Ph.D Programme

This Subject Includes

• Course No: HS 730
• Course: Ph.D Programme
• Semester: I
• Title: Research Methods In Sociology
• Stream: Sociology
• Description:

  Research methods in sociology: epistemology, theory, method and data; Quantitative research: measurement, survey, problem formulation, research design, sampling, questionnaire, schedule, implementation of survey, structure of survey data, preparing data for analysis, statistical analysis of survey data, hypothesis testing, interpretation of quantitative data; Qualitative methods: the Chicago tradition and the Dramaturgical approach, participant observation and interviewing, ethnography, participant observer continuum, strategies for entering, watching, listening, recording and exiting the field, selecting respondents, rapport, interview guide, interview environment, focused group discussion, case study method, oral histories, life histories and experiential methods, content analysis, coding, analytic memos, questions of reliability and validity, emic and etic approaches; Field research in India; Reflexivity; Writing research report; Positivism and phenomenology: interpenetrating systems between quantitative and qualitative research traditions.

• Text:

  T. May, Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process, Open University Press, 2001.^$^S.J. Taylor and R. Bogdan, Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods: The Search for Meanings, Wiley, 1984.^$^A. Bryman, Quality and Quantity in Social Research, Unwin Hyman, 1988.^$^K.W. Elifson, R.P. Runyon and A. Haber, Fundamentals of Social Statistics, McGraw Hill, 1990.^$^P. Halfpenny, Positivism and Sociology: Explaining Social Life, Allen and Unwin, 1982.^$^F. Fowler Jr., Survey Research Methods, Sage, 1987.^$^A. Strauss and J. Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory, Procedure and Techniques, Newbury Park, 1990.^$^H. Schwartz and J. Jacobs (eds.), Qualitative Sociology: A Method to the Madness, The Free Press, 1982.^$^H. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists, University of Chicago Press, 1984.^$^M.N. Srinivas, A.M. Shah and E.A. Ramaswamy (eds.), Fieldworker and the Field: Problems and Challenges in Sociological Investigation, Oxford University Press, 1979.