Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie / Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology  Founded in 1948, with a focus on theory ...

12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) — Burlington, Vermont, July 28-31, 2026. Hosted by the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont.

This article discusses and showcases approaches to causal inference with text as data, focusing on the challenges and opportunities that arise when sociological constructs are embedded in language. We...

The study of rare but high-impact events poses substantial analytical challenges because conventional sampling approaches yield limited outcome inform…

Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text anal...

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How to explain social phenomena? How to conceptualize causality and draw valid causal inferences? How to incorporate history and culture into explanations? ...

In recent years, digital behavioral data (DBD) have emerged as a powerful resource in social science research. Their ubiquity, granularity, complexity, and continuous collection provide new opportunit...

Causal explanation is central to sociological research, shaping both theoretical development and empirical inquiry. This paper argues that causal machine learning—which integrates deductive identifica...

The 2024 Annual Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociology will take place May 30–31 2024 in Leipzig, Germany. May 29 will be reserved for a networking event of women in INAS.