Tape Recorded Research: Some Field and Data Processing Problems.

Tape recorders are being used with ever increasing frequency in the investigation of a wide variety of social scientific problems. Sociologists, public opinion specialists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, linguists, social and clinical psychologists, family counselors and social workers have reporte...

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Published in:Public Opinion Quarterly Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 427 - 440
Main Authors: Bucher, Rue, Fritz, Charles E., Quarantelli, E. L.
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Summer56
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          Bucher, Rue
          Fritz, Charles E.
          Quarantelli, E. L.
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          Staff of NORC.
          National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.
          South Bend Center of Indiana University.
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        Magnetic recorders & recording
        Electronic data processing
        National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
        Social surveys
        Interviewing
        Sociologists
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          Magnetic recorders & recording
          Electronic data processing
          National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
          Social surveys
          Interviewing
          Sociologists
      ab: Tape recorders are being used with ever increasing frequency in the investigation of a wide variety of social scientific problems. Sociologists, public opinion specialists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, linguists, social and clinical psychologists, family counselors and social workers have reported the use of electronic and mechanical recording devices in their work. In the past, however, the employment of recorders was confined primarily to the clinical or counseling situation; only recent years have witnessed a rapid expansion of their use in field research. In this article, authors describe some of the problems involved in using recorders in the field and make suggestions based on their four-year experiences in using these machines on the Disaster Project of the National Opinion Research Centre. The existing body of literature on the techniques of tape recorded research has dealt with a considerable variety of interviewing problems and situations. From the viewpoint of the field researcher, however, the existing literature has a number of limitations.
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