Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in Social Work

Major: Social Welfare
Code of subject: 6.232.01.E.077
Credits: 5.00
Department: Sociology and Social Work
Lecturer: prof. Klymanska Larysa Dmytrivna assistant Yatsyshyn Ulyana Volodymyrivna
Semester: 5 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: The learning outcomes of this discipline detail the following program learning outcomes: PR1.4 Critically evaluate the obtained results, process and argue the decisions based on factual / empirical data of practice; PR1.6 Apply their knowledge and understanding to carry out professional activities in the field of social security, aimed at socio - economic change; PR1.8 Provide objective professional information to central and local authorities, local governments, public organizations on social development, formation and evaluation of social security services, social policy;
Required prior and related subjects: Previous academic disciplines: General sociology; Fundamentals of scientific research of social problems; Methodology and methods of social research. Related and the following disciplines: Monitoring and evaluation of social projects
Summary of the subject: Theoretical and methodological principles of quantitative methods of sociological research. Measurement in social research. Procedures of conceptualization and operationalization. Methodological, methodical and procedural principles of survey methods in the study. The method of questioning. The method of interview. The method of content analysis of documents. The method of observation. The method of the experiment. Qualitative methods. The logic of qualitative research. Qualitative interviews. Individual in-depth interviews. Focus group interviews. Working with text interview. Codes and coding. Types of data analysis. Ethical research issues. Presentation of research results.
Assessment methods and criteria: • individual practical assignments; the task of writing a program of empirical research (40%) • final control (form of control, exam), written-oral form (60%)
Recommended books: Кількісні та якісні методи збору інформації у соціальних дослідженнях./ Гілета О.П., Климанська Л.Д., Козак М.Я, Савчинський Р.О. – Львів: Видавництво Львівської політехніки, 2014. – 167 с.; - Левицький Ч. Методологічні проблеми кількісного та якісного аналізу в педагогічних дослідженнях/ Ч.Левицький// PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: methodology, theory and technologies • 2 – 2015 – С.5-20; Паніна Н.В. Технологія соціологічного дослідження. – К.: Наук. думка, 1995. –145 с. Семенова В. В. Введение в гуманистическую социологию. - М., 1998. Якісні дослідження у соціологічних практиках: Навчальний посібник/ За ред.. Н.Костенко, Л.Скокової. – К.: Інститут соціології НАНУ, 2009. – 400 с.