Hopes and Anxieties in Europe ― Six Waves of the European Social Survey

Sociologists, students, politicians, and workers at non-governmental institutions gathered in Poland to analyze changes in European society as revealed in the six rounds of the European Social Survey that were conducted between 2002 and 2012. Nine essays from that conference discuss such topics as old and new hypotheses about legitimacy and trust, subjective personal and social well-being in European countries, some methodological challenges of cross-national social research: conceptual and measurement validity, satisfaction with the way democracy works: how respondents across countries understood the question, and rounds five and six in Poland as an example of whether it is worthwhile reducing the non-response rate by multiplied contact attempts. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Henryk Domanski is Professor of Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Head of the Department of Studies on Methods and Techniques of Sociological Research and Department of Studies on Social Structure.
Pawel B. Sztabinski is Professor of Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has done work on survey techniques, in particular non-response issues and Mixed Mode Survey Design.
Franciszek Sztabinski is Professor of Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences with a special interest in Mode Effects issues and Mixed Mode Survey Design.