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SY 4520 Methods of Sociological Research M/W, 10:20-noon, Room B-135 Prof. Jacob Heller, Ph.D. - email: hellerj@oldwestbury.edu Office Hours: M/W 1:30-2:30, and by appointment HOME | READINGS | ASSIGNMENTS | GRADES | COURSEBLOG For Wednesday, April 30, please begin work on paper assignment #7; ALSO, prepare a suitable topic for paper assignment #8 (you may want to check this website's grades to see how many papers you have completed). For Monday, April 21, please begin work on paper assignment #6; check this website's grades to see how many papers you have completed. For Monday, April 14, please read the article about AIDS in the New York Times, distributed in class. For Wednesday, April 16, 2008, please complete paper assignment #5 (another of the optional paper assignments - all students must complete the first paper, last paper and three papers in between). For Wednesday, April 9, 2008, please complete paper assignment #4 (one of the optional paper assignments - all students must complete the first paper, last paper and three papers in between). For Monday, March 31, 2008, please read the excerpt from Street Corner Society (by William Foote Whyte) in the reader packet, and complete homework assignment #3. I expect to distribute paper assignment #4 on Monday. For Wednesday, March 26, 2008, please read the Marquart article (in the reader packet) on full participation research in prisons, and hand-in paper assignment #3 (if you've chosen to complete this "optional" paper assignment). Please refer to Chapter 9 in the reader packet for information about the ethics of research involving human subjects. For Monday, March 24, 2008, please begin work on paper assignment #3 (which is "optional"), due on 3/26. Please refer to Chapter 9 in the reader packet for information about the ethics of research involving human subjects. For Wednesday, March 12, 2008, please read the article by Stanley Milgram that I distributed in class (if you were absent, I will leave come additional copies attached to my office door - C-320), and remember that paper assignment #2 (which is "optional"), also due on 3/12. I hope to distribute the assignment for paper #3, which will be due on March 26. For Monday, March 10, 2008, please read the selections from The Tearoom Trade included in the reader packet. Also, begin work on paper assignment #2 (which is "optional"), due on 3/12. For Wednesday, March 5, 2008, please re-read the selections from Sex in America and "chapter 6" included in the reader packet. Paper assignment #2 (which is "optional") will be distributed in class on 3/5. For Monday, March 3, 2008, please read the selections from Sex in America included in the reader packet (they follow directly after the Cole reading about tables and causality). For Wednesday, February 27, 2008, please study all the readings and your notes for the exam on Monday; best of luck! For Monday, February 25, 2008, please study all the readings and your notes as if you had the exam on Monday - when you will be able to ask about all the things you don't (yet) understand, or which seem unclear. Then when you take the actual exam, you will know what you need to know to do well on the test. For Wednesday, February 20, 2008, please return to the reader packet and, skipping only the section headed "Linear Regression Analysis," read the rest of the chapter you began for class on 2/13. Do as many of the problems at the end of the chapter as you can - they do become very difficult towards the end. These problems (homework #2) are due in class on Wednesday, 2/20; your homework should be neat, clear and comprehensible - typed, if possible. For Wednesday, February 13, 2008, please complete homework assignment #1, and read the first part of the second reading (coming right after "Troublemakers" in the reader packet), up to the section titled "Linear Regression Analysis." This homework is due on Wednesday - it should be neat, clear and comprehensible - typed, if possible. For Wednesday, February 6, 2008, please complete paper assignment #1. This paper is MANDATORY for all students, and counts for 10% of the course grade. For every calendar day the paper is late, it will be marked down a full letter grade. So, if you hand the paper in one day late (on Thursday, 2/7), the best possible grade would be a "B" - and so on. For Wednesday, January 30, 2008, please send me an email with your name (if you haven't already) and also read: "Chapter 1" - towards the back of the reader packet distributed in class. For Monday, January 28, 2008, please send me an email with your name and also read: "Chapter 6" - towards the back of the reader packet distributed in class (between "chapter 3" and "chapter 9"). |