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Study Plan

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.

A Basic activities
B Characterizing activities
C Related or complementary activities
D Activities to be chosen by the student
E Final examination
F Other training activities
S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Methodology of social sciences (2010/2011)

Teaching code

4S02343

Credits

6

Coordinator

Mauro Niero

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY

Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Esercitazione

Credits

3

Period

Sem. 1A, Sem. 1B

Academic staff

Mauro Niero

Teoria

Credits

3

Period

Sem. 1A, Sem. 1B

Academic staff

Mauro Niero

Learning outcomes

The course aims at introducing general features of both methods and techniques that can be applied on the subjects that can be met in social work.
In particular expected results are the folllowing:
1) acquiring basic knowledge about epistemological issues relative to social research in its relationships with the sociological theory and the major social welfare problems;
2) having capability in tayloring research design to the various issues that can be met in social work;
3) applying skills concerning boh qualitative and quantitative research techniques

Program

Introductory Issues
- Scientific Research Methods and Social Sciences;
- Logic in social research: theories, data, inference and comfirmation
- Qualitative and quantitative research: traditions and paradigms

Qualitative Research
- Philosophies and strategies od qualitative research
- Narrative approaches
- Focud groups
- Ethnographic Research
- Qualitative data processing

Quantitative research
- Main strategies of quantitative research
- Survey and questionnaire
- Measurement issues
- Attitude scales
- Experiments
- Processing quantitative data

Ricerca sui casi e mixed-methods
Examples and applications of qualitative & quantitative research

Examination Methods

Basic textbooks

- Niero M. (2005) Introduzione alla progettazione e alla pratica della ricerca sociale, Guerini e Associati. Milano. (How to design and implement social research)
- Lonardi C.(2005) Raccontare e raccontarsi,QuiEdit, Verona.(Narratives about something and narratives about oneself)
- Oprandi N.(2001), Focus group: breve compendio torico-pratico, Eme&Erre Padova.
- Niero. Il mix fra qualità e quantità nella ricerca sociale: lo studiondei casi e altre proposte applicative, Quiedit Verona 2008.

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