Sociology 201A
Research Methods: Quantitative Approaches
Lecture support materials
This site supports an introductory course in research methods offered by Robert Hanneman in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Please feel free to use and reproduce any materials in this site. Your comments and suggestions are very welcome. During regularly scheduled offerings of this course, supplementary materials (e.g. discussion boards, ftp server, grade book, calendar, etc.) can be found on the UCR instructional web server. The current posting supports an offering in Fall, 2004-05.
Lesson plans/lecture outlines/reading notes:
1. Introduction and overview
2. Processes of research,
the proposal and report
3. Research designs I
4. Research designs II
5. Sampling of cases
6. Introduction to
measurement theory, reliability and validity
7. Survey research
8. Documents and archives
9. Data structures and
coding
10. Review of basic
statistics