Learning outcomes:
- Identify the different ways people decide what’s real.
- Be able to explain the fundamental nature of social science.
- Understand the basic options for conducting empirical research
Be able to:
- Distinguish between good and bad practices
- Relate empirical research results to research questions.
- Illustrate and explain how theory and research methods impact each other.
- Give an example of how theory choices might raise issues of research ethics.
- Identify and describe the key ethical issues in social research.
- Give examples of how political issues can influence social research.
- Explain why specific research is ethically controversial (or not).
Be able to:
- Discuss the role of exploration, description, and explanation in social research.
- Discuss the logic and procedures of idiographic explanation.
- Name and discuss the legitimate and false criteria for nomothetic explanation.
- Identify some of the common units of analysis in social research and
explain why it is important.
- Identify and describe some common study designs based on the time dimension.
- Describe the elements and structure of a research proposal
Be able to
- Describe what ‘nonprobability sampling’ is and identify several techniques.
- Identify, describe and explain several types of probability sampling.
- Evaluate choices of ‘nonprobability sampling’ and ‘probability sampling’ in relationship
to the research questions.
- Explain the relationship between (research) populations and sampling frames in social
research.
- Describe the steps involved in selecting a multistage cluster sample
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