This paper is based on reports coming from participant observations of 58 interviews from survey research. I analyze, here, behavior of interviewers and some of its implications for quality of data. These reports show that ...

Running computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) one cannot control external effects, contaminating validity of responses by interviewers, especially so-called effect of 'third persons'. Bearing on long-lasting ...

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 ...

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 ...