Received: from weber.ucsd.edu (weber.ucsd.edu [132.239.147.2]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id PAA05420 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:49:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from lmiller@localhost on ttyu3) by weber.ucsd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA12841 for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:49:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Miller Message-Id: <199610102149.OAA12841@weber.ucsd.edu> To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: help with ratings used by sociologists (fwd) forwarded message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From ctorgers@plato.helios.nd.edu Thu Oct 10 11:54:08 1996 Received: from plato.helios.nd.edu (plato.helios.nd.edu [129.74.219.2]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id LAA23946 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:54:03 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from ctorgers@localhost) by plato.helios.nd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10656 for socgrad@csf.colorado.edu; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:54:03 -0500 (EST) >From: christine torgerson Message-Id: <199610101754.MAA10656@plato.helios.nd.edu> Subject: Re: help with ratings used by sociologists To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:54:03 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "Pamela Paxton" at Oct 10, 96 01:41:46 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Since I only work in a few substantive areas, I know I'm not thinking of > some good examples. I really need to think of some examples, though. > Are there features of cities that get rated? Things in social > psychological research? I wouldn't mind a bit more background on what you need this for, I might be able to suggest something more useful. But it never hurts to look at how other people and disciplines rate things as well. The point being, there are whole books of "Places Rated Almanacs" for cities, and in the preface, they almost always explain at how they came upon their rating systems. Psychologists use all sorts of rating systems, and we sociologists have systems for anomie, for example. Also, the census bureau is always an excellent place to look for suggestions on how to operationalize an idea. Just a few ideas...good luck. Christine