Spring 2015  |  SOC 3801 Section 001: Sociological Research Methods (46378)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Carlson School of Management L-110
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Principles/practice of research design, sampling, data collection including field observation/surveys. Data management/analysis, reporting of quantitative/nonquantitative data. Ethics/administration in sociological research. Lab. prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors must register A-F
Class Description:
This course provides an introductory *how to? guide for conducting social scientific research in a comprehensive and critical way. The course begins by introducing social scientific research, including philosophical and theoretical foundations; research topics, questions, and hypotheses; and ethics. The course then covers the primary components of research design, including conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement; primary and secondary data collection and sources; the logic of comparison across groups, time, and space; sampling; reliability, validity, and error; and composite measures (indexes and scales). This is followed by familiarizing students with those research designs most often used in social scientific research, including experiments and quasi-experiments, surveys and ethnosurveys, ethnography, case studies, comparative-historical methods, and content analysis. The course concludes with a treatment of qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis.
Grading:
20% Special Projects
20% Laboratory Evaluation
20% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: homework; 40% examinations
Exam Format:
Quiz Format: multiple choice, Exam Format: short answer, essay
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Laboratory
Workload:
45-70 Pages Reading Per Week
12-24 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
3 Paper(s)
Other Workload: Weekly quizzes (most but not all weeks)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/46378/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
28 October 2014

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