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Erinnerung: Call for Papers für die Frühjahrstagung
by Menold, Natalja 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

Liebe Mitglieder der Methodensektion, ich möchte gerne an den Call für unsere Frühjahrstagung erinnern. Das Thema ist "Measurement Error". Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter: http://www.gesis.org/unser-angebot/veranstaltungen/gesis-tagungen/fruehjahr… Die Beiträge können bis Ende Dezember online eingereicht werden. Viele Grüße, Natalja Menold Dr. Natalja Menold Wissenschaftliche Teamleiterin GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Umfragedesign und Methodik (SDM) B2,15 D-68159 Mannheim Tel.: 0621 / 1246 286 Fax: 0621 / 1246 100 Mail: natalja.menold(a)gesis.org<mailto:natalja.menold@gesis.org>

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Eilt-- Unterzeichnung eines offenen Briefs zur DGS-Wahl
by Josef Brüderl 17 Dec '16

17 Dec '16

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, im Januar 2017 stehen wieder DGS-Wahlen an. Die DGS hat eine Liste von Nominierungen verabschiedet. Wir (eine Gruppe von Teilnehmern des "Venedig-Seminars") sind mit dem Verfahren nicht einverstanden und auch mit dem Ergebnis nicht. Deshalb haben wir in einer konzertierten Aktion einige Alternativ-Nominierungen generiert. In einem offenen Brief (s. unten) werden wir die Alternativ-Nominierungen den DGS-Mitgliedern mitteilen, wodurch sich die Wahlmöglichkeiten erheblich erweitern werden. Die genaue Begründung unseres Anliegens können Sie dem offenen Brief entnehmen. Dankenswerterweise hat der DGS-Vorstand zugestimmt, diesen offenen Brief mit der Wahlbenachrichtigung zu versenden. Für unser Vorhaben ist es nun vorteilhaft, wenn möglichst viele DGS-Mitglieder den Brief unterzeichnen, damit deutlich wird, dass nicht nur ein paar wenige DGS-Mitglieder dahinter stehen. Wenn Sie den Brief mit Ihrer Unterzeichnung unterstützen wollen, dann senden Sie bitte bis zum *19.12.2016 20 Uhr* eine E-mail an folgende Adresse:graswurzel@soziologie.uni-muenchen.de Unterzeichnen könne allerdings nur DGS-Mitglieder. Denn nur DGS-Mitglieder besitzen das aktive und passive Wahlrecht. Vielen Dank Katrin Auspurg, Roger Berger, Josef Brüderl, Thomas Hinz ______________________________________________________________________________ *Entwurf: Offener Brief an die DGS-Mitglieder anlässlich der DGS-Gremienwahl 2017* Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, wie Ihnen vermutlich bekannt ist, stehen im Januar 2017 wieder Wahlen für die DGS-Gremien an. Es sind zu wählen: Eine Person für den Vorsitz 6 weitere Personen für den Vorstand 15 Personen für das Konzil Jedes DGS-Mitglied ist wahlberechtigt und kann 1, 6 bzw. 15 Stimmen abgeben. Wen kann man wählen? Laut DGS-Satzung schlägt der bisherige Vorstand dem Konzil Nominierungen vor. Das Konzil entscheidet dann letztlich über die Nominierungsliste. Wir – die Unterzeichner dieses Briefes – halten dieses Verfahren für verbesserungsfähig. Insbesondere sehen wir derzeit große Teile der Soziologie – z.B. die analytisch orientierte Soziologie – bei den Nominierungen für die Wahl 2017 nur in geringem Maße repräsentiert. Um das zu ändern, haben wir uns darauf verständigt, auf den Wahlunterlagen die folgenden Namen zu ergänzen und ihnen damit auch jeweils eine Stimme zu geben: Vorstand: Hartmut Esser, Thomas Hinz, Stefan Liebig Konzil: Martin Abraham, Katrin Auspurg, Rolf Becker, Roger Berger, Andreas Diekmann, Frank Kalter, Peter Kriwy, Heike Trappe *Damit haben sich auch Ihre Wahlmöglichkeiten erweitert: Denn Sie wissen nun, dass diese Kolleginnen und Kollegen bereit wären, ein Amt zu übernehmen und auch Unterstützung erfahren werden. Um einer dieser Personen Ihre Stimme zu geben, müssen Sie den Namen nur auf Ihren Wahlunterlagen eintragen (ihre weiteren Stimmen können Sie unter den Nominierungen verteilen).* Wir hoffen mit dieser – zugegeben ungewöhnlichen – Aktion, die DGS-Wahl ein wenig offener zu machen. Insbesondere wollen wir damit auch einen Anstoß geben, das bisherige Wahlverfahren zu reformieren (z.B. könnte man das, was wir hier machen, „legalisieren“: DGS-Mitglieder können ein anderes DGS-Mitglied per Unterschriftenliste nominieren). Mit kollegialen Grüßen Josef Brüderl, Markus Gangl, Thomas Gautschi, Martin Groß, Bernhard Kittel, Thomas Klein, Johannes Kopp, Holger Lengfeld, Andrea Maurer, Natascha Nisic, Gunnar Otte, Klaus Pforr, Peter Preisendörfer, Jörg Rössel, Klaus G. Troitzsch, Thomas Voss, Reinhard Wittenberg, Tobias Wolbring Und hoffentlich noch viele weitere Kolleginnen und Kollegen ....

