Course teached as: B019556 - RICERCA QUALITATIVA Second Cycle Degree in SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Curriculum SOCIETA' CONTEMPORANEA, MUTAMENTO E GLOBALIZZAZIONE
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course will provide students with epistemological and gnoseological foundations of non-standard tools and with cognitive skills for the appropriate use of focus groups, biographical interviews and observation. Students will learn how to develop a research design appropriate to the needs of the research group in relation to the type of investigation required, the advantages and disadvantages of the use of these techniques
PIERGIORGIO CORBETTA 2003 La ricerca sociale: metodologia e tecnica (Vol.1: I paradigmi di riferimento), Bologna, Il Mulino;
IVANA ACOCELLA 2008 Il focus group: teoria e tecnica, Milano, Franco Angeli;
ERIKA CELLINI 2008 L'osservazione nelle scienze umane, Milano, Franco Angeli;
RITA BICHI 2002 Intervista biografica, Milano, Vita e Pensiero.
Learning Objectives
To achieve methodological skills related to non-standard research
Prerequisites
No prerequisites
Teaching Methods
Lectures and discussions
Further information
Is planned workshop activities to support learning that will provide students with the skills for appropriate use of two qualitative data analysis software (Nvivo and Ucinet)
Type of Assessment
Oral examination
Course program
The course will provide students with epistemological and gnoseological bases of standard and non-standard research; after stressing the main differences between quantitative and qualitative approaches, the focus will be on some techniques of information gathering such as biographical interviews, focus groups and participant observations. It will be analyzed how to develop a research design suitable to cognitive aims and to type of investigation required, the advantages and disadvantages of the different techniques, as well as the type of information that each of them allows you to collect