Section on Methodology

Mission Statement

The purpose of the Section on Methodology is to foster the development of this aspect of sociology through the organized interchange of ideas and research results. The term methodology shall be interpreted in its broadest sense to include the development of investigative techniques appropriate to any branch of sociology, of statistical and experimental procedures, and of mathematics, data processing, and such other interests as may be useful in sociological research.

Section Officers 2011-2012

Chair: Guillermina Jasso, New York University ('13)
Chair Elect: Melissa Hardy, The Pennsylvania State University ('13)
Past Chair: Tim Futing Liao, University of Illinois ('13)
Secretary-Treasurer: Richard A. Williams, University of Notre Dame ('14)

Council: 
Diane H. Felmlee, University of California - Davis ('12)
Jeremy Freese, Northwestern University ('12)
Stephen L. Morgan, Cornell University ('13)
Charles C. Ragin, University of Arizona ('13)
Hannah Brueckner, Yale University ('14)
Yang Yang, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ('14)

Newsletter Editor:Jui-Chung Allen Li, Institute of European and American Studies and Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica; and Population Research Center, RAND Corporation (jli@sinica.edu.tw)

Section Homepage

The URL of the homepage is: http://www2.asanet.org/sectionmethod/index.html