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Lecturer(s)
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Poláchová Vašťatková Jana, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Science as a specific area of human activity and experience; 2. Science and philosophy, art; 3. The foundation if scientific thinking (statements about science); 4. Functions of science and the specifics of social science in regard of research; 5. Positivism and quantitative approaches (hypothesis conceptualisation, testing hypothesis, statistic methods etc.); 6. The issue of values in social sciences; 7. Interpretative approaches, understanding and interpreting, qualitative approaches; 8. The role of language and categorization (cognitions and science); 9. Typology and comparison; 10. Science as a "service" - doing science, scientific production and its evaluation; 11. Ethics of scientific work; 12. Scientific text, its requisites, form and aesthetics.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
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Learning outcomes
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The goal is to put into scientific way of thinking about the world. At the end of the course the student will be able to: - Define, understand and explain the specificity of the scientific way of looking at reality and to distinguish it from other methods (eg plane or plane of everyday aesthetic perception of reality) - Identify the basic issues and problems of social science methodology - Apply the knowledge gained in working with specific scientific text - Assess whether certain claims they have the character of scientific assertions and conclusions - To design their own scientific text (structure and form) - Justify their own conception of a scientific approach to a particular topic. The course is designed as an introduction to the topic and is based on stimulating interest in the methodology of science, respectively methodology of social sciences.
Student can: - describe all the aspects of scientific text; - distinguish analytically the scientific outcomes from the non-scientific texts or speeches. Student can: - create a proposal of the scientific project and - work out the methodology for the chosen topic research; - identify the differences in methodology of the pure sciences and social sciences. Student is able to: - assess the expertize and trustworthiness of claims, which are presented as scientific.
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Prerequisites
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No prior requirements.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark
To gain the credit, it is necessary to work out all the correspondence tasks. To get to the exam it is necessary to gain the credit. The exam has a written test form with following oral exam.
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Recommended literature
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Anzenbacher, A. (1990). Úvod do filosofie. Praha: SPN.
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Berger, P., Luckmann, T. Společenská konstrukce reality. Praha 1999.
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Berka, K., Rybová, J. Logika a metodologie pro žurnalisty. Praha:Novinář 1987..
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Fajkus, B. (1997). Současná filosofie a metodologie vědy.. Praha: Filosofia.
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Loučková, I. "K problematice tvorby dat ?"; "Rámcové pojetí věd." In: Tvorba a redukce.
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Možný, I., Rabušic, L. Úvod do metodologie vědy pro sociology. Brno 1989.
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Petrusek, M. Teorie a metoda v moderní sociologii. Univerzita Karlova, Karolinum, Praha 1993.
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Popper, K.R. Život je řešení problémů. Mlada fronta, 1998, s. 15-40..
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Wallerstein, I. et.al. Kam směřují sociální vědy, Praha 1998, s. 11-41.
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