SOCI 451 - Research Methods

CR: 3
Prerequisites: Open to majors in sociology; others by permission of the instructor. Methods influence what is discovered in social science. Social research processes are explored from the positivist perspective guided by hypothesis testing as well as the grounded theory perspecive that generates explanations from observations. Topics include experimental research as a template for survey research, design of questioinnaires and interviews, evaluation research, ethnography, content analysis of media and documents, quantitative analysis of secondary data, and case studies. III.Q