SOAN 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Theoretical Definition, Operationalization, Systematic Sampling
9 Feb 2017
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How can we search for topics? qualitative study on alcoholism, he said that he had a personal interest. He was interested to find he treatments that may help people with alcoholism that could explain this addiction by other factors. He had alcoholics in his family: researcher(cid:495)s personal experience or their occupation (example: conducted, (cid:498)hanging around(cid:499) (beauty salon example) Conceptualization the process of developing clear, rigorous, systematic conceptual definitions for abstract ideas. Operationalization the process of moving from the conceptual definition of a construct to a set of specific activities or measures that allows a research to observe it empirically. Probability sample the sample shows exactly the same characteristics as a large observations and thoughts about the data contributed to working ideas that are the basis of conceptual definitions and theoretical concepts population. Random sampling an example of random sampling would be picking names out of a hat.
