The course is conducted in English。

What is social research? How to conduct ethical and rigorous social scientific research? Where should we gather data from? What to do with the data? We will start from scratch and gain experience with doing sociological research throughout the semester. This course introduces key concepts and components of empirical studies and uses different research approaches to answer various sociological questions. Identifying research approaches, developing measures, and collecting data are the focuses of our class. While some sociological imagination and logic are required, you do not need further sociological knowledge to be successful in this class.

After taking this course, you are expected to be able to: 1. Pose sociologically informed questions about society or social behavior that can be addressed empirically. 2. Identify a research approach appropriate for answering a specific question about society or social behavior. 3. Become certified in the ethical conduct of social and behavioral research involving human subjects. 4. Develop measures that are valid and reliable and to evaluate measures that others have proposed. 5. Evaluate alternative research designs in terms of their strength for drawing causal inferences. 6. Identify and ameliorate threats to the generalizability of results. 7. Identify and remedy problems with questionnaire construction. 8. Gain field experience with at least one data collection approach. 9. Construct and interpret two- and three-way tables. 10. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of research used to make empirical claims about social processes. 11. Precisely communicate about research design, measurement, and data collection in written and oral form.

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Before class: ~3 hours After class: ~6 hours

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