PERb1012 Quantitative Research

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2026
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Miroslav Suchanec, Ph.D., M.Sc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Miroslav Suchanec, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites (in Czech)
TYP_STUDIA(B) && ! VPLb1118 Quantitative Research
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
At the end of this course, students should be able to: frame research problem, formulate research question, and appropriately design empirical research.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to: - identify basic research designs; - Identify types of validity in social science research; - prepare the operationalization of research questions - Design a simple research project
Syllabus
  • Base of scientific knowledge. Research process.
  • Operationalisation
  • Quantitative description and quantitative explanation
  • Theory and research
  • Research design: experiment and survey
  • Validity and reliability of research
  • Measuring with a questionary
  • Sampling
  • Secondary data
Literature
    required literature
  • DISMAN, Miroslav. Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost : příručka pro uživatele. Páté, nezměněné vydán. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2021, 372 stran. ISBN 9788024650531. URL info
  • NOWAK, Stefan. Metodologie sociologických výzkumů : obecné problémy. Translated by Jiří Večerník. 1. vyd. Praha: Svoboda, 1975, 411 s. URL info
    recommended literature
  • BRYMAN, Alan. Social research methods. Fifth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, xxxv, 747. ISBN 9780199689453. info
  • BABBIE, Earl R. The practice of social research. Fourteenth edition. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2016, xxiv, 566. ISBN 9781305104945. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and group work and discussion of tasks on seminar.
Assessment methods
two individual midterm exams on aplication of the topics group presentation of the research proposal final individual oral exam on understanding the basic concepts
Language of instruction
Czech
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
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