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 166-081 Quantitative Social Research

Note

Students who have previously enrolled in, and successfully completed 166-131 Sociology 1B in 1997 and 1998, cannot enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Jui-Shan Chang

Prerequisites

Usually two first year sociology subjects.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial/workshop per week

Subject Description

This subject teaches students the linkage between sociological theories and empirical data. Particularly this subject teaches students how to do sociology empirically by introducing the logic and major processes of quantitative social research via lectures and hands-on workshops or labs. The topics include deductive and inductive logic, research design, conceptualisation, operationalisation, questionnaire design, probability sampling, non-probability sampling, coding/recoding, identifying available on-line survey data sets and constructing uni-variate and bi-variate tables and graphs.

Assessment

In-class test of 1000 words and workshop assignments totalling 3000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • E Babbie, The Basics of Social Research. Wadsworth Publishing, 1999.
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