Carl W. Roberts
Professor of Statistics and Professor of Sociology

To set up an appointment with me during office hours, please call my secretary, Lori Merritt, at 294-8368.  Appointments outside of office hours can also be arranged.

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.  (forthcoming).  Traitor in our Midst: Cultural Variations in Japanese vs. Oklahoman Public Discourse on Domestic Terrorism in the Spring of 1995, Comparative Sociology.

• Carl W. Roberts, Cornelia Zuell, Juliane Landmann, and Yong Wang.  (forthcoming).  Modality Analysis: A Semantic Grammar for Imputations of Intentionality in Texts.  Quality & Quantity.
  

• 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.

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

• 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, 2001.

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

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

• A generic semantic grammar for quantitative text analysis: Applications to East and West Berlin radio news content from 1979. In Sociological Methodology 1997, Vol. 27, edited by Adrian Raftery. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Offices:

e-mail: carlos@iastate.edu