Curricular Unit:			Code:
Methodology of Social Sciences			780MCSO
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Undergraduate	Criminology	6 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Winter Semester		Portuguese/English	78
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
To develop the ability to understand the specifics of scientific knowledge in the social sciences, particularly the role of the method in the latter To promote understanding of the applied nature of the knowledge produced by the SC
Syllabus:
1. Social Sciences: definition 1.1. The emergence of Social Sciences; the Enlightenment and the project of Modernity; the moral sciences JJ-Rousseau and A Comte) 2. knowledge 2.1. knowledge: different knowledge systems 2.2. Scientific knowledge: characteristics 2.2. 1. knowledge of common sense vs. knowledge of science (finding vs. finding + inquiry) 3. Scientific knowledge: Epistemology and the validation of knowledge 3.1.method: definition and centrality in science 3.2. Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 3.3. The Myth of Rationalism 4. Methodologies in Social Sciences 4.1. Qualitative methodologies vs quantitative methodologies 4.2. Types of Studies 4.3. Forms of data collection 4.3.1. sample types 4.3.2. Interviews vs questionnaires 4.4.Type of statistics 5. Relevant Theories and Methods in the Social Sciences - Analysis of Some Examples (Durkheim; Mauss; Bourdieu; Goffman; Becker; Foucault)
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
Develop the ability to understand the specifics of scientific knowledge in the social sciences (sections 1, 2 and 3), particularly the role of the same method (Section 2) Promote understanding of the nature of the knowledge produced by the applied CS (Sections 2, 3)
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Lectures of expositive nature Written tests in order to test the acquisition of knowledge, namely the ability to arrest the subjects taught in a suitably structured manner - which should be reflected in a equally structured written form of communication
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The nature of the program is mainly theoretical which is consistent with the type of classes; assessment via written tests aimed at development of the capacities listed in Objectives
Reading:
CAMPENHOUDT, Luc Van, (2003), Introdução à análise dos fenómenos sociais, Lisboa, Gradiva DORTIER, J-F, (1998), Les sciences humaines – panorame des connaissances, Auxerre, Sciences Humaines Editions HALL, S e GIEBEN, R (org) (1992) Formations of Modernity, Cambridge, Open University NUNES, Sedas Pedro, (1977), Questões preliminares sobre as ciências sociais, Lisboa, Editorial Presença