RESEARCH METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

HRM505

Course Code: HRM505
Semester: First Term (Fall)
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Compulsory Course

Course Level

Master's Degree With Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

First Term (Fall)

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Analyze research process (problem specification, data collection, data analysis and evaluating results), evaluate certain scientific research methods (experimental method, description method) and provide to find required research question to make a research, establish hypothesis, conceptualize, operationalize, measurement, data collection, data analysis, data evaluation/expo and report writing. Via PASW software student will learn how the experimental test are done via parametric and non-parametric statistical tests.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

Examininig the process of researching (problem identification, data collection, data analysis and interpretation of results), reviewing major scientific research methods (experimental method, descriptive method, historical method) and need to be able to research the literature on a particular topic, and finding, data collection, data evaluation and report writing techniques is the scope of the course.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Basic Concepts about Science and Research
2^nd Week	Defining Research Problem and Establishing Experiment
3^rd Week	Causality
4^th Week	Conceptualizing and Operationalizing
5^th Week	Measurement
6^th Week	Experimental Method and Description Method
7^th Week	Index Analysis, Field Research
8^th Week	Midterm
9^th Week	Sample Selection Logic
10^th Week	Illative Statistics: Parametric Tests I
11^th Week	Illative Statistics: Parametric Tests II
12^th Week	Non-Parametric Tests
13^th Week	Research Design and Statistics Test Selection
14^th Week	Research Preparance, Ethic Violacionts and Piracy
15^th Week	General Evaluation

Recommended or Required Reading

Acemoglu, D. ve Robinson, J.A. (2006). Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Altunışık, R., Coşkun, R., Bayraktaroğlu, S. ve Yıldırım, E. (2005). Sosyal bilimlerde araştırma yöntemleri: SPSS uygulamalı. 4. bs. Sakarya.
Anderson, C.A. (2004). An update on the effects of playing violent video games. Journal of Adolescence, 27, 113-122.
Babbie, E. (2001). The practice of social research. 9th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Babbie, E. (2006). The practice of social research. 11th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Berelson, B. (1952). Content analysis in communications research. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press.
Bilgin, N. (2006). Sosyal bilimlerde içerik analizi: Teknikler ve örnek çalışmalar. Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi.
Creswell, J.W. (2009). Research design: HAFTAuantitative, HAFTAualitative, and mixed methods approaches. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Field, A. (2005). Discovering statistics using SPSS. 2nd ed. London: Sage.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Case Study
Project
Report Preparation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	30
Project	2	20
Attendance	1	10
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	1	1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	10	140
Preparation for Final exam	14	3	42
Course hours	13	3	39
Preparation for Midterm exam	8	3	24
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	1	1
Homework	1	40	40
Total Work Load			287
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			9.56
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1
K1
K2
K3
K4
K5	X
K6	X
K7
K8
K9	X