Using Electronic Archives of Social Data

Course: Sociology

Structural unit: Faculty of Sociology

Title
Using Electronic Archives of Social Data
Code
ВБ1.3
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
4 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
1.1 Know the modern possibilities of using for your own research data placed in electronic archives of various types. 1.2 Know the basics of data management planning in empirical sociological projects. 1.3 Know the features of secondary data analysis. 2.1 Search the Internet for the data needed for your own research. 2.2 Combine and prepare for analysis data selected from various electronic sources.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Students should know the basic methods of data analysis (quantitative and qualitative), as well as methodological approaches and basic methods of empirical sociological research.
Course content
І. Data management in social research. 1. Archives of sociological research data on the Internet. 2. Depositing the results of sociological research in the electronic archive. 3. International (global) indices as a source of information for sociological research. ІІ. Features of data analysis from various electronic sources. 4. Features of secondary analysis of data from archives and other sources on the Internet. 5. Big data: sources of generation (creation), scope, methodological and methodological problems of use.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Britkov, V. & other (2010). Social Informatics: Foundations, Methods, Prospects. Ed. by N.Lapin, Moscow: KD "LIBROKOM", 216 p., Part III, 128-209. 2. Golovakha, E. I. (2000). Conceptual and organizational-methodical bases of creation of "Ukrainian sociological archive and data bank of social researches". Sociology: theory, methods, marketing, 1, 138–151. 3. Gorbachyk, A. P. (2000). Social data archives: goals of existence, forms of work, problems of creation. Sociology: theory, methods, marketing, 3, 130-144. 4. Gorbachyk, О. А. (2009). Electronic sociological data banks. Ukrainian Society, 2(29), 14-21.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, practical training, personal work
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Test (one, is obligatory), PH1.1, PH1.2, PH2.1, PH2.2 - 8 points / 10 points. 2. Personal work (one, is obligatory), РН1.1, РН1.3, РН2.1, РН2.2 - 11 points / 16 points. 3. Performance at the practical training РН1.1, РН1.2, РН1.3.– 17 points / 34 points. Final evaluation - exam, PH1.1, PH1.2, PH1.3.
Language of instruction
ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Svitlana Anatoliivna Salnikova
Methodology and Methods of Sociological Research
Faculty of Sociology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Methodology and Methods of Sociological Research
Faculty of Sociology