Ask: Research and Methods is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the methodology of social science research. ASK was first published in 1995 by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish ...

Both factor analysis and principal component analysis are very popular among social researchers. They are often treated as variants of the same method. In the paper author discusses difference between the methods, and ...

This analysis aims at presentation of class schema constructed by Robert Erikson and John Goldthorpe referred to EGP. It is well-established and most widely employed coding schema in international research on social ...

Focus Group Interview became a more and more popular method and most of the marketing research companies have it in their portfolios. A number of researchers and clients use to treat this method as easy to use, intuitive, ...

Traditional approach to analysis of change (MANOVA) was based on assumption that change consists of series of quantum differences in functioning of individuals--looked at in terms of arbitrary measurement moments. Such ...

The article presents argumentation for the need to establish archive of qualitative data. Controversies related to this and several practical and methodological solutions in dealing with it. Robert K. Merton’s discussion ...

Primary prevention and health promotion actions bring varied effects which do not always correspond to expectations of those who implement them. The source of that discrepancy might be seek in the diversification of people’s ...