A quiet revolution is underway in social science. We are turning from units to context, from
attributes to connections, from causes to events. The change has many antecedents: the …

In a manner similar to many other titles within the Applied Social Research Methods Series,
this 182-page book thoroughly covers many of the specific methodological hurdles …

Including new developments and publications which have appeared since the publication of
the first edition in 1995, this second edition:* gives a comprehensive introductory account of …

Nowadays, event history analysis can draw on a well-established set of statistical tools for
the description and causal analysis of event history data. This second edition of our book …

In recent decades a great expansion has occurred in world environmental organization, both
governmental and nongovernmental, along with an explosion of worldwide discourse and …

Criminal background checks have now become ubiquitous because of advances in
information technology and growing concerns about employer liability. Also, a large number …

It is common to all types of longitudinal data that one observes some social unit from at least
two points in time. With such data several opportunities for analysis arise that are not present …

The positive association between growing up in a nonintact family and the risk of a first
premarital birth has been interpreted by researchers as consistent with three hypotheses:(1) …

John W. Meyer's work broke new grounds in institutional thought in sociology and made him
a central thinker for the emerging interdisciplinary field of neoinstitutionalism, while at the …

In previous work, my colleagues and I reported (1) a strong and statistically significant
association between frequent changes in the numbers and types of parental figures a young …