SOCI 269 - Science and Social Inquiry

This course examines and applies some of the methods of social science research by covering three main sets of topics: the broad methodological questions posed by philosophy of social science, the manners in which social scientists develop research design to generate relevant evidence, and methods with which social scientists analyze data. For both the research design and analysis sections, we will concentrate on quantitative research, learning how to use statistical software. Every year. (4 Credits)