Methodology of Social Sciences 02.06-S2-EN-MOSC
Course content:
A. Lectures:
• Approaching Reality: Engaging the Empirical
• Research Design and Planning
• Methods of Data Collection
• Qualitative Research Methods – Field Research
• Quantitative Research Methods – Surveys
• Case Study and Desk Research
• Conducting Research
• Strategies for Data Analysis
• Representing and Disseminating Research
B. Exercises:
• Ontological and epistemological discussions and conceptualization of the research process
• Planning a research project
• Survey of methods of data collection in sociology
• Inductive inquiry: data grounded logic of sociological research
• Deductive hypothesis testing
• Designing a case study or desk research
• Interviewing
• Ethical issues of sociological research
• The impact of sociological research
Literatura uzupełniająca
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Efekty kształcenia
Knowledge
Student:
• Is aware of the position of sociology among other social sciences and science in general.
• Knows different methodological approaches to social reality and methods within these different theoretical paradigms with special emphasis on qualitative-quantitative distinction and inductive-deductive division.
• Understands the rational model of science and the dynamic position of sociology within it.
• Knows how to design a research project, starting with ontological issues, through appropriate selection of method, sampling and analytical strategy.
Skills
Student:
• Is able to conceptualize her research problem in the context of existing body of research and theorizing.
• Is able to formulate a research problem and post the research questions.
• Can use the theoretical framework of other social scientist in her own work critically evaluating it.
• Can design the research project, select the most productive methods and justify this selection.
• Is ready to design a strategy of interpretation of data.
Social competences
Student:
• Is eager to position herself within a strand of sociological thinking and engage in an informed discussion with other theoretical perspectives.
• Realizes the sensitivity of working with human subjects in sociological research.
• Is creative and critical in empirical thinking.
Kryteria oceniania
• Exam
• Research proposal project development
• Evaluation of the in class discussion.
• Evaluation of the development of the research project in class.
• Evaluation of the exam performance.
Basic criteria:
Exam:
According to the scale of the test:
• Satisfactory if the student grasps the minimum of the course content.
• Good if the student masters majority of the content of the course.
• Very good is the student knows almost all of the content of the course.
In case of the re-take examination:
• Satisfactory if the student is able to refer to the basic concepts of the course content.
• Good if the student can discuss majority of the content of the course.
• Very good is the student is able to elaborate on most of the issues of the content of the course.
Exercises:
• Satisfactory if the student takes part in the classes and delivers a research proposal with minimum information.
• Good if the student contributes to the class discussion and submits an elaborate research proposal.
• Very good if the student participates in the classes with a meaningful input to the discussions and turns in an elaborate, innovative, critical and insightful research proposal.
Literatura
Selection:
Ken Plummer, Sociology the Basics, ch. 6
Earl Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, ch. 4
Clive Seale, Researching Society and Culture, ch. 1 - 11
Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, Anna Leon-Guerrero, Social Statistics for a Diverse Society
Jack Levin, James Alan Fox,, David Forde, Elementary Statistics in Social Research
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