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Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in, TV-L EG 13, 100%, zunächst befristet auf die Dauer von 4 Jahren (GESIS SDM)
by Schneider, Silke 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, hiermit möchte ich Sie auf eine Stellenausschreibung für eine PostDoc Stelle in der strategischen Erweiterung zu einer Integrierte Daten- und Erhebungsinfrastruktur bei GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften aufmerksam machen: http://tinyurl.com/zyvxxf6 Bewerbungsende ist am 22. Januar 2017. Viele Grüße, Silke Schneider -- Dr. Silke Schneider GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Survey Design and Methodology Postfach: 12 21 55; 68072 Mannheim Tel: 0621/1246-249 Email: silke.schneider(a)gesis.org www.gesis.org

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Stellenausschreibung
by Isabell Stamm 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

Liebe Kollegen und Kolleginnen, anbei erhalten Sie eine Stellenausschreibung für eine PostDoc Stelle (4,5 Jahre) am Institut für Soziologie der TU Berlin im Bereich quantitative und digitale Methoden. Die Bewerbungsfrist wurde bis zum 2. Januar 2017 verlängert. Mit besten Grüßen Dr. Isabell Stamm

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Call for papers: IC2S2 2017 - International Conference on Computational Social Science, July 10-13 2017 in Cologne.
by Weller, Katrin 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

< Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement, please kindly forward this email to other interested parties. > ============================================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (ABSTRACTS) ============================================================== IC2S2 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science July 10-13, 2017 Cologne, Germany https://ic2s2.org/2017/ #IC2S2 ============================================================== This international conference (now in its third edition) aims to bring together scientists from different disciplines and research areas to meet and discuss computational problems in the study of social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments or computational models The goal of the conference is to create a broad and interdisciplinary community of researchers, including academics, tech industry workers, open data activists, government agency workers, and think tank analysts, who are committed to advancing social science knowledge through computational methods. In addition to keynote speakers and paper sessions, the conference will also include a series of training opportunities and tutorials. Please watch for the call for tutorials. We welcome submissions on any topic in the intersection of the social sciences and the computer sciences, including (a) new approaches for understanding social phenomena, (b) improving methods for computational social science, (c) and improving conditions for computational social science research. But we are especially interested in: * Methods and analyses of integrated human-machine decision-making * Text analysis and natural language processing of social phenomena * Network analysis of social systems * Large-scale social experiments and/or phenomena * Causal inference and computational methods for social science * Methods and analyses of algorithmic accountability * Building and evaluating socio-technical systems * Novel digital data and/or computational analyses for addressing societal challenges * Methods and analyses of biased, selective, or incomplete observational social data * Methodological integration and triangulation of social data * Social news curation and collaborative filtering * Methods and analyses for social information / digital communication dynamics * Ethics of computational research on human behavior * Reproducibility in computational social science research * Infrastructure to facilitate industry/academic cooperation in computational social science * Computational social science research in industry * Science and technology studies approaches to computational science work * Practical problems in computational social science * Issues of inclusivity in computational social science * All other topics in computational social science Researchers across disciplines, faculty, graduate students, industry researchers, policy makers, and non-profit workers are all encouraged to submit computational data-driven research and innovative computational methodological or theoretical contributions on social phenomena for consideration. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Deadline for abstract submission: 01 March 2017 Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2017 Conference dates: 10-13 July 2016 ------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------ Contributions to the conference should be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s22017 The submission should include a list of authors and their affiliations, with a minimum of one designated corresponding author, a title, an abstract summary paragraph, a list of 5 keywords, and an extended abstract with at least one figure, formatted as a PDF file no larger than 20MB. Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work and your methods so we can adequately assess its relevance. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by a Program Committee composed of experts in computational social science. Please follow the abstract template guidelines for formatting and note that abstracts longer than 3 pages will be automatically rejected. For additional information, see the conference website which also includes the Extended Abstract Template (.docx). The deadline for submission is 01 March 2017. Notice of acceptance will be 13 April 2017. We will do our best to have mostly oral presentations of the selected contributions, both plenary and in parallel sessions. However, since we cannot estimate the number of submissions we may accept some abstracts for a poster session. ----------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------- Tba. ------------------------------ CONFERENCE CHAIRS ------------------------------ Markus Strohmaier, GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt University Berlin Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University ------------------------------ PROGRAM CHAIRS ------------------------------ Aaron Clauset, University of Colorado Boulder Sandra González-Bailón, University of Pennsylvania Brian Keegan, University of Colorado Boulder Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences ------------------------------ TUTORIAL CHAIRS ------------------------------ Ceren Budak, University of Michigan Jürgen Pfeffer, Technical University of Munich Derek Ruths, McGill University ------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------ Markus Strohmaier, GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt University Berlin Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University Helen Margetts, University of Oxford Duncan Watts, Microsoft Research

