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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Sociology |
| Máster Universitario en Métodos Avanzados de Investigación e Innovación na Análise Social (a distancia) |
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| Process and Design in Social Research |
| Contents |
| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Process and Design in Social Research | Code | 615545002d | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatory | 5 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Unit 1. Epistemological foundations of social research | 1.1. The social research process: from theory to testing. 1.2. Qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Areas of application. 1.3. Research strategies. Levels and units of analysis. 1.4. Data. Types, generation and collection of data. The process of operationalisation. 1.5. Information resources: data sources and their treatment. |
| Unit 2. Designing social research projects | 2.1. Planning as a working methodology: the plan, the programme and the project. 2.2. Context analysis and diagnosis: methodologies and techniques for the diagnosis of social contexts. 2.3. Definition of objectives and differences between types of objectives in the project. 2.4. The construction of the methodology: Selection of research techniques. Articulation and integration. Participatory methodology. 2.5. Sampling. Sample design, size and type. Representativeness and generalisability |
| Unit 3. Ethics of social research | 3.1. Ethical principles governing social research. 3.2. Existing regulations and main protocols applicable within Spain and the European Union. 3.3. Practical questions about ethics in the approach to projects and in the application of research techniques. 3.4. Keys to the preparation of a report on the maintenance of ethical principles in social research. |
| Unit 4. Evaluation in the context of social project design | 4.1. Types of evaluation (location, object, agent, instruments). 4.2. The evaluation phases: needs, process, final, follow-up and control. 4.3. The methodological design of the evaluation. Evaluation criteria (LFA): efficiency, effectiveness, impact, relevance, feasibility and coverage. Operationalisation: evaluation indicators. 4.4. Evaluation instruments in social programmes/projects. |
| Unit 5. Strategies for presenting results | 5.1. Types of output in qualitative and quantitative research. 5.2. Dissemination of results. The communication plan. 5.3. The transfer of knowledge from social science research. |
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