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Tentative Class Schedule, Required Readings, and Assignment Due Dates |
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These dates are subject to change
depending on how rapidly we cover this material during class. Please check the class
web site for any revisions to this schedule. You will find the handouts and assigned
readings on the class web site under the handouts and readings links. |
Tuesday August 29 - First Day of Class
See the assignments due for Thursday below.
Thursday August 31
Read Charon Chapter 1 - How do Sociologists
Study Society
Finish Assignment 1
Tuesday September 5
Read Neuman, 2003 Chapter 1 - Science and Research
Finish Assignment 2
Read the Class Syllabus and be
prepared for a "quiz" on the Syllabus
Thursday September 7
Read Eitzen Chapter 1 - The Sociological Approach
Finish Assignment 3
Finish Stage 1 of the Semester Paper -
Choosing your topic.
Tuesday September 12
Read Neuman, 2003 Chapter 2 - Dimensions of Research
Finish Assignment 4
Thursday September 14
Read Babbie 2002, Chapter
8 - Experiments
Finish Assignment 5
Finish Stage 2 of the Semester Paper - 1st Journal
Article
Tuesday September 19
Read Charon - Should We Generalize About
People?
Finish Assignment 6
1st Presentation - Experimental Methods
Thursday September 21
Read Neuman, 2003 - Chap. 3 Part
1: Theory and Research (Introduction,
What is Theory, etc)
Finish Assignment 7
Tuesday September 26
To be announced
Thursday September 28
Read Kranzler, 2003 Chapter 4 - Frequency Distributions
Read Kranzler, 2003 Chapter 5 - Descriptive Statistics
Finish Stage 3 of the Semester Paper - Using
SPSS to obtain descriptive statistics
Tuesday October 3
Read Neuman,
2003 - Chap. 3 Part 2 - Theory and Research (Relationships, Correlation, Cause,
etc.)
Finish Assignment 8
Thursday October 5
Read Stark - The Story
Behind a Research Idea
Read Hirschi and Stark, 1969 - Hellfire and Delinquency
Finish Assignment 9
Tuesday October 10
Finish Stage 4 of the Semester Paper
- Notes for all 3 journal articles
All assignments that require a
"Re-Do" need to be turned in by today or sooner.
Thursday October 12
2nd Group Presentation
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Newman
Read Neuman, 2003 Chapter 6 - Spuriousness
Finish Assignment 10
Tuesday
October 17
Mid-Term 1
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After Mid-Term
Thursday October 19
3rd Group Presentation - Steffensmeier
Read Babbie, 2002 - Chapter 5 - Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement
Finish Assignment 11
Finish Stage 5 of the Semester Paper - 2 hypotheses and variable names
Tuesday October 24
Read Neuman, 2003 - Chapter 5 - Literature Reviews
Finish Stage 6 of the Semester
Paper - Draft of Literature Review
Thursday October 26
To be announced
Tuesday October 31
4th Group Presentation
- Oliver and Shapiro
Finish Stage 7 of the Semester Paper - Draft of Hypotheses
Section
Thursday November 2
Read Schutt, 2004 Chapter 5 - Sampling
Finish Assignment 12
Tuesday November 7
Finish Stage 8 of the Semester Paper - Recoding
Responses and Revised Descriptives
5th Group Presentation - Gans
Thursday November 9
Read
Allen 1997 - Spies Like Us (Ethics)
Read Weber 1946, The case for value-free sociology
Finish Assignment 13
Tuesday November 10
Finish Stage 9 of the Semester Paper - Draft of Methods Section
Thursday November 16
Start Reading Neuman Chapter 16 - Writing the Research Report (28 pages)
Finish Assignment 14
7th Group Presentation
- Feagin
Tuesday November 21
Read Babbie, 2003 Chapter 12 - Bivariate Tables
Finish
Stage 10 of the Semester Paper - 2 x 2 cross-tab tables
6th Group Presentation - Jencks
Thursday November 23
Thanksgiving Holiday – No Class
Tuesday November 28
All assignments that require a "Re-Do" need to be turned in by today
or sooner.
Thursday November 30
Finish Stage 11 of the Semester Paper - Draft
of Results Section
Tuesday December 5
Last Day of Class
Monday December 11
Final Exam - 1-3 PM
The Final Paper is Due (Stage 12) by 5PM
(Submit Via Email as a Microsoft Word attachment)
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