Sociology 2206A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Theoretical Definition, Operationalization, Standardized Test
19 Feb 2020
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Conceptualization: the mental process of developing clear and precise meaning for abstract ideas or concepts. Conceptual definition: providing a specific and tentative definition for an abstract idea or a concept, ways of developing a conceptual definition, consultation with the existing research, tailoring your concept to fit your research interest (modification) Conceptualizing "social mobility: the ability of individuals or groups to move within a social hierarchy with changes in income, education, occupation, etc. Linking abstract concepts to specific measurements: measurement, assigning numbers or labels to units of analysis in order to represent conceptual properties, difference between quantitative & qualitative measurement. Two types of measures: direct observables (e. g. , shape, length, things we can observe rather simply and directly, ex: number of students in a room. Level of measurement (lom): the relationship among the values assigned to the attributes for a variable: purpose: helps us to interpret the data of a particular variable, types, nominal, ordinal.
