单词 | measurement by fiat |
释义 | measurement by fiatmeasurement by fiatmeasurement’ (e.g. indirect indicators of a phenomenon) where ‘we have only a prescientific or common-sense concept that on a priori grounds seems to be important but which we do not know how to measure directly’ and, with some degree of arbitrariness, we impose a measure (W. Torgerson, Theory and Method of Scaling, 1958). CICOUREL (1964) has criticized such imposing of ‘equivalence classes’ without theoretical or empirical justification – a viewpoint influential in the establishment of ETHNOMETHODOLOGY. |
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