| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 375 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
"Trends and Perspectives in Empirical Social Research is a comprehensive and authoritative volume on the state of the art in a wide range of approaches, methods, and techniques put together by an international group of senior scholars from all branches of empirical social research." "The volume includes chapters on social indicators, nationwide general social surveys, multinational surveys, cognitive and communicative aspects of survey measurement, official/census data, computer-assisted interviews, sampling, statistics and measurement, scaling, facet theory, causal modeling, attitude measurement, multilevel models, phenomenology, hermeneutic approaches, and content analysis."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
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Social sciences -- Research.
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Research.
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Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Statistical methods.
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Social indicators.
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Social surveys.
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Research
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research (function)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Social surveys
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Social sciences -- Statistical methods
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Social sciences -- Methodology
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Social indicators
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Research
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Social sciences -- Research
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Empirische Sozialforschung
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Empirisch sociaal onderzoek.
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Social indicators.
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Social surveys.
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Social sciences -- Research.
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Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bork, Ingwer
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Mohler, Peter Ph., 1945-
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| LC no. |
94026590 |
| ISBN |
9783110887617 |
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3110887614 |
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