SOC200H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Stipulative Definition, Operationalization, Collectively Exhaustive Events
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Measurement careful, deliberate observations of the world for the purpose of describing objects/events in terms of the attributes composing variables. Religious or party affiliation has no real meaning. Prejudice is a term we simply made up and all agreed to. Process of coming to an agreement about what terms mean is conceptualization and the result is a concept. Kaplan: three classes of things scientists" measure: direct observations, constructs. Concepts are (cid:498)family of conceptions(cid:499) kaplan. Concepts are constructs we create them. Concepts = constructs derived by mutual agreement from mental images (conceptions) Reification: process of regarding things that are not real (concepts) as real. While concepts may not be real, they are connected to real and observable phenomenon and therefore are useful to study. Conceptualization: process where imprecise notions (concepts) are made more specific and precise. Produces a specific agreed-upon meaning for a concept for the purposes of research.
