tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266300416434206693.post7708242757176100144..comments2023-08-11T12:04:42.077+02:00Comments on The Church of Rationality: A Note on Sociologists' Most Beloved ConceptLemmusLemmushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00917054221547240969noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266300416434206693.post-7336375691606931862008-07-16T05:09:00.000+02:002008-07-16T05:09:00.000+02:00Depends, I guess, on one's definition of "measure"...Depends, I guess, on one's definition of "measure". If you take it literally, yeah, there'd have to be something to measure. More generously, a measure could just be some mathematical construct you put into a regression as an independent variable.LemmusLemmushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917054221547240969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266300416434206693.post-35492207365059064282008-07-15T09:28:00.000+02:002008-07-15T09:28:00.000+02:00Oh no, I realise the point you were trying to make...Oh no, I realise the point you were trying to make, I just thought the wikipedia definition was a bit too essentialist, implying that there might be some 'real' SES that we are trying, imperfectly, to measure.pjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06832177812057826894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266300416434206693.post-24754081014086891412008-07-15T00:06:00.000+02:002008-07-15T00:06:00.000+02:00I completely agree with your last sentence; that w...I completely agree with your last sentence; that was my point! (Maybe I didn't express myself properly.)<BR/><BR/>When I said that I had no problem with Wikipedia's definition, I meant that that is how the concept is used in sociology, in my experience.<BR/><BR/>In empirical research using questionnaires, at leat two of the variables are asked about and then the results of these two questions are combined using some mathematical formula. In many contexts I have no problem with that, I just don't like people pretending that SES is some sophisticated theoretical concept.LemmusLemmushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00917054221547240969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4266300416434206693.post-55665171434087559292008-07-14T22:57:00.000+02:002008-07-14T22:57:00.000+02:00Is the definition not better that 'socioeconomic s...Is the definition not better that 'socioeconomic status' is a term applied to any number of measures of social and economic variables. There is no unitary 'socioeconomic status'.pjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06832177812057826894noreply@blogger.com