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Sociology 6
Indexes and Scales
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
02/27/2007

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Index and Scales similarities
Definition
ordinal measure, rank order units of analysis in terms of specific variables, utilize multiple data items
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Index Construction
Definition
Give people one point per item they've done, tally score
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Bogardus Social Scale
Definition
judges social distances with some stuff, rarely used
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Thurstone Scales
Definition
judges determine intensity of different scales, rarely used
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Likert
Definition
strongly agree strongly disagree
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Semantic Differential Scale
Definition
rank between extremes (good _ _ _ bad, dirty _ _ _ clean)
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Guttman Scale
Definition
select different intensity items, administer scale, determine if items have hierarchical pattern
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Chronbach's alpha
Definition
range is 0-1, closer to 1 is more unidimensional
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