Badania społeczne w latach dziewięćdziesiątych. Kontynuacje i zmiany

Abstract

This is summary overview of some most distinctive tendencies emerging in area of social research in the first half of the 1990s. We figure out: (1) expansion of public opinion and (2) market research, (3) increasing participation of Polish sociologists in international research projects, (4) attempts made in sociological milieux, aimed at regulation of research activity in terms of setting ethical codes and formal rules of conduct at consecutive stages of research, (5) urgent need for archivization of empirical data, (6) development of new methods of collection of data and new analytical techniques based on computer packages.