Study Programmes

Introduction to Social Sciences2

Introdução às Ciências Sociais

Course code:9219105

Noémia Da Glória Mendes Lopes

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
  • Acquisition of knowledge about the epistemological frameworks that underlie the more general social sciences.
  • Acquisition of knowledge about the historical processes that have enabled the development of conditions and the institutionalization of the social sciences, as well as the processes of knowledge production and objectives common to these contemporary science and its differentiation in the various scientific disciplines.
  • Develop critical thinking and encourage interdisciplinarity on the diversity of subjects and the different scientific approaches, allowing a facilitated dialogue between the social sciences.
  • Ability to stimulate analytical thinking in relation to the themes presented, based on a survey of issues and debates, combined with the mobilization of theoretical frameworks and models of analysis applied to the study of concrete social realities.
Syllabus:
  1. SOCIAL SCIENCES: objects and analytical perspectives
    Production of scientific knowledge in social sciences.
    Boundaries, obstacles and epistemological ruptures.
  2. SOCIAL SCIENCES: applications
    Key concepts in social sciences.
    Interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary issues.
 
Suggested Bibliography:
  • Campenhoudt LV (2003) Introdução à Análise dos Fenómenos Sociais, Lisboa: Gradiva
  • Giddens A (2013) Sociologia, Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (9th edition)
  • Hunt EF & Colander DC (2017) Social Science. An Introduction to the Study of Society. 16th ed. New York, Routledge
  • Scott J (2006) Sociology: The Key Concepts, Londres: Routledge
  • Silva AS & Pinto JM (1999) Metodologia das Ciências Socias. Porto: Afrontamento