Recherches sur le prêtre: Problèmes méthodologiques

Since the end of 1965 the Regional Center of Socio-Religious Studies devoted the major part of its activity to research on the priest. Several opinion polls have been done permitting the interrogation of about 7.500 persons in order to reveal the existing image of the priest.Three surveys have been...

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Published in:Social compass
Main Author: Verscheure, J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:French
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Published: Sage [1969]
In: Social compass
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Summary:Since the end of 1965 the Regional Center of Socio-Religious Studies devoted the major part of its activity to research on the priest. Several opinion polls have been done permitting the interrogation of about 7.500 persons in order to reveal the existing image of the priest.Three surveys have been conducted in the three dioceses of Lille, Cam brai and Arras, utilizing representative samples of the adult population. Other surveys have been conducted in particular groups: working youth and students, militant adults of specialized Catholic Action, seminarians. The article does not seek to summarize the results which have been published elsewhere, but to evoke the principal methodological problems with which the Center has been confronted. It emphasizes in particular the method by which the topics of each survey have been selected, the evolution o f the various hypotheses, the difficulties of sampling and of interviewing, the technical problems of the questionnaires and of pro cessing as also the problems of publication and the popularization of the results.These problems concerning all research have sometimes been better resolved in the course of these 4 year surveys, but it is particularly dif ficult to gauge what eventual distortions will be obtained in the results by concentrating, as was the case, the questionnaires on exclusively re ligious topics.
ISSN:1461-7404
Contains:Enthalten in: Social compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/003776866901600403