Social Research

Scientific Method

• The Scientific Method
• Crash Course Scientific Method

Research Methods

• Three Minute Sociologist Research Methods
• Major Research Methods
• Crash Course Sociology Research Methods

Research Design

• Methods 101: Random Sampling
• Methods 101: Question Wording (Pew Research Center)
• Survey Mode Effects
• Survey Question Wording
• What are Nonprobability Surveys?
• Phone vs Online Surveys
• How is Polling Done Around the World?
• How can a survey of 1,000 people tell you what the whole U.S. thinks? (Pew Research Center)
• Sampling Methods and Bias with Surveys
• Controlled Experiments

Analysis

• Quantitative versus Qualitative Research
• Answering the 3 Questions of Statistics Using a Picture
• Plots, Outliers, and Justin Timberlake: Data Visualization Part 2
• Charts Are Like Pasta - Data Visualization Part 1
• What Does Exam Reliability & Validity Mean

Ethnics

• Reading Peer Reviewed Research

• Informed Consent
• What is an IRB?
• Research Ethics
• Tuskegee Experiment
• Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, & Ethical Data Collection

Research Key Terms

• Hawthorne Studies
• The Hawthorne Effect

Social Construction of Knowledge

• A New Way to Explain Explanation
  

• Social Construction of Knowledge

Practicing Social Research

• Video Games and Violence
• Drug Trials: Testing Drugs on the Most Vulnerable
• Science Journalism

Historic Issues

• The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
• Tearoom Trade Study
• Ethics: 5 Social Psychology Studies That Could Not Be Conducted Today