Social Science Concepts and Measurement
Social Science Concepts and Measurement A fully revised edition of the classic reference on concepts and their role in social science researchSocial Science Concepts and Measurement offers an updated…
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Social Science Concepts and Measurement
A fully revised edition of the classic reference on concepts and their role in social science researchSocial Science Concepts and Measurement offers an updated look at the theory and methodology of concepts for the social sciences. In addition, it stresses that concepts are used for description and causal inference, and contain normative judgments.Initial chapters focus on conceptualization, followed by chapters on issues of measurement. Emphasizing that most concepts are multilevel and multidimensional, this revised edition continues to bring the qualitative and quantitative closer together, with new chapters devoted to scaling, aggregation, and the methodological links between the semantics of concepts and numeric measures.
The textbook examines concepts in the international arena (such as the global performance indicators used by international