- Docente: Nicola De Luigi
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
International Relations (cod. 8782)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Politics Administration and Organization (cod. 8784)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Public and Corporate Communication (cod. 8840)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Politics Administration and Organization (cod. 9085)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Politics Administration and Organization (cod. 9085)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Local and Global Development (cod. 9200)
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
The course is dedicated to students who have never studied topics concerning key concepts underlying social research method and techniques, neither theoretically nor empirically. Students who have successfully passed a course in Social and Political Research Methods or Social Statistics may already possess the knowledge and skills provided by this course and may choose to attend the course of Method and Techniques for Data Analysis offered by the Department of Political and Social Science. The course aims to retrace the debate around social science method and offers knowledge about the most common data collection and analysis strategies in the field of socio-political empirical research. Lessons will address the following topics: logic of social research; the concept of method in social research, standard and non-standard approaches to social research, operationalization and operational definitions, concepts and indicators, questionnaires, sampling strategies, types of property and types of variable, displaying social research results; basic (descriptive) statistical analysis.
Readings/Bibliography
Corbetta P., Metodologia e tecniche della ricerca sociale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014 (the entire text, except par. 5 of chapter VII, par. 9 of chapter XIII and chapter XIV).
Teaching methods
Face-to-face lessons.
Assessment methods
The exam is administered exclusively in written form (test with open-ended questions) and includes 7 questions. Time available to answer is 40 minutes.
Teaching tools
Videoprojector, PC
Office hours
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