Constructing survey data : an interactional approach /: an interactional approach. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Giampietro Gobo, Sergio Mauceri.
• Other Names: Gobo, Giampietro; Mauceri, Sergio
• Contents: Introduction: Rescuing the survey; PART ONE: THE CONTEXT; Surveying the Survey: Back to the Past; The Making of the 'Survey Society': The 19th Century; The Common Roots of the Survey and In-depth Interview; The Pioneers: 1880 - 1935; Technical Improvements and the Abandonment of Mixed Methods; The Idea of Standardizing the Survey Interview; The Split between Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; The Explosion and Institutionalization of Surveys; Technical Modifications toward a Standardized Interview; The Decline of the Concern for Data Collection; The Globalization of the Survey Culture Model; Concluding Remarks; Back to the 'Golden Age': Towards a Multilevel Integrated Survey Approach; What is Survey Research?; From the Standard to the Multlievel and Integrated Survey Approach; Concluding Remarks; PART TWO: FROM QUESTIONS TO ANSWERS; The Answering Process; What Lies Behind the Datum?; The Co-construction of Survey Data; The 'Cognitive Turn' and the CASM Movement; Inference Procedures; Situation Awareness; The Limits of the 'Cognitive Turn' and Social Information Processing (SIP); From Cognition to Interaction: The Pragmatic Turn; The Logic of Conversation; Concluding Remarks; Asking and Questioning; Attributing Meanings to Questions; Evaluation: The Heuristics of Judgement; An Alternative Typology: Cognitive Tasks and Response Alternatives; Concluding Remarks; Answers: Cognitive Processes; Open-ended or Closed-ended? Facing the Dilemma; Scalar Answers; The Influence of the Response Alternatives; The Pragmatics of Response Alternatives; Response Alternatives and Linguistic Communities; Researchers versus Interviewees? Towards a Reconciliation of Separate Worlds; Concluding Remarks; Communicative Processes; Psychological States of Interaction; Social Conventions; Answers and Interviewees' Demographic Characteristics; The Setting; Concluding Remarks; The Living Questionnaire: The Survey at Work; The Initial Contact with Interviewees; The Nonresponse Phenomenon; The Sociology and Psychology of Nonresponse; The Questionnaire in Action; Incongruences in the Answers; Concluding Remarks; PART THREE: CONSTRUCTING ANSWER COMPARABILITY; From Standardization of Stimuli to Standardization of Meanings: The Interactional Survey Approach; The Behaviourism-based SSA: The Standardization of Stimuli; The Interactional Survey Approach: Standardizing Meanings; Bridging the Gap between Questionnaire (Researcher) and Interviewee: Empowering the Interviewer; Standardizing the Meaning of Response Alternatives Too; Concluding Remarks; Training for the Interactional Survey Approach; Motivating the Interviewee by Following the Norms of Conversation; The Interviewer's Hermeneutic Role; The Specific Hermeneutic Competence of Interviewers; Evaluation of Interviewer Performance; Concluding Remarks; PART FOUR: DESIGNING DATA QUALITY THROUGH MIXED STRATEGIES; Re-conceptualizing Data Quality; What is Data Quality?; Dimensions of Data Quality; From Data Quality to Survey Quality; Concluding Remarks; Mixed Survey Strategies: Quality in the Quantity; What is Mixed Methods Research?; Mixed Strategies: The Proportion of Quality and Quantity in a Research Design; The Integrative Role of Qualitative Procedures in the Survey: A Typology; The Pilot Study: Orientation of the Data Construction Process; Concluding Remarks; Pretesting Strategies: Assessing Data Quality in Advance; Aims of Pretesting; Pretesting Strategies based on Manifest Evidence; Qualitative Strategies: Inside the Black Box to Discover the Hidden Biases; Concluding Remarks; Deviant Case Analysis: Improving Data Quality; The Limitations of Monitoring Techniques within the Data Matrix; Deviant Case Analysis (DCA): The Exception that Refines the Rule; The Functions of Deviant Case Analysis; Exploring Deviant Cases: Some Techniques; Concluding Remarks; PART FIVE: ENVISIONING THE FUTURE; Glocalizing the Survey; Towards Multicultural Methodology; The Global Survey and its Discontents: The Limits of Current Survey Methodology; An Individualist Social Philosophy; Western Tacit Knowledge Embedded in the Survey Model; Lessons Learned from Cross-Cultural Surveys; De-colonizing the Survey; The Local Structural Context; Combining Global and Local; Brand New: Re-Styling the Survey; Concluding Remarks;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (392 pages)
• Subjects: 001.4/33; Surveys -- Methodology; Surveys -- Methodology; Empirische Sozialforschung; Qualitative Sozialforschung; Fragebogen; Methodologie
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781473904835; 1473904838
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