TEMPORAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF HEROIN-USING POPULATIONS - AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE SNOWBALL SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
TEMPORAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF HEROIN-USING POPULATIONS - AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE SNOWBALL SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
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DOI：
10.1097/00005053-198709000-00009
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发表时间：
1987-09-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
STERK, C
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作者：
KAPLAN, CD;KORF, D;STERK, C
雪球抽样是一种在社会科学中用于研究敏感话题、罕见特质、个人网络和社会关系的方法。该方法涉及利用“内部”知识和具有共同特征的研究兴趣的受试者之间的参考链的样本的选择。它在生成临床采样帧可能难以获得或以某种方式存在偏差的样本时特别有用。在本文中，海洛因使用者在荷兰的两个城市的雪球样本进行了分析，其目的是提供描述和有限的推断，他们的生活方式的时间和社会背景。已经发现了两个不同的海洛因使用人群，他们的生命周期阶段不同。重要的上下文解释已被发现，涉及通道从青少年同龄人群体的犯罪职业，网络的功能“结”和“露头”，以及社会接触的频率。有人建议，雪球抽样方法可能有实用程序在研究的时间和社会背景的其他人群的临床利益。
Snowball sampling is a method that has been used in the social sciences to study sensitive topics, rare traits, personal networks, and social relationships. The method involves the selection of samples sutilizing "insider" knowledge and referral chains among subjects who possess common traits that are of research interest. It is especially useful in generating samples for which clinical sampling frames may be difficult to obtain or are biased in some way. In this paper, snowball samples of heroin users in two Dutch cities have been analyzed for the purpose of providing descriptions and limited inferences about the temporal and social contexts of their lifestyles. Two distinct heroin-using populations have been discovered who are distinguished by their life cycle stage. Significant contextual explanations have been found involving the passage from adolescent peer group to criminal occupation, the functioning of network "knots" and "outcroppings," and the frequency of social contact. It is suggested that the snowball sampling method may have utility in studying the temporal and social contexts of other populations of clinical interest.