Type of course: |
Compulsory |
Language of instruction: |
Romanian |
Erasmus Language of instruction: |
English |
Name of lecturer: |
Lucian Marina |
Seminar tutor: |
Alin Tomuș |
Form of education |
Full-time |
Form of instruction: |
Class |
Number of teaching hours per semester: |
42 |
Number of teaching hours per week: |
2 |
Semester: |
Autumn |
Form of receiving a credit for a course: |
Grade |
Number of ECTS credits allocated |
4 |
Course aims:
To acquire the basic knowledge about the key components of social research
To develop skills and knowledge about quantitative and qualitative social research
To develop an understanding of various research designs and techniques
Develop a critical awareness of alternative methods and approaches
Acquire a broad range of skills transferable to subsequent careers
Course Entry Requirements:
None
Course contents:
Theories in Scientific Research,
Research Ethics.
Interview in social research
The observation
Sociological survey
Construction of the questionnaire as an instrument of sociological survey
Research Design: Measurement of Constructs, Scale Reliability and Validity, Sampling. Survey Research,
Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive Statistics. Quantitative Analysis: Inferential Statistics.
Teaching methods:
Lecture, conversation, exemplification
Learning outcomes:
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.
-be able to construct an effective questionnaire that employs several types of survey questions.
-construct an effective research proposal
Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:
Written paper –– 60%; project assessment – 40%.
Recommended reading:
Bryman, A,
Quantity and Quality in Social Research, Routledge
, London
, 1992
, 4-143
Bryman A.,
Social Research Methods, Oxford University Press
, Oxford
, 2012
, 3-353
Anol Bhattacherjee,
Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices, University of South Florida
, Tampa
, 2012
, 1-136