Sociological Methodology

Tim Liao is Professor of Sociology & Statistics. His research interests include historical/comparative sociology, demography, and methodology. He is a former Deputy Editor of The Sociological Quarterly, (1992-2000) and the current Editor of Sage’s Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series. He served on the council of the ASA Methodology Section (1998-2001) and on the council of the North America Chinese Sociological Association (2000-2002). He has been on the editorial board of Sociological Methods & Research since 1994 and on the editorial board of Sociological Methodology since 2003. He is the Chair-Elect of the Methodology Section of the American Sociology Association from August 2007 to August 2009.

• Symposium: Qualitative Comparative AnalysisQualitative Comparative Analysis in Critical Perspective by Samuel R. Lucas and Alisa SzatrowskiComments by Charles Ragin; Peer Fiss, Axel Marx, and Benoît Rihoux; Wendy Olsen; Steve Vaisey; Jake Bowers; Jason Seawright; and David CollierRejoinder by Samuel R. LucasModelling StrategiesAlleviating Ecological Bias in Poisson Models Using Optimal Subsampling: The Effects of Jim Crow on Black Illiteracy in the Robinson Data by Adam N. Glynn and Jon WakefieldAn Extended Cultural Consensus Theory Model to Account for Cognitive Processes in Decision Making in Social Surveys by Zita Oravecz, Katherine Faust, and William H. BatchelderComparing Spatial and Multilevel Regression Models for Binary Outcomes in Neighborhood Studies by Hongwei XuScalingLogistic Network Regression for Scalable Analysis of Networks with Joint Edge/Vertex Dynamics by Zack W. Almquist and Carter T. ButtsCreating Measures of Theoretically Relevant Neighborhood Attributes at Multiple Spatial Scales by Michael D. M. Bader and Jennifer A. AilshireThe Effect of Labeling and Numbering of Response Scales on the Likelihood of Response Bias by Guy Moors, Natalia D. Kieruj, and Jeroen K. Vermunt