Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsmethoden für Fortgeschrittene - Lecture

Course information

In this course, the topic is the use and reflection of scientific methods. The focus lies on quantitative methods of social science research. In this course you will learn both to design empirical research questions from theory and data, and learn to analyze quantitative data using the language R. The aim is to understand when to apply which method. How to apply them correctly, and how to interpret data from these methods.

The course is supported by DataCamp a provider of online tutorials for the R language. Along with this course, the seminar “Empirisch-experimentelle Forschungsmethoden in der Anwendung” should be taken. As here, the theoretical input from the lectures will be applied and trained.

Course schedule

The course is held every winter semester.

Slides

Slides can be found here.

Warning! The slides are being developed during the course.

Döring/Bortz - Forschungsmethoden und Evaluation
Online books:
- R for Data Science, Link: http://r4ds.had.co.nz (free)
- R for Social Science, Link: http://socviz.co/ (free)
- Modern Dive: https://moderndive.com/ (free)