Surveying Subjective Phenomena / Volume 1 / Volume 1 /
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[1984]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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- Contents, Volume 2; Preface; Part I. Background; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Origins of the Study; 1.2 Domain of the Study: Objective and Subjective Phenomena; 1.3 Subjectivity and ""Social Facts""; 1.4 Putting Surveys and Their Problems in Perspective; 1.5 Organization of the Volume; Part II. Uses and Abuses of Surveys; 2. The Development and Contemporary Use of Subjective Surveys; 2.1 The Development of the Survey Method; 2.2 The Survey Enterprise; 2.3 The Use of Subjective Survey Measurements; 2.4 The Effects of Surveys and Polls; 3. Standards of Practice and the Misuse of Surveys.
- 3.1 Attempts at Setting Survey Standards3.2 Indicators of the Quality of Survey Practice and Reporting; 3.3 Misuses of Polls and Surveys; 3.4 Conclusions; Part III. Measurement Issues; 4. Measurement and Error: An Introduction; 4.1 Some Fundamentals; 4.2 Measurement Variation in Surveys: Examples of the Effects of Respondents, Coders, and Interviewers; 4.3 Psychological Measurement: An Introduction to the Subjective Domain; 5. Variability in Survey Measurements of Subjective Phenomena: Empirical Results; 5.1 Response Effects With Subjective Survey Questions.
- 5.2 Reproducibility of Survey Measurement of Subjective Phenomena5.3 Coordinated Measurement and the Control of Error; 6. Measurement and Structure: Strategies for the Design and Analysis of Subjective Survey Data; 6.1 Objects and Subjects; 6.2 Relating Measurements of Subjective and Objective Phenomena; 6.3 Response Structures; 6.4 The Latent Trait Approach in Survey Research: The Rasch Measurement Model; Part IV. The Survey Interview Process; 7. Conceptual Ambiguity in Surveys; 7.1 The Concept of Public Opinion; 7.2 Using Surveys to Clarify Concepts: The Example of Risk.
- 7.3 Techniques for Exploring Frames of Reference in Surveys8. The Role of the Respondent; 8.1 The Interviewer's Approach to the Respondent; 8.2 The Respondent's Concept of His Role; 8.3 Social Expectations; 8.4 The Presence of Others During the Interview; 8.5 Implications; 9. The Question-and-Answer Process; 9.1 Rules for Asking and Answering Questions; 9.2 The Individual Survey Question as a Source of Bias; 9.3 Contextual Influences Within Sets of Survey Questions ; 9.4 The Tasks Posed by Survey Questions; Part V. Improving Survey Measurements of Subjective Phenomena; 10. Recommendations.
- 10.1 Improving Public Understanding of Surveys and Polls10.2 Upgrading Current Survey Practice; 10.3 Advancing Survey Measurement and the Scientific Use of Survey Data; Appendixes; A. Separate Statements; B. Notes on the Size and Scope of the Survey Industry; C. Details of Newspaper Study; D. On the Review of Federal Surveys; E. Details of Survey Results Cited in Union Carbide Example; F. Intersurvey Comparisons: Early Work; G. Intersurvey Comparisons: Recent Work; H. Scheme for Classifying Survey Questions According to Their Subjective Properties; References; Name Index; Subject Index.