SOCIAL SURVEYS - RESEARCH METHOD
SOCIAL SURVEYS Definition The word survey is derived from two words sur or sor which means over and the word veeir or veor which means to see. In this way, the word survey means to oversee or to look over . According to Webster Collegiate Dictionary the word connotes, “A critical inspection, of then official, to provide exact information, often a study of an area with respect to a certain condition or its prevalence as a survey of school ”. 1. Duncan Mitchell’s: “Dictionary of Sociology”’ defines social survey this way: “The social survey is a systematic collection of facts about people living in a specific geographic, cultural, or administrative area”. 2. Bogardus : “A social survey is the collection of data concerning the living and working conditions, broadly speaking, of the people, in a given community”. 3. Ian Robertson: “ Surveys are frequently used in sociological research, either simply for the purpose of gathering facts {such as the politi