Survey Research in the United States: Roots and Emergence 1890-1960

ISBN-13: 9781412808804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 586 str.

Jean Converse

Opis

Hardly an American today escapes being polled or surveyed or sampled. In this illuminating history, Jean Converse shows how survey research came to be perhaps the single most important development in twentieth-century social science. Everyone interested in survey methods and public opinion, including social scientists in many fi elds, will fi nd this volume a major resource.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Introduction, Part One: The Ancestors: 1890-1940, Part Two: The Prewar and Wartime Generation: 1935-1945, Part Three: Migrations to the Universities: 1940-1960, A Summary and Evaluation, Notes, Index

O autorze

Jean M. Converse