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| SOCI0022-1 | Epistemology of social sciences
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| Duration : | 45h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
| Master en sciences politiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en administration publique, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master en sciences politiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en politiques européennes, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master en sciences politiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en relations internationales, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master en sciences politiques, à finalité spécialisée en science, technologie et société, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Anthropology, in-depth approach, 2nd year | | First semester | | 6 |
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| Master in Sociology, in-depth approach, 2nd year | | First semester | | 6 |
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| Master in Labour Sciences, Professional Focus, 2nd year | | First semester | | 6 |
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| Master in Sociology and Anthropology | | First semester | | 6 |
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| Lecturer : | Marc Jacquemain |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| The first part of the course presents some basical concepts of general epistemology and an introduction to explanation in social sciences.
The second part is dedicated to lectures by research fellows who present some of the main theoretical frames in social sciences. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The main goal of the course is twofold :
- render students sensible to questions of conditions of validity of a social knowledge and to the relations between social theorists knowledge and lay people knowledge.
- make students conscious of the diversity of explanations in social sciences. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| A basic knowledge of great theoretical questions in social sciences |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The first part of the course will consist in ex-cathedra lessons illustrated by slides. The second part will be given as lectures by research fellows.
For those seminars, students will have to read texts in advance and participate to the general discussion. They will have to write (in groups) a list of questions and remarks that will be transmitted at least one week in advance to the lecturer. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| The course is based on the following book
Jacquemain M., Frere B., Epistémologie de la sociologie. Paradigmes pour le 21 ème siècle, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2008
There will be written notes for the introductory part. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| 25 % of the note will be attributed on the basis of the relevance of questions and participation to the general discussion
75 % of the note will be attributed at the oral examination. For this examination students will be interrogated on
- the first part of the course (syllabus)
- four chapters they will have to choice among the different chapters of the book of epistemology (Jacquemain & Frère see above).
- clarity of argumentation
- use of correct formulation
- capacity to make use of notion in order to reason further. |
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Contacts :
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| Teacher : Marc Jacquemain - 04 366 30 72
E-mail : Marc.Jacquemain@ulg.ac.be
Teaching assistant : Jérôme Pieters 04 366 48 94
E-mail : J.Pieters@ulg.ac.be |
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