Sociology 225 - Survey Resrch & Data Analysis

This course is an introduction to the use of quantitative data in sociology. The focus of the course is understanding how researchers use such data to make sociological arguments. To appreciate this, it is necessary to not only study how it is done, but also to do some of it. For this reason, students will be asked to analyze data for both weekly assignments and a final paper. The aim of the course is to show how to understand the uses of different types of survey data, and to create and analyze simple statistics and multivariate statistics using statistical software.

This course is offered to Sociology Majors only.