Answers given by respondents to questions concerning their cultural consumption (TV watching, reading of books and magazines, cinema and theater attendance) are treated by the author as empirical indicators of actual facts ...

Surveys on “cultural consumption” (e.g. reading of books and newspapers, listening to the radio, watching the TV) pose a difficult problem of validity and reliability of research techniques applied. In view of a widespread ...

In a research on professional careers and their relation to family life of 13 female professors, a serious difficulty consisted in the role discrepancy between the respondents and the student interviewer as well as in the ...