FSS:SPP118 Quantitative Research - Course Information
SPP118 Quantitative Research
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Ondřej Hora, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Josef Horňáček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Miroslav Suchanec, Ph.D., M.Sc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Žižlavský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Bc. Lucie Mořkovská, MPP (assistant)
PhDr. Helena Tomešová Bartáková, Ph.D., M.Sc. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Jiří Winkler, Ph.D.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Tue 18:00–18:45 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka, Tue 18:45–19:30 PC25, Tue 19:45–20:30 PC25, Tue 20:30–21:15 PC25
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 7 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/7, only registered: 0/7 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, B-HE) (2)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, B-HS)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, B-KS) (2)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, B-MS) (2)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, B-PL) (2)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, B-PS) (2)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, B-SO) (2)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, B-SP) (2)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Personnel Management and Organizational Development)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Social Policy)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Social Work)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Labour market, employment policy and human resources development)
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course, students should be able to: frame research problem, formulate research question, and appropriately design empirical research.
- Syllabus
- Research on social problems and social policy
- Social scientific research paradigms
- Research process, its structure
- Research questions and hypotheses
- Method of explanation, causation
- Operationalisation
- Random and nonrandom selection
- Techniques of empirical inquiry
- Measurement and statistical survey
- Administrative statistic and social indicators
- Method of interpretative understanding
- Interviewing
- Triangulation
- Literature
- PUNCH, Keith. Úspěšný návrh výzkumu. Translated by Jan Hendl. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2008, 230 s. ISBN 9788073674687. info
- ALSTON, Margaret and Wendy BOWLES. Research for social workers : an introduction to methods. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2003, ix, 334. ISBN 0415307236. info
- BABBIE, Earl R. The practice of social research. 9th ed. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2001, 1 sv. (rů. ISBN 0-534-57474-2. info
- Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost :příručka pro uživatele. Edited by Miroslav Disman. 3. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2000, 374 s. ISBN 80-246-0139-7. info
- Teaching methods
- Homework. Group discussion of homework tasks.
- Assessment methods
- Assessment of research proposal.
Written exam. - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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