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The Use of Drawings and Sketch Maps to Identify Spatial Attitudes of the Inhabitants of Urban Enclaves
Nóżka, Marcjanna ( 2022 )Based on the results of the author’s research conducted in 2014-2016 with the participation of the inhabitants of two urban enclaves of poverty in Poland, the article focuses on mobility and various spatial attitudes which ... -
Creating Overall Measurements of Unidimensional Constructs for Comparative Research: A Methodological Study
Charalampi, Anastasia; Tsouparopoulou, Eva; Tsiganou, Joanna; Michalopoulou, Catherine ( 2021 )Standardization of measurement is a prerequisite for cross-national and/or overtime comparative analyses. However, there are instances in the literature where the validation of constructs resulted in producing scales or ... -
Influence of the source of information on homophily assessment: data provided by subjects vs data provided by their confidants
Kęska, Adam; Przybysz, Dariusz; Mach, Bogdan W. ( 2021 )The present article analyses data on ego-centred networks from a nationally representative sample of Polish citizens (egos) and their regular conversation partners (alters). In the study being used, apart from obtaining ... -
Back Matter (Volume 30, Issue 1, 2021)
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Front Matter (Volume 30, Issue 1, 2021)
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Mathematics of Culture, or How to Count the Cultural Character of a City?
Klekotko, Marta ( 2021 )The purpose of this article is to critically discuss the methodology for measuring the so-called urban scenes and cultural dimensions of the city proposed by the contemporary Chicago school. The article consists of four ... -
Intergenerational educational mobility and cultural practices: a study on cultural stratification using diagonal reference models
Domański, Henryk ( 2021 )This study revisits and extends a classic question in sociology and tests three competing hypotheses about the effects of intergenerational educational mobility on cultural tastes. By means of diagonal reference models to ... -
Methods of Measuring the Skills Mismatch in the Human Capital Study
Kocór, Marcin; Czarnik, Szymon; Worek, Barbara; Micek, Dorota; Jelonek, Magdalena; Prokopowicz, Piotr; Górniak, Jarosław; Szczucka, Anna ( 2021 )The analysis of the labour market in terms of available skills, and especially the skills mismatch, has become increasingly important due to potential problems caused by existing asymmetries. Prior to 2010, when data ... -
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 ( 2020 )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 ... -
Online qualitative research in immigrant communities: opportunities and challenges during the pandemic
Andrejuk, Katarzyna ( 2020 )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 ... -
Doing Qualitative Research during the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020
Sedysheva, Anna ( 2020 )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 ... -
Front Matter (Volume 29, Issue 1, 2020)
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Back Matter (Volume 29, Issue 1, 2020)
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Foreword for the 25th anniversary issue of ASK. Research and Methods
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Proximity-based Methods for Link Prediction in Graphs with R package 'linkprediction'
Bojanowski, Michał; Chroł, Bartosz ( 2020 )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 ... -
Using Web Probing to Elucidate Respondents' Understanding of 'Minorities' in Cross-Cultural Comparative Research
Braun, Michael; Behr, Dorothée; Meitinger, Katharina; Raiber, Klara; Repke, Lydia ( 2019 )Due to the growing significance of international studies, the need for tools to assess the equivalence of items is pressing. Web probing, which is implementing verbal probing techniques traditionally used in cognitive ... -
Tadeusz Krauze (1934–2019)
Słomczyński, Kazimierz M. ( 2019 ) -
Between fallacy and feasibility? Dealing with the risk of ecological fallacies in the quantitative study of protest mobilization and conflict
Demarest, Leila; Langer, Arnim; Meuleman, Bart ( 2019 )In recent years, the quantitative study of conflict has increasingly focused on small-scale and/or localized conflicts in the developing world. In this paper, we analyze and critically reflect upon a major methodological ... -
Exploratory Fieldwork on Balconies as Threshold Spaces on the Juliusz Słowacki housing estate in Lublin
Otrishchenko, Natalia ( 2019 )The author reflects upon her experience of exploratory fieldwork conducted by an interdisciplinary group during the Urban Summer School. The research was conducted within an environment built according to the idea of "Open ... -
Explaining the Policy Constraints of Anti-democratic Regimes by Means of Sequential OLS-Regressions
Mueller, Georg P. ( 2019 )One of the key problems of many sociological regression models is their modest explanatory power. This has not only to do with the insufficient development of the underlying theories but also with the free will of the ...