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 166-258 Sociological Research Strategies

Note

Available as 166-358 at 3rd-year level.

Compulsory Core Unit.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Jui-shan Chang

Prerequisites

Normally, 25 points of first-year Sociology.

Semester

1

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and One 1-hour tutorial per week for one semester

Subject Description

This subject is based around constructing a field-based research strategy integrating a range of sociological methods. Students are introduced to strategies for literature and media review, problem definition, interview design and coding, questionnaire design and analysis, and to an introduction to SPSS for analysis of data generated by student research projects. The subject focuses on three areas: the family, health, and changing forms of inequality.

Assessment

A literature review, a critical essay and a fieldwork report totalling no more than 5,000 words

Prescribed Texts
  • A. Touraine, The return of the actor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
  • N. Fielding (ed), Actions and structure: research methods and social theory. Newbury Park: Sage, 1988.
  • L. Harvey, Critical Social Research. Unwin Hyman 1990.
  • C. Ragin, Constructing Social Research. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge, 1994.
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