1st Edition

Survey Research in the United States Roots and Emergence 1890-1960

By Jean M. Converse Copyright 2009
586 Pages
by Routledge

586 Pages
by Routledge

599 Pages
by Routledge

Hardly an American today escapes being polled or surveyed or sampled. In this illuminating history, Jean Converse shows how survey research came to be perhaps the single most important development in twentieth-century social science. Everyone interested in survey methods and public opinion, including social scientists in many fi elds, will find this volume a major resource. Converse traces the... Read more
Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Introduction, Part One: The Ancestors: 1890-1940, Part Two: The Prewar and Wartime Generation: 1935-1945, Part Three: Migrations to the Universities: 1940-1960, A Summary and Evaluation, Notes, Index

Biography

Jean M. Converse