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Call for Session and Workshop Proposals : Conference 8-11 September 2020 in CyprusThe 10th International Conference on Social Science Methodology of RC33 (Logic and Methodology in Sociology) will be held in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, on 8-11 September 2020. The local host of the conference will be the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus.Deadline: 1 November 2019Conference webpage: http://cyprusconferences.org/rc33/See also www.rc33.orgThematic Focus of the RC33 2020 Conference: Empirical Research and SocietyWe live in an era of “alternative news” and “climate change denial”. We experience a political life where the populism prevails over scientific evidence. In such turbulent times, it is important for methodologists to investigate how to encourage society to re-focus on robust scientific evidence.TopicsWe invite session proposals, individual abstracts for presentations, and workshop proposals dealing with all the methodological interests of our members (qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods). Possible themes include, but are not limited to:1. Analysis of Qualitative Data2. Challenges and opportunities for Applied Qualitative Research3. Making sense of qualitative interviews4. Analyzing unstructured data: video, audio, images, text5. Digital Methodologies: Beyond Big &#38; Small Data6. Triangulation and Mixed Methods7. Coding &#38; Analysis of Unstructured Data8. Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Empirical Research9. Mobile and Sensor Data Collection and Analysis10. Analysis of longitudinal data11. Computer Simulations (e.g., linear and non-linear modeling)12. Prediction, classification and related methods13. Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences (e.g. recruitment, ethics, designs)14. Information and Communication Technologies in Data Collection Methods15. Issues in Survey Methodology (e.g. non-response, sampling, attrition, analysis, longitudinal designs etc)16. Spatial Methods17. Social Network Analysis18. Unfolding and IRT (e.g. estimation, sample sizes, model fit etc)19. Error of measurement20. Harmonization of socio-demographic variables21. Who owns data? Big data and democratization (Panel session by the International Journal of Social Research Methodology)• Special Interest Topics1. School, Work and Occupational studies: methodological challenges2. Measuring social and political sentiment and emotions3. Monitoring Offensive and Hate Speech Online4. Researching older populations5. Researching immigrant populations• Topics focused on the Theme of the conference1. Research Methods / Empirical Research and Society (e.g. educating politicians, the Press and the public to become good consumers of research findings)2. Preparing primary and secondary education students to become research-oriented citizens, i.e., citizens who expect to get answers from research, rather than from other agents such as populism, religion etc