D. Secondulfo intervista Marradi per ISR

Some time ago, when Alberto Marradi slowed down his activity in the methodology summer schools he founded, I matured the intention of collecting some essays as a tribute to this Maestro of sociology, but above all of Italian methodology and social research. What follows is the result of this idea, which opens with an interview with Alberto, where he traces his university career and the main turning points of his scientific thought. Methods such as deflation or techniques such as stories or the use of self-anchored scales, or the close criticism of instruments for surveying opinions and attitudes such as the universally and badly used Likert scales, should become a constant part of every social researcher’s toolbox.