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Data in the News
“Eye on Society: Doing Sociological Research” (Chapter Two)
Introduction to Social Science Research - Molly Ott
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
Why Phone and Web Survey Results Aren't the Same
Explain the Social Science Research Process
Overview
OER Text Material
“Eye on Society: Doing Sociological Research” (Chapter Two)
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
Soicology as a Social Science. This section will cover the following:
- Explain what is meant by saying that sociology is a social science.
- Describe the difference between a generalization and a law in scientific research.
- List the sources of knowledge on which people rely for their understanding of social reality and explain why the knowledge gained from these sources may sometimes be faulty.
- List the basic steps of the scientific method.
General good content for the introduction to the social science research process
Supplementary Material (Videos and Reading)
Articles/Books on Social Science Research
Explaining the Social Science Research Process
Research Methods
Stages in the Sociological Research Process
The Nature of Social Science Research
Doing Social Research
Approaches to Sociological Research
Video on Social Science Research
Introduction to Social Science Research - Molly Ott
Published June 2, 2016
Video Table of Contents:
- 00:00 - Introduction to Scientific Inquiry & Social Science Research
- 00:16 - What is science?
- 02:40 - Why not just rely on common sense or informal advice? (“naïve theory”)
- 02:41 - What is science?
- 07:07 - What is research? 10:03 - Two main methodological paradigms
- 14:50 - What is deductive reasoning? What is inductive reasoning?
- 20:13 - Variables
- 24:37 - Focus of most quantitative research: relationships between variables
- 28:18 - Research – Practice Gap