SRP Year
1996-1997
Principal Investigator(s)
Douglas Maynard
Study Description
The project studied the Center for Survey Research at Indiana University to find out how survey research is done as a concrete practical activity. Primary interest was focused on finding out what is the relationship between sociology as abstraction and sociology as concreteness.
Research Team
Cher Jamison
Sources of Support
This study was supported by funding from the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Related Scholarly Output
Publications
- Lavin, Danielle, and Douglas W. Maynard. 2001. “Standardization vs. Rapport: Respondent Laughter and Interviewer Reaction during Telephone Surveys.” American Sociological Review 66(3):453–79.
- Maynard, Douglas W., and Nora Cate Schaeffer. 2000. “Toward a Sociology of Social Scientific Knowledge: Survey Research and Ethnomethodology’s Asymmetric Alternates.” Social Studies of Science 30(3):323–70.
- Maynard, Douglas W., and Nora Cate Schaeffer. 2002. “Refusal Conversion and Tailoring.” Pp. 219–239 in Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in the Survey Interview, edited by D. W. Maynard, H. Houtkoop-Steenstra, N. C. Schaeffer, and J. van der Zouwen.