Unobtrusive measures; nonreactive research in the social sciences (Record no. 3938)

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Classification number H62
Item number .W38
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Personal name Eugene J Webb
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Title Unobtrusive measures; nonreactive research in the social sciences
Statement of responsibility, etc Eugene J Webb
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Place of publication Chicago,
Name of publisher Rand McNally
Year of publication 1966
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Number of Pages xii, 225 pages
Dimensions 22 cm.
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SERIES Rand McNally sociology series.
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General note <br/>
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Table of Content 1. Approximations to Knowledge 1 --<br/>Operationism and Multiple Operations 3 --<br/>Interpretable Comparisons and Plausible Rival Hypotheses 5 --<br/>Internal and External Validity 10 --<br/>Sources of Invalidity of Measures 12 --<br/>An Interlude: The Measurement of Outcroppings 26 --<br/>The Access to Content 28 --<br/>Operating Ease and Validity Checks 31 --<br/>2. Physical Traces: Erosion and Accretion 35 --<br/>Natural Erosion Measures 37 --<br/>Natural Accretion Measures 39 --<br/>Controlled Erosion Measures 43 --<br/>Controlled Accretion Measures 44 --<br/>Transforming the Data: Corrections and Index Numbers 46 --<br/>An Over-All Evaluation of Physical Evidence Data 49 --<br/>3. Archives I: The Running Record 53 --<br/>Actuarial Records 57 --<br/>Political and Judicial Records 65 --<br/>Other Government Records 72 --<br/>The Mass Media 75 --<br/>Data Transformations and Indices of the Running Record 81 --<br/>Over-All Evaluation of Running Records 83 --<br/>4. Archives II: The Episodic and Private Record 89 --<br/>Sales Records 91 --<br/>Industrial and Institutional Records 99 --<br/>Written Documents 105 --<br/>5. Simple Observation 113 --<br/>Exterior Physical Signs 116 --<br/>Expressive Movement 120 --<br/>Physical Location 124 --<br/>Observation of Language Behavior: Conversation Sampling 128 --<br/>Time Duration 134 --<br/>Time Sampling and Observation 136 --<br/>Over-All Comments on Simple Observation 138 --<br/>6. Contrived Observation: Hidden Hardware and Control 143 --<br/>Hardware: Avoiding Human Instrument Error 143 --<br/>Hardware: Physical Supplanting of the Observer 150 --<br/>The Intervening Observer 156 --<br/>Entrapment 164 --<br/>Petitions and Volunteering 166 --<br/>An Over-All Appraisal of Hidden Hardware and Control 169 --<br/>7. A Final Note 173 --<br/>8. A Statistician on Method 185 --<br/>9. Cardinal Newman's Epitaph 187.
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Topical Term Social sciences -- Research.
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Topical Term Sciences sociales -- Recherche.
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Topical Term Observatiemethoden.
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