Towards new cognitive foundations for survey research

Karl H. Müller (Author), Niko Toš (Author)

Abstract

This article will focus on the rapidly widening cognitive-science landscapes and their potential impact for fresh perspectives on survey research. More ambitiously, the article wants to explore new foundations for survey research which are based on current advances within the broad domains of the cognitive sciences. In essence, the article wants two establish four major claims. First, over the last decades survey research has reached its point of perfection and, given the quality standards of European data collections like the European Social Survey (ESS), can be improved further only marginally. Second, survey research in its current form is characterized by various forms of incompleteness which, however, cannot be re-solved within the contemporary boundaries of survey research. Third, the expanding field of the cognitive sciences should be considered as the most relevant background knowledge for survey research in all its aspects, starting from the design of questionnaires to the actual fieldwork-procedures and to the analysis of survey data. Fourth, shifting to a cognitive science background should have a highly significant aspect of re-shaping survey research and for alternative paths for survey designs which, so far, have hardly been explored.

Keywords

Kognitivna znanost;Družboslovno raziskovanje;Ankete;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2010
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
UDC:	303.62:165.194
COBISS:	30046301
ISSN:	0040-3598
Parent publication:	Teorija in praksa
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary title:	K novim kognitivnim temeljem anketnega raziskovanja
Secondary abstract:	Članek obravnava hitro se razvijajoče področje kognitivnih znanosti kot možen vir novih pristopov v anketnem raziskovanju. Konkretneje, nakazati skuša, kateri novi pristopi v anketnem raziskovanju lahko temeljijo na najnovejših izsledkih kognitivnih znanosti. Analiza izhaja predvsem iz naslednjih štirih trditev. Prvič, anketno raziskovanje je v zadnjih desetletjih skorajda že doseglo točko popolnosti zato ga je, zaradi visoke kakovosti meril zbiranja podatkov kot je npr. značilna za European Social Survey, mogoče le še malenkostno izboljšati. Drugič, za anketno raziskovanje, kakršno je danes, so značilne nekatere pomanjkljivosti, ki pa jih ni mogoče odpraviti brez preseganja meja obstoječih raziskovalnih pristopov. Tretjič, razvijajoče se področje kognitivnih znanosti predstavlja najpomembnejši vir novih znanj za različne vidike anketnega raziskovanja, od zasnove vprašalnikov, do postopkov na terenu in analize podatkov. In četrtič, obrat k teoretskemu ozadju kognitivnih znanosti bi lahko prinesel preoblikovanje dosedanjega anketnega raziskovanja in nastanek alternativnih raziskovalnih poti, ki so bile doslej le malo raziskane.
Secondary keywords:	Cognitive science;Social science research;Surveys;
Type (COBISS):	Not categorized
Pages:	str. 1316-1339
Volume:	ǂLet. ǂ47
Issue:	ǂšt. ǂ6
Chronology:	nov.-dec. 2010
Keywords (UDC):	social sciences;družbene vede;methods of the social sciences;metode družbenih ved;philosophy;psychology;filozofija;psihologija;logic;epistemology;theory of knowledge;methodology of logic;logika;epistemologija;teorija vrednosti;metodologija logike;theory of knowledge;epistemology;teorija vednosti;epistemologija;
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