land and Life: Towards a Method of Inquiry
Sheila Gruner 5. The Brooks Equity Typology (BET): A Multidimensional, Multidisciplinary Method For Measuring Societal Racism
Pauline E. Brooks 6. Taking into account the voices of the indigenous people through research, an ethical Perspective.
Setlhomo Koloi
S2 Issues in the Teaching of Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Organisers: Barbara Kawulich, University of West Georgia, USA
Claire Wagner, University of Pretoria, South Africa Mark Garner, University of Aberdeen, UK
1. Developing Quantitative Research Skills with Education Students Gillian Hampden‐Thompson, Vanita Sundaram
2. Creating expertise in doctoral level research methodology education Pirjo Nikander
3. Exploring the building‐blocks for building research capacity. Reflections on doing justice to the object of study Mark Abrahams
4. Students’ conceptions—and misconceptions—of research Mark Garner
5. The State of the Art of Teaching Research Methods: Towards a Pedagogical Culture, Claire Wagner, Mark Garner, Barbara Kawulich
S3 Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences Organiser: Bernhard Kittel, University of Oldenburg, Germany
1. Higher Punishment, Less Control? Experimental Evidence on the Inspection Game Heiko Rauhut
2. The Validity of a Factorial Survey Approach to the Analysis of Criminal Behaviour Stefanie Eifler
3. Decision Making in Networks. An Experiment on Voice and Entitlement in Bargaining Arenas Bernhard Kittel, Wolfgang Luhan
4. Patterns of Committee Decision‐Making Frank Nullmeier,Tanja Pritzlaff
5. Turned Off or Turned Out? Campaign Advertising, Information, and Voting Daniel Houser, Rebecca Morton, Thomas Stratmann
6. An Experiment on the Potential of Political Mobilization: Is There a Difference According to the Education Aspira‐tions of the Respondents? Sara Vissers, Marc Hooghe, Valérie‐Anne Maheo, Dietlind Stolle
S4 Cognitive and Motivational Determinants for Response Effects in Survey Research Organisers: Mirta Galesic, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Volker Stocké University of Mannheim, Germany 1. Susceptibility to Response Effects in Surveys: Cognitive and Motivational Factors
Jon A. Krosnick 2. Response Effects and Mode of Information Processing: Analyzing Acquiescence Bias and Question Order Effects
Using Survey‐Based Response Latencies Jochen Mayerl
3. Measures for Desirability Beliefs about Attitudes toward Foreigners and Their Predictive Validity for Social Desi‐rability Bias Volker Stocké
4. Measuring Cultural Behavior: How Can Overreporting Be Understood and Countered? John Lievens
5. Effects of Social Cues on Response Behavior Joachim Gerich
6. Fictitious Issues Revisited: The Role of Political Identity in the Generation of Non‐Attitudes Patrick Sturgis, Patten Smith
S5 ‐‐‐‐‐‐ S6 Process Generated Data: Data Preparation Matching Different Data Types
Organiser: Nina Baur, Technical University of Berlin, Germany 1. Quantifying Qualitative Process Generated Data.The Example of Eugenic Networks in Austria
Thomas Mayer 2. Process generated From the GDR: Data Structure, Methodology and Historical Social Science Application
Axel Salheiser 3. Data Integration and Consolidation of Administrative Data From Various Sources. Steps and Problems. The Case
of German Labour Market Data Markus Köhler Ulrich Thomsen 4. Testing Different Cleansing Procedures for Overlaps and Inconsistencies in Administrative Data. The Case of Ger‐
man Labour Market Data Patrycja Scioch
5. Across the Borders – The Added Value of Process generated Data Linked with Survey Data Martina Huber, Alexandra Schmucker
6. Matching Process generated Business Data and Survey Data. The Case of the KombiFiD in Germany Tanja Hethey, Anja Spengler
S7 ‐‐‐‐‐‐ S8 Data Methods of Evaluating the Quality of Data Collection in Surveys
Organisers: Emanuela Sala, University of Essex S.C. Noah Uhrig, University of Essex
Yfke Ongena, University of Twente
1. Using Diaries to Validate the Accuracy of Quality of Responses to Single vs. Decomposed Questions Paul Beatty and Aaron Maitland
2. Validation of the APGAR questionnaire on family function by means of Cognitive Interviews and behavior coding: Interpretation of the family concept Isabel Benítez Baena, Miguel Castillo Díaz, Jose Luis Padilla García, Yfke Ongena
3. Interview length as a data quality indicator in survey research Geert Loosveldt, Dirk Heerwegh
4. A comparative analysis of self‐report methods for measuring violent behavior Stefanie Eifler, Daniela Pollich, Jost Reinecke
5. Identifying Nonattitudes: Comparing Response Latencies and Behavior Coding Piet Sellke
6. Behavioural coding as a method to evaluate the quality of different types of employment questions S.C. Noah Uhrig and Emanuela Sala
S9 Response rates and non response bias in cross‐national surveys Organisers: Jaak Billiet Leuven, Belgium
Ineke Stoop, SCP, Netherlands 1. Response rates and nonresponse bias in cross‐national surveys
Jaak Billiet; Ineke Stoop 2. Where have all the people gone?Attrition in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Mathis Schroeder 3. Does field substitution affect a selection bias?
