SOCI 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Operational Definition, Stipulative Definition, Kilogram
Week 4- measurement
Midterm
• Ch 1-4
• 20 m/c
• 2 short answer questions
o ethics
▪ milligram and tear trade study
o research design
▪ nomothetic causation
• definitions
o define, explain, an example
o identity disclosure
▪ reveals info about specific respondent
▪ black professor in sociology department
o ecological fallacy
▪ what you learn about an ecological unit and apply it to an individual
▪ single moms are prone to poverty then you assume the next mom you
see is poor
• unit of analysis is always the independent variable
classes of observation
• 1. Direct observables
o what we can see directly, such as a chair, car, colour of person
• 2. Indirect observables
o history books, minutes of a meeting – observation via a medium
• 3. Constructs or concepts
o theoretical creations that are based on observation but cannot be observed
either directly or indirectly
• reification
o the process of regarding things that are not real as real, or regarding constructs
or concepts as real (p. 121)
conceptualization
• process of coming to an agreement about what concepts mean and represent
• the result is our nominal definition
• what do you mean when you say concept
• what does it include/what does it exclude
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