SOCY 210 Study Guide - Operationalization, Construct Validity, Higer Bus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 210
• Professor: Vincent F Sacco

Document Summary

Tradition comes to us from proverbs sayings mean to convince into a single phrase some significant element of traditional knowledge. Problems: not consistent conflicting, not reliable. Variables : variables represent the operationalization of concepts, theory is concerned with explanation takes the form of establishing relationships between concepts. Attributes: the variable is the dimension, attributes represent the individual categories which make the variable up (sex is the variable, female and male are the attribute, relevant and logically connected set of characteristics. Casual argument: understanding the relationship between two things. Usually speak in terms of two kinds of variables independent (influences) and dependent. Idiographic focused on the intense study of a single case (holocaust) Nomothetic tends to focus on the attempt to examine a large number of cases and to explain the variation in that large number of cases with a relatively small number of independent variables.