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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are dwelling, here, with analysis of stability in responses given by respondents during one interview. Stability is referred to reliability of questions. We point out some determinants of changes in answering the same ...