The following is for students studying Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research.
Please find attached files concerning my notes to lectures largely drawn from course textbooks, course reader and journal articles listed in 'Course Outline' (Week 1).
If you are making references to any lecture materials, please email me to ensure proper citation. Plagiarism is a serious offence, and is avoidable.
If there are any problems, please contact me:
Email: balihar_sanghera@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone: 66-26-48 (home)
Cheers, Balihar Sanghera
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Week 1: Course Outline
Introduction
введение
Fieldwork Module: Planning and Undertaking Social Research
Questionnaire: Green Attitudes
Week 2: The nature of science
природа науки
Week 3: The nature of social science
природа социальных наук
Week 4: The nature of social reality and methodological strategies
природа социальной реальности и методологические стратегии
Week 5: Objectivity and values in social research
объективность и ценности в социальных исследованиях
Week 6 & 7: Review and Critique
обзор и критика
Week 8: Test
Mid-semester Break
Week 10: Critical realism and its critics
критический реализм и его критика
Week 11: Research Strategies: Induction and Deduction
методология социальных исследований – индукция и дедукция
Week 12: Research Strategies: Retroduction and Abduction
методология социальных исследований – ретродукция и абдукция
Week 13: Mehrigiul Ablezova - Writing of proposal and literature review
Week 14: Mehrigiul Ablezova - Qualitative and Quantitative Research
Week 15: Mehrigiul Ablezova - Unobtrusive Research
Week 16: Mehrigiul Ablezova - Evaluation Research
Week 17: Examination
At the end of the semester, some students produced very good research projects. Below are examples of their works:
Aida Bekturova: Causes of homosexuality
Abdujalil Abdurasulov: Identity Crises in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
Elena Rotoklya: Perception of poverty
Nadezhda Romanchuk: Bribery in Kyrgyz Universities
Below are several research examples of Empiricism/Positivism, Interpretivism/Idealism, Critical Theory, Critical Realism and Feminism
Research Example 1 of Empiricism/Positivism/Naturalism: Consumer Trust in Nordic Countries
Research Example 2 of Empiricism/Positivism/Naturalism: Age and Consumption in Finland
Research Example 1 of Interpretivism/Idealism (Ethnomethodology): Identities and Hobbies
Research Example 2 of Interpretivism/Idealism (Ethnography): Schools and Student Resistance
Research Example 3 of Interpretivism/Idealism (Ethnomethodology): Customer Services in Virtual Organisations
Research Example 4 of Interpretivism/Idealism (Grounded Theory): Self-Renewal Reflections of School Principals in Israel
Research Example 5 of Interpretivism/Idealism (Conversational Analysis): Therapists and Clients
Research Example 6 of Interpretivism/Idealism (Ethnomethodology): Managerial Work in Financial Services in the UK
Research Example 1 of Critical Theory: Restructuring Labour in Chicago
Research Example 1 of Critical Realism: Consuming Kitchens in the UK
Research Example 2 of Critical Realism: Microbusiness, Household and Class Dynamics
Research Example 3 of Critical Realism: Social and Housing Boundaries
Research Example 4 of Critical Realism: Petty Capital and Ethnicity
Research Example 1 of Feminism: Asian Female Entrepreneurs in the UK
Research Example 2 of Feminism: A feminist content analysis of 'Ally McBeal', a US television fictional character
An example of a Ph.D. thesis: The Social Embedding of Markets: The case of fruit and vegetables market traders
An example of a Ph.D. thesis: A Study of Colour - Wittgensteinian and ethnomethodological investigations
Links to my other courses
Qualitative Research Methods
Market Society: Meanings, Emdedding and Structures
Cultural and Moral Economy
Sociology of Consumption
Old and New Institutional Economics
Economics of the Firm
State and Society
Link to the Bishkek International Sociology Conference, 17-21 June, American University - Central Asia, sponsored by Civic Education Project Central Asia & Mongolia and American University - Central Asia
Links to my guest lectures and conference papers
Lectures at the University of Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation
'Neutrality of Markets and Ethnicity - special references to embedding, abstractions and petty capital', CEP / Canadian Studies Minority Discourses Conference, Ustron, Poland
'After the cultural, a return to the moral economy', CEP Critical Sociology Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia
'Sociology, imperialism and educational capital: the need to become a social scientist', CEP Sociology Round Table in Kaunas, Lithuania
Links to Civic Education Project (CEP) websites (for details of student conferences and other educational opportunities)
CEP Russia (important information on student conferences)
CEP (interesting information on educational and employment opportunities)
