SOCIOL 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Collectively Exhaustive Events, Ordinal Data, Operationalization
5 Oct 2016
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Lecture 4 - conceptualization, operationalization & measurement (sept 21) There"s no definite way to measure certain concepts just better and easier ways. Example: religiosity attendance, closeness to god, frequency of prayer how many times did you attend, how close do you feel, how many times a week do you . Concepts: abstract elements representing classes of phenomena: not substances that exist in the world never smth literal or obvious that you can see, gender, obedience, conflict, religiosity, etc. It"s not real in the world around us, it"s real in our minds but we all have a shared understanding of what it is. The stage in social research at which we specify what we mean when we use particular terms (concepts or constructs) Caution: avoid the trap of reification: the process of regarding things that are not real as real, or regarding constructs or concepts as real (p. 121)
