Technologies within a different subjects
For be a social scientist, you must know and read always, about differents theories and news investigations, pappers, etc. But if you want be a social scientis, not only you need read in a lot or be the most in mannager the theories. The social scientis is a social researcher too. And in addition to know the theoricals element, in the university the estudent of social sciences have learned to use differents methodologies and technologies, that will be a great help in the futures investigations, in studies of master's degree, and its will be a adventage when you found a job.
In anthropology, you can do qualitative or cuantitative researchers, because in this carreer you learned this methodologies. This year (third year in the career) I have chose some methodology subjects that teach some technologies for the social investigation, like scientifics software. In Qualitatives methodology, besides of learned to do “life history” and “focus group”, I have learned to use an scientific software called “Atlas ti”. This is a program that help in recopilate and organize the qualitative information. For this, after the interviews or focus groups, you transcribe the collected information and put it in the software. Next, the work is yours and the atlas ti help in organizer and show the information simple and tidy. In the others methodologies, like cuantitavives methods, you learn to stadistic informations. Using the technology you will obtain great result. In statistic subjet or cuantitatives methods, you use the software SPSS, in the most important and popular program for the scientific informations. In this subject, we pick up the survey database of important institutes of social investigations, like the CEP survey, an opinion poll about politics preferences, economics dates, public delinquency, and amongs other.In the SPSS you can “play” whit the dates, because you can correlate differents variables and mix them, and make analyse.
In a whole, I can say this year I have learned differents technologies that help me in the investigations. The use of this program make a difference in the researchers, because you could be most ready and competent for diferents works. In anyway, I have so much for learn still, and this programs are the basis in the social researches. Furthermore, are advantage that help me in a choose some subject that I could to dedicate in the futures jobs.
