Bij de marine

Samenvatting

A critique of the book by C. J. Lammers, Het koninklijk instituut voor de marine (The Royal Naval Institute, no publisher, 1963), a study of the Dutch Royal Naval Institute, which combined the methods of participant observation and survey. The chief objections to Lammers' methodology are: (1) the analysis is not preceded by a clear expose of the hyp's; (2) when certain hyp's are not confirmed, recourse is taken to ad hoc interpretations; (3) the operationalization of concepts is occasionally deficient, eg re the betrothals and marriages of naval cadets and the places where they spend their leave as indices of their external social contacts; and (4) the index of cultural acceptance is not an adequate tool to determine the role exceptions of the cadets. I. Langnas.