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- Title
Historic Ideals Operationally Defined.
- Authors
Dodd, Stuart C.
- Abstract
Most of our human relations have to be handled with the aid of symbols naming those interrelations. But when meanings of the symbols are vague from person to person and from situation to situation, researcher's conduct of human affairs is handicapped to that extent. One of the ways to meet this need has been to develop more operational definitions for social concepts. Moment formulas can be used as an aid in defining important human ideals and values in measurable terms. These moment formulas can be used to pin down many broad political and social concepts or values. Such classic ideals as liberty, equality, and fraternity can be redefined as a moment of some one order. In this study, eleven such concepts have been analyzed as examples of the exactness of meaning which the moments can yield. These concepts include competition, conflict, cooperation, accommodation, association, mobility, migration, density, social force, social energy, a human group, social control, institutions, communities, societies, planning, methodology, sociology.
- Subjects
IDEALS (Aesthetics); INTERPERSONAL relations; MOMENTS method (Statistics); SYMBOLISM; LIBERTY; POLITICAL science; SOCIAL sciences
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1951, Vol 15, Issue 3, p547
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/266334