Seminar on Sociological Research Practice
[SOC2000]
[45h] 7 credits
Teacher(s): Jean-Michel Chaumont, Bernard Fusulier, Christian Maroy, Jacques Marquet
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
1) to develop/reinforce the following skills, through practice and/or reflexivity on that practice
" Construct an issue and locate it in its theoretical and social environment
" Design a research strategy that is relevant for the studied issue and adapted to the (material, institu-tional, social) resources and constraints that one will encounter conducting the research.
" Put selected data collection or data analysis techniques in practice
" Present the results to a relevant public (b.o. in a research report)
2) to develop a critical reflexivity on the meaning and social uses of sociological research, mainly starting from research practices used in the seminar.
Main themes
- Option 1 Participation to an on-going research : the teacher in charge will introduce a seminar for the problematization from which a research question will be identified. He will propose books, reports or articles on this issue, that will be subject to a critical examination. The question will be made opera-tional, a process that will imply theoretical, epistemological and methodological choices. The analysis that will follow will lean on existing data that will be re-exploited in the context of the seminar, or on a clearly circumscribed collection of new data. A research report will be written.
- Option 2 Re-visit an existing research : through a documentation, as exhaustive as possible, on a research of his choice, the teacher will critically review the steps of its realisation, together with the students : origin of the project, steps taken for obtaining the necessary means for its realisation, steps for its reali-sation, its finalisation and the different modalities for its popularization.
Content and teaching methods
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