Ask: Research and Methods. Volume 29, Issue 1 (2020)

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Issue DOI: https://doi.org/10.18061/ask.v29i1

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25 Years of ASK

Foreword for the 25th anniversary issue of ASK. Research and Methods
Domański, Henryk pp. 3-4
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Proximity-based Methods for Link Prediction in Graphs with R package 'linkprediction'
Bojanowski, Michał; Chroł, Bartosz pp. 5-28
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Longitudinal Surveys for Comparative Analyses of Poland and Romania: The Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN), 2013–2018 and the Romanian World Values Survey Panel (WVS-RO), 2012–2018
Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Voicu, Malina; Dubrow, Joshua K.; Stănescu, Simona Maria; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina pp. 29-53
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Social Science Research Methods and the Global Pandemic

Online qualitative research in immigrant communities: opportunities and challenges during the pandemic
Andrejuk, Katarzyna pp. 55-73
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Doing Qualitative Research during the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020
Sedysheva, Anna pp. 75-88
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Front Matter (Volume 29, Issue 1, 2020)
(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2020)
Foreword for the 25th anniversary issue of ASK. Research and Methods
(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2020) Domański, Henryk
Proximity-based Methods for Link Prediction in Graphs with R package 'linkprediction'
(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2020) Bojanowski, Michał; Chroł, Bartosz
Link prediction is a problem of predicting future edges of an undirected graph based on a single snapshot of data of that graph. Vertex proximity measures are indicies giving numerical scores for every pair of vertices in a graph that can be used for predicting future edges. This short note describes an R package 'linkprediction' implementing 20 different vertex similarity and proximity measures from the literature. The article provides the definitions of implemented measures, describes the main user-facing functions, and illustrates the use of the methods with a problem of predicting future co-authorship relations between researchers of the University of Warsaw.
Longitudinal Surveys for Comparative Analyses of Poland and Romania: The Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN), 2013–2018 and the Romanian World Values Survey Panel (WVS-RO), 2012–2018
(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2020) Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Voicu, Malina; Dubrow, Joshua K.; Stănescu, Simona Maria; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina
If researchers wish to use surveys to understand the attitudes and behaviors of those who live in former State Socialist countries, they face a research landscape densely populated by cross-sectional studies. Panel surveys with individuals as the units of analysis, which are ideal for understanding change within people over time, are rare. As a service to researchers, this article presents possibilities for cross-national comparison via two sets publicly available panel data: the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN (focusing on its 2013 and 2018 waves) and the novel Romanian World Values Survey Panel RO-WVS (2012 and 2018 waves), which is the only panel version of World Values Survey (WVS). We present the research designs of each, and explore their ex-post harmonization. Conceptual overlap between these sources occurs mainly (but not only) with major socio-demographics and with political attitudes and behavior, including interest in politics, political participation, democratic values, and institutional trust. Whereas POLPAN is relatively well known, we argue that RO-WVS panel stands out as a unique resource that provides data on the dynamic nexus between social structure and cultural context. Keeping RO-WVS alive for a long period would help researchers to understand Romanian society in the European context, and provide for future comparisons between it and its neighbors.
Online qualitative research in immigrant communities: opportunities and challenges during the pandemic
(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2020) Andrejuk, Katarzyna
Internet-based qualitative methods have quickly transitioned from a niche to mass research strategy. The aim of the article is to describe the opportunities and challenges of online research, with a focus on in-depth interviews through video communication tools such as Zoom, Skype and Face Time. The analysis encompasses various dimensions of internet-based research: recruitment, conducting empirical study, analysis, and archiving. Online qualitative methods may be particularly useful in studying immigrant populations, due to a high level of internet skills among immigrants and their familiarity with online video communication resulting from their everyday transnational activities. Online research may translate into the increased visibility of low-cost projects, and broaden the academic autonomy of junior researchers, thus enhancing the diversification of empirical, theoretical, and methodological approaches. Conducting online interviews also improves the quality of archived material, due to the access to both sound and visual recording. The text emphasizes the advantages of the hybrid approach to qualitative research through combining online and offline interviews, and online and offline participant observation. The author refers to experiences of data collection for a study of Polish migrant entrepreneurs in the UK.
Doing Qualitative Research during the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020
(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2020) Sedysheva, Anna
In this paper I examine how the pandemic and quarantine of 2020 affected qualitative research. Employing personal narrative as a method, I show what disadvantages researchers may have met with whilst conducting their studies. The unprecedented circumstances of the restrictions and uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 crisis have had a dramatic impact on the public mental health of individuals, including academic researchers. Many online tools are very useful for qualitative researchers, but are not a substitute for face-to-face research. In this article I explain these issues more thoroughly and discuss the challenges that researchers have faced during the period of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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