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operationalize, v.|ɒpəˈreɪʃənəlaɪz|
[f. operational a. + -ize.]
trans. To express or determine in operational terms. Also opeˈrationalizing vbl. n.
1954Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. XLIX. 460 Once the codability variable..had been operationalized, it remained to relate this variable to some nonlinguistic behavior. 1964[see codability]. 1966Hughes & Pinney in E. L. Pinney Compar. Politics & Polit. Theory 67 Most of these interpretations are exercises in conceptualization, rather than efforts to operationalize the concept. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVII. 30 Previous studies have operationalized panic in terms of average time of group escape. 1975Gen. Systems XX. 116/2 By accommodating evolution, class exploitation, and industrialism, cultural materialism helps operationalize anthropology.
Hence ˌoperationaliˈzation, the process of operationalizing.
1966Hughes & Pinney in E. L. Pinney Compar. Politics & Polit. Theory 67 The problem which must be solved in order to exploit the usefulness of the concept is basically one of operationalization. 1969P. Worsley in Ionescu & Gellner Populism 235 The formulation and operationalization of policy..is thus a function of many other things than simply adhesion to some kind of ideology. 1973Sociol. Rev. XXI. 419 The term ‘operationalisation’ is usually reserved for the process of trying to turn hypotheses into testable postulates, and for the problems of selecting or creating techniques to test them. 1975Political Stud. XXIII. 75 That Deutsch himself is aware of the limitations of his operationalization is indicated by his calling a ‘politicized people’ a ‘nationality’, and not inhabitants of a society featuring a large public sector. |