2022/2023
Дизайн и методы сравнительных исследований
Статус:
Маго-лего
Кто читает:
Департамент социологии
Когда читается:
1 модуль
Онлайн-часы:
16
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Митрофанова Екатерина Сергеевна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Контактные часы:
6
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The ability to compare effectively involves the ability to be clearheaded about what is to be compared. Questions regarding the “unit of analysis/comparison” are therefore at the center of any comparative endeavor in sociology and the social sciences more generally. These questions are approached in this course primarily from a meta-theoretical vantage point. Accordingly, we will focus not so much on “what is compared” as on “what sort of thing is compared” and on “how to go about comparing it”.
https://www.edx.org/course/comparative-research-designs-and-methods
Learning Objectives
- An understanding of systematic comparative analysis and why it is more useful than other broad-based statistical methods
- How to use systematic comparative analysis for constructive explanation and theory building
- How to apply systematic comparative analysis to real-world politics
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Acquire practical skills in conducting a comparative usability study
- Know the major concepts of comparative sociology
- Know the foundational classics of comparative social research
- Know Charles Tilly´s distinction between different types of comparison in social science
- Able to discuss the main differences between case-oriented and variable-oriented research designs and to discuss various forms of case selection in empirical studies.
- Able to debate on culture and historical processes from a comparative perspective
Course Contents
- SESSION ONE: Introduction
- SESSION TWO: Two Programs of Comparative Social Research
- SESSION THREE: Conceptionalizing Types of Comparison
- SESSION FOUR: Variables and Cases in Comparative Research Designs
- SESSION FIVE: Empirical Cross-national Comparative Research
- SESSION SIX: Issues of Qualitative Comparative Research
- SESSION SEVEN: Case-Orientated & Small N Comparison
- SESSION EIGHT: Central Issues of Comparative Social Analysis I
- SESSION NINE: Central Issues of Comparative Social Analysis II
- SESSION TEN: Central Issues of Comparative Social Analysis III
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A handbook of comparative social policy, , 2013
- Fishman, J., Sasaki, M., Zimmermann, E., Goldstone, J., & Sanderson, S. K. (2014). Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology. Leiden: Brill. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1587280
- Kennett, P. (2004). A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Comparative social evolution, , 2017
- Comparative social policy : theory and research, Kennett, P., 2001
- Fleming, W. G. (1970). The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry. By Adam Przeworski and Henry Teune. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1970. Pp. 153. $8.50.). American Political Science Review, 4, 1255.
- Sechiyama, K. (2013). Patriarchy in East Asia : A Comparative Sociology of Gender. Brill.