The study deals with the comparison of the results obtained by means of the open procedure with those obtained using the closed one. Both procedures were used in the research of stereotypes of a typical representative of ...

Standardization of interviewers’ behaviour aims at the uniformization of the forms of additional utterances of interviewers. Such utterances depend first of all, on the kind of answers obtained from respondents. If the ...

Dummy questions are defined as those based on false statements. The scope of the term “dummy question” is narrower than that of the term “captious question” although the purpose for which both of them are applied is ...

The empirical basis of analyses are respondents’ replies which made it possible to identify the best, i.e. the most appropriate names for three occupational groups: peasants, clerks and workmen (the latter group was the ...