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Contents -- Contents, Volume 1 -- Preface -- Part I. Measurement of Subjective Phenomena in the Social Sciences -- 1. Attitude Measurement in Psychology and Sociology: The Early Years - Jean M. Converse -- 2. Utility in Economics: A Survey of the Literature - J. G. Tulip Meeks -- 3. The Use of Survey Data in Basic Research in the Social Sciences - Stanley Presser -- Part II. Quasi-Facts -- 4. The Subjectivity of Ethnicity - Tom W. Smith -- 5. Measuring Employment and Unemployment - Barbara A. Bailar and Naomi D. Rothwell

Contents -- Contents, Volume 2 -- Preface -- Part I. Background -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Origins of the Study -- 1.2 Domain of the Study: Objective and Subjective Phenomena -- 1.3 Subjectivity and ""Social Facts"" -- 1.4 Putting Surveys and Their Problems in Perspective -- 1.5 Organization of the Volume -- Part II. Uses and Abuses of Surveys -- 2. The Development and Contemporary Use of Subjective Surveys -- 2.1 The Development of the Survey Method -- 2.2 The Survey Enterprise -- 2.3 The Use of Subjective Survey Measurements -- 2.4 The Effects of Surveys and Polls