Notes on social measurement : historical and critical /

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Social measurement, like physical measurement, is a persistent theme in human history. In this essay, an eminent sociologist suggests that social measurement has its roots in the social process itself, broadly conceived, and not specifically in the scientific method as it developed in the seventeent...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Duncan, Otis Dudley
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1984]
Series:Russell Sage Foundation 75th anniversary series.
Subjects:
Sociometry.
Psychometrics.
Psychometrics
Sociométrie.
Psychométrie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Messung
Soziales System
Psychometrie
Quantifizierung
Soziologie
Soziometrie
Sociale wetenschappen.
Meetmethoden.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Inventing Social Measurement ; References ; 2. Historical Metrology ; References ; 3. More Inventions ; References ; 4. On Scales of Measurement ; References ; 5. Measurement: The Real Thing ; References ; 6. Psychophysics ; References ; 7. Psychometrics ; References ; 8. Social Measurement: Predicaments and Practices ; References ; Acknowledgments ; Name Index ; Subject Index.

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