SOC200H1 Lecture Notes - Stipulative Definition, Gender Inequality, Precarious Work
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Our goal is to shift gears from theory to looking at measurement. Recall the discussion about theory in terms of paradigm, and theoretical framework. These fuzzy concepts can be measured and in fact in this discipline there are studies that measure things that are tangible and not fuzzy. So it is more a norm, if you have things and try to conceptualize your concepts in research paper that is normal. It should be easily graspable and if it is there might be a problem. When the term fuzzy is used what it means is that concepts are abstract, abstract is the more relative way of using instead of fuzzy. So when we are confronted with abstract or fuzzy concept we have to think our way out whether or not we can measure it directly through direct observables or indirectly or through indirect observable.
