On the structure of motives: beyond the 'big three'
Abstract: "Stressing common features of motives and values, an attempt is made to outline a general and parsimonious taxonomy for classifying motives by borrowing from Schwartz' (1992) value theory. This is achieved by applying two basic dimensions...
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Abstract: "Stressing common features of motives and values, an attempt is made to outline a general and parsimonious taxonomy for classifying motives by borrowing from Schwartz' (1992) value theory. This is achieved by applying two basic dimensions found in value research to the structural analysis of motives. The tenability of this approach is tested by analyzing multitrait-multimethod matrices of different motivational indicators by means of multidimensional scaling. Results support the hypothesized distinction and structure of stable motivational domains." (author's abstract)
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Respondents' ratings of expressions from response scales: a two-country, two-language investigation on equivalence and translation
Abstract: "The paper presents German-American research on expressions from response scales used in cross-national and cross-lingual survey research. Respondents in the United States and Germany were asked to rate expression for the degrees of...
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Abstract: "The paper presents German-American research on expressions from response scales used in cross-national and cross-lingual survey research. Respondents in the United States and Germany were asked to rate expression for the degrees of intensity they were held to express. The scales used were scales of agreement, importance and for/against. The findings of the study raise as many questions as they answer. Translation-based pairings of expressions across English and German work well but not perfectly. Symmetrical response scales often lead to artificial-sounding 'scalespeak' constructions: their effect on scale responses is unknown. Well-matched translation pairings were sometimes differently scored across the populations. Germans and Americans differed in the range of scale points they employed and in the range of vocabulary used to 'explain' expressions. The study is seen as a first step towards understanding cross-national response scale issues." (author's abstract)
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Hermeneutic interpretation in qualitative research: between art and rules
Abstract: Der Beitrag beschreibt drei hermeneutische Ansätze in der empirischen Sozialforschung und diskutiert deren Potenzial für die sozialwissenschaftliche Theoriebildung: (1) Der psychoanalytische Ansatz leitet seine Grundsätze aus der...
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Abstract: Der Beitrag beschreibt drei hermeneutische Ansätze in der empirischen Sozialforschung und diskutiert deren Potenzial für die sozialwissenschaftliche Theoriebildung: (1) Der psychoanalytische Ansatz leitet seine Grundsätze aus der Frankfurter Schule (J. Habermas, A. Lorenzer) und der Annahme von möglichen "Sprachdeformationen" ab: An der Deutung einer Äußerung, eines Textes usw. wird derjenige, der sie als Untersuchungsperson gegeben hat, beteiligt (deshalb auch dialogischer Ansatz). Die Grundbedingung für das Gelingen solcher Dialoge besteht in einer kontrafaktisch geltenden "idealen Sprechsituation" (im Sinne von Habermas), die gegenseitiges argumentatives Überzeugen ermöglicht. (2) Unter der Bezeichnung objektive Hermeneutik (auch: genetischer Strukturalismus oder strukturale Hermeneutik) entwickelt U. Oevermann in den 1970er Jahren ein Verfahren der Rekonstruktion latenter Sinnstrukturen alltäglichen Handelns mit Hilfe hermeneutischer Textinterpretation. Ausgangspunkt ist die Ve
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