Audit Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gaddis, S. Michael (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ; 14
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.

This book offers practical instruction on the use of audit studies in the social sciences. It features essays from sociologists, economists, and other experts who have employed this powerful and flexible tool. Readers will learn how to implement an audit study to examine a variety of questions in th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• PART I: The Theory Behind and History of Audit Studies
• Chapter 1. An Introduction to Audit Studies in the Social Sciences (S. Michael Gaddis)
• Chapter 2. Making it Count: Discrimination Auditing and the Activist Scholar Tradition (Frances Cherry and Marc Bendick, Jr.)
• Chapter 3. Discrimination in the Labour Market: A Register of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005 (Stijn Baert)
• PART II: The Method of Audit Studies: Design, Implementation, and Analysis
• Chapter 4. Technical Aspects of Correspondence Studies (Joanna Lahey and Ryan Beasley)
• Chapter 5. An Introduction to Conducting Email Audit Studies (Charles Crabtree)
• Chapter 6. To Match or Not to Match? Statistical and Substantive Considerations in Audit Design and Analysis (Mike Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson)
• PART III: Nuance in Audit Studies: Context, Mechanisms, and the Future
• Chapter 7. Opportunities and Challenges in Designing and Conducting a Labor Market Resume Study (William Carbonaro and Jon Schwarz)
• Chapter 8. The Geography of Stigma: Experimental Methods to Identify the Penalty of Place (Max Besbris, Jacob William Faber, Peter Rich, Patrick Sharkey)
• Chapter 9. Emerging Frontiers in Audit Study Research: Mechanisms, Generalizability, and Variation (David S. Pedulla).