- Docente: Nicola De Luigi
- Credits: 5
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Sociology (cod. 8495)
Learning outcomes
The course provides – also through practice exercises – an introduction to necessary skills concerning the main phases of quantitative social science research: the planning of research design, the process of questionnaire design and data collection and the preparation of information for analysis and data analysis (univariate and bivariate).
Course contents
Programs
The course activities are structured in two parts.
The first part proposes an in-depth itinerary concerning the following topics: research design, conceptualisation and measurement (operational definitions), questionnaire development (writing questions), data collection and data matrix and data analysis (relationships among variables).
The second part aims to introduce students to data analysis by means of dedicated statistical analysis software.
Readings/Bibliography
P. Corbetta, La ricerca sociale: metodologia e tecniche II. Le tecniche quantitative, il Mulino, Bologna, 2003 (capitoli I, III, IV e V).
P. Corbetta, La ricerca sociale: metodologia e tecniche IV. L’analisi dei dati, il Mulino, Bologna, 2003.
Students may choose to prepare coursework relevant to the work carried out during the course. This must be approved by the teacher.
Teaching methods
The course also provides an introduction to statistical software packages for research in social sciences (i.e. Stata and SPSS) and practice exercises to set up data files, manipulate variables and run statistical programs.
Assessment methods
Class attendance and regular participation is required for this course.
Teaching tools
Lessons will be held in computer lab and students will access to statistical software packages
Office hours
See the website of Nicola De Luigi