Research Methodologies and Epistemology I

Code:

MC108

Acronym:

MIEI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Epistemologia e Metod. de Invest. em Educação

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Criminology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MC	38	Plano Oficial de MC - 2010	1	-	6	54

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The students must be able to:
-Acquire knowledge in qualitative and quantitative research methods and its recent developments in the criminological field.
-Acquire training in reading and understand scientific work carried out in both qualitative and quantitative criminological domains.
-Lead students to formal thinking applied to social problems in general and to the study of crime and justice in particular.
-To develop knowledge and methodological and technical skills (qualitative and quantitative) that could converge to the individual research project of the student.

Program

1. Theoretical and epistemological approaches to the research methods. The development of the scientific research in criminology: theory, methodology and epistemology.
2. Introduction to the scientific research in Criminology and Criminal Justice: theory and methodology.
3. Quantitative and Qualitative research methods. Mixed methods and areas of application.
4. General steps of quantitative research.
5. Quantitative research methods
5.1. Research design: experimental, quasi-experimental and observational (cross-sectional and longitudinal) research designs.
5.2. Sampling strategies: instruments, types of sampling and sample size. Central questions according to the research question and hypothesis.
5.3. Validity, Reliability, and Triangulated strategies.
6. Theoretical and epistemological approach to qualitative research.
7. The process of qualitative research.
7.1. The qualitative collecting data methods: the qualitative interview, observation and documental analysis.
7.2. The quality of qualitative research: objectivity, reliability, validity and generalization.

Mandatory literature

Aebi, Marcelo F.; Comment mesurer la délinquance?. ISBN: 9782200269395
Bachman Ronet; The^practice of research in criminology and criminal justice. ISBN: 0-7619-8706-1
Blumer Herbert; Symbolic interactionism. ISBN: 0-520-05676-0
Bushway Shawn 340; Quantitative methods in criminology. ISBN: 0-7546-2446-3
Campbell Donald T.; Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research. ISBN: 0-395-30787-2
Denzin Norman K.; Handbook of qualitative research. ISBN: 0-8039-4679-1
Flick Uwe; Métodos qualitativos na investigação científica. ISBN: 972-9413-67-3
Glaser Barney G.; The^discovery of Grounded Theory. ISBN: 0-202-30260-1
Hagan Frank E.; Research methods in criminal justice and criminology. ISBN: 0-205-44739-2
Jessor Richard; Ethnography and human development. ISBN: 0-226-39902-8
King Roy D. 340; Doing research on crime and justice. ISBN: 978-0-19-928762-8
Mason Jennifer; Qualitative researching. ISBN: 0-8039-8986-5
Poupart Jean; De l.École de Chicago au postmodernisme. ISBN: 2-89441-031-X
Rubin Herbert J.; Qualitative interviewing. ISBN: 0-8039-5096-9

Teaching methods and learning activities

theoretical and pratical classes.

keywords

Social sciences
Social sciences > Criminology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	84,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

The distribution assessment is facultative and counts for 35% of the final classification.
If the distribution assessment is not done the final exam counts for 100% of the final classification.