QMSS
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Date: Tuesday 18th July
Venue: Room 1, 2nd floor, Arumugam Building
Time: 2.00-5.30
Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences: a European Science Foundation programme
Organiser: Professor Chris Skinner, University of Southampton
Aims of session: to raise awareness about the QMSS programme; to illustrate the breadth of applications of quantitative methods among junior researchers in Europe; to enable junior researchers to obtain feedback on their work.
Format: presentations with discussion.
Level: this session will involve applications of some advanced quantitative methods
Session Programme:
Chair: Chris Skinner, University of Southampton
| 2.00-2.10 | Introduction to QMSS programme Chris Skinner, University of Southampton |
| 2.10-2.35 | Does Public Opinion finally exist? The use of the ESS Survey to test Pierre Bourdieu's Theory Olivier Pilmis |
| 2.35-3.00 | Who identifies & exploits entrepreneurial opportunities? Tommy Clausen |
| 3.05-3.30 | Putting nonparametric multilevel latent class models into practice: Group -and individual- level typologies of social distance in 32 countries Elmar Schlueter |
| 3.30-4.00 | Coffee/tea |
| 4.00-4.25 | Different theories and measures of social capital Filip Agneessens |
| 4.25-4.50 | Attitudes around homosexuals: contact effects from a life-course perspective Eva Jaspers |
| 4.50-5.20 | Searching for a shared understanding of a statistician and a social scientist when using a statistical analysis method Marianne Silén |
Speakers have been selected by a competition among the junior researchers from nineteen European countries who participated in one of the eight QMSS workshop/seminars which were run in 2004 and 2005.