Introduction to Social Sciences

Code:

E101

Acronym:

ICS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sociology of Education

Instance: 2013/2014 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	86	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course consists as a moment of initiation to the knowledge in Social Sciences scope, drawing, at the same time, lines of complementarity with other courses of this first semester and of continuity with this first degree study plan. It is intended to contribute for the construction of a mentality that looks for educative phenomena as social phenomena and as particular expressions of general social processes. From a pedagogical point of view, it will be mobilized themes emergent of the social reality that will allow the reflection about thespecificity of the human reality while social reality. In this context will be emphasized the epistemological rupture with naturalistic, idealistic and etnocentrista explanations. Follwing this concerns, it will be discussed science as a particular form of scientific and also pratical knowledge, calling to the attention for theoretical and methodological particular procedures. It will be stimulated the development of a sociological imagination and also an analytical, reflexive and critical attitude. Aims: - To observe and to analyze contexts and situations of the everyday life; - To identify, in the observed contexts, educative subjects and problems as also the expression of general social phenomena; - Reflecting on the complexity of the identified fenómenos, mobilizing the contributions of History, Anthropology and Sociology; - To question critically the social and educative reality; - To adopt methodologies of work with responsibility, authonomy, cooperation and communication; - To initiate the contact with theoretical, metodológical and ethical procedures required in a scientifique research process.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that the students show the following skills / learning outcomes:

- Acquisition and mastery of content covered in the program

- Ability to articulate the theoretical approach to critical analysis of social and educational problems;

- Be able to detect and analyze the presence of obstacles to knowledge in contexts and situations of everyday life;

- Be able to develop self-knowledge (beliefs, stereotypes, values ...) and procedures for critical self-reflection

- Be able to search relevant literature independently and use it properly, according to the issues under study and the ways of realizing the evaluation;

- Be able to produce written documents in a structured and theoretically and analytically grounded.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Social Sciences as a particular form of knowing the social reality - introduction to the problem of knowledge social reality

2. Unity and diversity of Social Sciences

3. Producing knowledge about social reality. Social knowledge as a social relation with reality

3.2. Explaining the social by the social: the obstacles to knowledge in the social sciences and the instruments of epistemological rupture.

4. Understanding of the specificity of the human reality while social reality: individual, society, nature, cultures.

4.1. Deconstructing dichotomies of nature / culture, individual / society from Social Sciences

 

 

 

Mandatory literature

Berger Peter L.; A^construção social da realidade. ISBN: 85-326-0598-2
Cuche Denys; A noção de cultura nas ciências sociais. ISBN: ISBN 972-754-142-9
Giddens Anthony; Sociologia. ISBN: 972-31-0758-9
Nunes A. Sedas; Questões preliminares sobre as ciências sociais
Nunes Adérito Sedas; Sobre o problema do conhecimento nas ciências sociais
Sacarrão Germano da Fonseca; Biologia e sociedade. ISBN: 972-1-02694-8
Santos Boaventura de Sousa; Um discurso sobre as ciências. ISBN: 972-36-0174-5
Silva A. Santos 570; Metodologia das ciências sociais

Teaching methods and learning activities

Total number of hours: 162 Hours of contact: 65 (4h weekly) Independent working hours: 97

Type of work - Theoretical and practical

A- Activities of contact (total of hours 65)

Theoretical - 32h

Debate and group activities - 15h

Orientation and support to the group and individual work- 17h

 

B - Autonomous work (total of 97h)

Reading and analysis of the recommended authors + bibliographical research - 50h

Group activity including i) bibliographical research; II) analysis and interpretation; iii) writing the report - 40h

Individual activity - written theoretical-pratical reflection - 15h

 

keywords

Humanities > History
Social sciences > Anthropology
Social sciences > Sociology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

The classification of final exame takes place on a scale of 0-20 and will have a weighting of 70% in calculation the final mark.

The classification of small group work takes place on a scale of 0-20 and will have a weighting of 30% in calculation the final mark.