Social Indicators Research: Societal Monitoring and Social Reporting -- 1 The Origin of a Movement and its Objectives -- 2 Principles and Approaches -- 3 Social Reporting: Achievements and Results -- 4 Evaluating the Effort: A View from the Nineties -- 5 Looking Ahead -- Nationwide General Social Surveys -- 1 Overview -- 2 Origins of NGSS -- 3 Conclusion: Trends and Perspectives -- Measurement in Multi-National Surveys -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Comparative Research in the Social Sciences -- 3 Problems of Functional Equivalence of Measurements -- 4 Conclusions - The Future -- Cognitive and Communicative Aspects of Survey Measurement -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Respondents' Tasks -- 3 Question Comprehension -- 4 Attitude Measurement and the Emergence of Context Effects -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Secondary Analysis of Official Microdata -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Illustrations from the United States -- 3 Empirical Social Research and Official Data in Germany -- 4 Strengths and Weaknesses of Secondary Analysis of Official Microdata -- 5 Analytic Potential of Major Bodies of Official Microdata -- 6 Research Potential and Prospects -- Computer-Assisted Interviewing in Social and Market Research -- 1 History -- 2 Definitions and Descriptions -- 3 Classification and Function of Computer Technology for Social and Market Research -- 4 Features and Capabilities of Computer-Assisted Data Collection Systems -- 5 Implications and Methodological Aspects of the Use of Computers -- 6 New Data Collection Techniques -- 7 The Future of Computer-Assisted Data Collection -- The Study of Work Values: A Call for a More Balanced Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Brief History of Work Values and their Study -- 3 Support for the External View -- 4 Other Evidence for the Functionality of Economic Work Outcomes -- 5 Implications for Management Practice.

6 Implications for Applied Organizational Research -- Theory and Practice of Sample Surveys -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fixed Populations and Sampling Designs -- 3 Superpopulation Models -- 4 Analytic Studies -- 5 Nonsampling Errors -- 6 Sampling at ZUMA -- Statistics and the Sciences -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Statistics -- 3 The Evaluation of Statistical Techniques -- 4 The Role of Models in Statistics -- 5 Connection Models and Techniques -- Measurement: The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in the Social Sciences -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Dangers of Premature Precision -- 3 Scaling and Measurement -- 4 Uniqueness, Meaningfulness and Klein's Erlanger Program -- 5 The Psychology of Rectangles -- 6 The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences -- Nominal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratio Typologies are Misleading -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Stevens' Typology of Data -- 3 Prescribing and Proscribing Statistics -- 4 Classical Criticisms of Stevens Proscriptions' -- 5 The Controversy over Statistics and Scale Types -- 6 Alternative Scale Taxonomies -- 7 Proscribing Transformations -- 8 Good Data Analysis does not Assume Data Types -- 9 Stevens' Categories do not Describe Fixed Attributes of Data -- 10 Stevens' Categories are Insufficient to Describe Data Scales -- 11 Statistics Procedures cannot be Classified according to Stevens' Criteria -- 12 Scale Types are not Precise Categories -- 13 Scales and Data Analysis -- 14 Meaningfulness -- 15 The Axiomatic Argument -- 16 A Role for Data Types -- 17 Conclusion -- Evolving Notions of Facet Theory -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early FT and Attitudinal Behavior -- 3 Early FT and Intelligence Testing -- 4 On Mapping Sentences and Models -- 5 Content Facets and Range Facets -- 6 On Item Definitions and Attitudes -- 7 Correspondence Hypotheses -- 8 FT as a Theory -- 9 FT Perspectives.

Factor Analysis in the 1980's and the 1990's: Some Old Debates and Some New Developments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Some Theoretical Background -- 3 Key Developments from 1980-1994 -- 4 Challenges and Directions for Future Research -- Causal Modeling: Some Trends and Perspectives -- 1 Aims and Scope of Causal Modeling: Overview and Historical Developments -- 2 Constructing Initial Candidate Models -- 3 Model Estimation -- 4 Evaluation of Model Fit (Fit Indexes) -- 5 Model Modification -- 6 Concluding Remarks and Suggestions for Future Research -- Attitude Theory and Measurement: Implications for Survey Research -- 1 Historical Perspective -- 2 Unidimensional Conceptions of Attitude -- 3 Multidimensional Conceptions of Attitude -- 4 Conclusions -- Reconciling Macro and Micro Perspectives by Multilevel Models: An Application to Regional Wage Differences -- 1 Multilevel Models Bridge the Gap between the Micro and Macro Level -- 2 An Example: the Regional Wage Curve Hypothesis -- 3 Random Coefficient Models -- 4 Data and Variables to Test the Wage-Curve Hypothesis -- 5 Results -- 6 Summary -- A Phenomenological Approach to Social Research: The Perspective of the Other -- 1 The Notion of Approach -- 2 The Conception of a Phenomenological Approach -- 3 Phenomenology and Social Research -- 4 Phenomenological Approaches in Social Research: Two Illustrations -- 5 The Phenomenological Approach in Perspective -- Hermeneutic Interpretation in Qualitative Research: Between Art and Rules -- 1 The Tradition of Hermeneutics -- 2 Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics -- 3 Objective Hermeneutics -- 4 Hermeneutics of the Sociology of Knowledge -- 5 Interpretation: Rules versus Art or Rules Within Art -- 6 Prospects -- On the Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Methodological Paradigms (Based on the Example of Content Analysis).

1 The Metatheoretical Point of Departure: The Position of Content Analysis Between Monism and Dualism -- 2 Prototypes for Systematizing Understanding -- 3 (Methodological) Goal Criteria for a Constructive Approach to Content Analysis: Adjustment of Rules with Explicit Elaboration of Inferences -- 4 On the Link Between Methodical Systematics and Object Adjustment as a Way of Reconciling the Quantitative and the Qualitative Paradigm -- Trends and Perspectives in Content Analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Post-War Research on Content Analysis -- 3 A Content Analysis of Content Analyses: Research Design -- 4 Results -- 5 Recent Developments in Content Analysis -- 6 Conclusion -- About the Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index.