SC1001 - METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

In order to achieve the expected learning outcomes, the course will illustrate the following didactic contents:- introduction to the paradigms of research in the social sciences with reference to quantitative or standard and qualitative or non-standard approaches;- the elements and procedures for structuring and defining the research phases: problematization, definition of the research design and choice of techniques for the collection of empirical data;- the sample survey: from the theory to the hypotheses, the key concepts, the variables, the sampling plan, the construction of the questionnaire, errors of detection, reliability and validity;- the techniques of the scales: the Likert scale, the Guttman scalogram, the semantic differential, the sociometric test, one-dimensional and multidimensionality;- naturalistic observation and participant observation: applications and procedures;- the survey through the interrogation: types of interview and methods of conducting;- the analysis of qualitative data: the phenomenological approach, the symbolic interactionism and the grounded theory;- the computational social research: digital ethnography, social network analysis, machine learning;- evaluative research in the social sciences: theoretical approaches and application paths;- the methods for presenting the results.