Metodologias de Investigação (not translated) - 1st semester
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, a basic or applied research project required for completing the non lectured component of the master.
2. Knowledge and understanding of the main strategies and technical options available to social science research, and the ability to combine them in keeping with their research objectives.
3. Ability to communivate and engage in critical and refexive discussion of research projects..
Prerequisites
Não aplicável
Subject matter
1. Scientific method, operationalisation and research design. The overall locial structure of a research design. Typical phases in research and the evolution of design.
2. Designing early exploratory research. From research topic to research problem. Bibliographical research and literature review. Beginning empirical exploration. The iteration of problematisation, exploration and conceptualisation.
3. Designing in-depth exploratory research: Building a problematics. Theorisation, operationalisation and the systematisation of research. The deepening rationale in qualitative research.
4. Designing research to test hypotheses and analytical models. Explanatory and comprehensive analytical models. Testing rationales (experimental, comparative, statistical). The validation rationale in qualitative research.
5. Underpinnings and applications of the main strategies and techniques for empirical research:
5.1 Quantitative.
5.2 Qualitative.
Bibliography
Albarello. L. et al. 1997. Práticas e Métodos de Investigação em Ciências Sociais. Lisboa: Gradiva.
Bardin, L. 2004. Análise de Conteúdo. Lisboa: Edições 70.
Berry, W.D. e M.S. Sanders. 2000. Understanding Multivariate Research. Boulder: Westview.
Burgess, R. 1997. A Pesquisa de Terreno. Oeiras: Celta.
Creswell, J. 2009. Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Approaches. London: Sage.
Denzin, N. e Y. Lincoln, (ed.). 1994. Handbook of Qualitative Research. London: Sage.
Gilbert, N. (ed.). 2001. Researching Social Life. London: Sage.
Guerra, I. 2006. Pesquisa Qualitativa e Análise de Conteúdo: Sentidos e Formas de Uso. Estoril: Principia.
King, G., R.O. Keohane, e S. Verba. 1994. Designing Social Inquiry. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ragin, C. 1987. The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Yin, R.K. 2003. Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Thowsand Oaks: Sage.
Teaching method
The syllabus topics are framed and summed up during the teachers´ lectures, to be deepened by the students in the assigned readings. Concomitantly, the sudents are asked to present and discuss their personal research project, during tutorial sessions and by making use of the moodle platform. This is to be achieved by presenting the evolution of thir ptoject at predetermind dates, from the initial delineatio of the topic and its early problematization, the build-in of of the results of their autonomous bibliografhic research and methodological learning achievements, up to a final research design. Tutorial sessions are also devised to deepen the students´ learning and to guide theyr autonomous study cncerning the methodological and technical issues required by their specific project. The seminar culminates with the in-class discussio of each student´s individual project.
In class teaching.
Evaluation method
Continuous formative assessment of the student´s participation in ongoing project discussions and in the presentation of the projects in class. The final sumative assessment of this component weighs 30% of the final grade. The written final project design weighs 70% of the final grade.