Methodology and epistemology of the social sciences

Metodologija in epistemologija družbenih ved

Course credits:

10.00 ECTS / 60 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 30 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

prof. dr. Tina Kogovšek

Lecturers:

• Prof. Valentina Hlebec
• Asst. Prof. Luka Kronegger
• Assoc. Prof. Katja Lozar Manfreda
• Prof. Franc Mali
• Prof. Andrej Mrvar
• Assoc. Prof. Ilija Tomanić-Trivundža
• Prof. Aleš Žiberna

Type:

Required

Language:

Slovenian / english

Semester:

Full academic year

Study degree

3. level

Course execution:

• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Short content

The course deals with social science methodology in the broadest sense: - System of scientific research, scientific research, politics of social science research; - Ethics in social science research; - Theory and empirical research; - Methodological approaches /paradigms (positivism, interpretative paradigm, critical social science, postmodernism; - Research designs (qualitative/quantitative); - measurement (qualitative/quantitative); - unit selection (sampling, probability and nonprobability sampling); - qualitative and quantitative data analysis, - new approaches to data analysis; - research report; and within the field in detail: - survey research; - qualitative methods of data collection; - comparative research; - discourse analysis; - current trends in social science methodology.