Overview
Lecturer
Lucian Marina
Seminar tutor
Alin Tomuș
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Sociology
Field of study
Sociology
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class / Seminary
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification
Aims
To acquire the basic knowledge about the key components of social research.
To develop skills and knowledge about quantitative and qualitative social research.
Describe the key components and processes of social science research.
Develop a critical awareness of alternative methods and approaches.
Acquire a broad range of skills transferable to subsequent careers.
Course contents
1. Scientific Process and Social Research
2. Steps in Social Research
3. Research Problems
4. Steps in Research Problems
5. Research Design
6. Characteristics of a Good Research Design
7. Types of Research Design
8. Variable and Measurement
10. Scaling Technique and the questionnaire
11. Sampling Design
12. Selection of Sample (Sampling Technique)
13. Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches
14. Processing and Analysis of Data
Learning outcomes
Social Research Methodology is a course designed to teach and train students on a variety of approaches available to sociologists in order to best address a research question.
By the end of the course, and having completed the essential reading and activities, the students will be able to:
-formulate researchable questions.
-define a research strategy and design a research project to answer a research question.
-discuss the practice and principles of qualitative and quantitative social research.
-to construct an effective questionnaire that employs several types of survey questions.
-construct an effective research proposal.
Assessment
Written paper –– 70%; project assessment – 30%. Research Proposal/Research Question: Identify a research question you want to answer. Discuss why this question is important substantively, and for sociology and/or other social sciences.
Recommended reading
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. A step-by-step guide for beginners
KUMAR, R.
Sage, London, 2011 · 366
RESEARCH METHODS. The basics
WALLIMAN, N.
Routledge, New York, 2011 · 205
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. Methods & Techniques
KOTHARI, C.R.
New Age International, New Delhi, 2014 · 414
SOCIAL RESEARCH.Issues, methods and process
MAY, T.
Open University Press, Buckingham · Philadelphia, 2001 · 300
SOCIAL RESEARCH. Paradigms in Action
BLAIKIE, N. & PRIEST, J.
Polity Press, Cambridge, 2017 · 256