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Year: 2021/2022. Fall semester Like many disciplines, sociology is hard to define. There is no single canon and no dominant paradigm. However, we still find within sociology a sense of continuity and community. One basis of this feeling may be the importance of empirical inquiries on which sociological knowledge relies. Compared to other social science disciplines, sociology has the particularity of conducting –and sometimes combining– very diverse types of inquiry. It observes social milieu in situ. It constructs questionnaires. It uses administrative databases. It relies on in depth interviews. It digs in dusty archives. It set up experiments. It collects internet data. The aim of this course is to enable students to discover a variety of inquiries, and, beyond them, sociology itself, its logic, its knowledge, its reflexivity and its imagination. They will also discover the logic, the methods, and the pleasures of inquiries. Beyond academia, in public administrations, in private organizations, in the media, in the police, inquiries are the tools through which people get to know things. They are at the heart of the knowledge society. During this course, students are asked to prepare two collective oral presentations of two different research papers. One presentation will be a 15-minutes summary of the key points of a paper, and students are asked notably to insist on the methodology and the type of inquiry. The other will be a 10-minutes criticism (both positive and negative) of a research paper (no need to summarize as it will be done by the other group). Students are notably asked to evaluate whether the empirical research design enables to answer correctly the research question. As the number of students is large this year, I will constitute two teams for presenting the paper, and two teams for criticizing the paper. Only one team out of two will be randomly selected to present or criticize a paper in class. For the evaluation, students are asked to pre-record their presentation. I will assign randomly students to presentations. If a student is not totally happy with the random draw, she or he can try to swap with another student. I will accept such bilateral swaps. The evaluation of the presentations and class participation will count as one third of the grade of the Methods conference. A 2-hours final exam will follow the course. Students will be asked to propose a research design in order to understand a given social phenomenon. This course comes with a method conference supervised by Shi Rong Lee and Charlotte Corchette. Under their guidance, students will study different aspects of the COVID health crisis. 1. Thursday 2 September 2021. The logic of inquiry 2. Thursday 9 September 2021. Accessing and observing a milieu difficult to approach 3. Thursday 16 September 2021. Standardizing reality through questionnaires 4. Thursday 23 September 2021. The administrative tools of the social sciences 5. Thursday 30 September 2021. Exploring the past 6. Thursday 7 October 2021. Experimenting 7. Thursday 14 October 2021. Making people talk 8. Thursday 21 October 2021. Follow the network 9. Thursdays 28 October 2021. Mix Methods I Fernandez, Roberto M. 2001. "Skill-biased technological change and wage inequality: Evidence from a plant retooling." American Journal of Sociology 107(2): 273-320. 10. Thursdays 18 November 2021. Mix Methods II 11. Thursday 25 November 2021. The survey 2.0 12. Thursday 2 December 2021. Revisiting, replicating |
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