Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and
chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological …

This paper compares three different modes of data collection: face-to-face, telephone, and
web surveys for a national crime survey. The survey designs compared are as identical as …

Telephone surveys face more and more criticism because of decreasing coverage and
increasing costs, and the risk of producing socially desirable answers. Consequently, survey …

This exploratory study of online harassment in adult populations uses the sociological
concept of generational age to examine theoretical contentions related to the formative …

Achieving 'social cohesion'across race and class divides in South African settlements is a
major challenge, given the divided urban geography of apartheid. Cosmo City, a new mixed …

En Paraguay, la inseguridad es una de las principales preocupaciones ciudadanas. A pesar
de ella, no existe práctica institucional en la utilización sistemática de instrumentos que …

To investigate the effect of a change from the telephone to the web mode on item
nonresponse in panel surveys, we use experimental data from a two-wave panel survey …

Opferstudien haben in Deutschland im Vergleich zu den USA keine lange Tradition (Sparks
1981). Erst in den 1970er Jahren zeigten sich erste vorsichtige Anfånge, in der Regel auf …

Die valide standardisierte Messung sozialer Phänomene setzt voraus, dass die Wahl des
Erhebungsverfahrens keinen Einfluss auf das Antwortverhalten der Respondenten ausübt …

This chapter attempts to quantify the reporting errors in crime victimization surveys using a
statistical modeling technique known as Markov Latent Class Analysis (MLCA). The chapter …