Metodologias de Investigação (not translated)
Code
722071074
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Helena Serra, Rui Santos
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Students will acquire and/or develop:
1. Methodological knowledge and skills to delineate and manage, in an integrated and evolutive way, the fundamental or applied research project which is required for completing the non lective component of the master;
2. Knowledge and understanding of the main strategies and technical options available to social science research, as well as the ability to combine these options accordingly to the research objectives;
3. Ability to communicate and engage in the critical and reflexive discussion of research projects.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
Theory and research. Conceptualization and operationalization. Refutability .
Different types :
Theoretical / empirical .
Fundamental / applied.
Intensive / extensive.
Qualitative / quantitative.
Comprehensive / explanatory.
Planning : systematize, guide, control .
1: Initial exploration.
Bibliography : tools and methods .
Exploratory research: tools and methods .
Results: analysis and framing of the research problem.
2 : In-depth exploration for empirical generalization and inference of hypotheses .
conceptual analysis of the problem .
Systematic research : tools and methods .
Results: hypotheses articulated in the analysis model.
3 : Hypothesis testing .
Comprehensive models (connections of meaning) and explanatory models ( causal and functional mechanisms) .
Test rational : systematic co-variation.
The experimental canon and multivariate analyses. Comparative and statistic methods .
Results: verification / refutation
Project discussion
Bibliography
Ghiglione, R. e Matalon, B. (1992), O Inquérito: Teoria e Prática, Oeiras, Celta
Gilbert, N. (ed.) (2001), Researching Social Life, London, Sage.
King, G., Keohane, R. O. e Verba, S. (1994), Designing Social Inquiry, Princeton, Princeton University Press Maroy, C. (1997), A análise qualitativa de entrevistas, in Albarello, L. et al., Práticas e Métodos de Investigação em Ciências Sociais, Lisboa, Gradiva, pp.117-155.
Ragin, C. (1987), The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Strauss, A. (1987), Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Teaching method
The topics of the program are framed and summarized by the teachers during the lessons and the students are referred to the assigned readings to expand their knowledge. Simultaneously, the students are invited at the collective follow-up tutorial - defined at each class and through a Moodle forum. In this space, they gain the confidence to gradually expose the evolution of their personal project - from the initial definition of the topic and
its questioning, the incorporation of the results of the literature review and methodological autonomous learning, until the end of the project plan.
The program culminates in the discussion of the individual projects which test the students capacity to question in regard to their research topics or application.
Evaluation method
Evaluation: based in continuous and formative assessment of student participation in discussions and in the oral presentation of the project seminar. Final summative evaluation - 40%; final written project - 60%.