393 Methodology and its Role in Interrogating Social and Demographic Dynamics

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 4:15 PM-5:45 PM
OB 24 (Faculty of Economics)

RC33 Logic and Methodology in Sociology (host committee)
RC41 Sociology of Population
Session Organizer:
Godfrey ST. BERNARD, The University of the West Indies , Trinidad and Tobago
Chair:
Linda HEWITT, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Development, Trinidad and Tobago
Co-Chair:
Godfrey ST. BERNARD, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
New fathers and mothers in Europe and their (old) division of labour (Distributed Paper)
Rossana TRIFILETTI, university of Florence, Italy

Measurements of attitudes towards gender roles in cross-cultural surveys: Internal and external validity (Oral Presentation)
Malina VOICU, GESIS Leibniz INstitute for Social Sceinces, Germany; Andreea CONSTANTIN, University of Cologne, Germany

The construction of family, gender and population issues in mosque sermons in Turkey (Oral Presentation)
Umut KORKUT, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom

A review of Caribbean population and housing census experience (Oral Presentation)
Godfrey ST. BERNARD, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago; Linda HEWITT, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Development, Trinidad and Tobago

Challenges in the conduct of censuses and surveys in the Virgin Islands of the United States (Oral Presentation)
Frank MILLS, University of the Virgin Islands, USA

The effects of web-based and paper-and-pencil questionnaire administration in school surveys on substance use (Distributed Paper)
Marcis TRAPENCIERIS, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Latvia; Sigita SNIKERE, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Latvia