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Stellenanzeige
by Struck, Olaf 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, mit diesem Schreiben sende ich eine Stellenausschreibung mit der Bitte um weitere Verbreitung. Viele Grüße Ihr Olaf Struck _____________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Olaf Struck Universität Bamberg / Professur für Arbeitswissenschaft / Fachgruppe Soziologie Bamberg University / Chair of Labour Studies / Department of Sociology Postal address: 96045 Bamberg Office: Feldkirchenstraße 21 / Room 01.26a-01.29b Phone: +49 (0)951 863-2690 (d.) / +49 (0)173 4371584 (mobil) E-mail: olaf.struck(a)uni-bamberg.de<mailto:olaf.struck@uni-bamberg.de> Infos: www.uni-bamberg.de/arbeitswiss/<http://www.uni-bamberg.de/arbeitswiss/> www.bildungspanel.de<http://www.bildungspanel.de/> www.kongress2016.soziologie.de/<http://www.kongress2016.soziologie.de/> Secretariat: Claudia Bauersachs Office: Feldkirchenstraße 21 / Room 01.29b Phone: +49 (0)951 863-2621 / -2692 Fax: +49 (0)951 863-2700 E-Mail: claudia.bauersachs(a)uni-bamberg.de<mailto:claudia.bauersachs@uni-bamberg.de> 38th Congress of the German Sociological Association: Stefanie Schmidt, M.A. Office: Feldkirchenstraße 21 / Room 00.17 Phone: +49 (0)951 863-3146 (d.) / +49 (0)1522 278 75 35 (mobile) Fax: +49 (0)951 863-2700 E-Mail: stefanie.schmidt(a)uni-bamberg.de<mailto:stefanie.schmidt@uni-bamberg.de> _____________________________________________________________________ Note: This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.

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Abstract submission ESRA - pressing issue (societal pessimism) or specific topic (surveying the elderly) or "exotic" topic failed research
by Aschauer Wolfgang 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

