Professional research design for project proposals and dissertations: Operationalization and methods of empirical social research: Scientific statements, forecasts, and recommendations must always be empirically substantiated. This can only be achieved by applying rule-based scientific methods. This approach is addressed in “Methods of Empirical Social Research.” This allows the research design to be structured, i.e., the formulation of the research question, case selection (e.g., deliberate case selection, random sampling), data collection (e.g., open observation, standardized survey), and data selection (e.g., qualitative content analysis, statistical analysis) can be coordinated. Participants will be familiar with the questions to be clarified and the necessary decisions to be made in advance of conceptualizing a research design. They will be familiar with the most important research designs (experiment, case study, longitudinal and cross-sectional studies). Participants will understand the implications of research designs on research processes and will be able to apply this knowledge to their own questions.
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