The Practice of Social Research (MindTap Course List)
The Practice of Social Research (MindTap Course List)
14th Edition
ISBN: 9781305104945
Author: Earl R. Babbie
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Majors concerned with management, accounting, actuarial, and economics, for example, could be coded as business majors because they deal with how to run a business to earn a living. Majors such as art history, criminology, anthropology, African American studies, and Women’s studies could be coded as investigative majors since they are all concerned with evaluating evidence and reaching conclusions based on creative thinking. Coding could also be done based on the type of occupation associated with the major.

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Michigan State University offers many different majors that can be coded in several ways. For example, majors could be coded by the type of occupation a graduate may expect. Communications as a code would include journalism, photography, advertising, broadcasting, and creative writing. Another way to code would be to focus on the skill or skills related to the major. An investigative code could include anthropology, criminology, art history, African American studies and Women’s studies, since each of these requires examining evidence and evaluating conclusions. Business could be the code for majors such as management, accounting, actuarial, and economics, since they all deal with assigning value to human activity.

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