SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Face Validity, Empirical Measure, Content Validity
24 Jun 2012
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Constructs; theoretical creations which are based on observations, but cannot being directly or. Indirectly observable; something that can be explained indirectly observed. E. g; you can treat gender as: directly observable (gender presentation, a construct where you develop dimensions. Real phenomenon /agreed upon phenomenon (beauty, not visual but it"s there) this leads to construct (socially constructed) Mental representations and are typically based on experience. Concept is known as a construct when we know it"s socially created. Taking a raw idea and giving it an idea. The process of coming to an agreement about what concepts mean and represent with regards to social and physical reality. The stage in social research at which we specify what we mean when we use particular terms (concepts) Telling a reader what the words mean. People might have different understandings of what a concept might be, due to social class, race, sex, historical meaning and so on .
