SOCI 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Class Conflict, Operationalization, Likert Scale

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 313
• Professor: Jenny Godley

Document Summary

Quantitative research entails: the collection of numerical data, a deductive relationship between theory and research, a preference for the natural science approach to research (positivism, an objectivist conception of social reality. Concepts: the ideas or mental representations of things, example; crime, gender, alienation, life satisfaction, etc, concepts may be independent or dependent variables. Coding: transforming a measure into numbers, example; i(cid:374) (cid:373)easu(cid:396)i(cid:374)g life satisfa(cid:272)tio(cid:374), (cid:396)espo(cid:374)de(cid:374)ts (cid:449)ho sa(cid:455) the(cid:455) a(cid:396)e (cid:862)(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) satisfied(cid:863) (cid:373)a(cid:455) (cid:271)e gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) a (cid:272)ode of (cid:862)(cid:1005)(cid:863), (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is the(cid:374) (cid:396)e(cid:272)o(cid:396)ded i(cid:374) a file. Measurement allows a delineation of small or fine differences between people or issues we are interested in. Measurement provides a way to identify and gauge those differences with consistency. It allows us to estimate what the relationship is between concepts and the strength of the relationship. Two types of definitions for a concept: nominal. Describes the concept in words, much like a dictionary definition.