Preface to Survey

Of the making of surveys there is no end, and of many it could be said that ‘nothing has a drift or a relation; nothing has a history or a promise. Everything stands by itself, and comes and goes in its turn, like the shifting scenes of a show . . .’ ¹ The intention of the present survey is to avoid this charge of ‘unrelatedness’ by providing a specific integration of empirical research and social theory.