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Panel research in the social, political and cultural sector

In this paper we signalise a growing need for research data in the governmental sphere, non profit institutions and for application in publicity. The nature of the research questions often compels to think of research designs other than the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Authors: Arnoud J.M. Braat, Ton Broeders

Company: GfK

December 1, 1978

Research policy and policy research

The title of this contribution suggests the existence of a certain dissatisfaction concerning the co-operation between research and policy. In many publications this feeling of dissatisfaction has been drawn to attention, but this is probably only a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Author: Leo Welters

December 1, 1978

Social research and democratic participation

The specific theme of this paper is the relation between social research and democratic participation, and in this context I shall return later to the question of the provision of information as an important element of democracy. Initially, however,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Author: Thomas Burton Bottomore

December 1, 1978

The decline of the birth rate and its influence on marketing to the younger generation

This paper is intended to draw attention to the consequences of a declining birth rate, which is present in almost every industrialised country today. In drawing conclusions, one has to consider the difficulty of predicting the birth rate, i.e. the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Researching Children

Author: Rolf Speetzen

October 1, 1978

Advertising communication on behalf of a government body

Since 1975, the Roads and Traffic Division has been faced with the problem of a rapid increase in traffic hold-ups at the beginning of the holiday periods. The aim of the Roads Division was thus to obtain a better spread of holiday departures through...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: The Business Of Advertising

Author: Francois de Montmarin

June 14, 1978

Some social applications of communication research

Within 'social research', as within 'market research', the functions of communication research are: I. to optimise the efficiency of specific communications; II. to assess the effects of communication acts.Its contributions are both direct and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Author: John M. Caffyn

December 1, 1977

International dimension in social research

Since early 1974 the Commission of the European Community has six-monthly opinion polls carried out, among the population aged 15 and over. The paper shows, by way of two examples, the importance and utility of these surveys: 1. The feeling of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Authors: Jacques-René Rabier, Helene Riffault

Company: IFOP

December 1, 1977

Reflections on the competitive procurement procedure

This paper wants to point out the conditions for, and problems of social scientific research. Although conditions in the federal Republic of Germany are the paper's focal point, the paper also tries to pinpoint general political policies regarding...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Author: Insegerd Scháuble

December 1, 1977

Policy research and care of the elderly

The Government has now enunciated its alternative; its present policy is to depend increasingly on 'community care'. The primary objective of the Department's policy on the care of the elderly is to enable old people to maintain independent lives in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Authors: Mark Abrams, Len J. Marchant

December 1, 1977