Type of Credit: Required
Credit(s)
Number of Students
To do research in social sciences is very different from in nature sciences. As a result, students in social sciences needs to learn from others to improve their research ability and skills. A good research is not only important, but interesting and valid as well. Student needs to build up their “insights” of doing good research by learning from others’ works as well as doing it by their own.
能力項目說明
In this course, students will have following three goals to reach to. First, students can learn the research basics, for example, what is a theory? How to operationalize a concept? Second, students can know the difference and ways of doing both quantitative and qualitative methods. Third, students can learn to read, write a social science research paper and critic others at the same time.
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112(1) Course Syllabus National Chengchi University
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Title |
Research Methods for Social Sciences |
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Prior |
None |
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Professor |
Don-yun Chen, donc@nccu.edu.tw; 29393091 ext.51145 |
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Level |
IMAS |
Credits |
3 |
Weekly Hr. |
3 |
Cell Phone Use |
Yes |
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Content |
One Semester, Tuesday 1:00~4:00 pm, Room: TBA |
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Type |
Required |
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Course Goal & Requirements |
To do research in social sciences is very different from in nature sciences. As a result, students in social sciences needs to learn from others to improve their research ability and skills. A good research is not only important, but interesting and valid as well. Student needs to build up their “insights” of doing good research by learning from others’ works as well as doing it by their own. In this course, students will have following three goals to reach to. First, students can learn the research basics, for example, what is a theory? How to operationalize a concept? Second, students can know the difference and ways of doing both quantitative and qualitative methods. Third, students can learn to read, write a social science research paper and critic others at the same time. |
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Methods |
Lecturing, Presentation & Critics, Homework Assignment 1-5 |
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Grades |
Homework (40%)、Mini Reports (20 %)、Final (30%)、Class (10%) |
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Reader |
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Course Content |
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*(9/12) introduction & Human Inquiry and Ethics (Chap. 1, 3) |
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*(9/19) Theory Building, Reading & Writing (Chap. 2, 17) |
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(9/26) Research Design (Chap. 4) – Homework Assignment #1 |
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(10/3) Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement (Chap. 5) |
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(10/10) National Day (a day break) |
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(10/17) Indexes, Scales, and Typologies (Chap. 6) |
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(10/24) The Logic of Sampling (Chap. 7) – Homework Assignment #2 |
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(10/31) Mini Report I Presentation: Research Question Navigation |
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(11/7) Survey Research (Chap. 8) |
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(11/14) Quantitative Data Analysis (Chap. 14) – Homework Assignment #3 |
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(11/21) Qualitative Field Research (Chap. 10) |
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(11/28) Qualitative Data Analysis (Chap. 13) |
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(12/5) Experiment (Chap. 8) – Homework Assignment #4 |
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(12/12) Unobtrusive Research (Chap. 11) |
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(12/19) Evaluation Research (Chap. 12) |
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(12/26) Group Consulting Time |
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(1/2) Final Presentation - Homework Assignment #5 |
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(1/9) Final Round Table Review |
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* Professor presentation.
A. Homework (5) (40%, 8% each)
#1. Knowing the Design, #2. What is Representativeness? #3. What is it doing? (Quatitative), #4. Wha is it doing? (Qualitative), #5 How is it doing? (Cirtic of other's reserch proposal)
B. Mini Reports (2) (20 %, 10% each) One: Research Quesiton, Two: Research Methods.
C. Final Presentation and Paper (30%) Paper and PPT Presentation.
D. Class Performance - Attendance & Participation (10%)
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1. The British Academy: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-research/?gclid=CjwKCAjw0_T4BRBlEiwAwoEiAZcOxogV8skLVb-zzmmeRpbb_uv6jYfvcEE6jQb4MBW_fIVcKjgcrxoCXZkQAvD_BwE 2. The Cambridge Core: https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/social-science-research-methods 3. Journal of Social Science; https://techniumscience.com/index.php/socialsciences/index?gclid=CjwKCAjw0_T4BRBlEiwAwoEiAa-QTaC4u2Z6-HQvZFVuf102x5_sUCXKmMFnfhW-VT-g6JQXMiFwOxoCtN4QAvD_BwE