This book addresses a broad array of pressing challenges of longitudinal surveys and provides innovative solutions to methodological problems based on the example of the NEPS. It covers longitudinal issues such as sampling, weighting, recruiting and fieldwork management, the design of longitudinal surveys and the implementation of constructs, conducting competence tests over the life course, effective methods to improve and to maintain the highest level of data quality, data management tools for large-scale longitudinal surveys, the dissemination of research data to heterogeneous scientific communities, as well as establishing a long-term public relations and communications unit integrating a study's stakeholder community over time.

Diese Einfuhrung in die Soziologie Max Webers verdeutlicht den zeit- und wissenschaftshistorischen Kontext der Entstehung des Werkes. Die Werke Webers werden thematisch vorgestellt und diskutiert. Abschliessend wird die Aktualitat Webers anhand heutiger Forschungsfragen aufgezeigt."

Dieses Buch zu Ehren von Heinz Sahner bietet einen Uberblick zu aktueller Forschung im Bereich Methoden und Transformationsforschung.