Behavioral trace

This item has been on the quality assurance side of the portal sociology entered. This is done in order to bring the quality of the articles on the subject of sociology to an acceptable level. Help eliminate the shortcomings in this article and participate in the discussion . ( Enter article )

In the social sciences, traces of behavior are the legacies (traces) of human behavior. Examples are signs of wear and tear on objects, garbage or home furnishings.

The analysis of behavioral traces as the data source is an indirect observation method of empirical social research .

literature

• Michael Häder: Empirical Social Research: An Introduction. VS Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-16923-1 , pp. 128ff.
• A. Diekmann: Empirical social research. Basics, methods, applications. 17th edition. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55551-0 , p. 644 ff.