SOC 380Qualitative Methods: Field Research
- Faculty
- Arts
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1987–88
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1980–81 to 1987–88 (before that, 1966–67 to 1970–71 used the number for Sociology of Health and Welfare and Techniques of Demographic Analysis); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
An application of symbolic interactionist theory, this course examines the contingencies affecting data collection and analysis of on-going group life. While doing field work, students have an opportunity to examine basic features of interactionist thought.
As printed in the 1980–81 to 1987–88 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: SOC 101 and one other Sociology course.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1966–67 to 1987–88, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1980–81 to 1987–88 7 calendars
An application of symbolic interactionist theory, this course examines the contingencies affecting data collection and analysis of on-going group life. While doing field work, students have an opportunity to examine basic features of interactionist thought.
Prereq: SOC 101 and one other Sociology course.
2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1971–72 to 1979–80 calendars.
1970–71 1 calendar
Another title: Techniques of Demographic Analysis, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Introduction to the standard techniques of analysis of enumeration and registration data.
Not in the 1969–70 calendar.
1966–67 to 1968–69 3 calendars
Another title: Sociology of Health and Welfare, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
The structure and processes of health and welfare services are examined as parts of the institutional network of North American society. Professionalization and bureaucratic organization as aids and obstacles toward institutionalized goals. The impact of scientific and technological changes on the structure of health and welfare services and careers.
3 lectures.