Sur la méthodologie des enquêtes sociales. Avec une attention particulière pour les nouvelles enquêtes sur l’usure dans les campagnes (1888)
In this text, social statistician Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt revisits the 1887 survey on rural usury conducted by the Verein für Socialpolitik, a reform association of which he was a member. Based on a critical, systematic and reasoned reading of the usury survey, he examines the criteria for the scie...
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| Language: | fra |
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2025-05-01
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| Summary: | In this text, social statistician Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt revisits the 1887 survey on rural usury conducted by the Verein für Socialpolitik, a reform association of which he was a member. Based on a critical, systematic and reasoned reading of the usury survey, he examines the criteria for the scientific validity of social surveys in general and how empirical evidence is produced. He distinguishes between suggestive questionnaires, aimed at crystallising an opinion based on anecdotes, and methods for the scientific observation of social reality aiming for social and political reform. According to Schnapper-Arndt, the social survey and its lack of methodological rigour not only gave free rein to anti-Semitic sentiments but also conferred on them the authority of the emerging social sciences and helped disseminate racist discourses on a national scale. |
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| ISSN: | 1763-0061 1963-1812 |