The learning goals of this seminar are twofold. First, the seminar will focus on the social
construction of parenthood, attitudes toward parenthood and the division of paid and unpaid
work, with a particular focus on how to design and empirically examine sociologically relevant
research questions. This will be covered in “Stream 1: Theory / Parenthood”. Second, students
will learn how to conduct quantitative empirical data analysis using (cross-national) survey
data. Using Stata, students will be guided through the initial stages of data setup, data cleaning,
variable construction and producing basic multi-variate statistical models (for example, multiple
linear regression). This will be covered in “Stream 2: Empirical / Stata”. Overall, the goal of the
seminar is to provide students with the skills required to conduct empirical, quantitative data
analysis within the frame of theory and research questions relevant for sociology and the social
sciences. This seminar is ideal as preparation of writing a quantitative Bachelor thesis. It is a
prerequisite that students have completed “Modul 4 / SOZ-BA-F1 Statistik” and “Modul 3 / SOZBA-GF Grundlagen der empirischen Sozialforschung” or have completed equivalent
coursework/seminars/courses.
NOTE: this is a 4 SWS seminar, and as such DOUBLE the workload and TN credits of a normal 2
SWS seminar.
- Trainer/in: Sandra Buchler