Based on experience derived from my research on the Holocaust's victims, I point out specific features of the methodological framework in this area of qualitative research. The peculiarity resides in non-structured ...

I attempt to determine to what extent data on occupational career from the past, reported by respondents non-working in the survey, are valid measure of their social status. I argue, here, that these procedure, often ...

This paper concerns ideological contexts of the competitions of memoirs while regarded as a source of sociological data in Poland. I deal with this problem with reference to the two episodes from history of this type of ...

The analyses presented here deal with the interviewer's effect in survey research. An attempt is made to estimate its size basing on the data from the Polish General Social Survey and information on selected individual ...

While occupation comes to be utilized as basic variable in social research, occupational classifications serve to be a basic tool in coding and analysis of data on social stratification and socio-occupational status. ...

Studies in the sociology of religion generally assume "religion" to be causal with little or no attention paid to the theoretical justification or basis for such a claim. We argue in this paper that most such studies fail ...

In parliamentary election 1993, the ban on publication of results of opinion polls prompted a contentious debate already in preparation of the election rule. During electoral campaign it was overlooked, broken and exploited ...

Telephone surveys come to be more widely used in the 1970s, paralleling increase in application of computer techniques in the survey research. In the second half of the 1980s telephone surveys started to replace traditional ...