- Docente: Pasquale Colloca
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Planning and managing of educational intervention in social distress (cod. 9228)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be able: - to describe the social characteristics of administrative territories (regions, provinces, municipalities) using official statistics; - to detect and evaluate the social hardship by carrying out a basic research; - to critically analyse, from a methodological point of view, a research report ; - to carry out empirical research using the survey method; - to carry out empirical research analysing the official statistics.
Course contents
1. The paradigms of social research
2. Quantitative and qualitative research
3. The empirical translation of the theory
4. Survey method
5. Official statistics
6. Participant observation
7. Qualitative interview
8. Monovariate analysis
9. Bivariate analysis
Readings/Bibliography
Corbetta P., Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014 (second edition):
chap 1, chap. 2, chap. 3, chap. 5, chap. 6, chap. 8, chap. 10, chap. 11 chap. 13 (all except sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1), chap. 14 (all except sections 3, 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.2, 7.3)
Teaching methods
Lessons will be delivered in a mixed way (in presence and remotely). During the course some lessons will be dedicated to practical exercises and data analysis exercises.
Assessment methods
Written examination consisting of questions and exercises.
Teaching tools
Videoprojector, PC, IOL platform.
Office hours
See the website of Pasquale Colloca