Stefaan Demarest, Johan Van der Heyden, Edith Hesse, Sabine Drieskens, Jean Tafforeau 4. Non‐response Bias and Lack of Opinion
William M. van der Veld 5. Dealing with nonresponse of Greek Candidates for CCS
Ioannis Andreadis, Theodore Chadjipadelis
S10 ‐‐‐‐‐‐ S11 Methodology for Societal Complexity
Organisers: D. DeTombe, Int. Research Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity, Amsterdam (NL) R. Memoli, University Sapienza of Rome, Italy
Societal Complexity: Safety and Healthcare (chair: D. DeTombe) 1. Group decision‐making through Cognition, Conviction, Collaboration, Confrontation and Action‐Participation
José G. Hernández R, María J. García G 2. New models and concepts for handling complex societal problems: new tools, results and prospects
Alexander Makarenko 3. Education and Change : a New Structural Approach
R. Memoli, , B. Baldazzi, S.Bovadilla, A.Cinti, M. Pantoja,A.Passero, S. Zicari Societal Complexity and Sustainable Development (chair: R. Memoli) 4. Methodology for societal complexity: the climate change example
Dorien DeTombe 5. The complexity of securing the interests of children born of war in post‐conflict situations
Ingvill C. Mochmann 6. Issues of sustainable development and societal complexity in power sector in india: the methodology of life cycle
assessment Ashish Singh, Sanjay Singh
S12 Ethics and Interpretive Research with Vulnerable Population Organiser: Brinda Jegatheesan, University of Washington, USA
1. Imaginary ways of researching immigration Ilana Mountian, Rebecca Lawthom, Judith Sixsmith and Nathan Whitle 2. Ethical examinations of elder abuse: using literary ethnographies to explore the maltreatment of vulnerable
populations Jason S. Ulsperger
3. Emotion, ethics and narrative work with fathers and sons from Somalia and Yemeni communities living in Liver‐pool, UK Anne‐Marie Micaleff, Iyabo Fatimilehin, Amira Hassan, Carolyn Kagan, Tunde Zack Williams, Geoff Bunn
4. Training community researchers for effective engagement within a PAR framework Geraldine Lee‐Treweek, Jo Hobbs
5. Methodological and ethical dilemmas of researching with disadvantaged young people in Ethiopia Tatek Abebe
16,00 – 18,00 Symposium “Testing Structural Equation Models” Convenors: Cor van Dijkum, Willem Saris, Han Oud Chair: Han Oud Participants: Albert Satorra, Ulf Olsson, Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, William van der Veld, Willem Saris 16.00‐16.20 Albert Satorra Theoretical and Practical Issues for Testing in Structural Equation Models 16.20‐16.40 Ulf Olsson Testing Structural Equation Models: The Effect of Kurtosis 16.40‐17.00 Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi Current Issues and Future Challenges in Component‐based Structural Equation Modeling 17.00‐17.20 William van der Veld Judging Misspecifications in Structural Equation Models using JRule 17.20‐18.00 Panel discussion
20,30 – 24,00 "Sant'Elmo" Castle : “Gala Dinner”
Friday, September 5th Campus di Monte Sant'Angelo 10,00 ‐ 13,00 Tutorials
E1 Triangulation and Mixed Methods
U. Flick (University Alice Salomon of Applied Sciences ‐ Berlin, Germany) L1 Compute Simulation: Linear and Non Linear Modeling
C. van Dijkum & N. Lam (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)