SOCECOL 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Face Validity, Criterion Validity, Clinical Trial
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Criminology department: a wealth of inequalities: mass incarceration, employment, and racial disparities in household wealth, us 1996-2011 o o o o o. Research agenda: sociolegal consequences of monetary sanctions; national, regional and global patterns of morality; mass incarceration. 2. 2 million americans in state, federal and local jails. 5% of world population is in the united states. Experiments, surveys, and sampling: operationalization and validity. Validity: making sure those measures accurately describe what we want to know about: operationalization: finding indicators appropriate to concepts. Complex concepts are often aggregates of simpler ones: operationalizational concerns. Operationalize: examples: ask ppl how many years of school they have, show certifications take a standardized test. Observe education with questions of knowledge about the legal system. Test your measures results against those from a well established measure. Look for expected relationships between education and other variables. Triangulate: identify different dimensions of the main concept.
