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Quantitative Research Methods
Release Date: 2017-09-221. Basic Course Information
Course Code:
Course Name: Quantitative Research Methods
Course Type: specialization
Periods: 48
Credits: 3
Target Student: major of sociology and social work
Assessment: exam
Preparatory Course: Introduction to Sociology; the Methods of Social Research
2.Brief Course Introduction
As a combination of ‘statistics’ and ‘social research’, Quantitative Research Methods which describes social conditions in the aspect of numbers, aiming at how to get the methods of statistics applied to social research, is a subject of macro methodology,. It takes social life and social development as the core with a synthetic study. The objective of learning this course aims at training students to use statistical methods, depict social conditions, social development and relevant social problems in terms of number so as to enable students explain some relevant problems in social life and social development from a view of macro point with the method of comprehensive evaluation, and study how the certain specific aspect during the social development influence the social development in the macro level.