The author1 is the “dean” of BMS Scientific Committee members and here traces seven different trends in sociological methodology – Big Data Social Science, Longitudinal Data, Comparative Sociology, Social Networks, Inferential Statistics, Survey Methods, Measurement – in contributions of the BMS.
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