Introduction to Social Sciences

Code:

P100

Acronym:

ICS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social and Human Sciences

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	161	Official Curricular Structure 2007/2008	1	-	3	33	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1. Acquaintance with the biological aspects of human social behavior. Aquisition of skills to analyze human cultures when compared with other non-human primate cultures.
2. Acquaintance with the evolution of the thought on society and social relations and of the most proeminent perspectives to the development of Psychology as a Social Science.
3. Acquaintance with psychosocial research on common constructs and processes.
4. Contact with common methods used to study recurrent and emergent problems in key domains of study and application of Social Sciences. The student should be aware of the problems arising in the research and production of scientific knowledge in Social Sciences.

Program

1. Biology and Society: the ethological bases of human beings as social beings.
- Evolucionary perspectives on social behavior
2. The emergence of social sciences
- Philosophical, socio-political and ideological bases
- Some foreruners of social sciences.
- Some systematic propositions of the social sciences.
3.Psychology as a Social Science.
•The impact of others' presence in behavior.
•The influence of social norms.
•Cognitive aspects of prejudice.
•Social comparison.
•Interpersonal and social attraction.

Mandatory literature

Robin Dunbar; A história do Homem: Uma nova história da evolução da humanidade, Lisboa: Quetzal Editores , 2006
Giddens Anthony; Sociology. ISBN: 0-7456-0546-X
Hogg Michael A.; Social psychology. ISBN: 0-13-486770-X
Vala Jorge 570; Psicologia social. ISBN: 972-31-0845-3
Bottomore Tom; História da análise sociológica
Barrett Louise; Human evolutionary psychology. ISBN: 0-333-72558-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expositive and field work.

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	28,00
Report	Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	12,00		2010-10-18
Final Exam	Exame	2,00		2011-01-07
Field work	Trabalho laboratorial	14,00		2010-10-18
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Individual Study	Estudo autónomo	25	2011-02-11
	Total:	25,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance to classes not required (only to present the field work).

Calculation formula of final grade

Group work (5) + Final exam (15)

Examinations or Special Assignments

The student should carry out a small field work, write a report and present it in the class. All the phases of the work should be done in groups of 4-5 students. The mark of the field work, which is obligatory, has a 25% weight in the final mark.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

As previewed in the evaluation regulation

Classification improvement

The student may repeat the final exam to improve the final mark. In this case, the classification of the work group is not considered in the final mark.