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Establishing Correspondence Analysis in Sociological Curricula in German-Speaking Academia

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For most social scientists outside France, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is familiar from, and was made popular by, the works of Pierre Bourdieu, especially the analysis and presentation of the social space of lifestyles in Distinction (Bourdieu 2000). Whereas in French sociology l–analyse des données represents a well-established procedure in statistics, this is still not the case in German sociology. Consequently, the topic of our contribution consists of an analysis of the partial establishment of MCA in German language sociology curricula.

This publication has been supported by funds of the Forschungskommission, Universität Luzern.

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    Due to the very heterogeneous character of university websites and university calendars, the data collection may not perfectly represent the actual field of methods training. Furthermore, we are aware that statistics are often taught by PhD students and lecturers below professorship level, and that the content of these courses may also depend on their personal preferences and competences, which are often not mirrored in the regulations or course descriptions.

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    2 All computation was done using the soc.ca R-package (Grau Larsen 2016). See also Murtagh (2005), Husson et al. (2011) and Pagès (2015) for R-packages related to MCA.

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Diaz-Bone, R., Manderscheid, K. (2019). Establishing Correspondence Analysis in Sociological Curricula in German-Speaking Academia. In: Blasius, J., Lebaron, F., Le Roux, B., Schmitz, A. (eds) Empirical Investigations of Social Space. Methodos Series, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15387-8_22

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