discuss the background postulates of the use of quantitative method (surveys/online surveys in particular) in the social sciences (e.g. positivism, deduction, epistemology/ontology, issues of reliability, validity, the role and importance of ethics in social research (and in relation to your particular piece of quantitative social research), and the strengths and limitations of this methodological approach).

• Most quantitative research methods modules at other universities provide students with an existing statistical data set that students have to analyse for their assignment. The approach on this module is different: you will generate the statistical data by designing and disseminating (sending out) a survey. You will begin your route to completing your assignment by formulating, with others in a group, a hypothesis. Then you will work together to formulate questions that will test the hypothesis. You will write these questions into an online survey programme. The combined questions from the various groups will form a single questionnaire. The online questionnaire will be sent to and completed by all students on the module. You must the use SPSS to interpret the data. You must then 1) interpret the results to see if they confirm or reject your hypothesis and, further, the degree of certainty involved; and 2) input the information needed from the SPSS output into your own tables created in word that represent the results of your findings (frequency and percentages), copy and paste the selected charts/graphs, and write up the chi-square test result into your assignment to demonstrate that interpretation. When you have done this you will be able to answer (confirm or reject) your hypothesis with some degree of certainty.
• 3.Quantitative research in the social sciences. In this section you should discuss the background postulates of the use of quantitative method (surveys/online surveys in particular) in the social sciences (e.g. positivism, deduction, epistemology/ontology, issues of reliability, validity, the role and importance of ethics in social research (and in relation to your particular piece of quantitative social research), and the strengths and limitations of this methodological approach).

  4.Literature review on fear of crime and gender. In this section you should: review of the academic literature on the fear of crime, gender and your specific group topic using:

  ¤The articles and books (academic literature) you looked at on fear of crime and the relationship between fear of crime and gender (including how fear of crime has been measured). There are four articles that you MUST include in this literature review on fear of crime / gender (which can be found in the reading list): (1) Box, Hale, and Andrews (1988); (2) Gilchrist et al. (1998); (3) Lorenc et al. (2014) (chapter 3); (4) Williams-Reid and Konrad (2004)

  ¤The articles and books on fear of crime and gender in relation to your group topic specific literature. This should include findings from a recent survey on your group topic/crime, including gender differences where possible.

  ¤You should also discuss and indicate evidence of your use of the National Data Archive to find literature from previous studies.