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School of Sociology · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
The sociological imagination involves paying attention to the mundane aspects of everyday life while simultaneously reflecting theoretically on these aspects. This course will provide training in the main methods used by sociologists: interviews, observations, archives/document analysis and statistics. As advanced training in methodology for Honours students, the course also emphasises the relationship between research practices and theoretical and epistemological issues. The guiding principle of the course is reflexivity - ongoing reflection on the conditions under which any knowledge is produced.
Observation analysis (1500 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2
Interview analysis OR Statistics and archives analysis 2000 words
Learning outcomes 1, 2
Research essay (2500 words )
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
260 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of seminars and 12 hours of research consultations b) 224 hours of independent student research, reading and writing. Work Integrated Learning Projects This course requires student design and develop individual research projects based on their own research interests
Not required