DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Social Work
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year - Single / L-39 Curriculum and Single / L-40 Curriculum

METODOLOGIA DELLA RICERCA SOCIALE

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• IL METODO E LA RICERCA SOCIALE
  

  The aim of the course is to emphasize and highlight the central role of the method in the process of scientific knowledge in the social sciences. It introduces the question of the different approaches used in the social sciences, with particular attention to the differences between standard and non-standard approach. The aim of the course is to give students an adequate knowledge for the design and formulation of a draft research, technical and procedures useful to conducting empirical research.

• LA RICERCA STANDARD
  

  The aim of the course is to emphasize and highlight the central role of the method in the process of scientific knowledge in the social sciences. It introduces the question of the different approaches used in the social sciences, with particular attention to the differences between standard and non-standard approach. The aim of the course is to give students an adequate knowledge for the design and formulation of a draft research, technical and procedures useful to conducting empirical research.

Detailed Course Content

• IL METODO E LA RICERCA SOCIALE
  

  Considering the importance of the method in empirical research, it concerns the most important epistemological differences between standard and non-standard approaches. It explores the different types of research design using a 'quantitative' or a 'qualitative' approach. The aim of the module is to outline the areas and the phases of the social research, quantitatively and qualitatively, highlighting the specific nature and the different levels of formalization and structuring of the design.

• LA RICERCA STANDARD
  

  The course provides the setting of a quantitative research with attention to the process of operational definition of concepts, i.e. the transformation of concepts into variables, to the indicators definition and to the indices construction according to the different analysis units and to the reference social contexts. The module treats the main statistical techniques for data analysis, to make the student able to do the most suitable choice according with the used type of property/variable.

Textbook Information

• IL METODO E LA RICERCA SOCIALE
  

  Cardano M., Manocchi M., Venturini G.L. (2011), Ricerche. Un’introduzione alla metodologia delle scienze sociali, Carocci editore, Roma; pp. 1-47; pp. 125-274.

  letture integrative: Amaturo E. (a cura di), Metodologia della ricerca sociale, Utet Università, Torino, 2012.

• LA RICERCA STANDARD
  

  Cardano M., Manocchi M., Venturini G.L. (2011), Ricerche. Un’introduzione alla metodologia delle scienze sociali, Carocci editore, Roma; pp. 47-124; pp. 275-314.

  letture integrative: Amaturo E. (a cura di), Metodologia della ricerca sociale, Utet Università, Torino, 2012.