TECHNIQUES OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

Paper Code: 
CSOC 401
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes(COs):

 

Course outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to;

CO16:  Examine various types of research designs

CO17: Analyze the techniques of data collection and sampling

CO18: Develop skills for construction of hypothesis and research questions

CO19: Examine statistical tools that can be useful for social research

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation.

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Group projects

  

 

18.00
  • Research Design: Exploratory, Descriptive, Experimental,
    Cross Sectional, Longitudinal.
  • Measurement, Reliability and Validity
18.00
  • Data: Primary and Secondary Sources; Techniques of Data Collection: Questionnaire, Schedule, Case Study, Interview, and Observation.
  • Quantitative and Qualitative Survey

 

18.00

 

  • Sampling: Basic Concept, Merits and Demerits; Probability Sampling;
    Non Probability Sampling; Sample Size.
  • Hypothesis: Concept and Types; Sources of Hypothesis; Utility of
    Hypothesis in Social Research.
  • Framing Research Questions

 

18.00
Unit IV: 
Statistical analysis I:
  • Frequency Distribution, Cross Tabulation,
  • Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode

 

18.00
Unit V: 
Statistical analysis II:
  • Measures of Dispersion: women’s studies of Qualitative Variation; Quartile
    Deviation, Standard Deviation, Co-efficient of Variation,
  • Co-Relation: Meaning and Features, Rank Co-Relation; Product
    Moment Co-Relation.
Essential Readings: 
  • Gupta,S.P. 2014, (43 rd Edition).Statistical Methods, New Delhi: Sultan Chand and Sons.
  • Ahuja. Ram. 2006, Research Methods, Jaipur: Rawat Publications
  • Cohen, Louis & Holliday, Michael. 1982 Statistics for Social Scientists. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
  • Malec, Michael, A. 1977. Essential Statistics for Social Research. New York: J.B.Lippincott Co.

 

References: 

 

SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:

  • Elifson et al. 1990 Fundamentals of Social Statistics. New York: McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
  • Levin, Jack .1983 Elementary Statistics in Social Research. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
  • Wright, Susan E. 1986 Social Science Statistics. Boston: Allyn& Bacon Inc.
  • Loether, H.J. & McTavish, Donald. 1974 Inferential Statistics for Sociologists.

Boston: Allyn& Bacon Inc.

  • Kurtz, Norman R. 1983 Introduction to Social Statistics. Paris: McGraw-Hill Book Co.

 

E-RESOURCES:

 

 

REFERENCE JOURNALS:

  • International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Taylor and Francis
  • Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute
  • Journal of Statistics Education, American Statistical Associaton

 

Academic Session: 
2023-24
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