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 â€? The FutureCognitive and Communicative Aspects of Survey Measurement
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Respondentsâ€? 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 Kleinâ€?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 Stevensâ€? Typology of Data