Vorlesung 9

Erste wissenschaftliche Bevölkerungsumfrage
• Oberschall: „It remained for the self-educated worker Adolf
Levenstein [1912] to undertake the first large attitude-opinion
survey of on record.“
• 8000 schriftl. Fragebogen an Gruben-, Stahl- und Textilarbeiter
in Deutschland
• Schneeball-Auswahlverfahren
• 63% Rücklauf
• Oberschall: „Weber convinced Levenstein to code and tabulate
and publish the results... There was no follow up, partly
because Levenstein was marginal for German scholars and
partly because World War One set back German social science.
Anthony Oberschall (2006): The historical roots of public opinion research. In: W.
Donsbach, M. Traugott (eds.): Handbook of Public Opinion Research. Beverly Hills,
London, New Delhi: Sage (in preparation)
Prof. Donsbach