*** apologies for cross-postings *** Dear colleagues, There are only a few days left to submit an abstract for the ESRA conference, which is taking place from July 17th to July 21st in Lisbon, Portugal. We can offer three interesting sessions for submissions. One is dealing with a pressing issue of contemporary Europe (societal pessimism), one is dealing with a specific group (surveying the elderly) and the last one is dealing with an exotic topic (failed research). Please submit paper abstracts till the 4th December 2016! You can upload them via the conference online system (http://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conference) Please have a look at our session description: "Reflections on failed research" (organized by Martin Weichbold, Wolfgang Aschauer, Nina Baur & Dimitri Prandner). We highly welcome your submissions! At conferences we usually hear about remarkable outcomes in scientific research: Colleagues report how they achieved striking results, using sophisticated research designs and applying complex analytical tools. But everybody who has ever conducted research by him/herself knows that during the research process not necessarily everything runs smoothly. Of course, dealing with unforeseen difficulties is an essential part of empirical research, but sometimes we have to admit that certain decisions were wrong, a research strategy didn't work out or maybe even the whole research project failed in the end. This session wants to provide space to discuss research attempts that finally disappeared in a drawer. The aim of the session is not to make someone look like a fool or to satisfy the other's curiosity, but to reflect on causes of failed research and to learn from mistakes. As failing is not always a matter of the researchers' incompetence but can have multiple reasons, reporting what happened - and why - this session may be a step forward to prevent others from making the same mistakes. In our proposal the term "failed" should be understood in a broad sense: reasons can reach from practical things (difficult access to the field, problems with funding, external incidents...), methodical problems (bad questionnaire, inappropriate survey period, sampling difficulties, problems with interviewers, etc. ...) to methodological misconceptions (incoherent or too complex research design, incompatibilities of different parts of the study,...) or theoretical issues (difficulties in the implementation of theoretical concepts for empirical research,...). We encourage researchers to present their reflections on failed research projects. The session should provide an open platform to discuss about difficulties in our daily research activities and to encourage a new code of practice - not to ignore failed research but to learn from it. You are also encouraged to submit abstracts to our topic: Societal pessimism in Europe - Addressing societal change by focusing on EU Citizens' Perceptions of Crisis (Organized by Wolfgang Aschauer & Martin Weichbold) Eight years after the beginning of the financial crisis, starting in the United States in 2008, the European Union is still in a state of crisis; we can even observe an accumulation of contemporary challenges for the EU. All those critical outbreaks of events (e.g. the Mediterranean crisis of public debt, the conflict in Ukraine, the contemporary refugee flows to Europe or the Brexit vote in Great Britain in June 2016) have contributed to a high level of euroscepticism or are clear signs of political alienation threatening solidarity between EU member states and social cohesion within European countries. Due to pessimistic concerns regarding the European integration process, it is not easy for European citizens to remain progressively oriented towards contemporary societal developments. During the last years a vague sense of dissatisfaction with society is spreading in many European countries. This is particularly affecting the so-called losers of modernity but also the middle classes of society seem to face more constraints in societal well-being. Certain expressions of societal pessimism can be characterized by fears of societal descent, feelings of anomie and decreasing levels of political and personal trust. It is obvious that those restrictions concerning quality of life in European societies are also mainly responsible for the rise of populist parties and ethnic prejudice in many European societies. It is necessary to theoretically derive new concepts of quality of society taking these impressions of societal decline adequately into account. In this proposed session we search for innovative approaches to measure and evaluate new cleavages in societal embeddedness and societal belonging in contemporary European societies. We especially aim for empirical studies which highlight changes in societal wellbeing over the course of the last years and which try to monitor societal change by focusing on attitudinal data concerning societal functioning (e.g. operationalizing value polarizations, aspects of social cohesion or satisfaction and trust with institutions or with society in general). Survey researchers in Europe trying to analyse the causes of societal pessimism, especially dealing with multifaceted characteristics of subjective crises perceptions or focusing on consequences of those impressions of societal pessimism within single case studies or in a cross-national perspective are highly welcome to submit their contributions. You are finally invited to submit abstracts to the session: Surveying elderly and people with age-associated cognitive impairment - barriers, challenges and opportunities (Organized by Patrick Kutschar & Martin Weichbold) Taking a survey basically assumes respondents to be able to understand the questions and to be aware of their answers. But what if these assumptions have to be doubted? In this session we want to discuss the challenges of surveying old people with or without cognitive impairments. Ageing is not causally linked but often accompanied by multifaceted changes and declines in cognitive functions. Against this background, we want to ask for the consequences and specifities which should be taken into account when dealing with such special populations in survey research. Methodological research on the quality of data obtained by standardized surveys in such vulnerable, multi-morbid older populations especially with restrictions in cognitive function is rather scarce. Implementing fixed age-limits as it is common in some general population survey programmes and national traditions seems not to be an appropriate solution, especially in times of societal ageing. On the contrary, the demand for information about these people is rapidly growing and standardized surveys are applied in gerontological, medical, health care, or social science studies, for instance to examine quality of life or to evaluate satisfaction with perceived care services. We encourage researchers to share their experiences and suggestions for surveying cognitively impaired and/or old people. Presentations should cover - not exclusively, but predominantly - the following topics: - Special sampling strategies for these population groups - Screening instruments or strategies to measure cognitive impairment and to determine the ability to survey participation - Experiences with the implementation of thresholds in terms of cognitive impairment to obtain vaild and reliable data - Findings about data quality in surveys with elderly people or people with restrictions in cognitive functions - Experiences with the linkage of additional measures (e.g. biomarkers, proxy interviewing or non-reactive process-produced data) to the primary survey data - Alternative (quantitative) data collection strategies apart from the strict standardized approach Best regards, Assoz.-Prof. PD. Dr. Wolfgang Aschauer Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie Abteilung Soziologie und Kulturwissenschaft Universität Salzburg Rudolfkai 42 5020 Salzburg e-mail: wolfgang.aschauer(a)sbg.ac.at<mailto:wolfgang.aschauer@sbg.ac.at> Homepage: www.uni-salzburg.at/soziologie/aschauer<http://www.uni-salzburg.at/soziologie/aschauer>

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