Sociological Research (Surveys-3)

Sociologists conduct surveys under controlled conditions for specific purposes. Surveys gather different types of
information from people. While surveys are not great at capturing the ways people really behave in social situations, they
are a great method for discovering how people feel and think—or at least how they say they feel and think. Surveys can
track preferences for presidential candidates or reported individual behaviors (such as sleeping, driving, or texting habits) or factual information such as employment status, income, and education levels.