- Docente: Aldo Paparo
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Politics Administration and Organization (cod. 9085)
Learning outcomes
The course deals with basic topics concerning the methodology of socio-political empirical research.
Students will acquire knowledge and skills useful for the comprehension of the main data collection designs, the critical evaluation of data displayed in socio-political empirical research, as well as the skills needed for producing basic (univariate) statistical analyses.Course contents
- Paradigms
- Monovariate analysis
- Frequency distribution
- Bivariate Analysis
- Regression
- Concepts
- Operationalization
- Survey
- Questionnaire
- Sampling
- Experiment
- Scales
- Official statistical sources
- Participant observation
- Qualitative interview
- Documents
Readings/Bibliography
Corbetta P., Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014.
Additional readings made available by the teacher.
Teaching methods
Face-to-face lessons in the first half of the course.
Interactive classes with the support of students' presentations in the second half.
Assessment methods
The exam is administered exclusively in written form (test with short open-ended questions and small excercises on data) and includes 6 questions. Time available to answer is 60 minutes. Students with the in-class presentation can skip a question of their choosing and use the presentation grade to grade that exam question.
Teaching tools
Videoprojector, PC
e.learning + MS Teams
Stata
Office hours
See the website of Aldo Paparo