Q1. What socio-economic factors influence people’s satisfaction with their lives?
There is rich sociological literature on the topic of life satisfaction. Life satisfaction is sometimes also referred to as subjective wellbeing (a person’s evaluation of his or her life). Based on the sociological literature, come up with some potential factors that could explain people’s life satisfaction or subjective wellbeing, and test statistically whether there is a relationship between these factors (the independent variables) and people’s satisfaction with their lives (the dependent variable). To test the statistical relationship between your dependent and independent variables you should use the UKHLS (Understanding Society) dataset we used in class and apply appropriate statistical tests from the computer labs.
Q2. Gender can be an important aspect of people’s sense of who they are (their social identity). What factors influence the importance one attributes to ‘gender’ in their self-identity?
Sociologists are often interested in the role ‘gender’ plays in people’s identity constructions. But what do people think? The task is to come up with potential factors (independent variables) that may be associated with the importance that people attribute to gender in their sense of identity (dependent variable). The UKHLS (Understanding Society) data set contains a variable which can serve as the dependent variable, and various potential explanatory (independent) variables. Use this dataset to conduct your analysis by applying appropriate statistical tests from the computer labs.
Q3. What factors influence people’s opinion on whether UK should remain a member of the EU or leave the EU?
There is one variable in the UKHLS (Understanding Society) data measuring whether respondents preferred the UK to leave or to stay in the EU. The question is: what factors may influence people’s opinions on the issue? Your task is to come up with some potential factors or explanations (e.g. gender, class, income, geography, political party preference, life satisfaction etc.) and test statistically whether there is a relationship between these factors (the independent variables) and ‘Leave’/’Stay’ preferences (the dependent variable). To come up with factors/explanations you can use some academic literature that has been previously published on the topic, but you can also be inventive and relying on your logic come up with some other plausible factors/explanations that you can test using the UKHLS data-set. To test the statistical relationship between your dependent and independent variables you should use the UKHLS dataset we used in class and apply appropriate statistical tests from the computer labs.
Q4. Alternatively come up with your own research topic/question.
The UKHLS (Understanding Society) data set contains many variables that are useful for answering a great variety of sociological questions. If you want to come up with your own question on a topic of interest which can be analysed using the UKHLS dataset (the one we used on the module), you are free to do so. You will have to state your question clearly (like in the examples above) and follow the same steps to undertake the analysis.
After you have decided on your research theme/question, you can search for some academic literature on the topic. This is the same literature search process you have employed in writing essays for other modules (try searching Google Scholar, the library holdings, etc. with keywords relating to your topic). This will allow you to place your research question and analysis within some broader literature.
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