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 ...

In post-war research made in Poland by means of standardized questionnaire interviews relatively little attention has been paid to verification of data. There is no solid tool for a sociologist to verify data and to secure ...

The main hypothesis was that the forming of stereotypes is strongly influenced – apart from other factors – by certain biographical traits. Analysed were relationships between the valence of the stereotype of a peasant and ...

The main problem taken up in the study was the relationship between the valence of stereotypes of these groups and the opinions concerning their roles in the crisis (their responsibility for its emergence and for the crisis ...

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, ...