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The aim of the present study is to throw some lighton the revolutionary contribution of SPSS in current socialsciences research. SPSS (Statistical Package for the SocialSciences) is a widely used program for statisticalanalysis in social science. Computer technology haspermeated every phase of research and experimentation in thesocial sciences; and within related fields such as business andeducation, the computer has become an indispensable tool,from marketing research and consumer behavior to trendanalysis and forecasting. Clearly, it is this single aspect ofcomputing that has enabled social scientists to grasp the trulycomplex nature of human behavior and social organizations.Nevertheless, social scientists have come to involve thecomputer in nearly every component of their research, fromthe literature search, to the implementation of experiments,and to the writing of the manuscript on a word processor. Thecapability of SPSS is truly astounding. SPSS is also used bymarket researchers, health researchers, survey companies,government, education researchers, marketing organizations,data miners, and others. In addition to statistical analysis,data management (case selection, file reshaping, creatingderived data) and data documentation (a metadata dictionarywas stored in the data file) are features of the base software.The package enables the researchers to obtain statisticsranging from simple descriptive numbers to complex analysesof multivariate matrices along with plotting the data inhistograms, scatter plots, and other ways. The SPSS hasreduced the requirement for researchers to be able toundertake several of the calculations that area unit needed forapplied math analyses. Researchers collect massive quantitiesof knowledge, from surveys, experiments and different types ofobservation. An applied math computing package provides aconvenient means that to store this information, and derivedescriptive and inferential statistics. The applied mathPackage for the Social Sciences (SPSS) could be a wide usedall-purpose ...

1. Intimate encounters : making video diaries about embodied everyday life / Charlotte Bates -- 2. Atmosphere of arrival/departure and multi-angle video recording : reflections from St. Pancras and Gare du Nord / Paul Simpson -- 3. The mobile life of screens : digital imaging on school journeys in Helsinki / Kim Kullman -- 4. Witnessing craft : employing video ethnography to attend to the more-than-human craft practices of taxidermy / Merle Patchett -- 5. Close encounters : using mobile video ethnography to understand human-animal relations / Katrina M. Brown and Esther Banks -- 6. Jumps, stutters, blurs and other failed images : using time-lapse video in cycling research / Katrina Jungnickel -- 7. Creative video ethnographies : video methodologies of urban exploration -- 8. Working with sound in video : producing an experimental documentary about school spaces / Michael Gallagher -- 9. "Everything is going on at the same time" : the place of video in social research installations / Britt Hatzius and Nina Wakeford -- 10. Life off grid : considerations for a multi-sited, public ethnographic film / Jonathan Taggart and Phillip Vannini.

Despite the opposition that presumably exists between empirical & authoritarian thinking, there has been in recent yrs some development of soc sci res, including PO surveys, in the USSR, & a striking development of it in Poland. The Polish work shows internal evidence of honest reporting & a genuinely empirical spirit. The Russian work, however, exemplified by 9 recent PO surveys by Komsomolskaya Pravda, is marred by an apparent obliviousness to the self-selection bias in mail surveys, & a complete ignoring of the problem of response bias, which in an authoritarian society might be expected to be acute. Frankness cannot be taken for granted. The generally practical, instrumental character of Communist res raises a question as to whether it may merely make totalitarism a more efficient & formidable enemy. But there are grounds for hope in the thought that an invigoration of the empirical spirit may in the long run tend to erode the mythological elements in Communism. AA.