Do sociologists ask questions? More recently, they have had this problem. To the issues in the sociological questionnaire came about the same way as questions in natural language. If we are able to ask questions in speaking and in most cases receive the necessary information, then why not to do the questionnaire? It is well acted, and... received incorrect data, i.e. in some cases not solved in the research tasks.
Long-term practice of sociological research showed that the issues of spoken language and the questionnaire is not one and the same. Each of them has its own nature, its own characteristics and moreover actually removes a variety of information. The fundamental difference between them lies in the fact that in spoken language the question is addressed only to the individual, to one person, in a sociological questionnaire conversation going, so to speak, with the mass source. Hence the number of features of constructing a different issue. Here are some of them.
If in speaking we can vary the form of the question depending on any attendant circumstances, for example, from the personal qualities of the interlocutor from the conversation, etc., in a sociological questionnaire we don't have that. We can't take into account all personal characteristics of the respondents (oprasi transmitted) and conditions encountered during the survey, they will not have the opportunity to change the form of a question. Accordingly, this poses somewhat of a challenge for the unification of sociological question. It needs to be structured in such a way as to be understandable to all respondents, without exception, regardless of age, gender, education, profession, place of residence etc. Must be understood by all respondents regardless of their personal characteristics and characteristics of the survey.
Such standardization is quite difficult. In some cases, it is achieved a considerable simplification of the issue, extremely accurate its conceptual content, or rather great generality of the phenomenon. Each time the choice of a particular approach to the unification issue is dictated by the goals and objectives of the study.
Another feature of the build issues is that the personal question is always richer, deeper content, but it removes only the private information, and this is its relative lack. The sociological question is always impersonal, functional (although in form it is always of a personal nature, which often leads beginners sociologists to the illusion of their identity), but it removes information, which allows you to specify some General tendency of development of studied processes and phenomena, and this is its advantage.
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Long-term practice of sociological research showed that the issues of spoken language and the questionnaire is not one and the same. Each of them has its own nature, its own characteristics and moreover actually removes a variety of information. The fundamental difference between them lies in the fact that in spoken language the question is addressed only to the individual, to one person, in a sociological questionnaire conversation going, so to speak, with the mass source. Hence the number of features of constructing a different issue. Here are some of them.
If in speaking we can vary the form of the question depending on any attendant circumstances, for example, from the personal qualities of the interlocutor from the conversation, etc., in a sociological questionnaire we don't have that. We can't take into account all personal characteristics of the respondents (oprasi transmitted) and conditions encountered during the survey, they will not have the opportunity to change the form of a question. Accordingly, this poses somewhat of a challenge for the unification of sociological question. It needs to be structured in such a way as to be understandable to all respondents, without exception, regardless of age, gender, education, profession, place of residence etc. Must be understood by all respondents regardless of their personal characteristics and characteristics of the survey.
Such standardization is quite difficult. In some cases, it is achieved a considerable simplification of the issue, extremely accurate its conceptual content, or rather great generality of the phenomenon. Each time the choice of a particular approach to the unification issue is dictated by the goals and objectives of the study.
Another feature of the build issues is that the personal question is always richer, deeper content, but it removes only the private information, and this is its relative lack. The sociological question is always impersonal, functional (although in form it is always of a personal nature, which often leads beginners sociologists to the illusion of their identity), but it removes information, which allows you to specify some General tendency of development of studied processes and phenomena, and this is its advantage.