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As I examined the points the mass media overlook in the day to day occurrences I was naturally led to a self-examination concerning the surveys I am involved in. I perceive that because surveys have their outset in existing knowledge they always have oversights. These oversights may be classified into two categories. The limits of our own knowledge. The first [category] is our own posture on approaching the object, and the second one is the condition of the objectified object. The former is first divisible in three stages. (1) Unconditionally approving self-evident matters; (2) Reinvestigating a matter believed to be indubitable, that is being aware of it as an object; (3) The stage where our investigations methodic examination position questions the relationship between the object and us. Number (3) is further divided in steps starting from the non-distinction between self and other, through objectifying the other, to thinking of it as our own problem. The awareness of being involved changes ones ego from passive to active. As a sociological method the social survey has a temporal existence and therefore lives in history. The nature of the post self-awakening that begins to ask for meaning is not a spatial extension, the experience of spatially crossing the limits of the surroundings in which life is conducted, but a conscientization of the self in time. Reaching awareness of ones self-consciousness simultaneously changes the involved [me] from just being a third person bystander conducting a survey to being an agent/performer aware of being a full participant in life which also means becoming conscious of myself as a behavioral ego instead of just a passive one. The self-awareness as temporal existence is not an ignoring of the contradictions between the defined past and the undefined future; instead it connects to the action of grasping afresh [the meaning] from a new starting point that defines the present as having a certain breadth which actively produces a ne