Very frequently sociological interviews are conducted with various professional categories of white collar workers. Two questions arise in this connection: (1) Is it justified to assume that interviews with various ...

Sociological literature distinguishes a number of techniques whose purpose is to validate research tools before proceeding to the research proper. Mentioned are: pilot study, pilot project, pre-test, trial survey, test ...

120 manual workers in six industrial plants in the city of Lodz were interviewed and one of the questions asked related to their average monthly wages. The wages given in interviews were compared with the actual ones, i.e. ...

Researchers in Poland give to interviewers a considerable range of freedom in the selection of places where interviews are performed. In consequence, informations are frequently obtained from respondents under widely ...

The purpose of the study was to check the answers of respondents against the records of a district dispensary of general medical services as well as to analyse the influence of certain traits of respondents (sex, age, ...

In many sociological books and in instructions for interviewers a directive can be found telling the interviewer to interview only the respondent himself. The presence of any third persons is considered to have negative ...

A Bibliography The bibliography includes books and papers published in 1945-1969, which deal with the methodological problems of empirical research in sociology and especially with procedures and techniques applied in the ...