Sociological Methodology, Volume 41, 2011

The 2011 volume of Sociological Methodology continues a 43-year tradition of providing cutting-edge methodology for sociological research. Under the editorship of Tim F. Liao, three features are prominent in this volume: Appropriate and practical methods for substantive social science research. Contributions by both sociologists and non-sociologists that have important methodological implications for the social sciences. Dedication to publishing purely methodological work that may benefi t sociology and the broader social sciences.

1. How Not to Lie with Ethnography  Mitchell Duneier 2. Dealing with Extreme Response Style in Cross-Cultural Research: A Restricted Latent Class Factor Analysis Approach Meike Morren, John P. T. M Gellisen, and Jeroen K. Vermunt 3. Accounting for Misclassification Bias in Binary Outcome Measures of Illness: The Case of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Male Veterans Elizabeth Savoca 4. Inferring Logit Models from Empirical Margins Using Proxy Data Ju-Sung Lee and Kathleen Carley 5. Biases of Parameter Estimates in Misspecified Structural Equation Models Stanislav Kolenikov 6. Entropy-Based Segregation Indices Ricardo Mora and Javier Ruiz-Castillo 7. A Transition-Oriented Approach to Optimal Matching Torsten Biemann 8. Decomposition of Inequality Among Groups by Counterfactual Modeling: An Analysis of the GenderWage Gap in Japan Kazuo Yamaguchi 9. Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Social Network Data via Conditional Uniform Graph Quantiles Carter T. Butts 10. Bernoulli Graph Bounds for General Random Graphs Carter T. Butts 11. On Respondent-Driven Sampling and Snowball Sampling in Hard-to-Reach Populations and Snowball Sampling Not in Hard-to-Reach Populations Leo A. Goodman 12. Snowball Versus Respondent-Driven Sampling Douglas D. Heckathorn 13. On the Concept of Snowball Sampling  Mark S. Handcock and Krista J. Gile 14. Errata