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Spatial and Process-Oriented Methodology
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC33 Logic and Methodology in Sociology (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
This session aims at exploring new developments in spatial methods, seeing space either as dependent or independent variable: Researchers can ask how people think about space and construct space or they can see space as a relevant frame for social action that influences social life.
The session builds on the discussion started at the “8th International Conference on Social Science Methodology” (Sydney, 2012) and in the HSR Special Issue “Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences and Humanities” (2014) which was continued at the “18th World Congress of Sociology” (Yokohama 2014), the “6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association” (Reykjavik 2015), the “9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology” (Leicester 2016), and at the “19th World Congress of Sociology” (Toronto 2018).
Papers should address one of the questions below either at a more general methodological level or using a concrete example in a specific research project:
- Which qualitative and/or quantitative methods are best suited for which kind of theoretical problems?
- What methodological innovations concerning the spatial can be observed? (How) can traditional sociological or geographical methods be adjusted to address spatial problems within sociology?
- How can visual research methods contribute to the sociological research on space? What methodological issues does it implicate?
- Which sampling strategies are appropriate for spatial problems?
- What are the specific data requirements for spatial analysis, and how can these data be collected?
- Which strategies of data analysis are appropriate for spatial analysis?