Indicators: Syntactic Vision and Semantic Vision: First Part (Indicadores: la Visión Sintáctica y la Visión Semántica: Primera Parte)
Abstract
In this essay several aspects of the concept ‘indicator’ are criticized, as well as the technical consequences of those misconceptions. The most relevant among them is the pretence of measuring the validity of an indicator, e. g. the degree of semantic correspondence between the indicator and the concept which it is supposes to refer to.
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Blalock, H. M. (1961). Causal inferences in non-experimental research. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Blumer, H. (1948). Public opinion and public opinion polling. American Sociological Review, XIII, 542-554.
Brislin, R. W., Lonner, W. J., & Thorndike, R. M. (1973). Cross-cultural research methods. Nueva York: Wiley.
Campbell, D. T., & Fiske, D. W. (1959, marzo). Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix. Psychological Bulletin, LVI(2), 81-105.
Carmines, E. G., & Zeller, R. A. (1979). Reliability and validity assessment. Londres: Sage
Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E. (1955, julio). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, LII(4), 281-302.
Di Franco, G., & Marradi, A. (2014). Factor analysis and principal component analysis. Milán: Franco Angeli.
Dodd, S. C. (1942). Dimensions of society. Londres: MacMillan.
Durkheim, E. (1893). De la division du travail social. París: Alcan.
Durkheim, E. (1896). Le suicide. París: Alcan.
Frey, F. W. (1970). Cross-cultural survey research in political science. En R. T. Holt & J. E. Turner (Eds.), The methodology of comparative research (pp. 173-294). Nueva York: Free Press.
Galtung, J. (1967). Theory and methods of social research. Londres: Allen & Unwin.
Goffman, E. (1956). The presentation of self in everyday life. Edimburgo: University of Edinburgh Social Sciences Research Centre, Monograph 2. (Ed. revisada Nueva York: Doubleday, 1959).
Guttman, L. A. (1950). The basis for scalogram analysis. En S. Stouffer (Ed.), Measurement and prediction (vol. IV, pp. 60-90). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Hathaway, S. R., & McKinley, C. J. (1972). Where have we gone wrong? The mystery of the missing progress. En James N. Butcher (Ed.), Objective personality assessment (pp. 24-44). Nueva York: Academic Press.
Kriz, J. (1981). Methodenkritik empirischer sozialforschung. Eine problemanalyse sozialwissenschaftlicher forschungspraxis. Stuttgart: Teubner.
Kriz, J. (1988). Facts and artifacts in social science. An epistemological and methodological analysis of empirical social science research techniques. Nueva York: MacGraw-Hill.
Lazarsfeld, P. F. (1958, otoño). Evidence and inference in social research. Daedalus, LXXXVII(3), 99-130.
Lazarsfeld, P. F., & Barton, A. H. (1951). Qualitative measurement in the social sciences: Classifications, typologies, and indices. En D. Lerner y H. D. Lasswell (Eds.), The policy sciences. Recent development in scope and method (pp. 155-92). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Marradi, A. (1978). Die faktorenanalyse und ihre rolle in der entwicklung und verfeinerung empirisch nützlicher konzepte. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie, XXX(3), 488-513.
Marradi, A. (1979). Aggregazione dei comuni in comprensori socio-economicamente omogenei mediante l'analisi fattoriale: il caso della Toscana. Quaderni dell'Osservatorio elettorale, (5), 5-54.
Marradi, A. (1981). Factor analysis as an aid in the formation and refinement of empirically useful concepts. En E. F. Borgatta & D. J. Jackson (Eds.), Factor analysis and measurement in sociological research: A multi-dimensional perspective (pp. 11-49). Londres: Sage.
Marradi, A. (2002). Método como arte. Papers. Revista de Sociología, (67), 107-127.
Marradi, A. (2007). Metodologia delle scienze sociali. Bologna: Il Mulino.
McKennell, A. C. (1973, diciembre). Surveying attitude structures: A discussion of principles and procedures. Quality and Quantity, VII(2), 203-94.
Merton, R. K. (1948, octubre). The bearing of empirical research upon the development of social theory. American Sociological Review, XIII(5), 505-15.
Mokrzycki, E. (1983). Philosophy of science and sociology. From the methodological doctrine to research practice. Londres: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Nicéforo (1921). Les indices numériques de la civilisation et du progrès. París: Flammarion.
Nowak, S. (1976). Understanding and prediction. Essays in the methodology of social and behavioural theories. Dordrecht: Reidel.
Przeworski, A., & Teune, H. (1970). The logic of comparative social inquiry. Nueva York: Wiley.
Quetelet, L. A. J. (1869). Physique sociale ou Essai sur le développement des facultés de l’homme. Brucelas: C. Murquaedt.
Reynolds, P. D. (1971). A primer in theory construction. Indianápolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
Scott, W. A. (19682) Attitude Measurement, pp. 204-273 en Gardner Lindzey y Elliot Aronson (eds.), Handbook of Social Psychology, Vol. II. Reading: Addison-Wesley.
Singer, J. D. (1982, primavera). Variables, indicators, and data. Social Science History, VI(2), 181-217.
Sullivan, J. L., & Feldman, S. (1979). Multiple indicators: An introduction (Vol. 15). Newbury Park (Ca): Sage.
Teune, Henry (1968) Measurement in Comparative Research, in “Comparative Political Studies” I, 1 (april): 123-38.
Thurstone, L. L., & Chave, E. J. (1929). The measurement of attitude: A psychophysical method and some experiments with a scale for measuring attitude toward the Church. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Verba, S. (1969). The uses of survey research in the study of comparative politics: Issues and strategies. En Stein Rokkan et al. (Eds.), Comparative Survey Analysis (pp. 56-105). París: Mouton.
Villermé L. R. (1840). Tableau de l’état physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les manufactures du coton, de laine et de soie. París: Renouard.
Winch, R. F., & Campbell, D. T. (1969, mayo). Proof? No. Evidence? Yes. The significance of tests of significance. American Sociologist, IV(2), 140-3.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23756/sp.v5i2.396
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2017 Alberto Marradi
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Science & Philosophy - Journal of Epistemology, Science and Philosophy. ISSN 2282-7757; eISSN 2282-7765.