SOCI 2030 Study Guide - Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing, Sampling Frame, Convenience Sampling
9 Jan 2014
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The process of creating measurable concrete variables from abstract concepts. You need to think of something tangible you have to make sure you find ways to measure it. When you define wellbeing do you mean mental health, behavior at school, resources at home, physical, social and intellectual wellbeing. When you find out what you are going to focus on, you have to find ways to measure this. Ask questions about (e. g. mental health ask psychological questions) Concept: ideas or mental representations of things. (eg. crime, gender, alienation, We use concepts to develop hypothesis etc. In social research, we define concepts in 2 different ways: nominal: describes the concept in words. (e. g. political part identification : the party to which people most closely associate themselves. The dictionary definition: operational: describes how the concept is to be measured. Political party identification may be measured by asking people, do you normally think of yourself as a supporter of the conservatives, liberals, new.
