Abstract
While recognizing the numerous techniques of opinion research that follow the Socratic educational interrogation, the author concentrates his attention on the internal and external psychological, ideological, social and political meanings of the extensive sample survey process. He insists upon the fundamental dependence of questions and answers on the theory of the whole survey. Why the opinion survey is a vital part of scientific progress, despite its essential limits, is analyzed and its possibilities for social enlightenment are considered.
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