Introduction to Social Sciences

Code:

E101

Acronym:

ICS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sociology of Education

Instance: 2018/2019 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/ucurr_geral.ficha_uc_view?pv_ocorrencia_id=406202
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	67	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course, as a moment of initiation to knowledge in the social sciences, outline at the same time, complementary lines with other disciplines of the first half and of continuity with the subsequent study plan.


Accordingly, the following objectivesare defined:

a) to communicate theoretical perspectives and concepts essential to the understanding of the human being as a bio-socio-cultural being and as a product and producer of the society, emphasizing the centrality of socialization processes;

b) to communicate theoretical perspectives and essential concepts to the understanding of science as a particular form of knowledge and as a scientific practice

c) to draw attention to the specific procedures of epistemological, theoretical, methodological and ethical issues envolved in the production of knowledge in Social Sciences and Sciences of Education

d) to situate socio-historically the construction of Natural Sciences and the emergence and affirmation of the social sciences, and some of the most persistent debates

e) to contribute to the construction of a mentalityt that percept educational phenomena as social phenomena and as particular expressions of more general social processes, mobilizing the History, Anthropology and Sociology

f) to mobilize emerging themes of social reality to reflect on the specificity of human reality as a social reality, rehearsing the epistemological break with naturalistic, individualistc and ethnocentric explanations

g) to encourage the development of sociological imagination

h) to adopt working methods with responsibility, autonomy, cooperation;

i) to initiate contact with formal academic procedures

Learning outcomes and competences

In this UC it is expected that students can be able to:

a) acquire fundamental knowledge in the filed of the Social Sciences;

b) reflect on the specificity of human reality as a socio-educational reality;

c) understand the scientific knowledge as a social construction of reality

d) understand the specificity of the social-historical-anthropological knowledge in its scientific research logic;

e) develop observation habits, interpretation and analysis of different sources to essay the epistemological break with naturalism, individualism and ethnocentrism; the sociological imagination and critical self-knowledge (beliefs, stereotypes, values);

f) show skills of theoretical articulation and critical analysis regarding of socio-educational situations; of research relevant literature with autonomy; of produce written structured documents and analytically sustained, reflecting a strict stance, and coherent

g) develop self-knowledge (beliefs, stereotypes, values ...) and critical self-reflection procedures

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable

Program

1. Understand the specificity of human reality as a social reality: individual, society, nature, culture

1.1. Nature, socety and cultura - the conceptual interdependence of the fundamental premises of the Social Sciences

2. Understand the the indissociability individual-society

2.1. The concept of socialization and its centrality to undersatand the relationship between society and individual; the society in human being and human being in the society

2.2. The concept of socialization - plural perspectives

3. The Social Sciences as a particular form of knowledge about the social reality - introduction to the problem of social scientific knowledge as construction and rupture processes with common sense

3.1. Explain the social by the social: from resistances and obstacles to knowledge in the social sciences to the processes and tools available to break with the common sense evidences 

3.2. The unity of the social and the plurality of Social Sciences

4. The logic of scientific knowledge construction in Social Sciences

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

Mandatory literature

BARRIO, José; Elementos de Antropologia Pedagógica. , Madrid: Ed. RIALP, 1998
Berger Peter L.; A^construção social da realidade. ISBN: 85-326-0598-2
DURKHEIM, Émile (1875); As regras do método sociológico, Lisboa: Presença, 2001
Giddens Anthony; Sociologia. ISBN: 972-31-1075-X
LARAIA, Roque; A cultura, um conceito antropológico, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores, 1986
Lahire Bernard; L.esprit sociologique. ISBN: 978-2-7071-5235-0
NUNES, Adérito Sedas; Questões preliminares sobre as Ciências Sociais, Lisboa: Presença, 1987
Rocha Cristina; As^mulheres e a cidadania. ISBN: 972-24-1437-2
Santos Boaventura de Sousa; Um^discurso sobre as ciências
Silva Augusto Santos 570; Metodologia das ciências sociais. ISBN: 978-972-36-0503-7
Pinto José Madureira; Propostas para o ensino das ciências sociais. ISBN: 972-36-0321-7

Comments from the literature

N/A

Teaching methods and learning activities

The classes are theoretical and practical including exposure of content and participation of students in the issues addressed.
Reading, interpretation and analysis of texts is used in the contact time as a strategy of explicitness and grounded integration of learning, and its further deepening study in autonomous working time is encouraged.

Discussions in class, via audiovisual, documentary or experiential sources are seen as propitious to the development of reflections to strengthen the theoretical and practical articulation, analytical rigor, understanding the complexity and diversity of views and critical sense.

In this UC is practiced distributed evaluation without final exam.

Writing, as a way to expose the integration of student learning, converges to carry out several work of articulation and reflection on the contents adressed, such as in small group in the classroom (25%); an individual essay (40%) and a presentation concerning th contributes of the UC to the thorethical ground of the group (35%)

Software

Não se aplica nesta UC

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Research methodology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Trabalho escrito	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	15,00
Estudo autónomo	85,00
Frequência das aulas	32,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The possibility to benefit the continuous evaluation modality implies the presence in at least 75% of the hours of academic contact.

Exempted from verification of attendance conditions referred to above are the cases provided by law, namely the workers studying. They should contact the teacher 20 days after the beginning of the semester.

Calculation formula of final grade

A small working group classification takes place on a scale 0-20 and will have a weighting of 25% in the calculation of the final grade of UC.

The individual essay takes place on a scale 0-20 and will have a weighting of 40% in the calculation of the final grade of UC

The group work developed in articulation with SIMF1 and LME - a written presentation of the contributions of the UC to ground theoretically the topic adressed and its public discussion - will have a weighting of 35% in the calculation of the final grde of UC 


Final standings (25% + 40% + 35%) = 100%

The fraud committed in carrying out a test - in any of its forms - will void the same and will imply the communication to the statutorily competent body for possible disciplinary action.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students without class attendance and that by law can be dispensed should be presented to the final exam to conduct the written test in order to demonstrate the knowledge and skills required and defined in the course sheet.

The realization of this exam will take place at the specified evaluation period.

The students in these circumstances should contact the teacher to clarify and define its assessment

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students without class attendance and that by law can be dispensed should be presented to the final exam to conduct the written test designed to demonstrate their knowledge and skills required and defined in the course sheet.

The realization of this event will take place at the specified evaluation period.

The students in these circumstances should contact the teacher for clarification and definition of its assessment

Classification improvement

The students can make improvement final grade of this course only once, at the prescribed time for that and according to modality to be agreed with the teacher.

The final grade in the course is the highest among those who had been initially obtained and which result from the improvement of the classification made.

Observations

Not applicable