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Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences An expansive and incisive overview of the practical uses of harmonization and its implications for data quality and costs. In Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, a team of distinguished social science researchers delivers a comprehensive collection of ex-ante and ex-post harmonization methodologies in the context of specific longitudinal and cross-national survey projects. The book examines how ex-ante and ex-post harmonization work individually and in relation to one another, offering practical guidance on harmonization decisions in the preparation of new data infrastructure for comparative research. Contributions from experts in sociology, political science, demography, economics, health, and medicine are included, all of which give voice to discipline-specific and interdisciplinary views on methodological challenges inherent in harmonization. The authors offer perspectives from Europe and the United States, as well as Africa, the latter of which provides insights rarely featured in survey research methodology handbooks. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to approaches and concepts for survey data harmonization, as well as the effects of data harmonization on the overall survey research process. Comprehensive explorations of ex-ante harmonization of survey instruments and non-survey data. Practical discussions of ex-post harmonization of national social surveys, census and time use data, including explorations of survey data recycling. A detailed overview of statistical issues linked to the use of harmonized survey data. Perfect for upper undergraduate and graduate researchers who specialize in survey methodology, Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences will also earn a place in the libraries of survey practitioners who engage in international research.

Cover -- CRIME TV -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. "The Man Who Passes the Sentence Should Swing the Sword": Penal Utopias in Game of Thrones -- 2. 13 Reasons Why and the Importance of Social Bonds -- 3. Breaking Bad: Failure, Crime, and the Inability to Cope -- 4. "Insane Violence Has Meaning": Psychopathy and Abuse in The Fall -- 5. "These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends": Crime, Criminality, and the State in Westworld -- 6. Understanding The Handmaid's Tale: The Contribution of Radical Feminism -- 7. Cultural Criminology and Homeland -- 8. Follow the Money: Corporate Crime as Real Crime -- 9. "Let's Make This Show Happen, People": Black Mirror and Populist Punitiveness -- 10. The Walking Dead and Criminological Theory: Exploring the Impact of Radical Social Change on Crime through the Lens of a Zombie Apocalypse -- 11. Mr. Robot and Radical Criminology -- 12. What's in a Name?: Labeling Theory in Criminal Minds -- 13. Phrasing Deviance: Archer and Techniques of Neutralization -- 14. Fighting the (Invisible) Hand: Conflict Theory and Marvel's The Defenders -- 15. Masculinity and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia -- 16. Race, Crime, and Justice in American Crime: A Criminological Analysis -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Environmental Criminology: Spatial Analysis and Regional Issues combines various academic perspectives to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to examining environmental criminology. Using sociological, criminological, anthropological, historical and media analysis, this volume examines local and regional issues in crime. The interdisciplinary nature of the collection makes the book ideal for students or researchers who wish to expand their approach to environmental criminology.

Philosophy of Social Science: A Contemporary Introduction examines perennial questions of philosophy through engaging the empirical study of society. Questions of normativity concern the place of values in social scientific inquiry. Questions of naturalism concern the relationship between the natural and the social sciences. And questions of reductionism ask how social institutions relate to the people who constitute them. This accessible text offers a comprehensive overview of debates in the field, with special attention to new research programs. Topics include the relationship of social policy to social science, interpretive research, cognitive and evolutionary explanations, intentional action explanation, rational choice theory, conventions and social norms, joint intentionality, causal inference, and experimentation. Detailed examples of social scientific research motivate the philosophical questions and illustrate the important concepts. Treating philosophical commitments as implicit in social science, students of the social sciences will benefit from its application of philosophical argument to methodological and theoretical problems. The text argues that social science transforms philosophical questions, and students of philosophy will benefit from its direct engagement with contemporary debates. The Second Edition provides updates with the most recent literature and adds two new chapters: one on modeling and one on the role of race and gender in the social sciences. Key Updates to the Second Edition: A new chapter on "Modeling and Explaining," which explores how models represent social systems and whether highly idealized models explain A new chapter on "Race and Other Social Constructions," capturing much of the recent empirical research and philosophical interest in the social construction of categories like race and gender Revised and updated chapters throughout, clarifying earlier presentations and bringing discussions from the First Edition into line with new research Updated annotated Further Reading lists, which now include relevant publications from 2013 to 2022.