1. SOCIAL SURVEY RESEARCH AND POSTGRADUATE TRAINING IN SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD.
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Bulmer, Martin I. A.
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SOCIOLOGICAL research , *SOCIAL surveys , *SOCIAL scientists , *TRAINING , *GRADUATE students , *SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
This article examines the case for social research training at the post-graduate level integrally linked to a social survey research organization. Programs related to social research training should reflect a clear aim in relation both to post-graduate training in sociological method in particular and to postgraduate education in sociology in general. One such program is developed by the Detroit Area Study at the University of Michigan. Three main objectives of this scheme are to establish a highly efficient means of providing young social scientists with an all-round training in the planning and execution of survey research, to provide staff members with an opportunity to pursue social science research and to supply social science data of value to authorities and communities in the area surrounding the university where the program is located. The form which the training takes follows the standard procedures of social survey research. Students' work includes preliminary relevant reading, problem formulation, question drafting, pretest analysis, sampling, interviewing and data processing. In addition each student writes an analysis paper based on part of the collected data.
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- 1972
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