Question

Think about operationalizing concepts in your life; how would you define and measure the things you feel or talk about? When an undefined concept comes up in a conversation, take the opportunity to operationalize it. Define how you would measure this concept, hopefully during this same conversation (but you can fictionalize it after, if need be). Type up the conversation; after the dialogue, note the concept that you made an operational definition for, and explain what the definition is (including what measurements you might need to take).

Answer 1

I can think of an example that shows operationalizing concept in life. From the NBC TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Captain Raymond Holt character shows what is like to operationalize concepts in life and how to do it while making a conversation. There are many instances where we can find Captain Holt using it, one of the example is given below.

Now the premise is Rosa is in prison and she is worried about her bike been on idle for long so she asked Terry to take it out. Now this conversation happens between Terry and Holt.

Terry to Holt: she (Rosa) is worried about her motorcycle being idle for too long so she want us to take it out one time in a day.

                                                (Terry gives keys to Holt to catch)

Holt: (after caching the keys) I think you should do it, you’re the biker type, I have seen you use toothpick in public.

Terry: motorcycles are death machine, I have three kids, and I’m not risking it.

Holt: Are you saying my life matter less because I don’t conform to society’s heteronormative child centric ideals.

(Gives keys to terry to catch)

Here you see how captain Holt measure things and talks, another great example is Sherlock by BBC. But here the idea behind Holt character is to make him more objective like a robot. According to him 140 characters are more than sufficient to make a point. so the ideology behind his conversation skills is to be efficient and keeping things emotion less and objective.