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Research in Sociology

Presented by:

M. Hamza Khan

M. Bilal Usmani

Hafiz Zeeshan Iqbal Khan

Contents

Significance Definition Types Scientific Method Design of social research. Data collection techniques

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Significance

Sociological Research

A big part of Sociological research infact circles around personal and private issues

Like this research trying to explore why some people like to harm themselves?

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Sociological Research

A researcher may find a personal topic worthy of research.

Like Ellson[2012], He researched on the topic of Lying on internet relationship websites.

Impact on Society

General public opinion is formed on presumption and prejudice.

eg. Researchers found that the global human trafficking is a sign of close relationship between the supposedly separate worlds of industrial nations and dependent developing nations.

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Active Sociological research is a scientific and ethically bound phenomenon. It usually result in highlighting much ignored and significant factors for a given problem.

Research in the field.

You will even find active academicians like Seargent Britt Daemon here. He is using active sociological research to communicate and to avoid needless violence in order to ensure mission success.

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Lets explore the field of Research in Sociology

DefinitionSociological Research is the research conducted by

social scientists, which follows the systematic plan, to study the behavior and interactions of humans of a

particular group/society under specific condition. To draw some conclusions.

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It is not that easy!

Types/Methods

Comparative- It Involves comparison of social processes usually across different

types of society (for example capitalist and socialist)

Historical- It looks at how social structures that many regard as natural are in

fact shaped by complex social processes.

Scientific

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Scientific Method

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Design of Social Research

Variables Hypothesis Sampling

Data Collection Techniques

Surveys Questionnaires Experiments Ethnography

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Sociologists face extremely tough

intellectual and practical tasks

Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., who was a member of the UW sociology department from 1971 until his death in 1991

It isn't easy putting a yardstick to human behavior. How can something so complex and inscrutable be

measured, quantified, and modeled?

Computational Sociology

Statistical Methods Modeling and Simulations Network Analysis etc

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Statistical Methods

Correlation Regression Probability

Modeling and Simulations

Dynamical Modelling Agent Based

Cellular automata Chaos theory etc

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Agent Based modeling Cellular Automata

Network Analysis

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Morenos network

Network Analysis in the Social Sciences

Stephen P. Borgatti, Ajay Mehra, Daniel J. Brass,

Giuseppe Labianca

DOI: 10.1126/science.1165821

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Thank You

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References

Richard T. Scaffer- An Introduction to Sociology N. Ellison et al. 2012; R. Epstein 2009; Gelles 2011;

Rosenbloom 2011; Toma et al. 2008.

Cheng 2003; Cooper et al. 2007; Sprague 2005. P. Adler and P. Adler 2011:1, 43, 44, 5455

Q & A