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A Pragmatic Perspective of Measurement (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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A Pragmatic Perspective of Measurement (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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This book aims to address the challenges of defining measurement in
social sciences, presenting a conceptualization of the practice of
measurement from the perspective of the pragmatic tradition in
philosophy. The book reviews key questions regarding the scope and
limits of measurement, emphasizing that if the trust that the
public places on mea sures in the social sciences relies on their
connection to the notion of measurement in the physical sciences,
then the clarification of the similarities and differences between
measurement in the physical and the social realms is of central
importance to adequately contextualize their relative advantages
and limitations. It goes on to present some of the most influential
theories of measurement such as the "classical view" of
measurement, operationalism, and the representational theory of
measurement, as well as more methodological perspectives arising
from the practice of researchers in the social sciences, such as
the latent variable perspective, and from the physical sciences and
engineering, represented by metrology. This overview illustrates
that the concept of measurement, and that of quantitative methods,
is currently being used across the board in ways that do not
necessarily conform to traditional, classical definitions of
measurement, pushing the boundaries of what constitutes our
technical understanding of it. Moreover, what constitutes a
technical understanding of measurement, and the theoretical
commitments that it entails, must vary in different areas. In this
context, disagreement on what is constitutive of measurement is
bound to appear. Pragmatism is presented as a theoretical
perspective that offers the advantage of being flexible and
fallibilist, encouraging us to abandon the pursuit of a timeless
and perfect definition that attempts to establish
decontextualized/definitive demarcation criteria for what is truly
measurement. This book will be of particular interest for
psychologists and other human and social scientists, and more
concretely for scholars interested in measurement and assessment in
psychological and social measurement. The pragmatic perspective of
measurement presents a conceptual framework for researchers to
ground their assessment practices acknowledging and dealing with
the challenges of social measurement.
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