Study-unit METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
| Course name | Investigation and security sciences |
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| Study-unit Code | 40572012 |
| Curriculum | Comune a tutti i curricula |
| Lecturer | Uliano Conti |
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| CFU | 12 |
| Course Regulation | Coorte 2022 |
| Supplied | 2024/25 |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline sociologiche |
| Sector | 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 social research. It, also, empowers 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. Conti U., ed. by, Migrazione, donne e diritti. Orizzonti di pace per il mondo contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2021 Erasmus students: E. Babbie, The Basics of Social Research, 5th edition, Barnes & Noble, Cengage Learning, Boston 2010. |
| Educational objectives | The objectives concern: Knowledge and understanding of techniques and tools for social research. In detail, goals concern: the knowledge and understanding of different techniques and tools useful for social research (both with reference to qualitative and quantitative strategy); knowledge and skills related to the epistemological and methodological nodes of social research; ability to plan a social research; sources of information and data and research techniques; presentation of research results. Furthermore, with regard to knowledge and understanding, the objective is: ability to apply knowledge for the elaboration of a research design and in detail for the use of research techniques and tools. The objectives referred to independent judgment - understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments starting from the interpretation of a database - concern the ability to articulate, in a methodologically based way, coherent reflections on social issues. With regard to communication skills - conceived as the ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors - the goals concern the ability to do research and to transmit results, information, ideas, problems and method solutions to other interlocutors. With regard to the ability to learn - understood as the ability necessary to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy - the objectives concern the methodological skills necessary to advance in studies and social research with a high degree of autonomy. |
| Prerequisites | Concepts, authors and history of sociology and the epistemological status of sociology |
| Teaching methods | frontal lessons. office hours: after class (Tuesday). Piazza G. Marzio 9, cap 0035, Narni (Italy). And-or on TEAMS. And also contacting me by email: uliano.conti@unipg.it (Office n. 0744-763200) |
| Other information | Oral exam Aim is to verify the learning of methodological knowledge, the ability to understand and reason on research design and methodology, the ability to apply what has been learned on method, techniques, methodology, in relation to the program. info for students with disability: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa |
| Learning verification modality | Oral exam. Regarding Knowledge and understanding - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the objective is to verify the learning of methodological knowledge. The exam verifies the knowledge of methods, tools and techniques for understanding information and data. Furthermore, in detail with regard to knowledge and understanding, the objective is the achievement of the ability to apply knowledge for the elaboration of a research design and for the use of social research techniques and tools. In particular, with regard to Knowledge and understanding - Ability to apply knowledge and understanding - Detail - exam refers to: knowledge and understanding of research techniques and tools; of their use; to the main epistemological paradigms; to the elaboration of the research design; to the qualitative and quantitative strategies. With regard to independent judgment - understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments, the objective is the ability to articulate, in a methodologically based way, coherent reflections on social issues. The exam verifies the independence of judgment on the definition of the research design and the research strategy to be used. In this sense, the exam verified the independence of judgment understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgments starting from the interpretation of a database and information. With regard to communication skills, conceived as the ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors, it should be noted that these communication skills are verified on: ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and social investigation method solutions to other interlocutors . The ability to learn is understood as the ability necessary to advance in studies with a high degree of autonomy. The exam verifies ability to learn the skill necessary to advance in studies and social research with a high degree of autonomy and awareness and rigor. info for students with disability: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa In case a student intends to anticipate his/her exam in a year preceding the one it is scheduled in his/her curriculum, it is recommended to anticipate as well the attendance of the lessons and to schedule the exam in the first useful session after the lessons have been concluded. |
| 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. |