Here are the four pieces of your final paper, as discussed in class today:

1) scholarly literature you’re debating/engaging with;

2) research question and methodological proposal for answering it;

3) gather some information…start doing the project;

4) tell me what else needs to be done!

The tenth, and final, lecture for SIS-206, Summer 2008. Topic: “Choosing a Research Methodology, or, PTJ’s sermon on social science as a vocation.”

This is a shorter one than usual.

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Here’s the ninth lecture from SIS-206, Summer 2008. Topic: “Monistic Causation II: Discourse Analysis.” Due to a technical glitch, this is just the slides — no audio recorded, even though I delivered the lecture live in the classroom. Oh well — if you weren’t there, you missed my witty banter.

Pay special attention to the last slide, which gives the four things I’d like to see in the monistic causation research proposal due next week.

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The eighth lecture from SIS-206, Summer 2008. Topic: “Monistic Causation, part one.”

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The seventh lecture for SIS-206, Summer 2008. Topic: “Monistic Description II: Social Networks.”

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The sixth lecture for SIS-206, summer 2008. Topic: “Monistic Description I — Participant-Observation.”

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Here’s the fifth lecture for SIS-206, Summer 2008. Topic: “Dualist Causation.”

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The fourth lecture for SIS-206, Summer 2008. Topic: “Quantitative Description.” Special guest appearance by Lou Gehrig, and some guy in a Yankees jersey.

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Here’s the third lecture from SIS-206, Summer 2008. Topic: “Dualist Description, part one.”

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Here’s the second lecture from SIS-206, Summer 2008. Topic: “Theory and Research.”

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