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Humanities and Social Science

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Seminar

Workshop

Module Offerings

5100SOC-SEP-MTP

Aims

To appraise univariate and bivariate manipulations of a secondary dataset and to carry out appropriate analyses of a large dataset using a statistical computer package (SPSS), and to use these skills to generate sociological arguments based upon a large dataset.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Understand the merits and limitations of researching British society/societies using survey-generated quantitative data;
2.
Decipher and manipulate univariate and bivariate analyses of variables in large scale data sets;
3.
Argue sociologically using secondary data analysis of a large dataset.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Measuring society using survey data; Exploring variables and recoding data; Univariate analysis; Bivariate analysis; Generating arguments based upon analysis of variables.
Module Overview:
In this module you will learn to understand, evaluate and analyse the merits and shortcomings of secondary data analysis of a large quantitative dataset, downloadable from the UK Data Archive. You will use these skills to generate sociological arguments based upon a large dataset.
Additional Information:The module will have students understand, evaluate and analyse the merits and shortcomings of secondary data analysis of a large quantitative dataset, downloadable from the UK Data Archive.

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