Measurement in Sociology: I. Measurement Systems

In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 1-20

Abstract

The paper develops systematically the theory of `structural' and `pure' measurement systems falling below the interval and ratio levels. Pure measurement, it is argued, concerns the properties of objects and structural measurement the relationships between objects. The exposition provides the ground-work for a forthcoming second paper on measurement and the structure of sociological theory.