VS24VD004 Applied Research in Social Sciences

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
10/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Andrea Preissová Krejčí, Ph.D.
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: Ing. Lucie Kamrádová, Ph.D.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students become familiar with the possibilities of capturing social reality, ways of obtaining, processing and interpreting information in sociology and other social sciences, taking into account the needs of social workers. Due to the characteristics of the subject, the teaching is divided into a theoretical (lecture) part and a practical part, in which students will learn about the implementation of selected research procedures as part of the exercises. The aim of the course is to enable the student to gain orientation in basic methodological approaches to social reality, individual research procedures and techniques, to know their reporting limits and to be able to present and use the knowledge gained. After completing the course, the students should be able to design and implement a simple research (useable, for example, for a diploma thesis), understand professional empirical statements and critically read research reports and research information presented in the media.
Syllabus
  • 1. The nature of social sciences and sociological research; empirical research model. 2. Research begins in the library - How to read a professional text in the social sciences. 3. Research ends with a text - How to write a professional text in the social sciences (research project, professional essay, logic of a research report). 4. Quantitative and qualitative research paradigm (their difference and complementarity), deductive and inductive research logic. 5. Main methods of quantitative research; validity and reliability; the issue of hypotheses. 6. Sample survey in sociology and the problem of representativeness. 7. Questionnaire and observation as data collection techniques; operationalization problem. 8. Analysis of quantitative data and interpretation of research results. 9. Content analysis: a method on the border between quantitative and qualitative procedures. 10. Qualitative research methods. 11. Data analysis in qualitative research. 12. Data presentation, empirical research in bachelor's and master's theses, research ethics.
Literature
    required literature
  • DISMAN, Miroslav. Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost: příručka pro uživatele. 4. nezměněné vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2011.
  • Výzkumné metody v pedagogické praxi. Příprava vydání Gulová Lenka, Šíp Radim. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2013-10-29. 284 s. ISBN 978-80-247-4368-4.
  • JANÁK, D. Metody a techniky sociálního výzkumu. elektronická studijní opora. Opava. 2021.
  • PREISSOVÁ KREJCÍ, A. Metody a techniky výzkumu v sociálních vědách. Distanční studijní text. Opava 2022.
    recommended literature
  • HENDL, Jan a Jiří REMR. Metody výzkumu a evaluace. Praha: Portál, 2017.
  • OCHRANA, František. Metodologie, metody a metodika vědeckého výzkumu. Praha: Univerzita Karlova nakladatelství Karolinum, 2019.
    not specified
  • HENDL, Jan. Kvalitativní výzkum: základní teorie, metody a aplikace. Čtvrté, přepracované a rozšířené vydání. Praha: Portál, 2016.
  • PREISSOVÁ KREJČÍ, Andrea. Metodologie andragogického a gerontagogického výzkumu: Distanční studijní text. 1st ed. Opava, 2019, 124 pp. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, independent homework, discussion, project-based learning.
Assessment methods
Evaluation of work, written test verifying student's knowledge and practical competences.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
  • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.slu.cz/course/fvp/winter2024/VS24VD004