Jörg Blasius (born 1957) is a German
sociologist, and Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology of the
University of Bonn. He became known through his earlier work on
correspondence analysis Correspondence analysis (CA) is a multivariate statistical technique proposed by Herman Otto Hartley (Hirschfeld) and later developed by Jean-Paul Benzécri. It is conceptually similar to principal component analysis, but applies to categorical rat ...
in the social sciences.
[Borg, Ingwer, and Patrick JF Groenen. ''Modern multidimensional scaling: Theory and applications.'' Springer Science & Business Media, 2005.]
Life and work
Born in
Hamburg Blasius obtained his degree in sociology. From 1986 to 2001 he was researcher at the
University of Cologne at the city's Central Archive for Empirical Social Research. In 2001 he was appointed Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology of the
University of Bonn.
His research interests include the methods of empirical social research, the statistics used (in particular correspondence analysis), the
urban sociology, lifestyles, media research,
environmental sociology and
political sociology.
Selected publications
* Greenacre, Michael J., and Jörg Blasius, eds. ''Correspondence analysis in the social sciences: Recent developments and applications.'' London: Academic Press, 1994.
* Blasius, Jörg, and Michael Greenacre. ''Visualization of categorical data.'' Academic Press, 1998.
* Friedrichs, Jürgen, and Jörg Blasius. ''Leben in benachteiligten Wohngebieten.'' Opladen: Leske+ Budrich, 2000.
* Blasius, Jörg. ''Korrespondenzanalyse.'' Oldenbourg Verlag, 2001.
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Cor van Dijkum
Cornelis Johannes (Cor) van Dijkum (born 1950) is a Dutch sociologist, consultant and academic at the Utrecht University, known for his contributions in the field of methodology for complex societal problems.
Biography
Van Dijkum obtained his MSc ...
, J. Blasius, H. Kleijer, B. van Hilten (Eds.), ''Recent Developments and Applications in Social Research Methodology.'' SISWO, Amsterdam, 2004.
* Blasius, Jörg, and Victor Thiessen. ''Assessing the quality of survey data.'' Sage, 2012.
* Jorg Blasius and Michael Greenacre, ''Visualization and Verbalization of Data.'' CRC Press, 2014.
References
External links
Personal page at the University of Bonn
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1957 births
Living people
German sociologists
Academic staff of the University of Cologne
Academic staff of the University of Bonn
Writers from Hamburg