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1、6AnIntroductiontoSocialResearchMethodsforBusiness–SyllabusandScheduleTaughtbyProfessorPatriciaFosh[PF]andDrChristopherTHusbands,EmeritusReader,LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience[CTH]Thiscourselaststhreeintensiveweeksfrom14Octoberto3November2013.Theclassesm
2、eetintheevening,dividedintotwosessionsoneachoccasion:a.18.30–19.40;b.19.55–21.05,althoughtherecanbesomeflexibilityandalsoexcepttheweekendsessions,forwhichmoreinformalarrangementswillbeannouncedlater.ThefinalformalmeetingswillbeWorkshopsmeetinginacomputinglaborator
3、y.Thecourseisintendedtoofferathoroughintroductiontothebasicmethodsofsocialresearchthatmaybeusedinbusiness.Almostallthesetechniquesmaybeusedinallsocialresearch–indeed,somesuchastheexperimentcouldbeusedinanyempiricalresearch–butthecourseconcentratesonresearchforbusi
4、nesspurposes.Becauseteachingofthecourseisconcentratedintoashortperiod,topicsareintroducedbrieflyinthelectures,buttheworkshopsprovidetheopportunityforpracticalexperienceinsomeofthetechniquesthatarediscussed.Weareconsciousthatstudentswillnotbeworkingintheirnativelan
5、guageandhavetriedtoensurethatthesyllabusandthemannerofintroducingthematerialacknowledgethatfact.Wealsorecognisethatthecoursecontainsalargeamountofmaterialtobeabsorbedinthreeweeksandwehavesoughttodevisethesyllabusalsotoaccommodatethatfact.Therewillbeextensivehandou
6、ts(inEnglish)toaccompanymosttopics.Twocomputerpackagesareusedtointroducestudentstopracticaldataanalyses.TheseareSPSS(StatisticalPackagefortheSocialSciences),originallyanAmericancomputingpackagethathasbeenavailableinvariousversionsfromthelate1960s,thatwillbeusedfor
7、quantitative-dataanalysis;andNVivo,originallyanAustraliancomputingpackagethatiswidelyusedfortheanalysisofqualitativedata(suchastextfromunstructuredinterviewsorfororganizinginterviewdata).ThetextbookforthecourseOnlyoneprincipaltextbookwillbeusedfortheteachingofthec
8、ourse;thisis:AlanBrymanandEmmaBell,BusinessResearchMethods(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress:1sted.,2003;2nded.,2007).Alltheprincipalassignedreadingsforparti
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