ResearchinSociology

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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

Definition
Sociological 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

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