Design of Quantitative Research II. - YMH540

• Title: Design of Quantitative Research II.
• Guaranteed by: Programme Historical Sociology (24-HS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 26 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (15)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; can be fulfilled in the future
• Guarantor: PhDr. Blanka Jirkovská, Ph.D.; PhDr. Stanislav Hampl
• Class: Courses unavailable to incoming students
• Incompatibility : YMH040, YMH140
• Is incompatible with: YMH140, YMH040

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Soukalová, Ph.D. (31.03.2015)

There is a follow-up course for this class, ‘Design of Quantitative Research’, which aims to extend students' knowledge and the practical skills required for the quantitative data management and to demonstrate the most common applications of quantitative sociological research and their context.

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šedivcová (04.06.2019)

Thisere is a follow-up course for this class, ‘Design of Quantitative Research’, which aims to extend the students' knowledge and the practical skills required for the quantitative data management and to demonstrate the most common applications of quantitative sociological research and their context. Also In addition,presentation of students‘ project presentations and discussion areis an important part of this course.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. Stanislav Hampl (13.06.2019)

project of quantitative research

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šedivcová (04.06.2019)

Structure of Lessons:
1. Interviewers, interviewing.

2. Interviewer’s networks.

3. Mixed mode of questioning.

4. Ethical and legal contexts of empirical research.

5. Preparing data for analysis.

6. The final report and other research outputs.

7. Secondary analysis of research data.

8. Application of quantitative methodology in research of attitudes, values and public opinion.

9. Application of quantitative methodology in voting behavior research.

10. Application of quantitative methodology in media research.

11. Application of quantitative methodology in market research.

12. Sociological research in media.

13. Final discussion on methodological problems.

Required reading:

• PUNCH, K. F. Survey Research. The Basics. London: Sage Pub., 2003.

• PUNCH, K. F. Introduction to Social Research. London: Sage Pub., 2013.

• SCHEUREN, F. What is a Survey. ., 2004