28 - 31 August 2013
Torino, Italy

RN21 – Quantitative Methods

Coordinator:
Henning Best henning.best@gesis.org GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

The Quantitative Methods Research Network (RN21) of the European Sociological Association (ESA) brings together social scientists with a research interest in quantitative methodology and empirical research, including survey research, mixed methods, experimental methods, causal inference, simulation, statistical techniques, comparative methods, and others.

The theme of the 11th conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) is “Crisis, Critique and Change.” In accordance with this thematic RN21 especially invites papers on quantitative approaches on the contemporary economic crisis and on crisis and change in quantitative methodology. We welcome submissions on all quantitative issues, but especially encourage paper presentations on one of the following topics:

Sessions

Joint Sessions

  • 09_20JS21JS28Doing Social Research on Sports. Methodological and Empirical Challenges (1)

    Joint session with RN20 – Qualitative Methods and RN28 – Society and Sports

    Chair: Alessandro Porrovecchio <alessandro.porrovecchio@gmail.com>, University of Turin Ajit Singh <ajit.singh@uni-bielefeld.de>, University of Bielefeld Katarina Jacobsson <Katarina.Jacobsson@soch.lu.se>, Lund University

    Within the sociology of sports there is relatively little problematisation of the different methodologies, which are currently available. It seems therefore important to analyze what has been achieved so far and what the future holds: this session is designed to mark out future directions for researchers interested in contesting/reformulating our understandings of knowledge production in the sociology of sport and physical culture. In order to contribute to these streams of research and to open new horizons for further investigation, we invite potential contributors to submit abstracts that elaborate experiences of empirical approaches to research on bodies, sports, and physical cultures, based on qualitative and/or quantitative strategies, as well as mixed methods. We are particularly interested in essays that expose the challenges, the emerging issues and the solutions in combining methodologically innovative approaches and evaluation programs in order to analyze the representations and meanings of practices, identities, bodies, movements, and anatomies.

  • 10_20JS21JS28Doing Social Research on Sports. Methodological and Empirical Challenges (2)

    Joint session with RN20 – Qualitative Methods and RN28 – Society and Sports

    Chair: Ajit Singh <ajit.singh@uni-bielefeld.de>, University of Bielefeld Alessandro Porrovecchio <alessandro.porrovecchio@gmail.com>, University of Turin Katarina Jacobsson <Katarina.Jacobsson@soch.lu.se>, Lund University

    Within the sociology of sports there is relatively little problematisation of the different methodologies, which are currently available. It seems therefore important to analyze what has been achieved so far and what the future holds: this session is designed to mark out future directions for researchers interested in contesting/reformulating our understandings of knowledge production in the sociology of sport and physical culture. In order to contribute to these streams of research and to open new horizons for further investigation, we invite potential contributors to submit abstracts that elaborate experiences of empirical approaches to research on bodies, sports, and physical cultures, based on qualitative and/or quantitative strategies, as well as mixed methods. We are particularly interested in essays that expose the challenges, the emerging issues and the solutions in combining methodologically innovative approaches and evaluation programs in order to analyze the representations and meanings of practices, identities, bodies, movements, and anatomies.

  • 20JS21JS28Doing social research on sports. Methodological and empirical challenges

    Joint session with RN28 – Society and Sports and RN20 – Qualitative Methods

    Chairs: Alessandro Porrovecchio, Ajit Singh & Henning Best

    Within the sociology of sports there is relatively little problematisation of the different methodologies, which are currently available. It seems therefore important to analyze what has been achieved so far and what the future holds: this session is designed to mark out future directions for researchers interested in contesting/reformulating our understandings of knowledge production in the sociology of sport and physical culture. In order to contribute to these streams of research and to open new horizons for further investigation, we invite potential contributors to submit abstracts that elaborate experiences of empirical approaches to research on bodies, sports, and physical cultures, based on qualitative and/or quantitative strategies, as well as mixed methods. We are particularly interested in essays that expose the challenges, the emerging issues and the solutions in combining methodologically innovative approaches and evaluation programs in order to analyze the representations and meanings of practices, identities, bodies, movements, and anatomies.


Thank you very much to all participants for making esa torino an outstanding conference.