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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College Graduate School of Sociology
Course Code MB084
Theme・Subtitle 「デジタル社会学」のリサーチデザイン
Class Format Face-to-face (partially online)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Wed.2・4255
Credit 2
Course Number SOC5040
Language Japanese
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes
Text Code MB084

【Course Objectives】

With the deep penetration of social media into daily life and the expansive generation of big data with the information network absorbing our contemporary society at large, the field called "digital sociology" is emerging. This project research seminar requires students to explore the way we could design research strategies with a wide variety of analytical methods as "digital sociology," in a situation where the data available for social research are diversifying both in quantitative data and qualitative one.

【Course Contents】

Students will learn learn how to analyze large-scale and feature-rich data dealing with actual large social media log data and/or smartphone log data, In the fall semester, while you learn methodology of analysis of big data and the way to develop research design, students are required to formulate research questions, surveying literature, conducting research with adjusting your research strategies, collecting data, developing analysis, drawing conclusions and summarizing the results so as to finish writing up an essay.

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