Social Research in Practice

The workshop aims to give participants an overview of what it means to conduct social research and of the primary tools for research, without keeping research methods and techniques apart from the wider context in terms of the theory construction of the object of inquiry. Participants will formulate a research question around a specific case and use the relevant tools to explore the question from different angles.

Knowledge and understanding
Participants will learn the basics of the main research practices, from surveys to in-depth interviews, from focus groups to ethnographic studies, from visual to digital sociology. The workshop places a focus on being able to pose sociological questions correctly and to identify the best tools to explore those questions.
Application of knowledge and understanding
Participants will use the knowledge learned in the workshop to apply different research tools to a given research question that will form the core of the workshop.
Judgment skills
Students will be actively engaged in classroom discussions and other activities that will enable them to observe research results (e.g. surveys published in journals) and to apply the relevant tools to their bachelor's thesis.