Included are measures of central tendency, dispersion, probability, sampling distribution, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, measures of association, correlation and regression, and analyses of variance. An introduction to non-parametric techniques applicable in social research. Basic methods in the study of social phenomena. The study of research design, participant observation, interviewing, formal surveys, questionnaire construction, coding analysis, content analysis, scaling construction. This course is strongly recommended to all students in the social sciences.
Course focuses on major current theoretical issues.
Examines nature of paradigms and problems of theory construction. Discussion centers on systematic questions and topics. Material is drawn from the chief recent theorists, such as Parsons, Merton, Dahrendorf, Blumer, Schutz, Garfinkel, Mills, G.H. Mead, Goffman, and Berger. The social structure and operation of work organizations - factories, offices, schools, hospitals, etc. Included are such subjects as formal and informal organization, management, work motivation, labor unions, alienation from work, intrinsic and extrinsic meanings in work, and the Protestant ethic.