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Next Wednesday we are holding the second statistics workshop in preparation for the SOCI 328 final exam. This is a free workshop open to undergraduate students of any year and in any faculty, although workshop examples will be based on sociological research. Students do not have to be enrolled in SOCI328 to attend, although some prior statistical knowledge is needed to follow along with the concepts covered.

Topic: Inferential statistics, with applications to Stata statistical program.

When – MARCH 23rd, 4-5PM
Where – ANSO Room 134

Voting has now closed for the 2016-2017 elections. Stay tuned for the results which will be uploaded on our social media platforms on Monday March 14th. Thanks for participating, we had a great turnout this year!

We are offering two statistics workshops in preparation for the SOCI 328 final exam. This is a free workshop open to undergraduate students of any year and in any faculty, although workshop examples will be based on sociological research. Students do not have to be enrolled in SOCI328 to attend, although some prior statistical knowledge is needed to follow along with the concepts covered.

When – MARCH 7th & 23rd, 4-5PM
Where – ANSO Room 134

Topics covered, with applications to Stata statistical program:

• Workshop 1 (Mar. 7th) – Descriptive statistics
  
• Workshop 2 (Mar. 23rd) – Inferential Statistics

Learn the basics of exploring your data! This undergraduate-led workshop is designed to provide students with a practical guide for navigating SPSS, the popular statistics computer program used in the social sciences.

When – Wednesday, Feb. 3rd from 1-2PM
Where – Buchanan B125 (located in the computer labs of Buchanan A) 

Details:

• Free workshop open to undergraduate students of any year and in any faculty (although workshop examples will be based on sociological research).
• No prior social statistics knowledge needed—the focus is on practical use of the software and only the basic idea behind statistical techniques will be covered. 
• This workshop is based on learning to access and use secondary public use social science data. However, students may also apply workshop exercises to their own data instead.
• A take-home SPSS handout will be provided—this covers all workshop material and more. Please bring a pen!

What you’ll learn in SPSS 23

• Using statistical tools – frequency distributions (tables & charts), univariate analysis, measures of central tendency & dispersion, bivariate analysis, & more! 
• Data management skills – Locating and accessing public use datasets, recoding variables, dealing with missing variables. 

For more information, please email ubcsociundergrads@gmail.com.

Check out the workshop handout here.

Sojourners has officially released Volume 6&7 in both print and PDF version! Click HERE to view this all new edition.

We hope everyone is having a pleasant May so far! We here at the SSA have been quite busy this month as we have had to do a little bit of rearranging, but we’re excited to share what we’ve been up to.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, our previously elected Vice President, Marianne Wu, has chosen to pass on her position to fellow SSA executive Anupa (Iman) Ghosh, initially elected as the AUS Representative. Following this, we have had to hold a by-election to determine our new AUS Representative.

As a result, we are very happy to announce that Elizer Erpilla will be taking on the role of AUS Representative for the SSA!

Additionally, we would also like to welcome Vesna Pajović and returning editor Selenna Ho as Co-Editors-In-Chief this year for Sojourners, UBC’s very own academic undergraduate journal for Sociology.

Big congrats to the entire SSA and Sojourners team:

Hello everyone, we’ve got some updates for you! A big thanks goes out to all who voted in our elections this year, and to all those who attended our annual year-end BBQ event. We had a great turn out and a great time celebrating the last day of classes, and we also got to officially introduce the new SSA Executive team for 2015/2016. Without further ado, here are the results:

The SSA elections for 2015/2016 are here! We’ve got a great line of candidates running this year, so check out our elections page to learn more about them, the elections, and (if you are a UBC Sociology major or minor) to GET YOUR VOTE ON.

The voting period runs from March 23rd – March 30th.

Newly elected members for the 2015/2016 year will be announced at our annual year-end barbeque happening on Friday, April 10th from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM at the ANSO gardens.