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Review Article Volume 8 Issue 5
Features of the social dimension
EP Tavokin
Department of Personnel Support of Public authorities, Professor at the Russian University of Technology (MIREA), Russia
Received: September 27, 2024 | Published: November 1, 2024
Citation: Tavokin EP. Features of the social dimension. Sociol Int J. 2024;8(5):217‒224. DOI: 10.15406/sij.2024.08.00399
Abstract
The author focuses on the most important procedure of sociological research – measurement. The established attitude towards a predominantly numerical representation of the results of sociological measurement, based on classical and non–classical measurement concepts, is noted. The author examines in detail the features of the formalization of social variables in the process of real interaction between a sociologist and a respondent and comes to the conclusion that neither the vast majority of the properties of social phenomena nor the sociological concepts based on them have the possibility of numerical measurability, that numerical measurement and all procedures based on it rest on an overly simplified view of a person and his social environment. The concept of the humanitarian dimension is proposed, according to which measurement is a set of theoretical, methodological, methodological and instrumental actions through which the qualitative certainty of the measured phenomenon or its individual properties is established. The consequences of the adoption of this concept are considered, one of which is that the nominal is declared the main type of measurement.
Keywords: measurement, measurement concepts, social measurement, measuring scales
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