Brigida ORRIA
Insegnamento di METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
Corso di laurea in DATA ANALYTICS
SSD: SPS/07
CFU: 6,00
ORE PER UNITÀ DIDATTICA: 48,00
Periodo di Erogazione: Secondo Semestre
Italiano
| Lingua di insegnamento | INGLESE |
English
| Teaching language | English |
| Contents | The first part of the course is about the philosophy and theory of (empirical social) science. Afterwards the techniques of selection, operationalization and data collection are presented. They are all necessary parts of writing and conducting a research design. |
| Textbook and course materials | Piergiorgio Corbetta (2003) SOCIAL RESEARCH. Theory, Methods and Techniques, London: Sage. |
| Course objectives | The course aims at making students familiar with the key problems, tools and techniques of social research, in order to enable them to structure and conduct research projects. Also, an additional key goal is to allow students to competently and critically read, understand and contextualize the results of empirical research in the social sciences. |
| Prerequisites | No |
| Teaching methods | Lectures and exercises in the classroom. |
| Evaluation methods | Attending students: mid-term and final exams.
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| Course Syllabus | Part I: Introduction:
1. Social research: different approaches.
Part II: Quantitative research
2. From concepts to variables.
3. Research designs.
4. Studying individuals: sampling and interviews.
5. The structured questionnaire.
6. Documents and official data: content analysis; secondary analysis.
Part III: Introduction to Qualitative research
7. Different goals; evaluation; sampling.
8. Ethnography and participant observation. Qualitative interviews. Focus groups. |
