[Instruments for intersubject processes: a research note].

Abstract

An important problem of social research is the formation of aggregates in data sets which usually tend to bias the represented original first level data. In the empirical analysis of meaning of social interaction face-to-face the essential conditions of data construction should be with the decisions of the observed actors (and not with the " fiat " of the researcher). Especially for the micro-analysis of intersubjective processes in large samples by the means of questionnaire the use of four-dimensional scales is proposed; their graphic representation and multivariate analysis is described. In this way patterns of communication processes become open to research by questionnaire.