Reference no: EM133265056

In a large summary  attached after the list of measures, answer the following below: 

a. What is your conceptualization of social class? 

• What does social class mean? It's intersectional it all comes under the same upper class
  • Conceptualization
    • turning your research question into ideas
    • specifically defining terms in your question
    • identifying the ideas at work in a hypothesis
• My List of measures: indicators Levels of Measurement below 1-5

1. Have your parents at least graduated and received a degree from a four-year university? (Nominal)
   1. Yes or No
2. Are you lacking any sort of financial need or support for attending UCR? (Ordinal)
   1. Strongly Disagree
   2. Agree
   3. Neither
   4. Disagree
   5. Strongly disagree
3. What type of School Education did you receive? (Nominal)
   1. Private School
   2. Charter School
   3. Public School
   4. Homeschooling
4. What is Housing Status currently? (Nominal)
   1. Rental
   2. Homeownership
   3. Unhoused
5. Are you having difficulties dealing with economic challenges? (Nominal)
   1. Yes or No

• Indicators:
  • Empirically observable operationalization of concepts

b. Which operationalizations are best at capturing the conceptualization? 

• Operationalization:
  • process of deciding how numbers/categories will be assigned to individuals
  • detailed description of the operations/procedures used to assign cases to categories of a variable is called
  • "Operational Definition"/"Operationalize"
• Operationalization of Poverty
  • How to construct a relative measure
    • Find the most comprehensive measure of economic resources income? Wealth and assets? Cash and near-cash transfers?
      • Americans talk about pre-tax funds while Europeans are net-funds
      • Americans speak in annual terms while Europeans talk in regards to monthly of 12-14 payments (Europe better)
  • What do we count as a way to measure economic income
    • Adjust for household size
      • Find a median household income
      • If i use a median income and a standard of income
        • Calculate 50% of median (or 40% or 60%)
        • Calculate relative measure

c. What are the threats to validity and how might you test for them? 

1. validity is basically how accurate it is. how well the concrete indicator matches the concept

d. What are the threats to reliability and how might you test for them?

• Reliability is its consistency aka how consistent ur method is

Answer the Bolded parts together from a to d as large summary.