METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

Course objectives

Learning goals Capabilities of designing and running a social research. Knowledge and understanding Capability of analyzing social phenomena through middle range theories. Applying knowledge and understanding Capability of choosing techniques for detection, processing, and analysis more suitable to studied phenomena, at the macro, meso, and micro level. Making judgements Capability of research planning, organizing, and self-assessing. Communication skills Capability of team working and appropriately interacting in a multidisciplinary statistical-sociological team. Learning skills Capability of autonomous search of statistical, web, and bibliographical sources, necessary for doing research.

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RAFFAELLA GALLO Lecturers' profile

Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
1.The rationale of the social research: 1.1 The paradigms of the social research; 1.2 Comparing quantitative and qualitative research. 2. Quantitative techniques for social research: 2.1 Theory and hypothesis, concepts and variables, indicators and indexes; 2.2 Causality and experiment; 2.3 Sampling surveys and questionnaire planning; 2.4 Scaling techniques; 2.5 Data sources for official statistics; 2.6 Sampling strategies. 3. Qualitative techniques for social research: 3. 1 Focus group; 3.2. Qualitative interview and the use of documents. 4. Data analysis. 5. The new frontiers of the social research
Prerequisites
Not required
Books
Attending students Piergiorgio Corbetta, Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, il Mulino, Bologna, u.e. Handouts of the lecturer Not attending students Piergiorgio Corbetta, Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, il Mulino, Bologna, u.e.
Exam mode
The oral exam will cover 3 main topics of the syllabus. Each question has the same weight in the evaluation process.
Lesson mode
The Course combine theoretical lessons with practical activities sessions, to enable students to put into practice what they have learned in class.
  • Lesson code1023208
  • Academic year2024/2025
  • CourseStatistics, Economics and Society
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year3rd year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDSPS/07
  • CFU6
  • Subject areaSociologico, psicologico