Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
COURSE CONTENT
The aim of this course is to provide the graduate students with a basic foundation for
undertaking advanced research in the social sciences. We will start with a general
discussion on the process of formulating research questions, research design and the
importance of literature review, then analyze questions of conceptualization and
measurement, proceeding to problems of representativeness and how to select cases for
analysis (sampling). The seminar will continue with examining various methods and tools
of data collection and analysis used in qualitative and quantitative research including
surveys and questionnaires, experimental methods, interviews, field work, content and
discourse analyses, case studies and small-n research as well as some basic techniques of
statistical data analysis.