B003070 - METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

The standard approach to social research is described, and its syntactic advantages and semantic (i. e., related to correspondence of data with reality) liabilities are underlined. From this point of view, the course reviews the main techniques whereby several types of variables are built and their distributions analyzed.

Supplying students with the required instruments and the appropriate critical attitudes in order to enable her/him to effectively doing social research.

Three modules of front lessons (60 / 72 hors). During the course exercises will be proposed in order to test the degree in which the course is being assimilated by the attending students.

All students that will obtain a final score equivalent to 5/10 in those exercises can, if so wish, avoid the written part of the final examination.

The final examination consists of a written test whereby the students must detect and criticize the methodological faults inserted in a series of short sentences. This test attributes from 0 to 10 points: it is mandatory but even a score of 0 doesn’t prevent one to undergo the oral part in order to obtain a maximum of 20 pointes.
The entire program is contemplated in both the written and the oral part of the examination.