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Research in Sociology
Presented by:
M. Hamza Khan
M. Bilal Usmani
Hafiz Zeeshan Iqbal Khan
Contents
Significance Definition Types Scientific Method Design of social research. Data collection techniques
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Significance
Sociological Research
A big part of Sociological research infact circles around personal and private issues
Like this research trying to explore why some people like to harm themselves?
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Sociological Research
A researcher may find a personal topic worthy of research.
Like Ellson[2012], He researched on the topic of Lying on internet relationship websites.
Impact on Society
General public opinion is formed on presumption and prejudice.
eg. Researchers found that the global human trafficking is a sign of close relationship between the supposedly separate worlds of industrial nations and dependent developing nations.
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Active Sociological research is a scientific and ethically bound phenomenon. It usually result in highlighting much ignored and significant factors for a given problem.
Research in the field.
You will even find active academicians like Seargent Britt Daemon here. He is using active sociological research to communicate and to avoid needless violence in order to ensure mission success.
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Lets explore the field of Research in Sociology
DefinitionSociological Research is the research conducted by
social scientists, which follows the systematic plan, to study the behavior and interactions of humans of a
particular group/society under specific condition. To draw some conclusions.
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It is not that easy!
Types/Methods
Comparative- It Involves comparison of social processes usually across different
types of society (for example capitalist and socialist)
Historical- It looks at how social structures that many regard as natural are in
fact shaped by complex social processes.
Scientific
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Scientific Method
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Design of Social Research
Variables Hypothesis Sampling
Data Collection Techniques
Surveys Questionnaires Experiments Ethnography
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Sociologists face extremely tough
intellectual and practical tasks
Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., who was a member of the UW sociology department from 1971 until his death in 1991
It isn't easy putting a yardstick to human behavior. How can something so complex and inscrutable be
measured, quantified, and modeled?
Computational Sociology
Statistical Methods Modeling and Simulations Network Analysis etc
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Statistical Methods
Correlation Regression Probability
Modeling and Simulations
Dynamical Modelling Agent Based
Cellular automata Chaos theory etc
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Agent Based modeling Cellular Automata
Network Analysis
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Morenos network
Network Analysis in the Social Sciences
Stephen P. Borgatti, Ajay Mehra, Daniel J. Brass,
Giuseppe Labianca
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165821
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Thank You
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References
Richard T. Scaffer- An Introduction to Sociology N. Ellison et al. 2012; R. Epstein 2009; Gelles 2011;
Rosenbloom 2011; Toma et al. 2008.
Cheng 2003; Cooper et al. 2007; Sprague 2005. P. Adler and P. Adler 2011:1, 43, 44, 5455
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