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M2 Quantitative Sociology and Demography

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  • Places available
    20
  • Language(s) of instruction
    English
    French
Présentation
Objectives

The master's program in sociology at Paris-Saclay University groups all sociology programs of Paris-Saclay's partners based on common educational objectives: teaching the fundamental concepts and paradigms of sociology, learning the different survey methods, developing a critical and reflective attitude, writing a master's dissertation, and professional or research internships.
The objective of this program is to prepare students to write a thesis in quantitative or demographic sociology or to begin working after their master's degree managing socio-economic studies, or head of a mission, or statistician. To do this, they will acquire the technical skills needed to collect, process and analyse quantitative data as well as the reflective ability to apply reasoning and a heuristic approach to social sciences. The dissertations developed over the 2-year program as well as the internships during their M2 will greatly contribute to their career development either by working in a team or a research unit or by working in a company (design office, consulting firm, in the department responsible for studies and statistics in an administrative or government office, etc.).

Location
GIF SUR YVETTE
PALAISEAU
GUYANCOURT
Course Prerequisites

Access to M2 requires prior training in social sciences as well as training in quantitative methodologies. Applicants must have obtained good results in both these disciplines.

Skills
  • Acquire an aptitude for sociological reasoning.

  • Develop the capacity to consider data and results with a critical mind.

  • Proficiently use statistical and demographic tools, data processing and database management software.

  • Carry out statistical surveys from the design stage to that of formulating results.

  • Carry out research work: elaborate a research problem, implement a surveying system, analyse the results, write a dissertation.

  • Read and write sociological texts in English.

Post-graduate profile

Graduate students are sociologists trained to use quantitative and demographic methods; data social scientists who combine sociological reflection with an excellent understanding of statistical analyses.

Career prospects

The study path leads to two types of career opportunities:
- preparation of a thesis in quantitative sociology or demography to gain access to jobs as researcher, academic lecturer, research engineer
- direct entry into the labour market, in public administrations (eg. INSEE, Ministries, local or regional authorities), research centres and observatories (INED, CNRS), companies (eg. Google, Facebook, Amazon); or in associations, working as social data scientist, computational sociologist, research manager in sociology, demography or the social‐economics field, mission coordinator, project manager, survey and poll manager, statistician engineer.

To do this, the programme equips students not only with the technical skills required for the collection, processing and analysis of quantitative data but also with the reflexive capacities necessary to any reasoned and heuristic use of quantification in the social sciences. The research theses carried out in M1 and M2 as well as the internships carried out in M2 help prepare students for working life as they join a team or a research unit, or find a post in a professional environment (design office, consultancy firm, studies and statistics departments of an administration or community, etc.)

Collaboration(s)
Laboratories

Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie et de la société
Laboratoire Professions, Institutions, Temporalités.

CREST (Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique) de l'ENSAE ParisTech.

Programme
Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Séminaire de recherche de laboratoire 1 2 12
Topics in quantitative sociology 3 24
Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Analyse de réseaux 2 12
Analyse lexicale 2 12
Demography 3 24
Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Méthodes statistiques et applications informatiques 4 16 16
Methods in quantitative sociology 3 24
Publier en sciences sociales 2 18
Suivi des mémoires de recherche 6 15
Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Sociogenomics 3 24
Sociologie numérique 3 24
Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Controverses en sociologie des inégalités 3 24
Séminaire de recherche de laboratoire 2 2 12
Sociologie de l'immigration et de l'intégration 3 24
Sociologie des pratiques culturelles 3 24
Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Anglais sociologique 3 2 18
Approfondissements démographiques 2 12
Digital labour 3 10 14
Fabrication d’enquêtes 3 18
Science des réseaux sociaux et économiques 3 24
Stage de recherche 3 0 0
Subjects ECTS Lecture directed study practical class Lecture/directed study Lecture/practical class directed study/practical class distance-learning course Project Supervised studies
Suivi des mémoires de recherche et des rapports de stages 15 15
Modalités de candidatures
Application period
From 29/03/2024 to 15/06/2024
From 15/07/2024 to 31/08/2024
Compulsory supporting documents
  • Motivation letter.

  • All transcripts of the years / semesters validated since the high school diploma at the date of application.

  • Curriculum Vitae.

Additional supporting documents
  • Certificate of French (compulsory for non-French speakers).

  • VAP file (obligatory for all persons requesting a valuation of the assets to enter the diploma).

  • The application procedure, which depends on your nationality and your situation is explained here : https://urlz.fr/i3Lo.

  • Supporting documents :
    - Residence permit stating the country of residence of the first country
    - Or receipt of request stating the country of first asylum
    - Or document from the UNHCR granting refugee status
    - Or receipt of refugee status request delivered in France
    - Or residence permit stating the refugee status delivered in France
    - Or document stating subsidiary protection in France or abroad
    - Or document stating temporary protection in France or abroad.

Contact(s)
Course manager(s)
Nicolas Robette - nicolas.robette@uvsq.fr
Samuel COAVOUX - samuel.coavoux@ensae.fr
Administrative office
Mélanie TALNEAU - melanie.talneau2@uvsq.fr
Admission