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Unit of Study SOCI2006 - Doing Social Research (2021)

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Unit description

Introduces students to the principles, objectives and methods of social research. Develops practical skills in reviewing literature, constructing research questions and writing up research for publication. Students practice reading published research and analysing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data. They will conduct a small piece of research of their own design.

Unit content

Topic 1. Developing knowledge/working in a group
Topic 2. Research design: Principles and stages of research
Topic 3. Developing research questions/objectives
Topic 4. Reading and understanding research reports and journal articles
Topic 5. Variables and their measurement: qualitative data
Topic 6. Data collection and recording; Ethics
Topic 7. Managing and coding qualitative data
Topic 8. Variables and their measurement: quantitative data
Topic 9. Summarising and presenting data
Topic 10. Disseminating research findings

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Learning outcomes

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

identify an author's research question, primary methods and key findings in published research articles

compose a research question

construct a well-integrated literature review

construct valid interview questions

code data thematically and categorically

explain the use of tables and graphs

write a research article.

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