dapted to computer technology, quantitative methods continue to play a central role in the discipline of sociology. Moreover, quantitative sociology includes the presentation of large numbers of descriptive statistical data, sampling techniques, and the use of advanced mathematical models and computer simulations of social processes. A common tool utilized today by the quantitative method to collect statistical data, and the one specifically used in this research, is survey. The term survey, or questionnaire, research means the collection and analysis of responses of large samples of people to polls and questionnaires designed to elicit their opinions, attitudes, and sentiments about a specific topic. For a time in the 1940s and 1950s, the construction and administration of surveys, and statistical methods for tabulating and interpreting their results, were widely regarded as the major sociological research technique. 0 Although surveys are an important sociological research tool, their suitability for many types of investigation has been widely criticized. The sample survey, on the other hand, allows the sociologist to secure uniform but superficial information about a much larger portion of the population. Survey research usually does not take into account the complex structure of relations and interactions among individuals that shapes their social behavior. Since the 1960s sociologists have made greater use both of traditional research methods associated with other disciplines, such as the analysis of historical source materials, and of more sophisticated statistical and mathematical techniques adapted to the study of social phenomena. Development of increasingly complex computers and other devices for handling and storing information has facilitated the processing of sociological data. Unfortunately, due to our limited resources and short time table, we will restrict our studies to the data produced to us by the questionnaires we h...
