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Lecturer(s)
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Bárdy Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Vaníček Milesson Hana, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction, presentation of the course and conditions of completion. Introduction to basic academic skills. Communication, ethics and basics of scientific work. Reading and writing (what is courseware and why to watch it, what is citation, how to quote - possible ways to proceed when writing, how and what to read, getting to know the basic sources of texts, homework: learning how to work with electronic resources university). 2. Sources of scientific information. Acquaintance with the forms of texts and procedures for their processing and interpretation - choice, formulation, stylistic rules and standards, reviews, annotations, research, studies. Social sciences as intellectual self-defense. (relationship between natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, what is an argument and what is not, what is a stylistics, homework: a search of an argument and a fiction). 3. What is science - the difference between the natural and social sciences, the status dispute and the "scientific" grasp of social phenomena. Reasoning and hypothesis. (On the logic of scientific inquiry and on the logic of reasoning, forms of reasoning: deduction, induction and abductive inference; empiricism and rationalism). 4. Rules, principles and methods of scientific thinking, standards of science, typology of competing methods and their application: nomothetic vers idiographic, explanatory vs. understanding, inductive vers. deductive. 5. Rules, principles and methods of scientific thinking, standards of science, typology of competing methods and their application: synthetic, poztivistic, hermeneutic and phenomenological approach to cognition and processing of social reality. The question of construction of social reality. 6. Social research as a science - motives, causes, regularity research, prediction in social sciences 7. Determination of facts and values - description and interpretation of social reality as a committed approach vers. "Value neutrality" of methodological approaches 8. Shaping the foundations of paradigms in social sciences; consequences of the multiparadigmatic nature of social sciences and their methodological approaches - the concept of science as a cumulation or alternation of scientific theories 9. Role, nature and possibilities of scientific language in processing social reality - application of natural language, formalization, empiricization, operationalization 10. The role, nature and possibilities of scientific language in the processing of social reality - interpretativeism, the influence of cultural relativism, ethnocentrism and their impact on the nature of social reality 11. Epistemological positions - solipsism, perspectiveism 12. Epistemological positions - objectivism, atomism, holism
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Collaborative instruction, Multimedia supported teaching, Task-based study method, Textual studies, Lecture, Seminar, Practicum
- Contact hours
- 52 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 27 hours per semester
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 21 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 30 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| Students are demanded: to be able to read and to have elementary functional literacy. |
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| The student should be able to remember, memorize, differentiate and to explain basic terms, theories and concepts, which are directly and indirectly connected to discussed issue. Moreover the student should be able to claasify the most important problems, which are connected to the subject matter. |
| teaching methods |
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| Lecture |
| Seminar |
| Practicum |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Task-based study method |
| Textual studies |
| Collaborative instruction |
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| Written exam |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Seminar work |
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Recommended literature
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Berger, Peter Ludwig. Pozvání do sociologie : humanistická perspektiva. 2. vyd., v nakladatelství Barrister&Principal 1. vyd. Brno : Barrister&Principal, 2003. ISBN 80-85947-90-0.
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Bernard, Harvey Russell. Research methods in anthropology : qualitative and quantitative approaches. Walnut Creek : Altamira Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8039-5245-7.
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Čmejrková, Světla; Daneš, František; Světlá, Jindra. Jak napsat odborný text. Praha : Leda, 1999. ISBN 80-85927-69-1.
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Fajkus, Břetislav. Současná filosofie a metodologie vědy. 1. vyd. Praha : Filosofia, 1997. ISBN 80-7007-095-1.
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Fay, Brian. Současná filosofie sociálních věd : multikulturní přístup. Vyd. 1. Praha : Sociologické nakladatelství, 2002. ISBN 80-86429-10-5.
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Kuhn, Thomas S. Struktura vědeckých revolucí. Praha : Oikoymenh, 1997. ISBN 80-86005-54-2.
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Winch, Peter. Idea sociální vědy a její vztah k filosofii. Brno : Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2004. ISBN 80-7325-035-7.
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