Tolerance of Non-Smokers to Smokers

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Sociology - Methodology and Methods, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (Business Management and Social Sciences), course: Empirical social research, language: English, abstract: The present assignment is an attempt to conduct an empirical social research about tolerance of non-smokers towards smokers. The research is done in the form of a survey of non-smokers and consists of the following steps: 1.setting hypotheses about tolerance of non-smokers towards smokers; 2.creating of a tolerance-index, that measures tolerance of non-smokers; 3.selecting the way of the data collecting as well as developing an appropriate design of the research according to the hypotheses; 4.data collecting; 5.analysis of the collected data by the program Statistical package for the social science (SPSS). The aims of this work are: -to measure, how tolerant non-smokers are towards smokers; -to learn the process of the social research: the ways and possible problems of it; -to prove hypotheses about tolerance taking into account their reliability as well as validity of the tolerance-index; -to evaluate the results of the research and to give some proposals as to how the research can be improved and what must be avoided by next researches. In the end of the assignment the results of the research will be presented as well as the conclusion about the whole work with the proposals regarding possible improvements.