Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
RESEARCH METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES PEC112 2. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 3.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction English
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
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Goals The main object of this course is to provide the students with the fundamental knowledge and experience of social research processes including designing, conducting, analyzing and writing a research paper.
Course Content Within the epistemological debates, fundamental concepts that come front overwhelmingly consititute the basic literature of the social sciences as well. These debates are mostly engendered by quite important epistemological concepts and practices which make up the historical background and basis of social research that are often overlooked by researchers. The first part of the course is devoted those debates. In the second part of the course is directly related to the social research designs.
Learning Outcomes 1) Providing students with social research methods and experiences
2) Independently doing research, project, interview, questionnaire in academic level
3) Gaining methodological knowledge for the social sciences

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Roots of modern scientific thought and origins of modern sciences Lecture
Brainstorming
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Qualitfications of scientific knowledge Lecture
Brainstorming
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week Development of Knowledge as Subject-Object Relation: Rationalism, Emprism. Lecture
Brainstorming
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Primary Epistemological Approaches in Social Sciences a.Positivism: Comte and Durkheim b.Methodology Conflicts and Interpretative Tradition Lecture
Brainstorming
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week c. Epistemology of Weber Lecture
Brainstorming
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week d. Critical Theory: Frankfurt School and Jurgen Habermas Lecture
Brainstorming
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Ethnography Lecture
Brainstorming
 Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Preparing Research Paper Lecture
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Social Research 1. Basics concepts of research process 2. Designing quantitative research a.Epistemological basis of quantitative research b.Techniques of quantitative data gathering and data analysis Lecture
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week 3. Designing qualitative research a. Epistemological basis of qualitative research b. techniques of qualitative data search and data analysis Lecture
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week 4. Thinking with qualitative and quantitative design together Lecture
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Social Research Question Answer
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Social Research Problem Solving
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week Social Research Question Answer; Problem Solving
Brainstorming
Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
BAERT Patrick, Sosyal Bilimler Felsefesi, çev. Ü. Tatlıcan, İstanbul: Küre, 2013
Becker, H.S.. Mesleğin İncelikleri. Ank: Heretik, 2014.
BENTON Ted, Sosyolojinin Felsefi Kökenleri, çev. Ü. Tatlıcan, İstanbul: Küre, 2013
CEVİZCİ Ahmet, Felsefe Tarihi: Thales’ten Baudrillard’a, İstanbul: Say, 2010.
KUŞ Elif, Nicel-Nitel Araştırma Teknikleri, Ankara: Anı, 2009.
PUNCH Keith, Sosyal Araştırmalara Giriş: Nicel ve Nitel Yaklaşımlar, çev. Z. Akyüz, Bayrak, Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi, 2005.
YALÇINKAYA Ayhan, Mazerete Mahal Yok: Sosyal Bilimler Lisans Öğrencileri İçin Eğlenceli(k) Bir Ödev Klavuzu, Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi Yay., 2004.
YILDIRIM Cemal, Bilim Felsefesi, İstanbul: Remzi, 2010.

Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program RequirementsContribution LevelDK1DK2DK3
PY15555
PY25000
PY35000
PY45555

*DK = Course's Contrubution.
0 1 2 3 4 5
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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 2
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 1
Homework 1 5
Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) 1 5
Midterm Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 15
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 30
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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  • Sources Used in This Course
  • Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
  • ECTS credits and course workload