Interaction, Reported and Observed

The Case of One Local Union

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2497637
AutoresLois R Dean (Kansas City Study of Adult Life, and Instructor, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, autor de correspondencia)
Año1958
Volumen17
Número3
Páginas36-44
Fecha de publicación1958-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHuman Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17730/humo.17.3.2320447q44475876
OpenAlexW2019623721
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19

The observation is neither profound nor original that, over the past two to three decades, behavioral scientists have placed increasingly heavy reliance on the questionnaire survey as a principal means of data collection. The reasons for this are obvious and compelling. The method is relatively inexpensive; once the questionnaire is constructed, no great skills are involved in its administration; by means of questionnaires, data may be rapidly, efficiently, and uniformly gathered from large and representative populations. And, most important, the combination of the standard stimulus, accurate sampling procedures, and ever more sophisticated techniques for analysis of quantitative data, offers behavioral scientists their most reasonable approximation, for large numbers of respondents, to the classic experimental model, without which, no researcher may lay claim to hard and fast

Political science · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology