SOC 354 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

An examination of the research process in sociology, including social scientific inquiry; research paradigms, theory, and methodology; ethics and politics of social research; research design, conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement; sampling; experiments; surveys; fieldwork; unobtrusive research; evaluation research; qualitative data analysis; quantitative data analysis; the logic of multivariate analysis; and social statistics. As a fundamental component of the course, students will write sociological research.