Two Logical and Normative Issues Relating to Measurement in the Social Sciences

S. Subramanian ()
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Chapter Chapter 7 in Social Values and Social Indicators, 2021, pp 71-77 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This essay is based on the premise that measurement is very important for the social sciences. However, it also enjoins care on the practitioner’s part in his or her engagement with the project of measurement. It deals, in particular, with two often overlooked issues with which quantification in the social sciences should be concerned: (1) social indicators in relation to the contrast between outcomes and processes; and (2) measurement which tends to depend on the derivation of ‘ought’ propositions from ‘is’ propositions.

Keywords: Outcomes; Processes; Basic judgements; Non-basic judgements; Positive values; Normative values; Language (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0428-7_7

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