Social Research Design Week 8: Review and Mid-Term

    Welcome to Week 8 of Sociology 201 online.  The key activity for this week is the mid-term exam, to be taken online on October 22nd.  I will give more specific instructions as the time approaches. The exam will be based on Chapters 1-7 of The Practice of Social Research and related activities in the course to date.    To review the topics contained in Chapters 1-7, click on any of the chapter titles below.

1. Human Inquiry and Science.

2. Paradigms, Theories and Research.

3. The Logic of Causation.

4. Research Design.

5. Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement.

6. Indexes, Scales, and Typologies.

7. Sampling.