The social in social science
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Discover the importance of social scientific study in understanding our complex world. Learn how theory and practical research methods can help solve social problems and generate hypotheses. Enroll in our free course today!
In a complex and rapidly changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions, and outlines the important relationship between philosophical thinking and practical research methods in social sciences.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Describe why and how we study social phenomena
Outline how theory can help us to deal with complex evidence
Give examples of the most appropriate theory
Identify which concepts are most useful for the task
Explain how hypotheses are generated.
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