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Spring 2022 | SOC 3801 Section 001: Sociological Research Methods (52529)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 5
- Enrollment Status:
Open (118 of 140 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course provides an introduction to the materials and methods of social science research in a comprehensive and critical way. The course begins by introducing social science research, including philosophical and theoretical foundations. The course then covers the primary components of research design, including conceptualization, operationalization and measurement, primary and secondary data collection and sources, sampling, and the logic of comparison(s). prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors must register A-F
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jdewaard+SOC3801+Spring2022
- Class Description:
- This course provides an introduction to the materials and methods of social science research in a comprehensive and critical way. The course begins by introducing social science research and the components of research design, including, for example, conceptualization, operationalization and measurement, indexes and scales, reliability and validity, primary and secondary data collection and sources, sampling, the logic of comparison(s), and research ethics. This is followed by introducing students to research designs used in social science research, including, for example, ethnography, ethnomethodology, case and comparative case studies, comparative historical and archival methods, content analysis, interviews, focus groups, surveys, and experiments and their variants. The course concludes by considering several critical bookends, including data analysis and various tools and tricks of the trade.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
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- Learning Objectives:
1. Introduce students to the breadth research materials and methods in the social sciences.
2. Facilitate students' in-depth engagement with research methods in the social sciences in a comprehensive and critical way.
3. Develop students' capacity to traverse and translate across research methods in the social sciences as they and others ask, evaluate evidence for and against, and answer important, timely, and impactful questions about the social world.
4. Provide students opportunities to write professional papers on topics related to research methods in the social sciences that are of interest and useful to them in their current and/or future pursuits.
- Grading:
5% = Attendance
20% = Assignments
75% = 3 exams, each with closed (true/false and multiple choice) and open (short-answer and essay) ended questions, worth 25% each
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- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52529/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 26 October 2021
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