Sociology 3306A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Operationalization, Operational Definition, Content Validity
10 Apr 2020
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Detailed description of the research operations or procedures necessary to assign units of analysis to variable categories. Produces operational definitions that are intended to represent conceptual properties. Form of measurement typical of survey research consisting of people"s replies to direct questions index/scale. Composite measure of a concept constructed by adding or averaging the scores of separate indicators. Scale: uses less arbitrary procedures for combining indicators. Characteristics of measures that indicates the kind of interferences that may be drawn when comparing one variable category or value with another. Numbers serve only as a label category membership. Different numbers indicate the rank order of cases on some variable. The qualities of ordinal level plus requirement that equal distance between assigned numbers represent equal distances to the variable being measured. Possible to form ratios of the numbers assigned to categories. Requirement that a measure must include all possible values or attributes of a variable so that every case can be classified.
