5th ESRC Research Methods Festival

A couple of audio slideshows presented at the 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival.

• What are cohort studies?
  
  
• What is multilevel modelling?
  
  
• What is social network analysis?
  
  
• What is propensity score matching?
  
  
• What is the regression discontinuity approach?
  
  
• What is geosimulation?

Assorted links

1. Following an entire cohort (via Marginal Revolution)
   
   
2. On Libya migration and the future of North Africa (via Demography Matters)
   
   
3. The eternal sociology crisis (via The Global Sociology Blog). If you're a student in the middle of this crisis I would recommend you to read Peter Berger. Now, if you are already a professional and you still face this existencial problem, just don't panic. You will have to learn how to get along with this.
   
   
4. The Interactive Singles Map

Defining generational cohorts

(via datapointed)

How to define generational cohorts? The guys from US Today came up with this "generational quiz". It takes just 5 quick questions and it's pretty good (although I'm not sure if its going to help you with your next paper).

"The year you were born partly determines what generation you belong to, but so do your cultural experiences." It identifies 6 different generations: G.I, Silent, Boomer, 'X' (a.k.a. Savvy), Milenial and 'Z'.

ps. I would belong to the Milenial Generation because of my birth year... but it looks like I'm a 'X' according to the quiz result....