Sociology

The nature and process of research, selection and formulation of a research problem. Research design: explanatory and descriptive studies, testing of hypothesis. Problems of measurement. Data collection: observational methods, questionnaires and interviews, projective and other indirect methods. Use of available data as source material. Scaling techniques. Sampling. Analysis and interpretation; establishment of categories, coding, tabulation, statistical analysis. The use of non-quantified data in analysis and interpretation. The research report.