Unit METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
- Course
- Investigation and security sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 40572012
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Uliano Conti
- Teachers
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- Uliano Conti
- Hours
- 72 ore - Uliano Conti
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- SPS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course in Social Research Methodology provide basis for projecting and conducting empirical sociale research. It also seeks to empower students to critically analyze a research. Principal contents: scientific problem formulation; epistemology and methodology of social research; quantity and quality in social research; data sources; techniques for data collection and analysis.
- Reference texts
- E. Babbie, Ricerca sociale, Maggioli Editore, Santarcangelo di Romagna 2013.
U. Conti, Lo Spazio del Visuale. Manuale sull'utilizzo dell'immagine nella ricerca sociale, Armando, Roma, 2016, in corso di pubblicazione
Erasmus students: E. Babbie, The Basics of Social Research, 5th edition, Barnes & Noble, Cengage Learning, Boston 2010. - Educational objectives
- The expected results concern knowledge and skills related to the epistemological and methodological themes of social research; the design of social research; the sources of information and data and the research techniques; the management and the presentation of the results of the research
- Prerequisites
- Concepts, authors and history of sociology and the epistemological status of sociology
- Teaching methods
- frontal lessons.and-or on TEAMS.
office hours: after class; Tuesday from 12 am; Thursday from 11 a.m. Narni, pzza G Marzio 9 cap 0035. And -or on TEAMS.
And contacting me by email: uliano.conti@unipg.it (Office n. 0744-763200) - Other information
- Oral exam (and-or on TEAMS)
info for students with disability: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Learning verification modality
- oral exam (and or on TEAMS)
- Extended program
- The course in Social Research Methodology provide basis for projecting and conducting empirical sociale research. It also seeks to empower students to critically analyze a research. Principal contents: scientific problem formulation; epistemology and methodology of social research; quantity and quality in social research; data sources; techniques for data collection and analysis.