Social Research Methods

Writing a thesis is often a challenging and complex enterprise. This episode helps you to understand what will go on inside you and between you and your supervisor. All slides to the entire series can be downloaded for free here: https://armintrost.de/en/professor/digital/social-research-methods/

Writing an academic report or article mainly follows a specific structure, format and style since academic papers differ from all other media most people are familiar with (e.g. news-paper article). All slides to the entire series can be downloaded for free here: https://armintrost.de/en/professor/digital/social-research-methods/

Multidimensional scaling is a statistical procedure to translate distances and dissimilarities into a visual representation. In social science it is used to visualize social relations among people and groups. All slides to the entire series can be downloaded for free here: https://armintrost.de/en/professor/digital/social-research-methods/

We use multiple regression analysis to determine the relation between many (multiple) independent variables and one single dependent variable. All slides to the entire series can be downloaded for free here: https://armintrost.de/en/professor/digital/social-research-methods/

Factor analysis reduces complexity of data by extracting a few factors. It delivers underlying coordinates in an otherwise complicated set of variables. We use factor analysis for instance to understand the basic independent dimensions of personality. All slides to the entire series can be downloaded for free here: https://armintrost.de/en/professor/digital/social-research-methods/