I am passionate for teaching others about the best tools we have to understand the human condition. Social Research Methods are the most effective way humans have yet devised for knowing ourselves.
RESEARCH 3.0
I maintain my old notes and examples for Social Research Methods on my legacy site. I’ll be updating and enhancing these notes and examples over the next few months.
Selected video lectures from Statistics for Social Sciences.
- Lesson 01:Research Methods and the Big Picture
- Lesson 02:Introduction to your Text
- Lesson 03:The Research Cycle and the Research Process
- Lesson 04:Approaches to Doing Social Science
- Lesson 05:Ethics and Politics in Research,Part 1
- Lesson 06:Ethics and Politics in Research,Part 2
- Lesson 07:Sampling and Design
- Lesson 08:Design and Measurement
- Lesson 09:Measurement,Validity and Reliability
- Lesson 10:Threats to Validity and Reliability
- Lesson 11:Interactive Data Collection,Part 1
- Lesson 12:Interactive Data Collection,Part 2
- Lesson 13:Nonreactive Data Collection,Part 1
- Lesson 14:Nonreactive Data Collection,Part 2
- Lesson 15:Qualitative Analysis
- Lesson 16:Qualitative Analysis and Evaluation Research
- Lesson 17:Quantitative Analysis (also see my social statistics lessons)
- Lesson 18:Summary,Proposal,and Data Analysis
I am recording brand new lectures this coming spring with two-camera Hi-Def,better sound,and digital effects!
External links for social statistics are still available on my legacy site. I have a huge list of new links to add,as I get time to confirm and annotate them.