Author:
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Research Monograph (United States. Work Projects Administration. Division of Social Research).
Survey Research in the United States
Author: Jean M. Converse
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351487418
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
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 find this volume a major resource.Converse traces the beginnings of survey research in the practical worlds of politics and business, where elite groups sought information so as to infl uence mass democratic publics and markets. During the Depression and World War II, the federal government played a major role in developing surveys on a national scale. In the 1940s certain key individuals with academic connections and experience in polling, business, or government research brought surveys into academic life. By the 1960s, what was initially viewed with suspicion had achieved a measure of scientific acceptance of survey research.The author draws upon a wealth of material in archives, interviews, and published work to trace the origins of the early organizations (the Bureau of Applied Social Research, the National Opinion Research Center, and the Survey Research Center of Michigan), and to capture the perspectives of front-line fi gures such as Paul Lazarsfeld, George Gallup, Elmo Roper, and Rensis Likert. She writes with sensitivity and style, revealing how academic survey research, along with its commercial and political cousins, came of age in the United States.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351487418
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
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 find this volume a major resource.Converse traces the beginnings of survey research in the practical worlds of politics and business, where elite groups sought information so as to infl uence mass democratic publics and markets. During the Depression and World War II, the federal government played a major role in developing surveys on a national scale. In the 1940s certain key individuals with academic connections and experience in polling, business, or government research brought surveys into academic life. By the 1960s, what was initially viewed with suspicion had achieved a measure of scientific acceptance of survey research.The author draws upon a wealth of material in archives, interviews, and published work to trace the origins of the early organizations (the Bureau of Applied Social Research, the National Opinion Research Center, and the Survey Research Center of Michigan), and to capture the perspectives of front-line fi gures such as Paul Lazarsfeld, George Gallup, Elmo Roper, and Rensis Likert. She writes with sensitivity and style, revealing how academic survey research, along with its commercial and political cousins, came of age in the United States.
Research Monograph
Social Problems ...
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unemployed
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unemployed
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Social Problems Series
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Uemployed
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uemployed
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Federal Work, Security, and Relief Programs
Author: Arthur Edward Burns
Publisher:
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Subject Index of Research Bulletins and Monographs Issued by Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Works Progress Administration, Division of Social Research
Author: United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2240
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2240
Book Description
National Defense Migration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration
Publisher:
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Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Interstate Migration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration
Publisher:
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Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description