Author: Matilda White RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scale analysis (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Sociological Studies in Scale Analysis
Author: Matilda White RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scale analysis (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Sociological Studies in Scale Analysis
Author: Matilda White RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scale analysis (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Sociological Studies in Scale Analysis
Author: Matilda White RileyA Theory and Procedure of Scale Analysis
Author: R. J. MokkenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110813203
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Sociological studies in scale analysis; applications, theory, procedures; in association with M.L. Toby, R. Cohn, H.C. Bredemeier etc.; with contributions by M.G. Foa, R.N. Ford, L. Guttman etc
Author: Measurement in the Social Sciences
Author: Hubert M. BlalockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351329073
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Among the frustrations constantly confronting the social scientist are those associated with the general process of measurement. The importance of good measurement has long been recognized in principle, but it has often been neglected in practice in many of the social sciences. Now that the methodological tools of multivariate analysis, simultaneous-equation estimation, and causal modeling are diffused more widely into the social sciences, and now that the very serious implications of random and non-random measurement errors are being systematically investigated, it is all the more important that social scientists give top priority to the quality of their data and the clarity of their theoretical conceptualizations. The book is organized so that, one proceeds from problems of data collection to those of data analysis. It is not intended to be a complete work covering all types of measurement problems that have arisen in the social sciences. Instead, it represents a series of studies that are deemed to be crucial for the advancement of social science research but which have not received sufficient attention in most of the social sciences. The basic purpose is to stimulate further methodological research on measurement and to study the ways in which knowledge that has been accumulated in some fields may be generalized. Part I is concerned with applying scaling approaches developed in psychometrics to problems that arise in other social sciences. The focus is on finding better ways to ask questions of respondents so as to raise the level of measurement above that of simple ordinal scales. Part II focuses on multiple-indicator theory and strategies as applied to relatively complex models and to change data. In this section the emphasis shifts to how one analyzes fallible data through the construction of explicit measurement-error models. Part III deals with the statistical analysis of ordinal data, including the interpretation and empirical behaviors of various ordinal measures of association.
Sociological Methods
Author: Norman K. DenzinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351489062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
A comprehensive collection of contemporary and classical readings on sociological method, this book provides students with systematic analyses of each of the major strategies employed in sociological research. It may be used as a supplement or as the basic set of readings for all courses in methods. The book contains thirteen sections dealing with theory and its development; issues of sampling units; problems of developing new measurement techniques; difficulties surrounding the interview (with special emphasis on interviewing deviant, hostile, and silent respondents); the nature of causation; and a review of the major methods of proof available to the sociologist. Actual research studies, focusing in turn on the experiment, the survey, participant observation, life-histories, and unobtrusive analysis, are also included. Each section is preceded by an introduction, that defines the major issues in each paper, offers a discussion of problems not covered explicitly in the readings, and in general shows how each paper contributes to a view of interactional research processes. Because of its interactional approach, its use of classic articles, its anticipation of problems not yet formulated clearly in the literature, its illustrations of how social organizations may be studied, its inclusion of articles relevant to the social psychology of experiments, and its new statements on the ethics of research, this book will be invaluable in methods courses. Especially when used in conjunction with its companion text, The Research Act, the book provides perhaps the most original and most useful compendium available to students today.
Scale
Author: E. Summerson CarrPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520291794
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global,micro and macroevents to name a few. Even the most critical among us often proceed with our analysis as if such scales were the ready-made platforms of social life, rather than asking how, why, and to what effect are scalar distinctions forged in the first place. How do scalar distinctions help actors and analysts alike make sense of and navigate their social worlds? What do these distinctions reveal and what do they conceal? How are scales construed and what effects do they have on the way those who abide by them think and act? This pathbreaking volume attends to the practical labor of scale-making and the communicative practices this labor requires. From an ethnographic perspective, the authors demonstrate that scale is practice and process before it becomes product, whether in the work of projecting the commons, claiming access to the big picture, or scaling the seriousness of a crime.
An Introduction to Structural Analysis
Author: S.D. BerkowitzPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483103641
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
An Introduction to Structural Analysis: The Network Approach to Social Research discusses the fundamental concept of structural analysis. The book is comprised of five chapters that tackle the key concepts, central intellectual themes, and principal methodological techniques of structural analysis. Chapter 1 reviews structural analysis, while Chapter 2 discusses the structure of interpersonal communication. Chapter 3 deals with economic structure and elite integration. The book also covers structural models of large-scale processes. The future of structural analysis is also discussed. The text will be useful to scientists, such as sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists who wish to utilize structural analysis in a research study.
Factor Analysis and Measurement in Sociological Research
Author: David J. JacksonPublisher: Sage Publications (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description