SOC221H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Theoretical Definition, Stipulative Definition, Operationalization
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Conceptualization moving from something abstract (concept) toward a. Quantitative: conceptualization operationalization hypothesis data collection. Qualitative: conceptualization data collection operationalization. Reliability: is the measure dependable and consistent: ex: spurters thing had an issue of reliability. Face validity: at face value doesn"t look right. Content validity: whether the full content of your conceptual definition is represented in your measure. Criterion validity - validity is verified by some independent outside criteria: concurrent. There is an existing measure that you are using to compare and test the validity of your own measure: predictive. Construct validity: are you finding evidence that the concepts are relating with each other in a way that you would expect or consistent with the theory. Convergent validity: established if a measure correlates with a different measure. A measure that is not reliable will not be valid: an inconsistency in the way the data was gathered makes the data.
