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SOCS404 Issues in the Methodology of the Social Sciences

10 cp
Prerequisites Entry into the BA (Honours) or BSocSc (Honours) courses
Incompatible SOCI404 Issues in the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Teaching Organisation Lectures, seminars, workshops and group work.

The focus of this unit is on various theoretical perspectives, critiques and ethical issues in qualitative social research. It is designed to familiarise students with qualitative and quantitative research methods and strategies used in sociology including participant observation, interviewing, ethnography, surveys, questionnaires and the analysis of document texts and social policy. It will examine the methodological issues involved in positivism, phenomenology, symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology.

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