SOC221H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5 and 9: Economic Determinism, Job Performance, Content Validity
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Soc221 sept 22 reading notes ch. 5 and 9. Measurement- careful, deliberate observations of the real world for the purpose of describing objects and events in terms of the attributes composing a variable. Conceptualization- process of coming to an agreement about what a term means, results in a concept eg prejudice (all see it a different way, must finds common agreed upon features of it in order to study it. Kaplan"s 3 classes of things scientist measure: direct observables. Indirect observables: constructs (theoretical creations based on direct or indirect observation eg iq) Kaplan defines a concept as something we create (note concepts are not real observable things, but they have relationships with real observable things) Reification- regarding a concept as real, quite common in everyday life. Indicator- sign of the presence or absence of the concept being studied (indicators are interchangeable in that if several indicators represent the same concept, you may use them all)
