Introduction to Social Sciences
Code: SOC2320L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Sociology
Course Description
Information for academic year 2016/2017
Course Content
I: The problem of knowledge and social sciences
1. Preliminary questions of Social sciences
2. The meaning of social: social facts and objectivity in social sciences
3. Classification of social sciences and interdisciplinarity: borders, complementarities and interceptions
II. Basic concepts of social analysis
4. The identification of the social: analysis, understanding and explanation
5. Social relations: solidarity and sociability
6. The individual and collective: social interaction and group phenomena
7. Other methodological considerations about observation and social facts analysis
III: Contemporary problems of social sciences
8. Dilemmas, problems and trends
9. Exemplifications of the applicability of the social sciences
Teaching Methods
Teaching / learning:
• Oral presentation of theoretical syllabus, illustrated with empirical examples.
• Reading texts and individual and group studies.
• Tutorial guiding and e-learnings methodologies (http://www.moodle.uevora.pt).
• Reading recommendations: in accordance with each topic of the syllabus and the curricular unit objectives; The reading documents are available in the library or online, accessible through the e-learning application [moodle] of the university (https://www.moodle.uevora.pt/).
• Evaluation:
a. Continuous evaluation: 2 written test or 1 written test and a short-paper (each assessment moment count 50% of the final mark).
b. Final assessment: a written test (100%).
Name of Lecturer
Information available of academic year 2016/2017
Economics (code: 200)
| semester | teacher |
|---|---|
| Even | António Pedro Sousa Marques |
| Even | Carlos Alberto da Silva (responsible) |
Management (code: 203)
| semester | teacher |
|---|---|
| Even | António Pedro Sousa Marques |
| Even | Carlos Alberto da Silva (responsible) |
History and Archaeology (code: 206)
| semester | teacher |
|---|---|
| Even | Carlos Alberto da Silva (responsible) |
Psychology (code: 497)
| semester | teacher |
|---|---|
| Even | Carlos Alberto da Silva (responsible) |
