Operationalising Research
Alexander Luria
- An example of Luria's quantitative treatment of data
| Group | Number of subjects | Graphic method of grouping | Graphic and categorical methods of grouping | Categorical classification |
| Illiterate peasants from remote villages | 26 | 21 (80%) | 4 (16%) | 1 (4%) |
| Collective farm activists (barely literate) | 10 | 0 | 3 (30%) | 7 (70%) |
| Young people with one to two years' schooling | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 (100%) |
- Conclusion
- People in collectivised relations of production and literate societies can think in theoretical ways
- People in individualised relations of production and illiterate societies can only think in context-dependent ways
- People in collectivised relations of production and literate societies can think in theoretical ways
cf Bernstein's work on elaborated and restricted codes