Occupational position comes to be the most popular indicator of social status in sociological analyses. In what follows I put forward arguments supporting validity of this approach. I present: (1) theoretical rationale ...

Using data from European Social Survey 2002 I attempt to determine two questions. First, what are basic determinants of availability of respondents as defined in terms of number of visits to make interview. Second, to what ...

This is summary overview of some most distinctive tendencies emerging in area of social research in the first half of the 1990s. We figure out: (1) expansion of public opinion and (2) market research, (3) increasing ...

This analysis provides additional empirical support for a thesis that "open" and "closed" questions show to be two different but complementary forms of asking questions. I compare, here, self-identifications with social ...

This analysis attempts to determine some important question concerning answers 'do not know' in survey research. We ask whether taking them into account in constructing variables affects results of analyses. Several ...

I attempt, here, to determine effect of non-available respondents on results of survey research. This analysis is based on the Polish General Social Survey carried out in Poland in 1994, and on its follow-up realized on ...

The occupation is a basic indicator of placement of individuals in social structure. We recommend, here, the new Polish Sociological Classification of Occupations - PSCO 1995, which is supposed to be adapted to the current ...