Methodology of Social Sciences WSE-SO-MNS
The concept of the scientific method in general (in science), in sociology. Science – ways of describing: sociological – psychological – organisational / institutional – historical – methodological. Classifications of sciences. Characteristics of the sciences according to the methods of justification Division of sciences into deductive and empirical Nomothetic vs idiographic sciences Empirical sciences Inductionism - hypothetism. Canons of induction Structure and dynamics of scientific theory Elements of the logical theory of science. Scientific criteria and development of empirical sciences Rules for the recognition of claims - falsifiability and its variations Paradigms – their dynamics and role in research Methodological disputes in the social sciences Positivism – post/noe-positivism – constructionism – interpretativism – postmodernism Realism - Cognitive Relativism - Other - naturalism and anti-naturalism in sociological theory. Sociology in systems of classification of sciences. - Reductionism and anti-reductionism. - Individualism and holism – levels of analysis in sociology. Specificity of social sciences and social methodologies Unity of science and unity of methodological assumptions The language of methodological analysis: the language of research questions and scientific hypotheses, understanding and interpretation Theorems and theories in the social sciences. Types of theorems. Synchronic and diachronic laws. Classifications and typologies – systematizations and taxonomies. Construction rules - ideal type. Observational concepts and theoretical concepts Concepts denoting hidden properties. Defining and postulate operationalization of concepts Functions of definition: reporting - designing - regulating. Defining 'minimum' and 'typological-ideal' (minimax) Indicators and variables – 'representation' of theoretical concepts in the study - introduction to 'indicator' procedures in sociology Measurement, the concept of measurement and the basics of scaling hidden features Types of Measurements and Types of Measurement Scales in Social Research Causality in the Social Sciences Practical use of the causal analysis method in sociology Explanation and prediction in the social sciences. Logical explanation/prediction schemes Modeling - formal models Modelling of social phenomena and processes Applications of selected formal theories as models (in sociology) Science from the perspective of the "sociology of knowledge". Social Sciences and Values. Axiological premises in sociological research The concept of "two cultures"
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The concept of the scientific method in general (in science), in sociology. Science – ways of describing: sociological – psychological – organisational / institutional – historical – methodological. Classifications of sciences. Characteristics of the sciences according to the methods of justification Division of sciences into deductive and empirical Nomothetic vs idiographic sciences Empirical sciences Inductionism - hypothetism. Canons of induction Structure and dynamics of scientific theory Elements of the logical theory of science. Scientific criteria and development of empirical sciences Rules for the recognition of claims - falsifiability and its variations Paradigms – their dynamics and role in research Methodological disputes in the social sciences Positivism – post/noe-positivism – constructionism – interpretativism – postmodernism Realism - Cognitive Relativism - Other - naturalism and anti-naturalism in sociological theory. Sociology in systems of classification of sciences. - Reductionism and anti-reductionism. - Individualism and holism – levels of analysis in sociology. Specificity of social sciences and social methodologies Unity of science and unity of methodological assumptions The language of methodological analysis: the language of research questions and scientific hypotheses, understanding and interpretation Theorems and theories in the social sciences. Types of theorems. Synchronic and diachronic laws. Classifications and typologies – systematizations and taxonomies. Construction rules - ideal type. Observational concepts and theoretical concepts Concepts denoting hidden properties. Defining and postulate operationalization of concepts Functions of definition: reporting - designing - regulating. Defining 'minimum' and 'typological-ideal' (minimax) Indicators and variables – 'representation' of theoretical concepts in the study - introduction to 'indicator' procedures in sociology Measurement, the concept of measurement and the basics of scaling hidden features Types of Measurements and Types of Measurement Scales in Social Research Causality in the Social Sciences Practical use of the causal analysis method in sociology Explanation and prediction in the social sciences. Logical explanation/prediction schemes Modeling - formal models Modelling of social phenomena and processes Applications of selected formal theories as models (in sociology) Science from the perspective of the "sociology of knowledge". Social Sciences and Values. Axiological premises in sociological research The concept of "two cultures"
Bibliography
Literatura obowiązkowa:
S. Nowak, Metodologia badań społecznych, PWN, Warszawa 2007 (1985)
R.A. Podgórski, Metodologia badań socjologicznych O W Branta, Bydgoszcz 2007.
K. Popper Logika odkrycia naukowego, Rozdział 1 (Przegląd niektórych problemów podstawowych), PWN Warszawa 1977
E. Babbie, Badania społeczne w praktyce, PWN, Warszawa; Rozdz 1-2-3.
S. Ossowski, Wzory nauk przyrodniczych wobec osobliwości zjawisk społecznych, [w] Sztompka, P. i J. Kuć (red.) Socjologia. Lektury, Wyd. Znak, Kraków; s. 28-34.
Nachmias Ch. F., Nachmias D., 2001, Metody badawcze w naukach społecznych, Zysk i S-ka, Poznań, Cz. I.
P. Kawalec, Przyczyna i wyjaśnianie, UL 2006; Wprowadzenie, Rozdz. 1 i Zakończenie.
M. Kuszyk-Bytniewska, Zagadnienia teoriopoznawcze w socjologii, [w] Hetmański, M. Hetmański, Epistemologia współcześnie, UNIVERSITAS Kraków, 2007; s. 193-238
A. Giddens, Czym zajmują się socjologowie [w] Sztompka, P. i J. Kuć (red.) Socjologia. Lektury, Wyd. Znak, Kraków; s. 17-27.
Literatura uzupełniająca:
K. Ajdukiewicz, Logika Pragmatyczna, PWN, Warszawa 1965.
E. Durkheim, Co to jest fakt społeczny, [w] Sztompka, P. i J. Kuć (red.) Socjologia. Lektury, Wyd. Znak, Kraków; s. 266-71
J. H. Turner, Struktura teorii socjologicznej, Warszawa 2004, s.1-5 oraz Rozdz. 44
W. Marciszewski, Metodologia nauk empirycznych [w:] Mała encyklopedia logiki, wyd. 2, Ossolineum 1988.
A. Jabłoński, Budowanie społeczeństwa wiedzy. Z teorii społecznej K. R. Poppera, Teoria wiedzy jako metodologiczna analiza reguł uzasadniania naukowego, s. 40-79; oraz Socjologiczny wymiar badań Poppera nad wiedza, s. 224-348
A. Giddens, Nowe zasady metody socjologicznej, ’NOMOS’ Kraków, 2001
M. Zemło, Pragmatyczny model socjologii wiedzy, [w] Bytniewski, P., , i M. Chałubiński (red.) Teoretyczne podstawy socjologii wiedzy, UMCS, 2006. s. 24-37
W. Outhwaite, Turner S. P., The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology, SAGE Publication, London
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