Trends and perspectives in empirical social research /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
W. de Gruyter,
1994.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Social Indicators Research: Societal Monitoring and Social Reporting
- 1 The Origin of a Movement and its Objectives
- 2 Principles and Approaches
- 3 Social Reporting: Achievements and Results
- 4 Evaluating the Effort: A View from the Nineties
- 5 Looking Ahead
- Nationwide General Social Surveys
- 1 Overview
- 2 Origins of NGSS
- 3 Conclusion: Trends and Perspectives
- Measurement in Multi-National Surveys
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Comparative Research in the Social Sciences
- 3 Problems of Functional Equivalence of Measurements
- 4 Conclusions � The FutureCognitive and Communicative Aspects of Survey Measurement
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Respondents� Tasks
- 3 Question Comprehension
- 4 Attitude Measurement and the Emergence of Context Effects
- 5 Concluding Remarks
- Secondary Analysis of Official Microdata
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Illustrations from the United States
- 3 Empirical Social Research and Official Data in Germany
- 4 Strengths and Weaknesses of Secondary Analysis of Official Microdata
- 5 Analytic Potential of Major Bodies of Official Microdata
- 6 Research Potential and ProspectsComputer-Assisted Interviewing in Social and Market Research
- 1 History
- 2 Definitions and Descriptions
- 3 Classification and Function of Computer Technology for Social and Market Research
- 4 Features and Capabilities of Computer-Assisted Data Collection Systems
- 5 Implications and Methodological Aspects of the Use of Computers
- 6 New Data Collection Techniques
- 7 The Future of Computer-Assisted Data Collection
- The Study of Work Values: A Call for a More Balanced Perspective
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Brief History of Work Values and their Study3 Support for the External View
- 4 Other Evidence for the Functionality of Economic Work Outcomes
- 5 Implications for Management Practice
- 6 Implications for Applied Organizational Research
- Theory and Practice of Sample Surveys
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fixed Populations and Sampling Designs
- 3 Superpopulation Models
- 4 Analytic Studies
- 5 Nonsampling Errors
- 6 Sampling at ZUMA
- Statistics and the Sciences
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Statistics
- 3 The Evaluation of Statistical Techniques
- 4 The Role of Models in Statistics5 Connection Models and Techniques
- Measurement: The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in the Social Sciences
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Dangers of Premature Precision
- 3 Scaling and Measurement
- 4 Uniqueness, Meaningfulness and Klein�s Erlanger Program
- 5 The Psychology of Rectangles
- 6 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
- Nominal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratio Typologies are Misleading
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Stevens� Typology of Data