2023/2024

Социальные науки: подходы и исследования

Статус: Дисциплина общефакультетского пула

Кто читает: Международный институт экономики и финансов

Где читается: Международный институт экономики и финансов

Когда читается: 3, 4 модуль

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Social Science Thinking and Research is an interdisciplinary course. It is designed to engage students with academic analysis in social sciences by using pressing social issues for understanding the ways how different social sciences can shape our understanding of social phenomena. Lectures and classes will challenge students to confront different kinds of evidence, assess competing theoretical explanations, and evaluate their validity.

Learning Objectives

• The course shows students the ways of thinking in social sciences and gives foundations for their later courses and research.
• It aims to give students an understanding of what it is to think like a social scientist with specific focus on the issues of revealing causality, justification of research questions in quantitative and qualitative designs, data sources and presentation of results in academic research

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Evaluate and interpret evidence of different types, including documentary and other qualitative sources as well as statistical data
• Explain the respective roles of, and interaction between, questions, theories, evidence and explanations in the social sciences
• Analyse contemporary social problems using theoretical perspectives from more than one social science discipline
• Construct coherent and persuasive arguments – both orally and in writing – on current issues in the social sciences, structuring the arguments logically and supporting them with relevant evidence
• Evaluate information sources, distinguishing scholarly sources from other content and critically assessing information from internet and other sources
• Find and access information relevant to social science problems, making use of good searching principles and techniques
• Identify and critically assess causal claims in social science explanations
• Plan and deliver engaging and well-argued presentations that coherently address both question and audience

Course Contents

• Understanding the causes of things - a multidisciplinary perspective to analysis of complex events
• Models and Modelling in Social Research
• Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research
• Interpreting and Evaluating Social Research Results
• Poverty and Inequality
• Globalisation and Cross-Cultural Research
• Behavior genetics and economics
• What caused the financial crises?

Assessment Elements

• individual in-class presentation
• a group project
• class participation

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 4th module
  0.4 * a group project + 0.2 * class participation + 0.4 * individual in-class presentation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Bryman, Alan. Quantity and Quality in Social Research, Routledge, 1988. Routledge, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=168067.
• Evolution or Revolution? : Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy after the Great Recession, edited by Olivier Blanchard, and Lawrence H. Summers, MIT Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5748875.
• Framing the Global : Entry Points for Research, edited by Hilary E. Kahn, Indiana University Press, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1809827.
• May, Tim. Social Research, McGraw-Hill Education, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=729519.
• The Handbook of Social Studies Research, edited by Meghan Manfra, and Cheryl Bolick, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4825480.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Behavioural Economics and Policy Design : Examples from Singapore, edited by Donald Low, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2011. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=846102.
• Cadogan, John, et al. Cross-cultural and cross-national consumer research, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2070198.
• Eichengreen, B. (2016). Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History. Oxford University Press.
• Henry E. Brady, & David Collier. (2010). Rethinking Social Inquiry : Diverse Tools, Shared Standards: Vol. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Leavy, P. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=779511
• Ogden, Jane. Thinking Critically about Research : A Step by Step Approach, Routledge, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5611407.
• Patrinos, George P., et al. Economic Evaluation in Genomic Medicine, Elsevier Science & Technology, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1992706.
• Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation : Changing Perspectives, edited by Ray C. Rist, et al., World Bank Publications, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4397393.
• Statistics and Causality : Methods for Applied Empirical Research, edited by Wolfgang Wiedermann, and Eye, Alexander von, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4530803.
• Sunstein, Cass R.. Why Nudge? : The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism, Yale University Press, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3421412.
• Thiel, Markus. European Identity and Culture : Narratives of Transnational Belonging, edited by Rebecca Friedman, Routledge, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=879691.
• Thompson, John. Europe's Crises, edited by Manuel Castells, et al., Polity Press, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5188194.