社会学量化研究案例赏析.pdf

社会学量化研究案例赏析

PengYusheng

PekingUniversity

June25—August1,2007

Thisisanintensivetrainingcourseonthestructureofempiricalresearchandtheapplication

ofquantitativemethodsinrealsociologicalwritings.Thecoursewillbeconductedprimarily

throughreading,analyzing,andappreciatingexemplarywork,publishedintopsociological

journals,suchasAmericanSociologicalReviewandAmericanJournalofSociology.The

topicsincludeschoosingandclarifyingresearchquestions,reviewinganddevelopingtheories,

formulatinghypotheses,conceptualizingandmeasuringvariables,andcollecting,analyzing,

andinterpretingdata.

Thecoursewillbeorganizedasaseminarandstudentsareexpectedtoparticipateinclass

discussions.Asrequirementsforthecourse,studentswillwritereviewsandmake

presentationsinclass.

TENTATIVESCHEDULE

TopicOne:TheStructureofEmpiricalResearch

Readings:PengYusheng.LectureNoteson“TheStructureofEmpiricalResearch”

Popper,Karl.1959.Chap.3-4.

TopicTwo:WhatMakesaGoodQuestion?

Readings:Walder1995“Careermobility”

Nee1989,1991

Zhouetal2003

IngramandRoberts2000

DiMaggio,PaulWalterPowell.1984.“TheIronCageRevisited”

Peng2004.“Kinshipnetworksandentrepreneurs”

Tsai,Lily.2007.

Lin,Justin.1992.

Bettencourtetal2007.

TopicThree:TheoryandHypothesis

Readings:Merton,Robert.1968.“OnSociologicalTheoriesoftheMiddleRange”

Huang,Philip,2007.“Empiricsandtheories.”

DiMaggio,PaulWalterPowell.1984.“TheIronCageRevisited”

Walder1995.“C