PHIL323 Philosophy of Social Science
Updated: 24 October 2008| Credit Points | 6 | |||||||||
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| Online level | Level B - Internet access required | |||||||||
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| Supervised Exam | November | |||||||||
| Pre-requisites | any 24 cp or 6 cp in PHIL or candidature in a postgraduate award | |||||||||
| Co-requisites | None | |||||||||
| Restrictions | EnqSocSc223 or EnqSocSc224 or PHSS223 or PHSS323 | |||||||||
| Notes | None | |||||||||
| Combined Units | None | |||||||||
| Coordinator(s) | Frances Gray (fgray@une.edu.au) | |||||||||
| Unit Description |
PHIL 323 is a compulsory unit for candidates in the Bachelor of Social Science degree. It addresses fundamental issues of methodology, epistemology, and value in the social sciences, drawing particularly on examples from sociology and psychology. The unit develops skills in critical thinking about social scientific practices, and examines the viability of major social scientific methodologies, such as empiricism, positivism, behaviourism, functionalism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and critical realism. It develops skills in ethical enquiry into social scientific practices by means of selected case studies. The unit aims to teach students of the social sciences how to reflect on the epistemological rigour and ethical probity of the social scientific practices into which they are being inducted. |
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| Prescribed Material Mandatory |
Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period. | |||||||||
| Recommended Material Optional |
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| Disclaimer | Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester. |