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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...