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Lecture note : MethodologyUniversity of Amsterdam
,Week 1
Lecture 1
God, expats and community studies
Theory and empirical
Mark on your argument, not what you think
Objectives and organization of the course
● Social research methodology
○ Objectives
■ Intro to social research
■ Understanding deepening knowledge and enthusiasm by working groups
■ First to survey and statistics
○ Contents of social research methodology
■ Theory and the empirical
■ Research designs
■ Causality theories and hypothesis
■ Operationalization
■ Selection of units of observation
■ Isms: forms of social science research
■ Surveys
■ Surveying
■ Qualitative research
■ 1
■ 2
■ Intro to statistics
■ Ethics and combination of methods
○ Whole thing is about what is good quality of social research
● A brief intro to early sociological research
○ Frederic Le Play (1805-1882)
■ Engineer, sociologists
■ Interested in the budgets of the workers in the coal mining
■ How can we get the data out of workers?
■ How can we pay them appropriately?
■ Mixing method avant lalettre
■ He did survey among families, he selected cross-section design
■ He did broad survey and he selected several samples
■ From 300 families he selected 36 "typical cases"
■ Quite qualitative descriptions on the basis of budgets
■ He was the first one thinking about the mixing method
, ○ Victorian reformists
■ Revolutions
■ Charles Booth
■ Did research about the life and labor of the people in London
■ Neath, Beatrice Potter-Webb… did the participant observation
■ They created geographic method, created map and distributed the data
depends on the area on the map
○ Community studies
■ Method of research with inspiration from victorian reformists,
sociographers and ethnographers
■ Everyday life of "ordinary people
■ Very ….
What is community?
● People with a certain similarity. But which?
● Shared streets? Not enough?
● Shared interests?
● Shared what?
○ A combination of similarities?
● Can be either only positive/negative
● Not static, but tendency that they claim themselves static
● Community studies are research projects that try to describe everyday life of ordinary
people
○ How people have linkages ?
○ Interacting can be the part of research
○ Ordinary people.. Not kings or queens, but people like us!
Community study become peopulat in the US
Key figure in the chicago school
● Robert Ezra Park 1864-1944
○ Started as journalist
○ Brought empirical favor to the methodology
○ Studied with Dewey and Simmel
○ phD in Hedelberg
○ One of the founders
We are going to do Real research in De Pijp
● Cycling road is integrated with car road ?
● It is compactly packed
● No cars
● Tons of parked bicycles
○ Not having enough space to park bikes in the apartment
● Lot of greens
● Almost no people on the street
, ● Faucet all look the same
What we will be doing
● Face to dace survey
○ In social research methodology
■ Surveys (2 addresses per studen)
■ Taking Photos in the place
■ Socioligcal imagination
○ In intro to statistics
■ Examples Thijs
■ First analysis is practiced
○ Pre-study in collaboration with
■ OIS (research information & statistics Amsterdam )
■ They want to know how people are changing
○ Amsterdam research project?
● Brief intro to the Survey De Pijp
○ The area was built in long time ago.. 19???
● Researching changing streets
○ Tradition within a program
○ Tradition Sassenheim
○ Other community studies: middle town
○ Sociologically appearing: super-diversity of the different social class, feeling at
home, neo-liberalization of housing, xenophobia, identity, feeling at home
○ Applying social research methods
■ Concepts in practice
■ Ranom sample of households
■ Surveying
● Amsterdam is internationalized a lot.
○ International students, expats, different flows of migration
● De pijp got more crowded, more expected, and more diversity
○ Poor people cannot afford anymore
■ How do they people sense the internationalization and gentrification?
■ Multiculturalism super diversity
■ Housing capitalism
■ Class
■ Identity
■ Do these opinions relate in any way to whether people believe in God?
● What is science?
○ General objective of science is
■ the formulation of explanatory theories concerning empirical reality
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