Operationalising Research

Alexander Luria

• Empirical Field: ultimately, the whole of human society!
  
  
• Empirical Setting
  
  
  • Sampling
    
    
    • Critical Case Studies: societies in transition between modes of production (Uzbekistan and Khirghizia)
      
      
    • Representative sample of subjects within these societies:
      
      
      • Peasant farmers involved in individual, subsistence farming and illiterate
        
        
      • kindergarten teachers and collective farm workers associated with or involved in collective production and literate
        
        
  • Research Design: ex post facto quasi-experimental design
    
    
  • Data Collection: clinical interviews used to measure level of cognitive development
    
    
  • wood problem, bird problem, bears problem, bicycle problem 1, bicycle problem 2
    
    
  • Data Analysis: qualitative and quantitative methods employed

from: Luria's problem

To: Luria's conclusion