The focused interview : a manual of problems and procedures
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The focused interview : a manual of problems and procedures
Free Pree , Collier Macmillan, c1990
2nd ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 35 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 187-194
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780029209851
Description
In 1956, the Free Press published a report of Columbia's Bureau of Applied Social Research - co-authored by Merton, Marjorie Fiske and Patricia I.Kendall - which outlined a set of techniques aimed at eliciting the specific responses of individuals and groups to particular events and situations. The book may be regarded as seminal within sociology, spawning a whole field of qualitative opinion research that has continued to evolve through half a century of inquiry. This is a reissue of the book, with a new preface by Merton, a select bibliography of writings on the focused interview and focus group research, and a new introduction that traces the diffusion of Merton's technique from sociology to other fields, including history, psychology, mass media and marketing research.
Table of Contents
- What's psychology?
- the nervous system structure and function
- sensory processes - an overview
- perceptual processes
- consciousness
- an overview
- what is learning?
- memory processes
- thought and language
- themes in development psychology
- motivation and emotion
- the meaning of personality
- functions and characteristics of psychological tests
- health, stress and coping
- defining and diagnosing abnormal behaviour
- seeking therapy
- social cognition.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780029209868
Description
The 1956 edition of this book may be regarded as seminal within sociology, spawning a whole field of qualitative opinion research that has continued to evolve through half a century of inquiry. This is a reissue of the book, with a new preface by Merton, a select bibliography of writings on the focused interview and focus group research, and a new introduction that traces the diffusion of Merton's technique from sociology to other fields, including history, psychology, mass media and marketing research.
Table of Contents
- What's psychology?
- the nervous system structure and function
- sensory processes - an overview
- perceptual processes
- consciousness
- an overview
- what is learning?
- memory processes
- thought and language
- themes in development psychology
- motivation and emotion
- the meaning of personality
- functions and characteristics of psychological tests
- health, stress and coping
- defining and diagnosing abnormal behavior
- seeking therapy
- social cognition.
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