Carl W. Roberts
Professor of Statistics and Professor of Sociology

To get in touch, please see my contact information below.

Recent Courses Taught (teaching philosophy):

• Stat 401 — Statistical Methods for Research Workers
• Stat 404 — Statistics for the Social Sciences
• Soc 401 — Contemporary Sociological Theories
• Soc 607 — Contemporary Sociological Theory
• Soc 698 — Sociology of Culture
  

Research Interests:

• Theory
• Sociology of knowledge
• Text analysis
• Mass communications
• Sociology of religion
• Public opinion

Some Publications:

• Carl W. Roberts and Yong Wang.  2010.  Traitor in our midst: Cultural variations in Japanese vs. Oklahoman public discourse on domestic terrorism in the spring of 1995, Comparative Sociology 9: 463-494.
  

• Carl W. Roberts, Cornelia Zuell, Juliane Landmann, and Yong Wang.  2010.  Modality analysis: A semantic grammar for imputations of intentionality in texts.  Quality & Quantity 44: 239-257.
  

• Carl W. Roberts, Roel Popping, and Yijiang Pan.  2009.  Modalities of democratic transformation: Forms of public discourse within Hungary’s largest newspaper, 1990-1997.  International Sociology 24: 498-525.

• Carl W. Roberts.  2008.  "The" Fifth Modality: On Languages that Shape our Motivations and Cultures. Leiden, NL: Brill.

• Carl W. Roberts.  2001.  Content analysis.  Pp. 2697-2702 in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 4, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes.  Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

• Carl W. Roberts.  2000.  A conceptual framework for quantitative text analysis: On joining probabilistic and substantive inferences about texts. Quality & Quantity 34: 259-274.

• Carl W. Roberts.  1997.  Text Analysis for the Social Sciences: Methods for Drawing Inferences from Texts and Transcripts. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

• Carl W. Roberts.  1997.  A generic semantic grammar for quantitative text analysis: Applications to East and West Berlin radio news content from 1979.  Pp. 89-129 in Sociological Methodology 1997, Vol. 27, edited by Adrian Raftery.  Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.

Contact:

e-mail: carlos@iastate.edu