Social Observatories Network Project https://socialobservatories.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. October 2013 Meeting Report https://socialobservatories.org/reports/reports/FinalreportonOctober78Meetingv2.pdf October 2013 Meeting Report No publisher awilliams 2016-10-13T14:35:24Z File May 2013 Meeting Report https://socialobservatories.org/reports/reports/Summaryreport_May8_2013Rev_Final.pdf May 2013 Meeting Report No publisher awilliams 2016-10-13T14:35:24Z File December 2014 Meeting Agenda https://socialobservatories.org/reports/december-2014-socn-meeting/december-2014-meeting-agenda No publisher awilliams 2016-10-13T14:32:32Z File New Developments in Social and Behavioral Research: The Social Observatories Coordinating Network, September 2016 https://socialobservatories.org/papers/new-developments-in-social-and-behavioral-research-the-social-observatories-coordinating-network-september-2016 Developments in information technology offer an unprecedented opportunity to collect diverse data at fine-grained spatial and temporal scales, to change the way social, behavioral and economic science (SBE) is conducted, and to greatly expand the questions that can be addressed. William Fennie 2016-09-22T17:51:10Z White Paper Participant Biosketches https://socialobservatories.org/conference/bios Updated 17 March 2016 No publisher William Fennie 2016-03-17T18:05:21Z File Conference https://socialobservatories.org/conference No publisher William Fennie 2016-01-14T19:25:44Z Folder Conference Agenda https://socialobservatories.org/conference/agenda Conference on New Data Linkages

March 24-25, 2016
Westin Arlington Gateway, Virginia

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]]> No publisher William Fennie 2016-01-14T18:25:00Z Page Conference on New Data Linkages https://socialobservatories.org/conference/new-data-linkages The Social Observatories Coordinating Network sponsored a conference in Arlington, Virginia on March 24-25, 2016. The network has completed an edited volume of papers from this conference published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (“New Developments in Data Collection: Linking Data across Levels”) in January 2017, Vol. 669. Access the journal using one of the links below :

http://www.aapss.org/the-annals/

http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/anna/current

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Members of the NSF Social Observatories Coordinating Network include:

J. Lawrence Aber, New York University
Henry E. Brady, University of California, Berkeley
Dalton Conley, New York University
Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina
Catherine Eckel, Texas A & M University
Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina
Darrick Hamilton, New School for Social Research
Sandra Hofferth, University of Maryland
Klaus Hubacek, University of Maryland
Emilio Moran, Michigan State University

For additional information contact:
Sandra Hofferth:  hofferth@umd.edu or
Emilio Moran:   moranef@msu.edu

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]]> No publisher William Fennie 2016-01-14T18:25:00Z Page Call for Abstracts for 2016 Conference on New Data Linkages https://socialobservatories.org/conference/cfa Conference to be held March 2016 The Social Observatories Coordinating Network is planning to hold a conference in the Washington DC area in March 2016. The conference will highlight research programs that demonstrate novel linkages between at least two distinct data sources, types, or modalities and which answer an important social scientific question. Examples of novel data linkages include—but are by no means limited to—new combinations of survey and administrative data; psychometrics and air quality; community indicators and individual observational data; social analytics and voting data; and social media and economic indicators. Papers must relate empirical results from a study that addresses a specific research question (i.e. mere description of data resources is not sufficient).  Themes are equally open. Of particular interest are social mobility; social change and adaptation; social inequality; and other key social and behavioral science topics. Paper drafts will be presented at a conference in March 2016 (Date TBD). Revised papers will be submitted for an edited volume of a journal. Selected participants will have conference expenses paid and will receive a modest honorarium upon the successful acceptance of their article. Interested researchers should submit a 3-5 page paper prospectus or abstract to Sandra Hofferth by August 20, 2015. Submitters will be notified by October 15, 2015.

]]> No publisher William Fennie 2015-03-10T18:50:00Z Page Sandra Hofferth, Ph.D. https://socialobservatories.org/members/shofferth No publisher William Fennie 2015-02-10T21:35:49Z Person December 2014 Meeting Agenda https://socialobservatories.org/reports/december-2014-socn-meeting/december-2014-meeting-agenda-1 Westin Arlington Gateway December 16-17, 2014  

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Tuesday December 16

8 a.m.  Continental Breakfast

9:00 to 10:00 a.m.  Update on Network Activities – S. Hofferth, E. Moran, and Network Members

10:00 to 11:00 p.m. Discussion with John Yellen, NSF, about the BCC initiatives.  Discussion of ways the network could be involved and future plans.

10:45 to 11:00 a.m. break

11:00 to 12 noon. Discussion of NSF priorities with Fay Lomax Cook, Assistant Director, NSF, and Director, Social, Economic and Behavioral Sciences.  Joined by Jeryl Mumpower, Director, Division of Social and Economic Sciences.

12:00 to 1:00 p.m.  Lunch

1:00 to 3:00 p.m.  Discussion of the new opportunities at NSF and their fit with our project.  Discussion of additional dissemination activities

3:00 to 3:15 p.m.  Break

3:15 to 4:00 p.m.   Planning for final network conference in fall 2015.

4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Begin planning for our next publication

5:00 p.m.  Recess

6:30 p.m.  Group Dinner

 

Wednesday December 17

8 a.m.  Continental Breakfast

8 to 11:30 a.m. Continued discussion of the next publication

11:30-1 pm.  Working Lunch, then end meeting

]]> No publisher awilliams 2014-12-08T16:55:00Z Page December 2014 SOCN Meeting https://socialobservatories.org/reports/december-2014-socn-meeting No publisher awilliams 2014-12-08T16:40:00Z Folder Darrick Hamilton, Ph.D. https://socialobservatories.org/members/darrick-hamilton-phd No publisher awilliams 2013-12-10T20:37:25Z Person Middle-Out Mobility: Regions with Larger Middle Classes Have More Economic Mobility https://socialobservatories.org/external-resources/middle-out-mobility-regions-with-larger-middle-classes-have-more-economic-mobility Regions of the United States that have larger middle classes and less inequality have more economic mobility. As a consequence, a low-income child who grows up in an area with a large middle class is likely to earn more money and make a better life for himself or herself. No publisher awilliams 2013-09-25T00:10:35Z Link Downward Mobility From the Middle Class https://socialobservatories.org/external-resources/downward-mobility-from-the-middle-class This 2011 report examines potential factors that cause some Americans who grow up in the middle class to fall down the economic ladder as adults. No publisher awilliams 2013-09-25T00:08:37Z Link