1997 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY 1997 (Adrian E. Raftery, Ed.)

FORMAL ANALYSIS OF QUALITATIVE DATA: A SYMPOSIUM

The Niche Hiker’s Guide to Population Ecology: A Logical Reconstruction of Organization Ecology’s Niche Theory
Gábor Péli

Sequence Comparison Via Alignment and Gibbs Sampling: A Formal Analysis of the Emergence of the Modern Sociological Article

Andrew Abbott and Emily Barman

A Generic Semantic Grammar for Quantitative Text Analysis: Applications to East and West Berlin Radio News Content from 1979

Carl W. Roberts
Discussion:

Comment: The Importance of Order
Kathleen M. Carley
Comment: On Ambiguity and Rhetoric in (Social) Science
Roberto Franzosi
Comment: On Logical Formalization of Theories from Organizational Ecology
Michael T. Hannan
Comment: Evaluating Qualitative Methodologies
Edgar Kiser

Rejoinders:

Reply: Intuition and the Formal Approaches
Gábor Péli
Reply to Comments
Andrew Abbott and Emily Barman
Reply: The Curse of Chauvin
Carl W. Roberts